HCA Healthcare Hospitals Named on America’s 50 Best Hospitals List for 2026 by Healthgrades
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44 hospitals ranked among America’s 250 Best Hospitals
NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA), one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, today announced that three of its hospitals were named among America’s 50 Best Hospitals and 15 of its hospitals were named among America’s 100 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades. These are part of the 44 HCA Healthcare hospitals recognized on the Healthgrades America’s 250 Best Hospitals list for 2026. Inclusion on these lists recognizes superior performance in providing care for conditions and procedures across multiple specialty lines and areas.
Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, HCA HealthONE Sky Ridge in Lone Tree, Colorado and HCA Florida Kendall Hospital in Miami, Florida are the hospitals named on the America’s 50 Best Hospitals list, putting them in the top 1% in the nation for consistent clinical excellence. This is Mission Hospital’s 11th consecutive year on the list.
“Delivering high-quality, patient-centered care is at the core of what we do,” said Dr. Randy Fagin, senior vice president and chief quality officer of HCA Healthcare. “This recognition is a reflection of the compassion, teamwork and dedication our caregivers bring to their patients every day.”
Determined exclusively by patient outcomes, the America’s 250 Best Hospital award celebrates the top 5% of hospitals in the country for clinical excellence. To be eligible, a hospital must have evaluations in at least 21 of the 31 Healthgrades procedures and conditions using independent, publicly available Medicare inpatient data from the Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) file from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). To determine this year’s list, Healthgrades then evaluated risk-adjusted mortality and complication rates for more than 30 of the most common conditions and procedures at approximately 4,500 hospitals nationwide.
Hospitals that have been consistently recognized on the Healthgrades 250 Best Hospitals list are considered for the America’s 50 Best Hospitals and America’s 100 Best Hospitals lists. Evaluated on both their consecutive years on the list and their current year’s performance, these lists determine Healthgrades’ top 1% and 2% of hospitals respectively.
The 15 HCA Healthcare hospitals recognized as America’s 100 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades for being in the top 2% in the nation for consistent clinical excellence are:
HCA Florida Aventura Hospital in Aventura, Florida
HCA Florida Largo Hospital in Largo, Florida
HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital in Orange Park, Florida
St. David's Medical Center in Austin, Texas
HCA HealthONE Rose in Denver, Colorado
HCA HealthONE Swedish in Englewood, Colorado
HCA HealthONE Aurora in Aurora, Colorado
Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas
Medical City Arlington in Arlington, Texas
Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas
MountainView Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada
Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nevada
Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nevada
Parkridge Medical Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Tristar Hendersonville Medical Center in Hendersonville, Tennessee
About HCA Healthcare
Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services comprising 190 hospitals and approximately 2,500 ambulatory sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics, in 19 states and the United Kingdom. With its founding in 1968, HCA Healthcare created a new model for hospital care in the United States, using combined resources to strengthen hospitals, deliver patient-focused care and improve the practice of medicine. HCA Healthcare has conducted a number of clinical studies, including one that demonstrated that full-term delivery is healthier than early elective delivery of babies and another that identified a clinical protocol that can reduce bloodstream infections in ICU patients by 44%. HCA Healthcare is a learning health system that uses its approximately 44 million annual patient encounters to advance science, improve patient care and save lives.
All references to “Company,” “HCA” and “HCA Healthcare” as used throughout this document refer to HCA Healthcare, Inc. and its affiliates.
