U.S. News and World Report ranked the top 50 hospitals for cardiology, heart and vascular surgery as part of its 2026-2027 Best Hospitals rankings.
U.S. News evaluated nearly 500 heart hospitals nationwide for the specialty, which covers care for patients who need surgical or catheter-based interventions to prevent sudden heart failure or fatal vascular rupture, as well as patients with irregular heartbeats or weakened heart muscles, US News told Becker’s.
This marks the first year the cardiology rankings are built on outcomes-focused data drawn from U.S. News’ procedures and conditions ratings, covering eight cohorts: abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, aortic valve surgery, heart arrhythmia, coronary artery bypass surgery, heart attack, heart failure, pacemaker implantation and transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
Hospitals had to clear a two-stage eligibility process, including minimum procedure volumes and a transfer-pattern check meant to identify major referral centers, narrowing an initial pool of 665 hospitals down to the 488 that made this year’s rankings. Survival makes up 45% of a hospital’s score, with the rest split across measures including discharge-to-home rates, readmission prevention and patient experience.
Here are the top 50 hospitals for cardiology, heart and vascular surgery, along with their scores out of 100:
- NYU Langone Hospitals (New York City) — 97.5
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell (New York City) — 89.9
- Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.) — 83.3
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles) — 83.1
- Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City) — 82.6
- Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston) — 81.5
- Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago) — 80.9
- Cleveland Clinic — 80.3
- Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital (Palo Alto, Calif.) — 80.0
- Houston Methodist Hospital — 77.4
- Piedmont Heart Institute at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital (Atlanta) — 75.7
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston) — 75.3
- UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas) — 75.0
- Rush University Medical Center (Chicago) — 74.8
- UC San Diego Health-Cardiovascular Institute (La Jolla, Calif.) — 74.4
- MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute at MedStar Washington Hospital Center (Washington, D.C.) — 73.6
- St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center (Roslyn, N.Y.) — 73.4
- North Shore University Hospital at Northwell Health (Manhasset, N.Y.) — 72.5
- Mayo Clinic-Arizona (Phoenix) — 72.0
- Mayo Clinic-Florida (Jacksonville) — 72.0
- UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco) — 71.9
- UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center (Los Angeles) — 71.6
- University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City, Kan.) — 71.5
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) — 71.4
- Lenox Hill Hospital at Northwell Health (New York City) — 70.7
- Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute (Charlotte, N.C.) — 70.6
- Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore) — 70.2
- Montefiore Einstein (Bronx, N.Y.) — 70.2
- VCU Medical Center (Richmond, Va.) — 70.0
- Baylor Scott and White The Heart Hospital Plano (Plano, Texas) — 69.7
- Duke University Hospital (Durham, N.C.) — 69.5
- Scripps La Jolla Hospitals (La Jolla, Calif.) — 69.2
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (Philadelphia) — 69.1
- Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center (San Francisco) — 68.6
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston) — 68.5
- Cleveland Clinic Weston (Weston, Fla.) — 68.5
- University of Chicago Medical Center (Chicago) — 68.3
- Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center (Milwaukee) — 68.0
- University of Michigan Health Frankel Cardiovascular Center (Ann Arbor, Mich.) — 67.9
- Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital (Lancaster, Pa.) — 67.6
- Morristown Medical Center Atlantic Health System (Morristown, N.J.) — 67.4
- Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center (Santa Clara, Calif.) — 67.0
- St. David’s Medical Center (Austin, Texas) — 66.9
- Advocate Christ Medical Center (Oak Lawn, Ill.) — 66.8
- Hackensack University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health (Hackensack, N.J.) — 66.6
- Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle) — 66.5
- Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute (Kansas City, Mo.) — 65.9
- John Muir Health-Concord Medical Center (Concord, Calif.) — 65.8
- University of Miami Hospital and Clinics-UHealth Tower (Miami) — 65.7
- AdventHealth Orlando (Orlando, Fla.) — 65.3
- Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital (Royal Oak, Mich.) — 65.3
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