Healthgrades has named 186 hospitals to its latest list of the nation’s best for surgical care, singling out a small share of the roughly 4,500 U.S. hospitals it evaluated on how patients fare after common inpatient operations.
The recognition is part of Healthgrades’ 2027 Specialty Excellence Awards, which rank hospitals using Medicare inpatient claims from the CMS MedPAR file for 2023 through 2025.
For the surgical care category, Healthgrades scored hospitals on 15 common in-hospital surgeries, including coronary bypass, valve replacement, total hip and knee replacement, colorectal surgery and hip fracture repair. The organization measured risk-adjusted mortality on five procedures and complications on the other 10. A hospital had to be evaluated in at least eight of the 15 surgeries to qualify.
Healthgrades estimated that if all hospitals performed at the level of its five-star facilities from 2023 to 2025, roughly 227,229 lives could have been saved and about 158,138 complications avoided across the conditions and procedures it studied.
For surgical care in particular, patients treated at top-rated hospitals saw markedly lower risk. Colorectal surgery patients at five-star hospitals in New York City, for example, were 81.8% less likely to die in the hospital than those at one-star hospitals.
Healthgrades named these hospitals as the best to receive surgical care:
Arizona
HonorHealth Scottsdale Thompson Peak Medical Center
Arkansas
Mercy Hospital Fort Smith
California
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (Oakland)
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center-Alta Bates Campus (Berkeley)
Desert Valley Hospital (Victorville)
Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center
Kaiser Permanente Manteca Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Sacramento Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center
Memorial Medical Center (Modesto)
MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center (Laguna Hills)
Mercy General Hospital (Sacramento)
Mercy Hospital of Folsom
Mills-Peninsula Medical Center (Burlingame)
Oroville Hospital
Palmdale Regional Medical Center
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center (Mission Hills)
Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Torrance
Providence St. John’s Health Center (Santa Monica)
Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka
Riverside Community Hospital
Scripps Green Hospital (La Jolla)
Shasta Regional Medical Center (Redding)
St. John’s Regional Medical Center (Oxnard)
Sutter Medical Center-Ose Adams Medical Pavilion (Sacramento)
Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital (Santa Rosa)
Torrance Memorial Medical Center
Colorado
AdventHealth Parker
AdventHealth Porter (Denver)
HCA HealthONE Presbyterian St. Luke’s (Denver)
HCA HealthONE Rose (Denver)
HCA HealthONE SKY Ridge (Lone Tree)
Connecticut
Hartford Hospital
Middlesex Hospital (Middletown)
The Hospital of Central Connecticut at New Britain General Campus
UConn John Dempsey Hospital (Farmington)
Waterbury Hospital
Florida
AdventHealth Heart of Florida (Davenport)
AdventHealth Zephyrhills
Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola
Ascension St. Vincent’s Southside Hospital (Jacksonville)
Broward Health Medical Center (Fort Lauderdale)
Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital (Vero Beach)
HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital (Hudson)
HCA Florida Blake Hospital (Bradentown)
HCA Florida Capital Hospital (Tallahassee)
HCA Florida Citrus Hospital (Inverness)
HCA Florida Fawcett Hospital (Port Charlotte)
HCA Florida JFK Hospital (Atlantis)
HCA Florida Kendall Hospital (Miami)
HCA Florida Lake Monroe Hospital (Sanford)
HCA Florida Largo Hospital
HCA Florida Memorial Hospital (Jacksonville)
HCA Florida North Florida Hospital (Gainesville)
HCA Florida Northside Hospital (St. Petersburg)
HCA Florida Northwest Hospital (Margate)
HCA Florida Oak Hill Hospital (Brooksville)
HCA Florida Osceola Hospital (Kissimmee)
HCA Florida Palms West Hospital (Loxahatchee)
HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital (Sarasota)
HCA Florida South Shore Hospital (Sun City Center)
HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital (Port St. Lucie)
HCA Florida Trinity Hospital
HCA Florida Westside Hospital (Plantation)
HCA Florida Woodmont Hospital (Tamarac)
Holy Cross Hospital (Fort Lauderdale)
Naples Comprehensive Health
Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital (St. Petersburg)
Oviedo Medical Center
Sarasota Memorial Hospital Venice (North Venice)
St. Joseph’s Hospital (Tampa)
UF Health Spanish Plaines Hospital (The Villages)
Illinois
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
Decatur Memorial Hospital
Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital
Silver Cross Hospital (New Lenox)
UChicago Medicine AdventHealth La Grange
Indiana
Franciscan Health Indianapolis
Franciscan Health Lafayette East
Indiana University Health Arnett Hospital
Lutheran Hospital of Indiana (Fort Wayne)
Kansas
Menorah Medical Center (Overland Park)
Overland Park Regional Medical Center
Kentucky
Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital (Paducah)
St. Elizabeth Edgewood Hospital
Louisiana
Rapides Regional Medical Center (Alexandria)
Maryland
MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center (Baltimore)
MedStar Union Memorial Hospital (Baltimore)
Meritus Medical Center (Hagerstown)
Suburban Hospital (Bethesda)
UM Baltimore Washington Medical Center (Glen Burnie)
University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center (Towson)
Massachusetts
Berkshire Medical Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton
Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital (Boston)
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
North Shore Medical Center (Salem)
Michigan
Beacon Kalamazoo
Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe
Bronson Battle Creek Hospital
Chelsea Hospital
Corewell Health Lakeland St. Joseph Hospital
Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital
Tristar Summit Medical Center (Hermitage)
Minnesota
Ridgeview Medical Center (Waconia)
Mississippi
Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi (Oxford)
Missouri
Centerpoint Medical Center (Independence)
Lee’s Summit Medical Center
Mercy Hospital Springfield
St. Luke’s East Hospital (Lee’s Summit)
Nebraska
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (Lincoln)
The Nebraska Medical Center (Omaha)
Nevada
MountainView Hospital (Las Vegas)
New Jersey
Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center
Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center (Summit)
Englewood Hospital
Hackensack Meridian Health Pascack Valley Medical (Westwood)
Holy Name Medical Center (Teaneck)
Monmouth Medical Center (Long Branch)
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton
New York
BronxCare Hospital Center (New York City)
Huntington Hospital
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue (New York City)
NYU Langone Hospitals (New York City)
Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital (Binghamton)
The Brooklyn Hospital Center (New York City)
North Carolina
FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital (Pinehurst)
Mission Hospital (Asheville)
Ohio
Blanchard Valley Hospital (Findlay)
Mercy Health-Anderson Hospital (Cincinnati)
Mercy Health-Fairfield Hospital
Mercy Health-West Hospital (Cincinnati)
The Jewish Hospital-Mercy Health
Pennsylvania
Chester County Hospital (West Chester)
Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center (Johnstown)
Doylestown Hospital
Heritage Valley Beaver
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
South Carolina
Grand Strand Medical Center (Myrtle Beach)
HCA Healthcare Trident Hospital (Charleston)
St. Francis Downtown (Greenville)
Tennessee
Parkridge Medical Center (Chattanooga)
TriStar Centennial Medical Center (Nashville)
TriStar Hendersonville Medical Center
TriStar Skyline Medical Center (Nashville)
TriStar Stonecrest Medical Center (Smyrna)
Texas
Ascension Seton Williamson Hospital (Round Rock)
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Grapevine
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Plano
HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood
HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest
HCA Houston Healthcare Tomball
Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital
Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital
Laredo Medical Center
Medical City Dallas Hospital
Medical City Denton
Medical City McKinney
Medical City Plano
Methodist Hospital (San Antonio)
Rio Grande Regional Hospital (McAllen)
St. David’s North Austin Medical Center
Texas Health Fort Worth
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas
VHS Harlingen Hospital
Valley Baptist Medical Center-Brownsville
Valley Regional Medical Center (Brownsville)
Utah
Intermountain Health McKay-Dee Hospital (Ogden)
Ogden Regional Medical Center
Virginia
Augusta Health (Fishersville)
Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center (Mechanicsville)
Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center (Midlothian)
Henrico Doctors’ Hospital (Richmond)
Reston Hospital Center
St. Mary’s Hospital (Richmond)
Wisconsin
Aurora Medical Center Summit
Aurora Medical Center-Kenosha
Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center (Portsmouth)
Mayo Clinic Health System In Eau Claire
SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital-Madison
ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton
ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah
Washington
Evergreenhealth Medical Center-Kirkland
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