Top hospitals for stroke care: Healthgrades

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:

  1. AdventHealth Orlando (Fla.)

  2. Advocate Christ Medical Center (Oak Lawn, Ill.)

  3. Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital (Barrington, Ill.)

  4. Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (Park Ridge, Ill.)

  5. Alta Bates Summit Medical Center—Alta Bates Campus (Berkeley, Calif.)

  6. Ascension Seton Hays (Kyle, Texas)

  7. Ascension Seton Williamson Hospital (Round Rock, Texas)

  8. Ascension Via Christi St. Francis (Wichita, Kan.)

  9. Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center (Milwaukee)

  10. Banner Thunderbird Medical Center (Glendale, Ariz.)

  11. Banner - University Medical Center Phoenix

  12. Baylor Scott & White Medical Center—College Station (Texas)

  13. Baylor Scott & White Medical Center—Grapevine (Texas)

  14. Bayshore Medical Center (Holmdel, N.J.)

  15. Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center (Portsmouth, Va.)

  16. Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston)

  17. Bronson Methodist Hospital (Kalamazoo, Mich.)

  18. CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga (Tenn.)

  19. Cabell Huntington (W.Va.) Hospital

  20. Community Hospital (Munster, Ind.)

  21. Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (Monterey, Calif.)

  22. Deaconess Hospital (Evansville, Ind.)

  23. Emory Johns Creek (Ga.) Hospital

  24. Emory University Hospital (Atlanta)

  25. Franciscan Health Indianapolis

  26. Good Samaritan Hospital (San Jose, Calif.)

  27. Grand Strand Medical Center (Myrtle Beach, S.C.)

  28. Gulf Coast Medical Center (Fort Myers, Fla.)

  29. HCA Florida Aventura (Fla.) Hospital

  30. HCA Florida Largo (Fla.) Hospital

  31. HCA Florida North Florida Hospital (Gainesville)

  32. HCA Florida Orange Park (Fla.) Hospital

  33. HCA Florida Osceola Hospital (Kissimmee)

  34. HCA HealthONE Swedish (Englewood, Colo.)

  35. HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood (Texas)

  36. Houston Methodist Hospital

  37. Inova Alexandria (Va.) Hospital

  38. Inova Fairfax Hospital (Falls Church, Va.)

  39. JFK University Medical Center (Edison, N.J.)

  40. Jersey Shore University Medical Center (Neptune, N.J.)

  41. Lancaster (Pa.) General Hospital

  42. Las Palmas Medical Center (El Paso, Texas)

  43. Marion (Ohio) General Hospital

  44. Mayo Clinic Hospital (Phoenix)

  45. Mayo Clinic Hospital, St. Mary's Campus  (Rochester, Minn.)

  46. Mayo Clinic in Florida (Jacksonville)

  47. Medical City Plano (Texas)

  48. Memorial Hermann—Texas Medical Center (Houston)

  49. Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital (Paducah, Ky.)

  50. Mercy Health—Fairfield (Ohio) Hospital

  51. Mercy Health—Lorain (Ohio) Hospital

  52. Mercy Health—St. Elizabeth Youngstown (Ohio) Hospital

  53. Mercy Health—St. Vincent Medical Center (Toledo, Ohio)

  54. Mercy Health—West Hospital (Cincinnati)

  55. Milton S. Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center

  56. Mission Hospital (Asheville, N.C.)

  57. Mount Sinai Medical Center (Miami Beach, Fla.)

  58. NYU Langone Hospital (New York City)

  59. Naples (Fla.) Community Hospital

  60. NewYork—Presbyterian Queens Hospital (Flushing, N.Y.)

  61. North Shore Medical Center (Salem, Ma.)

  62. Northridge (Calif.) Hospital Medical Center

  63. Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital

  64. Overlook Medical Center (Summit, N.J.)

  65. Parkridge Medical Center (Chattanooga, Tenn.)

  66. Penn Highlands Mon Valley (Monongahela, Pa.)

  67. Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center (Plainsboro, N.J.)

  68. Prisma Health Greenville (S.C.) Memorial Hospital

  69. Reading (Pa.) Hospital

  70. Regional Medical Center of San Jose (Calif.)

  71. Riddle Memorial Hospital (Media, Pa.)

  72. Riverview Medical Center (Red Bank, N.J.)

  73. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset (Somerville, N.J.)

  74. Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center—West Burlington (Iowa)

  75. St. David's Medical Center (Austin, Texas)

  76. St. David's South Austin (Texas) Medical Center

  77. St. Luke's Hospital—Bethlehem (Pa.) Campus

  78. St. Mary's Hospital (Richmond, Va.)

  79. Stony Brook (N.Y.) University Hospital

  80. Summa Health System—Akron (Ohio) Campus

  81. Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center (Las Vegas)

  82. Texas Health Fort Worth

  83. Texas Health HEB (Bedford, Texas)

  84. The Jewish Hospital—Mercy Health (Cincinnati)

  85. The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)

  86. The University of Chicago Medical Center

  87. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (Philadelphia)

  88. Tristar Centennial Medical Center (Nashville, Tenn.)

  89. Tristar Hendersonville (Tenn.) Medical Center

  90. Tristar Skyline Medical Center (Nashville, Tenn.)

  91. Tristar Summit Medical Center (Hermitage, Tenn.)

  92. UC Davis Medical Center (Sacramento, Ca.)

  93. UC San Diego Health Hillcrest Medical Center

  94. UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights

  95. UF Health Shands Hospital (Gainesville, Fla.)

  96. UPMC Harrisburg (Pa.)

  97. University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City)

  98. Valley Hospital (Ridgewood, N.J.)

  99. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tenn.)

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