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U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals 2025-2026” List Includes All NYC Health + Hospitals’ Acute Care Facilities

U.S. News & World Report "Best Hospitals 2025-2026" List Includes All NYC Health + Hospitals' Acute Care Facilities

The public health care system's hospitals are recognized as Best Hospitals for treating conditions such as heart failure, heart attack, hip fracture, kidney failure, colon cancer, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

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Jul 29, 2025

NYC Health + Hospitals today announced that its 11 hospitals have been named by U.S. News & World Report to its 2025-2026 'Best Hospitals' list. The ranking recognizes the hospitals for excellence in treating conditions including heart failure, heart attack, hip fracture, diabetes, kidney failure, diabetes, colon cancer surgery, pneumonia, stroke, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The hospitals were selected out of nearly 5,000 hospitals across 15 specialties and 20 procedures and conditions. Hospitals awarded a "Best" designation excelled at factors such as clinical outcomes, level of nursing care, and patient experience. The U.S. News & World Report rankings build on NYC Health + Hospitals' commitment to providing high-quality, comprehensive health care to all New Yorkers.

The hospitals that received the recognitions are:

Facility Specialties, Procedures & Conditions
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue Heart Attack
Heart Arrhythmia
Heart Failure
Leukemia, Lymphoma & Myeloma
Neurology & Neurosurgery
Pneumonia
Stroke
NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst Heart Failure
Hip Fracture
Kidney Failure
Stroke
NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem COPD
Heart Failure
Kidney Failure
Stroke
NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi COPD
Diabetes
NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County COPD
Diabetes
Heart Failure
Kidney Failure
Leukemia, Lymphoma & Myeloma
Stroke
NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln Diabetes
Heart Failure
Kidney Failure
NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan Heart Failure
NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens Diabetes
Heart Arrhythmia
Heart Failure
Pneumonia
NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health Heart Failure
NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull Diabetes
Heart Failure
Kidney Failure

"We are honored that all the NYC Health + Hospitals have been recognized in the U.S. News & World Report 2025-2026 'Best Hospitals' list," said NYC Health + Hospitals President and CEO Mitchell Katz, MD "It is a testament to our staff's extraordinary work and our commitment to caring for every New Yorker."

"For more than 30 years, the mission of U.S. News & World Report's annual Best Hospitals rankings has been to help guide patients, in consultation with their doctors, to the right hospital when they need care," said Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News "Because each patient's needs are different, U.S. News offers rankings and ratings in more than three dozen different health care services, including cancer care, orthopedics and heart bypass surgery."

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