A total of 347 healthcare organizations landed on Forbes‘ list of America’s Best Employers by State, published Aug. 13.
The eighth annual list was created by Forbes and market research firm Statista, which surveyed more than 245,000 employees who work for companies with at least 500 people in the U.S. Survey respondents shared insights on how likely they would recommend their employer and rated their workplaces on criteria such as wages and benefits, management style, flexibility and career advancement opportunities. The companies with the highest scores in each state made the list, and each state had between three and 101 employers, depending on the state size and responses received.
A total of 1,365 employers were ranked on at least one state list, which combined to 2,499 rankings.
The healthcare organizations featured include hospitals, health systems, pharmaceutical companies and medical devicemakers.
Editor’s note: The following organizations are sorted in alphabetical order, along with their headquarters city and the states in which they were named “best in state.” Some employers were named “best in state” for multiple states, and some were not a “best-in-state” employer for the state where their headquarters is located.
Abbott Laboratories (Chicago) — Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio
AbbVie (North Chicago, Ill.) — Illinois
AccentCare (Dallas) — California, Illinois
AdventHealth (Altamonte Springs, Fla.) — Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Texas
Adventist HealthCare (Gaithersburg, Md.) — Maryland
Advocate Health (Charlotte, N.C.) — Illinois, North Carolina, Wisconsin
AHRC New York City (New York City) — New York
Allina Health (Minneapolis) — Minnesota
Amedisys (Baton Rouge, La.) — Louisiana
AmeriHealth Caritas (Philadelphia) — Pennsylvania
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago (Chicago) — Illinois
Ansell (Iselin, N.J.) — New Jersey
Apple Rehab (Avon, Conn.) — Connecticut
Appalachian Regional Healthcare (Hazard, Ky.) — Kentucky
Applied Medical (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) — California
Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield (Little Rock, Ark.) — Arkansas
Arkansas Children’s Hospital (Little Rock, Ark.) — Arkansas
ARUP Laboratories (Salt Lake City) — Utah
Ascension (St. Louis) — Kansas, Tennessee
AstraZeneca (Wilmington, Del.) — Delaware, Indiana, Maryland
Athenahealth (Watertown, Mass.) — Massachusetts
Athletico (Oak Brook, Ill.) — Illinois
ATL Technology (Springfield, Utah) — Utah
Atlantic Health System (Morristown, N.J.) — New Jersey
Atrium Health (Charlotte, N.C.) — South Carolina
Augusta Health (Fishersville, Va.) — Virginia
Avera (Sioux Falls, S.D.) — South Dakota
Banner Health (Phoenix) — Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming
Baptist Health (Little Rock, Ark.) — Arkansas
Baptist Health (Louisville, Ky.) — Kentucky
Baptist Health (Montgomery, Ala.) — Alabama
Baptist Health Care (Pensacola, Fla.) — Florida
Baptist Health South Florida (Coral Gables, Fla.) — Florida
Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas (Beaumont, Texas) — Texas
Baptist Memorial Health Care (Memphis, Tenn.) — Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee
BayCare (Clearwater, Fla.) — Florida
Bayer (Whippany, N.J.) — Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania
Bayhealth (Dover, Del.) — Delaware
Baylor College of Medicine (Houston) — Texas
Beth Israel Lahey Health (Boston) — Massachusetts
Biogen (Cambridge, Mass.) — Massachusetts
Blessing Health System (Quincy, Ill.) — Illinois
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina (Columbia, S.C.) — South Carolina
Boone Hospital Center (Columbia, Mo.) — Missouri
Boston Children’s Hospital (Boston) — Massachusetts
Boston Medical Center (Boston) — Massachusetts
CAMC Health System (Charleston, W.Va.) — West Virginia
Capital District Physicians’ Health Plan (Albany, N.Y.) — New York
Capital Health (Trenton, N.J.) — New Jersey
Cardinal Health (Dublin, Ohio) — Ohio
CaroMont Health (Gastonia, N.C.) — North Carolina
Carson Tahoe Healthcare (Carson City, Nev.) — Nevada
Catalent (Somerset, N.J.) — New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Catholic Health (Buffalo, N.Y.) — New York
Cedars-Sinai Health System (Los Angeles) — California
California Center for Disability Services (Albany, N.Y.) — New York
Center For Family Services (Camden, N.J.) — New Jersey
CentraCare Health (St. Cloud, Minn.) — Minnesota
CHAS Health (Spokane, Wash.) — Washington
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (Atlanta) — Georgia
Children’s Hospital Colorado (Aurora, Colo.) — Colorado
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia) — Pennsylvania
Children’s Minnesota (Minneapolis) — Minnesota
Children’s Nebraska (Omaha, Neb.) — Nebraska
Children’s of Alabama (Birmingham, Ala.) — Alabama
Children’s Wisconsin (Milwaukee) — Wisconsin
ChristianaCare (Newark, Del.) — Delaware, Maryland
Christus Health (Irving, Texas) — Louisiana, Texas
Cigna (Bloomfield, Conn.) — Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas
CommonSpirit Health (Chicago) — Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, Nebraska, Nevada, Tennessee, Washington
Community Health Network (Indianapolis) — Indiana
Compass Health Network (Clinton, Mo.) — Missouri
Concord Hospital (Concord, N.H.) — New Hampshire
Confluence Health (Wenatchee, Wash.) — Washington
Consumer Direct Care Network (Missoula, Mont.) — Washington
Cook Children’s Health Care System (Fort Worth, Texas) — Texas
Cooper University Health Care (Camden, N.J.) — New Jersey
Corewell Health (Grand Rapids, Mich.) — Michigan
Covenant HealthCare (Saginaw, Mich.) — Michigan
CoxHealth (Springfield, Mo.) — Missouri
CVS Health (Woonsocket, R.I.) — Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston) — Massachusetts
DaVita (Denver) — Colorado
DCH Health System (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) — Alabama
Deaconess Health System (Evansville, Ind.) — Indiana
Denver Health (Denver) — Colorado
Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital (Knoxville, Tenn.) — Tennessee
Duke University Health System (Durham, N.C.) — North Carolina
East Alabama Health (Opelika, Ala.) — Alabama
Eisenhower Medical Center (Rancho Mirage, Calif.)
Elevance Health (Indianapolis) — Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia
Eli Lilly and Co. (Indianapolis) — Indiana
Elliot Health System (Manchester, N.H.) — New Hampshire
Emerson Health (Concord, Mass.) — Massachusetts
Emory Healthcare (Atlanta) — Georgia
Emplify Health (Green Bay, Wis.) — Wisconsin
Erlanger Health System (Chattanooga, Tenn.) — Tennessee
Essentia Health (Duluth, Minn.) — Minnesota, North Dakota
EvergreenHealth (Kirkland, Wash.) — Washington
Exact Sciences (Madison, Wis.) — Wisconsin
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield (Rochester, N.Y.)
Fairview Health Services (Minneapolis) — Minnesota
Fast Pace Health (Brentwood, Tenn.) — Tennessee
FirstHealth of the Carolinas (Pinehurst, N.C.) — North Carolina
Florida Blue (Jacksonville, Fla.) — Florida
Forrest General Hospital (Hattiesburg, Miss.) — Mississippi
Franciscan Health (Mishawaka, Ind.) — Indiana
FMOL Health (Baton Rouge, La.) — Louisiana
Fred Hutch Cancer Center (Seattle) — Washington
Fresenius Medical Care (Waltham, Mass.) — Indiana, Tennessee
Froedtert ThedaCare Health (Appleton, Wis.) — Wisconsin
Genentech (South San Francisco, Calif.) — California
Genesis HealthCare (Kennett Square, Pa.) — West Virginia
Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare (St. Paul, Minn.) — Minnesota
Good Samaritan Hospital (Vincennes, Ind.) — Indiana
Grady Health System (Atlanta) — Georgia
Griffin Hospital (Derby, Conn.) — Connecticut
GSK (Philadelphia) — North Carolina, Pennsylvania
The Guthrie Clinic (Sayre, Pa.) — Pennsylvania
Hackensack Meridian Health (Edison, N.J.) — New Jersey
Hartford HealthCare (Hartford, Conn.) — Connecticut
Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation (Center City, Minn.)
HCA Healthcare (Nashville, Tenn.) — Missouri, New Hampshire
Health Care Service Corporation (Chicago) — Illinois
Healthequity (Draper, Utah) — Utah
Healthfirst (New York City) — New York
HealthPartners (Bloomington, Minn.) — Minnesota
Heartland Dental (Effingham, Ill.) — Illinois
Help At Home (Chicago) — Indiana, Pennsylvania
Hennepin Healthcare (Minneapolis) — Minnesota
Henry Ford Health System (Detroit) — Michigan
Hoag (Newport Beach, Calif.) — California
Holy Cross Hospital Fort Lauderdale (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) — Florida
Home Instead (Omaha, Neb.) — Arizona
HonorHealth (Scottsdale, Ariz.) — Arizona
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Newark, N.J.) — New Jersey
Hospital Sisters Health System (Springfield, Ill.) — Wisconsin
Houston Methodist (Houston) — Texas
Humana (Louisville, Ky.) — California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Wisconsin
Huntsville Hospital Health System (Huntsville, Ala.) — Alabama
Indiana University Health (Indianapolis) — Indiana
Infirmary Health (Mobile, Ala.) — Alabama
Inova Health System (Falls Church, Va.) — Virginia
Inovalon Holdings (Bowie, Md.) — Maryland
Inspira Health Network (Mullica Hill, N.J.) — New Jersey
Integris Health (Oklahoma City) — Oklahoma
Interim HealthCare (Sunrise, Fla.) — Indiana, Texas
Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City) — Nevada, Utah
Jackson Health System (Miami) — Florida
Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine) — Maine
Jefferson Health (Philadelphia) — New Jersey
Johns Hopkins Medicine (Baltimore) — Florida, Maryland
Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, N.J.) — California, Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
JPS Health Network (Fort Worth, Texas) — Texas
Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.) — Colorado, Hawaii, Maryland, Oregon, Virginia
Kennedy Krieger Institute (Baltimore) — Maryland
Kettering Health Network (Dayton, Ohio) — Ohio
Kootenai Health (Coeur d’Alene, Idaho) — Idaho
Labcorp Holdings (Burlington, N.C.) — Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin
Lake Charles Memorial Health System (Lake Charles, La.) — Louisiana
LCMC Health (New Orleans) — Louisiana
Legacy Health (Portland, Ore.) — Oregon
Lehigh Valley Health Network (Allentown, Pa.) — Pennsylvania
LHC Group (Lafayette, La.) — Louisiana
LifeBridge Health (Baltimore) — Maryland
Loma Linda University Health (Loma Linda, Calif.) — California
LSU Health (New Orleans) — Louisiana
Mary Washington Healthcare (Fredericksburg, Va.) — Virginia
Masonicare (Wallingford, Conn.) — Connecticut
Mass General Brigham (Somerville, Mass.) — Massachusetts
Mayo Clinic Health System (Rochester, Minn.) — Arizona, Florida, Wisconsin
McKesson (Irving, Texas) — Arizona, Georgia
McLeod Health (Florence, S.C.) — South Carolina
MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston) — Texas
Med Center Health (Bowling Green, Ky.) — Kentucky
Medical Mutual of Ohio (Cleveland) — Ohio
MedStar Health (Columbia, Md.) — District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia
Medtronic (Minneapolis) — Arizona, Connecticut, Minnesota
Memorial Hermann Health System (Houston) — Texas
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York City) — New York
Mercy (St. Louis) — Arkansas, Missouri
Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore) — Maryland
Methodist Health System (Omaha, Neb.) — Nebraska
Methodist Health System (Dallas) — Texas
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (Memphis, Tenn.) — Tennessee
The MetroHealth System (Cleveland) — Ohio
Midland Memorial Hospital (Midland, Texas) — Texas
Mosaic Life Care (St. Joseph, Mo.) — Missouri
Mount Auburn Hospital (Cambridge, Mass.) — Massachusetts
Mount Carmel Health (Columbus, Ohio) — Ohio
Mount Sinai Health Systems (New York City) — New York
Mountain Comprehensive Care Center (Prestonsburg, Ky.) — Kentucky
MultiCare Health System (Tacoma, Wash.) — Washington
MUSC Health (Charleston, S.C.) — South Carolina
MyMichigan Health (Midland, Mich.) — Michigan
Myriad Genetics (Salt Lake City) — Utah
Natera (Austin, Texas) — Texas
National Healthcare (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) — Tennessee
National Youth Advocate Program (Columbus, Ohio) — Ohio
Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Columbus, Ohio) — Ohio
NCH Healthcare (Naples, Fla.) — Florida
Nebraska Medicine (Omaha, Neb.) — Nebraska
Nemours Children’s Health (Jacksonville, Fla.) — Delaware, Florida
Netsmart (Overland Park, Kan.) — Kansas
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (New York City) — New York
NKC Health Hospital (Kansas City, Mo.) — Missouri
Norman Regional Health System (Norman, Okla.) — Oklahoma
North Mississippi Medical Center (Tupelo, Miss.) — Mississippi
North Oaks Health System (Hammond, La.) — Louisiana
North Shore Healthcare (Milwaukee) — Wisconsin
Northside Hospital (Atlanta) — Georgia
Northwell Health (New Hyde Park, N.Y.) — Connecticut, New York
Northwestern Medicine (Chicago) — Illinois
Norton Healthcare (Louisville, Ky.) — Indiana, Kentucky
Novant Health (Winston-Salem, N.C.) — North Carolina
Novartis (East Hanover, N.J.) — New Jersey
Novo Nordisk (Plainsboro, N.J.) — New Jersey
NYU Langone Health (New York City) — New York
Ochsner Health System (New Orleans) — Louisiana
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Columbus, Ohio) — Ohio
OhioHealth (Columbus, Ohio) — Ohio
Oklahoma Heart Hospital (Oklahoma City) — Oklahoma
Onslow Memorial Hospital (Jacksonville, N.C.) — North Carolina
The Oregon Clinic (Portland, Ore.) — Oregon
Orlando Health (Orlando, Fla.) — Florida
OSF HealthCare (Peoria, Ill.) — Illinois
Overlake Medical Center (Bellevue, Wash.) — Washington
Owensboro Health (Owensboro, Ky.) — Kentucky
Parkland Health (Dallas) — Texas
Parkview Health (Fort Wayne, Ind.) — Indiana
Penn Medicine (Philadelphia) — New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Penn State Health (Hershey, Pa.) — Pennsylvania
Pfizer (New York City) — Kansas, Michigan, New York, North Carolina
Piedmont Healthcare (Atlanta) — Georgia
Pikeville Medical Center (Pikeville, Ky.) — Kentucky
Preferred Family Healthcare (Kirksville, Mo.) — Missouri
Presbyterian Healthcare Services (Albuquerque, N.M.) — New Mexico
Prime Healthcare Services (Ontario, Calif.) — Ohio
Prime Therapeutics (Eagan, Minn.) — Minnesota
Priority Health (Grand Rapids, Mich.) — Michigan
Prisma Health (Greenville, S.C.) — South Carolina
ProHealth Care (Waukesha, Wis.) — Wisconsin
Providence St. Joseph Health (Renton, Wash.) — Alaska
Quest Diagnostics (Secaucus, N.J.) — Texas
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (Tarrytown, N.Y.) — New York
Regional One Health (Memphis, Tenn.) — Tennessee
Reid Health (Richmond, Ind.) — Indiana
Renown Health (Reno, Nev.) — Nevada
ResMed (San Diego) — California
Riverside Health System (Newport News, Va.) — Virginia
Riverview Health (Noblesville, Ind.) — Indiana
Roche Holding (Indianapolis) — Indiana
Roper St. Francis (Charleston, S.C.) — South Carolina
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (Buffalo, N.Y.) — New York
Rush University Medical Center (Chicago) — Illinois
RWJBarnabas Health (West Orange, N.J.) — New Jersey
Saint Alphonsus (Boise, Idaho) — Idaho
Saint Francis Health System (Tulsa, Okla.) — Oklahoma
Salem Health (Salem, Ore.) — Oregon
Sanford Health (Sioux Falls, S.D.) — Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin
Sanofi (Bridgewater, N.J.) — New Jersey
Sarasota Memorial Health Care System (Sarasota, Fla.) — Florida
Scripps Health (San Diego) — California
Seattle Children’s (Seattle) — Washington
Select Medical Holdings (Mechanicsburg, Pa.) — Missouri
SelectHealth (Murray, Utah) — Utah
Sentara Health (Norfolk, Va.) — Virginia
Seven Counties Services (Louisville, Ky.) — Kentucky
Sevita (Edina, Minn.) — Minnesota
Smith & Nephew (Memphis, Tenn.) — Tennessee
South Shore Hospital (Weymouth, Mass.) — Massachusetts
Southcoast Health System (New Bedford, Mass.) — Massachusetts
Southeast Georgia Health System (Brunswick, Ga.) — Georgia
Southeast Health (Dothan, Ala.) — Alabama
Southern Illinois Healthcare (Carbondale, Ill.) — Illinois
Sovah Health (Danville, Va.) — Virginia
SSM Health (St. Louis) — Missouri, Oklahoma
St. Bernards Healthcare (Jonesboro, Ark.) — Arkansas
St. Charles Health System (Bend, Ore.) — Oregon
St. Elizabeth Healthcare (Edgewood, Ky.) — Kentucky
St. Joseph’s/Candler (Savannah, Ga.) — Georgia
St. Joseph’s Healthcare System (Paterson, N.J.) — New Jersey
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Memphis, Tenn.) — Tennessee
St. Luke’s Hospital (Chesterfield, Mo.) — Missouri
St. Luke’s University Health Network (Bethlehem, Pa.) — Pennsylvania
Stormont Vail Health (Topeka, Kan.) — Kansas
Summa Health System (Akron, Ohio) — Ohio
Sutter Health (Sacramento, Calif.) — California
Syneos Health (Raleigh, N.C.) — North Carolina
Tampa General Hospital (Tampa, Fla.) — Florida
TeamHealth (Knoxville, Tenn.) — Tennessee
Temple Health (Philadelphia) — Pennsylvania
Tenet Healthcare (Dallas) — Georgia
Terrebonne General Health System (Houma, La.) — Louisiana
Texas Children’s Hospital (Houston) — Texas
Texas Health Resources (Arlington, Texas) — Texas
Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Mass.) — North Carolina, South Carolina
TidalHealth (Salisbury, Md.) — Maryland
TJ Regional Health (Glasgow, Ky.) — Kentucky
TriHealth (Cincinnati) — Ohio
Tufts Medicine (Burlington, Mass.) — Massachusetts
UC Davis Health (Sacramento, Calif.) — California
UCHealth (Cincinnati) (Cincinnati) — Ohio
UCHealth (Colorado) (Aurora, Colo.) — Colorado
UK HealthCare (Lexington, Ky.) — Kentucky
UNC Health (Chapel Hill, N.C.) — North Carolina
United Health Services (Binghamton, N.Y.) — New York
UnityPoint Health (Des Moines, Iowa) — Wisconsin
University Health, Kansas City (Kansas City, Mo.) — Missouri
University Hospital Newark (Newark, N.J.) — New Jersey
University Hospitals (Cleveland) — Ohio
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (Little Rock, Ark.) — Arkansas
University of Chicago Medicine (Chicago) — Illinois
University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System (Chicago) — Illinois
University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics (Iowa City, Iowa) — Iowa
The University of Kansas Health System (Kansas City, Kan.) — Kansas, Missouri
University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center (Glen Burnie, Md.) — Maryland
University of Maryland Medical System (Baltimore) — Maryland
University of Miami Health System (Miami) — Florida
University of Michigan Health-Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, Mich.) — Michigan
University of Mississippi Medical Center (Jackson, Miss.) — Mississippi
University of Missouri Health Care (Columbia, Mo.) — Missouri
University of Rochester Medicine (Rochester, N.Y.) — New York
University of Tennessee Medical Center (Knoxville, Tenn.) — Tennessee
University of Utah Health (Salt Lake City) — Utah
The University of Vermont Health Network (Burlington, Vt.) — Vermont
University of Virginia Health System (Charlottesville, Va.) — Virginia
UNM Health System (Albuquerque, N.M.) — New Mexico
USA Health (Mobile, Ala.) — Alabama
UW Health University Hospital (Madison, Wis.) — Illinois, Wisconsin
UW Medicine (Seattle) — Washington
Valley Health (Winchester, Va.) — Virginia
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tenn.) — Tennessee
VCU Health (Richmond, Va.) — Virginia
Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Boston) — Massachusetts
VHC Health (Arlington, Va.) — Virginia
Virtua (Marlton, N.J.) — New Jersey
WakeMed (Raleigh, N.C.) — North Carolina
Washington Regional Medical Center (Fayetteville, Ark.) — Arkansas
Weill Cornell Medicine (New York City) — New York
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield (Des Moines, Iowa) — Iowa
WellSpan Health (York, Pa.) — Pennsylvania
Wellstar Health System (Marietta, Ga.) — Georgia
WPS Health Solutions (Madison, Wis.) — Wisconsin
WVU Medicine West Virginia University Health System (Morgantown, W.Va.) — Pennsylvania, West Virginia
Yale New Haven Health (New Haven, Conn.) — Connecticut
Zimmer Biomet (Warsaw, Ind.) — Indiana
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