From Becker’s Hospital Review
Forbes launched an inaugural quality ranking of U.S. general acute care hospitals Dec. 4, which analyzes data on outcomes, best practices, value and patient experience.
The media company said its list, “Forbes Top Hospitals 2026,” differs from other hospital rankings and ratings in three key ways. First, the primary quality measures derive from CMS’ Provider Data Catalog; second, the methodology places the most weight on clinical outcomes, including mortality and readmission rates; and third, clinical outcomes are statistically adjusted for social drivers of health.
Forbes assigned a star rating, from one to five, across four categories to calculate a hospital’s overall score. The outcome category included 25 publicly reported measures, such as “surgical site infection after colon surgery” and “30-day readmission after discharge,” according to Forbes. Best practices had 10 measures, value had seven and patient experience had 14.
Outcomes carried a 55% weight in the overall calculation, followed by best practices (20%), value (15%) and patient experience (10%). Based on this criteria, Forbes recognized 253 hospitals with an overall five-star rating.
Pennsylvania’s hospitals include:
- AHN Wexford Hospital
- Geisinger Bloomsburg Hospital
- Geisinger Jersey Shore Hospital
- Geisinger Lewistown Hospital
- Geisinger St. Luke’s Hospital (Orwigsburg)
- Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center (Wilkes-Barre)
- Lancaster General Hospital
- Mount Nittany Medical Center (State College)
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (Philadelphia)
- St. Luke’s Hospital-Anderson Campus (Easton)
- St. Luke’s Hospital-Miners Campus (Coaldale)
- UPMC Northwest (Seneca)
- WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital
- WellSpan Evangelical Community Hospital (Lewisburg)
- WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital
- WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital (Lebanon)
- WellSpan Waynesboro Hospital