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Leapfrog recognizes the top 156 hospitals of 2025


The Leapfrog Group on Monday released its 2025 "Top Hospitals" list, recognizing 156 hospitals — including 111 Advisory Board members — for excellence in patient safety and quality of care.

Methodology

For the list, Leapfrog sorted hospitals into four categories and compared them to their peers. The four categories were:

  • Children's hospitals
  • General hospitals
  • Rural hospitals
  • Teaching hospitals

To be eligible for recognition, all hospitals were required to:

  • Meet Leapfrog's standard for computerized physician order entry
  • Meet Leapfrog's standard for ICU physician staffing
  • Meet Leapfrog's standard for "never events"
  • Meet or make progress toward meeting Leapfrog's standard for billing ethics
  • Meet or make progress toward meeting Leapfrog's standard for informed consent
  • Report on all applicable measures and meet Leapfrog's standard for 40% to 60% of all applicable measures depending on the type of hospital

Children's hospitals were also required to meet or make progress toward meeting Leapfrog's standards for CT radiation dose for head and abdomen/pelvis exams and pediatric patient experience. General, rural, and teaching hospitals were required to meet Leapfrog's standard for adult and pediatric complex surgery, have an "A" grade from Leapfrog's Hospital Safety Grade, and meet the Top Hospitals selection committee's highest qualitative standards of excellence.

Leapfrog's top hospitals for 2025

This year, Leapfrog recognized 111 Advisory Board members on its Top Hospitals list, which are listed below in alphabetical order by category and state. The full list of top hospitals is available here.

Children's hospitals

California

  • Loma Linda University Children's Hospital
  • UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
  • Valley Children's Hospital

Florida

  • AdventHealth for Children
  • Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital
  • Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
  • Nicklaus Children's Hospital
  • Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children
  • Wolfson Children's Hospital

Pennsylvania

  • UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Tennessee

  • Le Bonheur Children's Hospital

Washington

  • Mary Bridge Children's Hospital Health Network

General hospitals

California

  • Kaiser Permanente Manteca Medical Center
  • Kaiser Permanente Modesto Medical Center
  • Kaiser Permanente San Leandro Medical Center
  • Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical Center
  • UCI Health
  • Woodland Memorial Hospital

Colorado

  • Boulder Community Foothills Hospital

Connecticut

  • Windham Community Memorial Hospital

Florida

  • AdventHealth DeLand
  • AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach
  • AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway

Georgia

  • AdventHealth Murray

Illinois

  • Provident Hospital of Cook County
  • Silver Cross Hospital

Kansas

  • AdventHealth South Overland Park Hospital

Missouri

  • Mercy Hospital Jefferson

New Jersey

  • Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley Medical Center

New Mexico

  • Lovelace Women's Hospital

New York

  •  White Plains Hospital

North Carolina

  • Johnston Health Clayton
  • Novant Health Kernersville Medical Center
  • Novant Health Matthews Medical Center
  • Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center
  • UNC Health Nash

Ohio

  • Mount Carmel New Albany

Oklahoma

  • Tulsa Spine & Specialty Hospital

Pennsylvania

  • Penn State Lancaster Medical Center
  • UPMC Carlisle

Virginia

  • Fauquier Health

Washington

  • MultiCare Valley Hospital

Rural hospitals

Delaware

  • Beebe Healthcare Specialty Surgical Hospital

Florida

  • AdventHealth Wauchula

New York

  • Gouverneur Hospital

North Carolina

  • UNC Health Lenoir

Oklahoma

  • Hillcrest Hospital Pryor

Pennsylvania

  • St. Luke's Monroe Campus

South Carolina

  • MUSC Health - Marion Medical Center
  • Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital

Texas

  • AdventHealth Rollins Brook
  • UT Health Carthage
  • UT Health Pittsburg

Teaching hospitals

California

  • Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center
  • Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center
  • Kaiser Permanente Fresno Medical Center
  • Kaiser Permanente Ontario Medical Center
  • Kaiser Permanente Orange County-Irvine Medical Center
  • Kaiser Permanente Redwood City Medical Center
  • Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center
  • Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center
  • Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center
  • Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Medical Center
  • Kaiser Permanente Vacaville Medical Center
  • Kaiser Permanente Zion Medical Center
  • Loma Linda University Medical Center East Campus
  • Montclair Hospital Medical Center
  • UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights
  • UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion

Colorado

  • AdventHealth Avista

Connecticut

  • Hartford Hospital

Florida

  • AdventHealth East Orlando
  • AdventHealth Orlando
  • Baptist Health Doctors Hospital
  • Baptist Health Hospital | Doral
  • Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital
  • Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute
  • Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies

Illinois

  • Endeavor Health Glenbrook Hospital
  • University of Chicago Medical Center

Maryland

  •  MedStar St. Mary's Hospital

Massachusetts

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • Massachusetts General Hospital

Missouri

  • Mercy Hospital Springfield

New Jersey

  • Bergen New Bridge Medical Center
  • Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
  • Monmouth Medical Center
  • St. Luke's Warren Campus

New Mexico

  • Heart Hospital of New Mexico at Lovelace Medical Center

New York

  • NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island
  • NYU Langone Hospitals
  • St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center

North Carolina

  • Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center
  • Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center
  • University of North Carolina Hospitals

Oklahoma

  • Hillcrest Hospital South

Pennsylvania

  • Jefferson Einstein Montgomery Hospital
  • Jefferson Frankford
  • Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
  • St. Luke's Hospital - Allentown Campus
  • St. Luke's Hospital - Easton Campus
  • St. Luke's Sacred Heart Campus
  • St. Luke's University Hospital - Bethlehem Campus
  • WellSpan York Hospital

South Carolina

  • Prisma Health Laurens County Hospital
  • Prisma Health Patewood Hospital

Texas

  • Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital
  • Seton Medical Center Harker Heights

Virginia

  • Inova Fair Oaks Hospital
  • Inova Loudoun Hospital

Washington

  • Virginia Mason Medical Center

(Leapfrog Group press release, 12/15; Leapfrog 2025 Top Hospitals list, accessed 12/16; Leapfrog 2025 Top Hospital methodology, accessed 12/16)


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