According to a ranking by Statista and Newsweek, the best hospital in the United States is the *********** in Rochester, Minnesota. Moreover, the *********** was also ranked as the best hospital in the world, among over 50,000 hospitals in 30 countries. **************** in Ohio and the ************* Hospital in Maryland were ranked as second and third best respectively in the U.S., while they were second and forth best respectively in the World.

In 2025, the state with the highest share of hospitals with an "A" grade in safety was Utah, with ** percent, followed by Rhode Island and New Jersey at ** and ** percent, respectively. Meanwhile, the states of Iowa, North Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming did not have any hospitals with a safety grade of A. This was based on the Spring 2025 Leapfrog hospital safety grade.

According to a ranking of the best hospitals in the U.S., the best hospital for adult cancer is the University of *******************************, which had a score of *** out of 100, as of 2025. This statistic shows the top 10 hospitals for adult cancer in the United States based on the score given by U.S. News and World Report's annual hospital ranking.

The dataset provides performance ratings for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, inpatient mortality indicators (IMIs), and elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The outcome measures include: operative mortality for isolated CABG; inpatient mortality for acute stroke, acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, hip fracture, pneumonia, abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, carotid endarterectomy, esophageal resection, pancreatic resection, percutaneous coronary intervention; three outcome measures for elective PCI without on-site cardiac surgery: mortality, post-PCI stroke, and post-PCI emergency coronary artery bypass graft surgery; postoperative sepsis following elective surgeries. It includes risk-adjusted rates, number of adverse events and cases.

Public reporting of measures of hospital performance is an important component of quality improvement efforts in many countries. However, it can be challenging to provide an overall characterization of hospital performance because there are many measures of quality. In the United States, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reports over 100 measures that describe various domains of hospital quality, such as outcomes, the patient experience and whether established processes of care are followed. Although individual quality measures provide important insight, it is challenging to understand hospital performance as characterized by multiple quality measures. Accordingly, we developed a novel approach for characterizing hospital performance that highlights the similarities and differences between hospitals and identifies common patterns of hospital performance. Specifically, we built a semi-supervised machine learning algorithm and applied it to the publicly-available quality measures for 1,614 U.S. hospitals to graphically and quantitatively characterize hospital performance. In the resulting visualization, the varying density of hospitals demonstrates that there are key clusters of hospitals that share specific performance profiles, while there are other performance profiles that are rare. Several popular hospital rating systems aggregate some of the quality measures included in our study to produce a composite score; however, hospitals that were top-ranked by such systems were scattered across our visualization, indicating that these top-ranked hospitals actually excel in many different ways. Our application of a novel graph analytics method to data describing U.S. hospitals revealed nuanced differences in performance that are obscured in existing hospital rating systems.

As of July 2024, Texas was the U.S. state with the highest number of approved hospitals for acute hospital care at home, amounting to **. North Carolina and Florida followed with ** and ** approved hospital at home hospitals, respectively.

The National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS), conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), collects annual data on visits to emergency departments to describe patterns of utilization and provision of ambulatory care delivery in the United States. Data are collected from nonfederal, general, and short-stay hospitals from all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, and are used to develop nationally representative estimates. The data include counts and rates of emergency department visits from 2016-2022 for the 10 leading primary diagnoses and reasons for visit, stratified by selected patient and hospital characteristics. Rankings for the 10 leading categories were identified using weighted data from 2022 and were then assessed in prior years.

This dataset provides the fourth quarter summary roll-up of California hospitals’ financial and utilization data for discharges by payer source.

Analysis of ‘Hospital ratings’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/center-for-medicare-and-medicaid/hospital-ratings on 21 November 2021.

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Context

This are the official datasets used on the Medicare.gov Hospital Compare Website provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. These data allow you to compare the quality of care at over 4,000 Medicare-certified hospitals across the country.

Content

Dataset fields:

• Provider ID
• Hospital Name
• Address
• City
• State
• ZIP Code
• County Name
• Phone Number
• Hospital Type
• Hospital Ownership
• Emergency Services
• Meets criteria for meaningful use of EHRs
• Hospital overall rating
• Hospital overall rating footnote
• Mortality national comparison
• Mortality national comparison footnote
• Safety of care national comparison
• Safety of care national comparison footnote
• Readmission national comparison
• Readmission national comparison footnote
• Patient experience national comparison
• Patient experience national comparison footnote
• Effectiveness of care national comparison
• Effectiveness of care national comparison footnote
• Timeliness of care national comparison
• Timeliness of care national comparison footnote
• Efficient use of medical imaging national comparison
• Efficient use of medical imaging national comparison

Acknowledgements

Dataset was downloaded from [https://data.medicare.gov/data/hospital-compare]

Inspiration

If you just broke your leg, you might need to use this dataset to find the best Hospital to get that fixed!

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In 2023, nearly six in ten hospitals in the United States were not-for-profit. This ranged from all hospitals in Rhode Island and Vermont, to just 17.9 percent of hospitals in Wyoming. On the other hand, the state with the highest share of for-profit hospitals was Nevada, followed by Texas.

This dataset lists the Structural Performance Category or “SPC rating” and Nonstructural Performance Category or “NPC rating” of all General Acute Care Hospitals in California, including a building’s probability of collapse in a significant earthquake as assessed by Multi-Hazard Loss Estimation Technology (HAZUS). To link the HCAI IDs with those from other Departments, like CDPH, please reference the "Licensed Facility Cross-Walk" Open Data table at https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/licensed-facility-crosswalk.

Context

Every year, all U.S. hospitals that accept payments from Medicare and Medicaid must submit quality data to The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS' Hospital Compare program is a consumer-oriented website that provides information on "the quality of care hospitals are providing to their patients." CMS releases this quality data publicly in order to encourage hospitals to improve their quality and to help consumer make better decisions about which providers they visit.

"Hospital Compare provides data on over 4,000 Medicare-certified hospitals, including acute care hospitals, critical access hospitals (CAHs), children’s hospitals, Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Medical Centers, and hospital outpatient departments"

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) uses a five-star quality rating system to measure the experiences Medicare beneficiaries have with their health plan and health care system — the Star Rating Program. Health plans are rated on a scale of 1 to 5 stars, with 5 being the highest.

Content

• Includes the most recent Hospital General Information.csv data for each archive year found on CMS' archive site. Years: 2016-2020

| Column Name | Data Type | Description | | --- | --- | -- | | Facility ID | Char(6) | Facility Medicare ID | | Facility Name | Char(72) | Name of the facility | | Address | Char(51) | Facility street address | | City | Char(20) | Facility City | | State | Char(2) | Facility State | | ZIP Code | Num(8) | Facility ZIP Code | | County Name | Char(25) | Facility County | | Phone Number | Char(14) | Facility Phone Number | | Hospital Type | Char(34) | What type of facility is it? | | Hospital Ownership | Char(43) | What type of ownership does the facility have? | | Emergency Services | Char(3)) | Does the facility have emergency services Yes/No? | | Meets criteria for promoting interoperability of EHRs | Char(1) | Does facility meet government EHR standard Yes/No? | | Hospital overall rating | Char(13) | Hospital Overall Star Rating 1=Worst; 5=Best. Aggregate measure of all other measures | | Hospital overall rating footnote | Num(8) | | | Mortality national comparison | Char(28) | Facility overall performance on mortality measures compared to other facilities | | Mortality national comparison footnote | Num(8) | | | Safety of care national comparison | Char(28) | Facility overall performance on safety measures compared to other facilities | | Safety of care national comparison footnote | Num(8) | | | Readmission national comparison | Char(28) | Facility overall performance on readmission measures compared to other facilities | | Readmission national comparison footnote | Num(8) | | | Patient experience national comparison | Char(28) | Facility overall performance on pat. exp. measures compared to other facilities | | Patient experience national comparison footnote | Char(8) | | | Effectiveness of care national comparison | Char(28) | Facility overall performance on effect. of care measures compared to other facilities | | Effectiveness of care national comparison footnote | Char(8) | | | Timeliness of care national comparison | Char(28) | Facility overall performance on timeliness of care measures compared to other facilities | | Timeliness of care national comparison footnote| Char(8) | | | Efficient use of medical imaging national comparison | Char(28) | Facility overall performance on efficient use measures compared to other facilities | | Efficient use of medical imaging national comparison footnote | Char(8) | | | Year | Char(4) | cms data release year |

Acknowledgements

A similar dataset called Hospital General Information was previously uploaded to Kaggle. However, that dataset only includes data from one year (2017). I was inspired by this dataset to go a little further and try to add a time dimension. This dataset includes a union of Hospital General Information for the years 2016-2020. The python script used to collect and union all the datasets can be found on my [github[(https://github.com/abrambeyer/cms_hospital_general_info_file_downloader). Thanks to this dataset owner for the inspiration.

Thanks to CMS for releasing this dataset publicly to help consumers find better hospitals and make better-informed decisions.

***All Hospital Compare websites are publically accessible. As works of the U.S. government, Hospital Compare data are in the public domain and permission is not required to reuse them. An attribution to the agency as the source is appreciated. Your ...

Annual Excel pivot tables display the top 25 MS-DRGs (Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Related Groups) per hospital. The ranking can be sorted by the number of discharges, average charge per stay, or average length of stay.

IntroductionPatient satisfaction in the UnitedStates (U.S.) healthcare varies regionally due to cultural, socioeconomic, and infrastructure differences. The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey measures patient satisfaction across several aspects, including staff responsiveness and hospital environment. This survey influences Medicare reimbursements and helps ensure equitable, high-quality care nationwide. Analyzing these results is crucial for enhancing patient-centered care and understanding regional disparities.MethodsThis study analyzed HCAHPS data from 3,286 U.S. hospitals from July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022. Hospitals were stratified by region. The categories analyzed included cleanliness, communication, staff responsiveness, medication information, discharge processes, care transition, overall rating, quietness, and hospital recommendations. Kruskal Wallis tests and heat maps were used to compare and visualize regional differences.ResultsThe analysis revealed significant regional differences in hospital performance across the U.S. (p 

Hospitals across the U.S. have been decreasing the number of hospitals beds available. With increasing concerns about the cost of health care, less traditional services and shorter stays have become the norm. The number of beds available in the U.S. greatly depends on the hospital size. As of 2019 there were a total of about *** thousand hospital beds available in hospitals with a *** bed capacity or greater.

U.S. Hospitals

Like the decrease in number of hospital beds, there has been a steady decline in the overall number of hospitals in the U.S. since 1975. Hospitals in the U.S. are becoming increasingly more technological with things like remote patient monitoring and AI. Despite being an important factor in patient health and wellbeing, patients don’t value the up-to-dateness of technology in hospitals as highly as they value other aspects.

Hospital rankings

Hospitals are ranked across the U.S. in a variety of ways. Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami was ranked as the top hospital in 2017 according to the number of beds they had. However, Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas, Texas had the most annual emergency visits in 2018. And, finally, the UCLA Medical Center was ranked as the number one hospital based on the number of organ transplants performed in the last ** years.

Linear mean score (standard deviation) of patient satisfaction indicators by regions in the United States.

This dataset tracks annual overall school rank from 2012 to 2023 for North Texas State Hospital - Afp - Vernon

The graph displays the average hospital stay cost per inpatient day in the United States by hospital type from 1999 to 2022. The x-axis represents the years, ranging from 1999 to 2022, while the y-axis indicates the cost in dollars per inpatient day. The data is categorized into three types of hospitals: State/Local Government Hospitals, Non-Profit Hospitals, and For-Profit Hospitals.

In 1999, State/Local Government Hospitals had an average cost of $1,004.02 per inpatient day, which increased to $2,856.58 by 2022. Non-Profit Hospitals started with the highest costs at $1,139.49 in 1999 and rose to $3,166.58 in 2022, maintaining the highest costs among the three categories throughout the period. For-Profit Hospitals had the lowest starting cost at $999.03 in 1999 and reached $2,383.42 by 2022.

The data reveals that all hospital types experienced a consistent upward trend in costs over the 23-year period. Non-Profit Hospitals consistently had the highest costs, followed by State/Local Government Hospitals, and then For-Profit Hospitals. This upward trajectory highlights the increasing healthcare expenses in the United States across all types of hospitals.

According to a ranking of the best hospitals in the U.S., the best hospital for adult cardiology, heart, and vascular surgery is the ******************** in New York, which had a score of *** out of 100, as of 2025. This statistic shows the top 10 hospitals for adult cardiology, heart, and vascular surgery in the United States based on the score given by U.S. News and World Report's annual hospital ranking.

National patient satisfaction linear scores for HCAHPS.