On Oct. 22, Healthgrades unveiled its annual Specialty Excellence Awards for 2025, which included recognition of the nation's 100 best hospitals for critical care.
The Specialty Excellence Awards for Critical Care recognize hospitals that deliver "superior patient outcomes in treating pulmonary embolism, respiratory system failure, sepsis and diabetic hospitalizations," according to Healthgrades. Hospitals were selected based on an analysis of 2021-23 inpatient data from CMS' Medicare Analysis and Review file. Healthgrades used in-hospital mortality and 30-day mortality data to calculate average z-scores for each of the conditions. Read more about the methodology here.
Below are Healthgrades' 100 top hospitals for critical care, by state.
Arizona
Mayo Clinic Hospital (Phoenix)
California
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula
Good Samaritan Hospital (San Jose)
Los Robles Regional Medical Center (Thousand Oaks)
Mills-Peninsula Medical Center (Burlingame)
Northridge Hospital Medical Center
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center (Mission Hills)
Regional Medical Center of San Jose
Riverside Community Hospital
Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas
Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego
St. Mary's Medical Center
Sutter Roseville Medical Center
UC Davis Medical Center (Sacramento)
UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights (San Francisco)
Colorado
HCA HealthOne Aurora
HCA HealthOne Rose (Denver)
HCA HealthOne SKY Ridge (Lone Tree)
HCA HealthOne Swedish (Englewood)
Connecticut
Danbury Hospital
Norwalk Hospital
Florida
AdventHealth Orlando
HCA Florida Aventura Hospital
HCA Florida Kendall Hospital (Miami)
HCA Florida Largo Hospital
HCA Florida North Florida Hospital (Gainesville)
HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital
HCA Florida Trinity Hospital
UF Health Shands Hospital (Gainesville)
Georgia
AdventHealth Redmond
Illinois
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital (Barrington)
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (Park Ridge)
Indiana
Franciscan Health Indianapolis
Kansas
Wesley Medical Center (Wichita)
Kentucky
Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital (Paducah)
Saint Joseph Hospital (Lexington)
Maryland
CalvertHealth Medical Center (Prince Frederick)
UM Baltimore Washington Medical Center (Glen Burnie)
Massachusetts
Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital (Boston)
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Minnesota
Mayo Clinic Health System Mankato
Mayo Clinic-Saint Marys Campus (Rochester)
Montana
Bozeman Health Deaconess Regional Medical Center
Nebraska
CHI Health Good Samaritan (Kearney)
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (Lincoln)
Nevada
MountainView Hospital (Las Vegas)
Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center (Las Vegas)
Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center (Las Vegas)
New Jersey
Bayshore Medical Center (Holmdel)
Chilton Medical Center (Pompton Plains)
Hackensack University Medical Center
Newton Medical Center
Overlook Medical Center (Summit)
Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center (Plainsboro)
Riverview Medical Center (Red Bank)
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset (Somerville)
Valley Hospital (Ridgewood)
New York
NewYork-Presbyterian Queens (New York City)
Vassar Brothers Medical Center (Poughkeepsie)
North Carolina
Mission Hospital (Asheville)
North Dakota
Altru Hospital (Grand Forks)
Ohio
East Liverpool City Hospital
Mercy Health-Anderson Hospital (Cincinnati)
Mercy Health-Fairfield Hospital
Mercy Health-St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital
Mercy Health-St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital
Mercy Health-St. Vincent Medical Center (Toledo)
Mercy Health-West Hospital (Cincinnati)
Riverside Methodist Hospital (Columbus)
Summa Health System-Akron Campus
The Jewish Hospital-Mercy Health (Cincinnati)
Pennsylvania
Bryn Mawr Hospital
Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia)
Riddle Memorial Hospital (Media)
WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital
WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital (Lebanon)
South Carolina
Good Strand Medical Center (Myrtle Beach)
South Dakota
Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center (Sioux Falls)
Tennessee
Parkridge Medical Center (Chattanooga)
Tristar Centennial Medical Center (Nashville)
Tristar Hendersonville Medical Center
Tristar Skyline Medical Center (Nashville)
Tristar Southern Hills Medical Center (Nashville)
Tristar Stonecrest Medical Center (Smyrna)
Tristar Summit Medical Center (Hermitage)
Texas
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Irving
HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood
Houston Methodist Hospital
Las Palmas Medical Center (El Paso)
Medical City Weatherford
Methodist Hospital (San Antonio)
Methodist Hospital Stone Oak (San Antonio)
St. David's Medical Center (Austin)
St. David's North Austin Medical Center
St. David's South Austin Medical Center
Virginia
Inova Alexandria Hospital
Inova Fair Oaks Hospital (Fairfax)
Inova Loudoun Hospital (Leesburg)
West Virginia
Cabell Huntington Hospital