Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago and Rush University Medical Center in Chicago have been named among the top 20 hospitals in the country according to a new list from U.S. News and World Report.
The report, which ranks the nation’s best hospitals as well as the best hospitals in each state and metropolitan area for 2024-25, was released Tuesday. The list of the nation’s top 20 hospitals is considered the “honor roll,” according to the editors.
“The Best Hospitals Honor Roll highlights 20 hospitals that excel in most or all of the types of care evaluated by U.S. News,” the report said. “Hospitals received points if they were nationally ranked in all 15 specialties (the more specialties and the higher the ranking, the more points they earned) and if they were rated as high performers in any of 20 procedures and conditions.”
The top scorers, according to the editors, are on the honor roll.
“These ratings and rankings are based on each hospital’s patient outcomes—that is, how well patients fare after treatment,” the editors continued, “as well as other factors that are important to patients, such as the quality of their experience and whether the hospital has adequate staffing.”
Both Chicago hospitals appeared on the same list in 2023. A full guide to how U.S. News & World ranks hospitals is available here.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Rush University Medical Center are the only Illinois hospitals to make the report’s Honor List, which also includes hospitals in Boston, New York, Los Angeles and Minnesota. The full list of hospitals on the Honor List, listed alphabetically, is available here.
According to the report, Northwestern Memorial Hospital ranked highly because of its high scores in adult specialties, including cancer, cardiology, vascular surgery, endocrinology, obstetrics and more.
Rush University Medical Center is also highly ranked in certain specialties, including neurology and orthopedics.
In the state rankings, Chicago’s two hospitals tied for first in Illinois. Here are the hospitals that rounded out the rest of the Illinois rankings:
1. Northwestern Medicine – Northwestern Memorial Hospital / Rush University Medical Center – tied
3. University of Chicago Medical Center – Chicago
4. Advocate Christ Medical Center – Oak Lawn
5. Endeavor Health NorthShore Hospitals – Evanston
6. Advocate Lutheran General Hospital – Park Ridge
7. Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital – Winfield
8. Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital – Barrington / Loyola University Medical Center – Maywood – tied
9. Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital – Lake Forest
10. Endeavor Health Edward Hospital – Warrenville
The full list for Illinois can be found here.
