Healthgrades published its 2025 Specialty Excellence Awards recipients Oct. 22. Of those, 99 hospitals were recognized for delivering superior clinical outcomes in the care and treatment of stroke.
Awards were based on Medicare provider analysis and review mortality data from 2021 to 2023. To be eligible for evaluation of stroke care, a hospital must have had a transfer-out rate of less than 10%. Read Healthgrades' full methodology here.
Read Healthgrades' top 50 hospitals for cardiac surgery here and vascular surgery here.
The hospitals that received Healthgrades' Stroke Care Excellence Award are:
- AdventHealth Orlando (Fla.)
- Advocate Christ Medical Center (Oak Lawn, Ill.)
- Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital (Barrington, Ill.)
- Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (Park Ridge, Ill.)
- Alta Bates Summit Medical Center—Alta Bates Campus (Berkeley, Calif.)
- Ascension Seton Hays (Kyle, Texas)
- Ascension Seton Williamson Hospital (Round Rock, Texas)
- Ascension Via Christi St. Francis (Wichita, Kan.)
- Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center (Milwaukee)
- Banner Thunderbird Medical Center (Glendale, Ariz.)
- Banner - University Medical Center Phoenix
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center—College Station (Texas)
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center—Grapevine (Texas)
- Bayshore Medical Center (Holmdel, N.J.)
- Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center (Portsmouth, Va.)
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston)
- Bronson Methodist Hospital (Kalamazoo, Mich.)
- CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga (Tenn.)
- Cabell Huntington (W.Va.) Hospital
- Community Hospital (Munster, Ind.)
- Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (Monterey, Calif.)
- Deaconess Hospital (Evansville, Ind.)
- Emory Johns Creek (Ga.) Hospital
- Emory University Hospital (Atlanta)
- Franciscan Health Indianapolis
- Good Samaritan Hospital (San Jose, Calif.)
- Grand Strand Medical Center (Myrtle Beach, S.C.)
- Gulf Coast Medical Center (Fort Myers, Fla.)
- HCA Florida Aventura (Fla.) Hospital
- HCA Florida Largo (Fla.) Hospital
- HCA Florida North Florida Hospital (Gainesville)
- HCA Florida Orange Park (Fla.) Hospital
- HCA Florida Osceola Hospital (Kissimmee)
- HCA HealthONE Swedish (Englewood, Colo.)
- HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood (Texas)
- Houston Methodist Hospital
- Inova Alexandria (Va.) Hospital
- Inova Fairfax Hospital (Falls Church, Va.)
- JFK University Medical Center (Edison, N.J.)
- Jersey Shore University Medical Center (Neptune, N.J.)
- Lancaster (Pa.) General Hospital
- Las Palmas Medical Center (El Paso, Texas)
- Marion (Ohio) General Hospital
- Mayo Clinic Hospital (Phoenix)
- Mayo Clinic Hospital, St. Mary's Campus (Rochester, Minn.)
- Mayo Clinic in Florida (Jacksonville)
- Medical City Plano (Texas)
- Memorial Hermann—Texas Medical Center (Houston)
- Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital (Paducah, Ky.)
- Mercy Health—Fairfield (Ohio) Hospital
- Mercy Health—Lorain (Ohio) Hospital
- Mercy Health—St. Elizabeth Youngstown (Ohio) Hospital
- Mercy Health—St. Vincent Medical Center (Toledo, Ohio)
- Mercy Health—West Hospital (Cincinnati)
- Milton S. Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center
- Mission Hospital (Asheville, N.C.)
- Mount Sinai Medical Center (Miami Beach, Fla.)
- NYU Langone Hospital (New York City)
- Naples (Fla.) Community Hospital
- NewYork—Presbyterian Queens Hospital (Flushing, N.Y.)
- North Shore Medical Center (Salem, Ma.)
- Northridge (Calif.) Hospital Medical Center
- Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital
- Overlook Medical Center (Summit, N.J.)
- Parkridge Medical Center (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
- Penn Highlands Mon Valley (Monongahela, Pa.)
- Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center (Plainsboro, N.J.)
- Prisma Health Greenville (S.C.) Memorial Hospital
- Reading (Pa.) Hospital
- Regional Medical Center of San Jose (Calif.)
- Riddle Memorial Hospital (Media, Pa.)
- Riverview Medical Center (Red Bank, N.J.)
- Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset (Somerville, N.J.)
- Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center—West Burlington (Iowa)
- St. David's Medical Center (Austin, Texas)
- St. David's South Austin (Texas) Medical Center
- St. Luke's Hospital—Bethlehem (Pa.) Campus
- St. Mary's Hospital (Richmond, Va.)
- Stony Brook (N.Y.) University Hospital
- Summa Health System—Akron (Ohio) Campus
- Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center (Las Vegas)
- Texas Health Fort Worth
- Texas Health HEB (Bedford, Texas)
- The Jewish Hospital—Mercy Health (Cincinnati)
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
- The University of Chicago Medical Center
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (Philadelphia)
- Tristar Centennial Medical Center (Nashville, Tenn.)
- Tristar Hendersonville (Tenn.) Medical Center
- Tristar Skyline Medical Center (Nashville, Tenn.)
- Tristar Summit Medical Center (Hermitage, Tenn.)
- UC Davis Medical Center (Sacramento, Ca.)
- UC San Diego Health Hillcrest Medical Center
- UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights
- UF Health Shands Hospital (Gainesville, Fla.)
- UPMC Harrisburg (Pa.)
- University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City)
- Valley Hospital (Ridgewood, N.J.)
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tenn.)