Fortune listed 33 healthcare companies among its "World's Most Admired Companies" for 2018.
Fortune produced the list in collaboration with Korn Ferry. The partners began with approximately 1,500 candidate companies, including the 1,000 largest U.S. companies ranked by revenue, along with non-U.S. companies in Fortune's Global 500 database with revenues of $10 billion or more. They then narrowed the pool of companies down to the highest-revenue companies in each industry for a total of 680 companies in 29 countries. The top-rated companies were selected from the pool of 680.
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The following healthcare companies were ranked among the 50 All-Stars within the "World's Most Admired Companies" list.
No. 17: Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, N.J.)
No. 21: 3M (St. Paul, Minn.)
No. 39: CVS Health (Woonsocket, R.I.)
The following healthcare companies were included on Fortune's general list of "The World's Most Admired Companies." These companies were not ranked.
- Abbott Laboratories (Chicago)
- AbbVie (North Chicago, Ill.)
- Aetna (Hartford, Conn.)
- AmerisourceBergen (Chesterbrook, Pa.)
- Amgen (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)
- Bayer (Whippany, N.J.)
- Boston Scientific (Marlborough, Mass.)
- Bristol-Myers Squibb (New York City)
- Cardinal Health (Dublin, Ohio)
- Cerner (North Kansas City, Mo.)
- Cigna (Bloomfield, Conn.)
- DaVita (Denver)
- Fresenius (Waltham, Mass.)
- HCA Healthcare (Nashville, Tenn.)
- Henry Schein (Melville, N.Y.)
- Humana (Louisville, Ky.)
- IQVIA Holdings (Durham, N.C.)
- Kindred Healthcare (Louisville, Ky.)
- Laboratory Corp. of America (Burlington, N.C.)
- McKesson (San Francisco)
- Medtronic (Minneapolis)
- Merck (Kenilworth, N.J)
- Novartis (Basel, Switzerland)
- Quest Diagnostics (Madison, N.J.)
- Roche Group (Basel, Switzerland)
- Stryker (Kalamazoo, Mich.)
- Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Mass.)
- UnitedHealth Group (Minnetonka, Minn.)
- Universal Health Services (King of Prussia, Pa.)
- WellCare Health Plans (Tampa, Fla.)