PHILADELPHIA – Penn Medicine hospitals have been ranked among the top 10 hospitals in the nation, #1 in Pennsylvania, and once again #1 in the Philadelphia metro area by U.S. News & World Report. Together, the combined enterprise of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center is ranked as the 9th best hospital in the United States for the 2015-2016 annual survey by U.S. News.
Out of nearly 5,000 hospitals analyzed nationwide, Penn Medicine is among only 15 institutions named to the publication’s Honor Roll—and the only one in the Philadelphia metro area. According to the magazine’s editors, this distinction “signals both rare breadth and rare depth of medical excellence.”
Penn Medicine hospitals were also recognized for our excellence in 13 specialties, including Cancer, Cardiology and Heart Surgery, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT), Geriatrics, Gynecology, Nephrology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Psychiatry, Pulmonology, and Urology.
In addition to Penn Medicine hospitals being ranked #1 the Philadelphia area, both Pennsylvania Hospital and Chester County Hospital were in the top 10, tying for #8 in the rankings.
The annual U.S. News Best Hospitals rankings, now in its 26th year, recognize hospitals for their exceptional performance, based on outstanding quality, expertise, technology, and experience.
Complete rankings as well as the U.S. News & World Report methodology can be found at www.usnews.com/besthospitals.
Penn Medicine is one of the world’s leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, excellence in patient care, and community service. The organization consists of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Penn’s Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, founded in 1765 as the nation’s first medical school.
The Perelman School of Medicine is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $550 million awarded in the 2022 fiscal year. Home to a proud history of “firsts” in medicine, Penn Medicine teams have pioneered discoveries and innovations that have shaped modern medicine, including recent breakthroughs such as CAR T cell therapy for cancer and the mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System’s patient care facilities stretch from the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania to the New Jersey shore. These include the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Chester County Hospital, Lancaster General Health, Penn Medicine Princeton Health, and Pennsylvania Hospital—the nation’s first hospital, founded in 1751. Additional facilities and enterprises include Good Shepherd Penn Partners, Penn Medicine at Home, Lancaster Behavioral Health Hospital, and Princeton House Behavioral Health, among others.
Penn Medicine is an $11.1 billion enterprise powered by more than 49,000 talented faculty and staff.