Healthgrades published its 2025 Specialty Excellence Awards recipients Oct. 22. Of those, 97 hospitals were recognized for delivering superior clinical outcomes in cardiac care for heart bypass surgery, coronary interventional procedures, heart attack treatment, heart failure treatment and heart valve surgery.
Awards were based on CMS data from 2021 to 2023. Healthgrades' full methodology is available here.
Read Healthgrades' top hospitals for cardiac surgery here, vascular surgery here and stroke care here.
The hospitals that received Healthgrades' Cardiac Care Excellence Award are:
Arizona
Mayo Clinic in Phoenix
California
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (Oakland)
CPMC Van Ness Campus (San Francisco)
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (West Hollywood)
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center (Mission Hills)
Riverside Community Hospital
Stanford Hospital (Palo Alto)
UC Davis Medical Center
UC San Diego Health Hillcrest Medical Center
UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights (San Francisco)
Colorado
HCA HealthOne Swedish (Englewood)
Connecticut
Danbury Hospital
Hartford Hospital
Yale New Haven Hospital
Delaware
Christiana Hospital (Newark)
District of Columbia
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Florida
AdventHealth Daytona Beach
AdventHealth Orlando
Cleveland Clinic Hospital (Weston)
HCA Florida Kendall Hospital (Miami)
HCA Florida North Florida Hospital (Gainesville)
Mayo Clinic in Florida (Jacksonville)
Memorial Regional Hospital (Hollywood)
Naples Community Hospital
Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center
Sarasota Memorial Hospital
UF Health Jacksonville
Georgia
Emory University Hospital (Atlanta)
Emory University Hospital Midtown (Atlanta)
Piedmont Hospital (Atlanta)
Illinois
Advocate Christ Medical Center (Oak Lawn)
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital (Downers Grove)
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (Park Ridge)
Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital
Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)
University of Chicago Medical Center
Indiana
Franciscan Health Indianapolis
Kansas
University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City)
Kentucky
Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital (Paducah)
Maryland
MedStar Union Memorial Hospital (Baltimore)
Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
Massachusetts
Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston)
Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
Michigan
Ascension Borgess Hospital (Kalamazoo)
Ascension Providence Hospital-Southfield Campus
Beaumont Hospital (Troy)
Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital (Grand Rapids)
Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital (Royal Oak)
Minnesota
Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus (Rochester)
Missouri
Christian Hospital (St. Louis)
Nevada
MountainView Hospital (Las Vegas)
New Jersey
AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center (Atlantic City)
Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center (Livingston)
Hackensack University Medical Center
Jersey Shore University Medical Center (Neptune)
Morristown Medical Center
New York
Lenox Hill Hospital (New York City)
Mount Sinai Morningside (New York City)
NYU Langone Hospitals (New York City)
New York-Presbyterian Hospital (New York City)
Rochester General Hospital
South Shore University Hospital (Bay Shore)
Ohio
Akron General
Christ Hospital (Cincinnati)
Cleveland Clinic
Fairview Hospital (Cleveland)
Hillcrest Hospital (Mayfield Heights)
Main Campus Medical Center (Cleveland)
Mercy Health-Fairfield Hospital
OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital
ProMedica Toledo Hospital
Pennsylvania
Allegheny General Hospital (Pittsburgh)
Chester County Hospital (West Chester)
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery Hospital (East Norriton)
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital
Lancaster General Hospital
Lankenau Medical Center (Wynnewood)
Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest (Allentown)
Milton S Hershey Medical Center (Hershey)
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (Philadelphia)
Temple University Hospital (Philadelphia)
WellSpan York Hospital
Texas
Baylor Scott and White Health-The Heart Hospital Plano
CHI St. Luke's Health Baylor College of Medicine (Houston)
Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston Methodist Willowbrooke Hospital
Medical City Dallas
St. David's Medical Center (Austin)
Texas Health Fort Worth
William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital (Dallas)
Virginia
Inova Fairfax Hospital (Falls Church)
Wisconsin
Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital (Milwaukee)
Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire
University Hospital (Madison)