These 5 GA hospitals are the best in 2025, US News & World Report says
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The 2025–26 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals evaluated 171 hospitals in Georgia and 15 met high U.S. News standards and are recognized as Best Regional Hospitals.
Top 5 hospitals in GA
Emory University Hospital, Atlanta
- #1 in national Georgia rankings
- Nationally ranked in cancer, cardiology and gastroenterology and GI surgery specialties
- Patient experience score: 4 out of 5 stars
Emory St. Joseph’s Hospital, Atlanta
- #2 in national Georgia rankings
- High performing in gastroenterology and GI surgery, geriatrics, orthopedics, pulmonology and lung and urology specialties
- Patient experience score: 2 out of 5
Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainsville
- #3 in national Georgia rankings
- High performing in nephrology specialtiesPatient experience score: 2 out of 5
Piedmont Atlanta Hospital, Atlanta
- #4 in national Georgia rankings
- High performing in cardiology and gastroenterology and GI surgery specialtiesPatient experience score: 3 out of 5
Emory University Hospital Midtown, Atlanta
- #5 in national Georgia rankings
- High performing in gastroenterology and GI surgery, geriatrics and pulmonology and lung surgery specialties Patient experience score: 2 out of 5
Criteria for best hospitals
To be named Best Regional Hospital, a facility needs to:
- Earn at least eight High Performing ratings out of the 22 evaluated procedures and conditions
- Have at least five more High Performing ratings than the total number of Evaluated ratings (the lowest rating tier) it received
- Offers a full range of general medical and surgical services (as opposed to a specialty hospital)
To be considered for evaluation, a hospital has to meet at least one of the following criteria:
- It was a teaching hospital
- It was affiliated with a medical school
- It had at least 200 beds set up and staffed
- It had at least 100 beds and offered at least four out of eight advanced technologies associated with high-quality care, such as a PET/CT scanner and certain precision radiation therapies
Although no Columbus hospitals made the US News and World Report list they have held their own in recent rankings.
This story was originally published August 5, 2025 at 6:00 AM with the headline "These 5 GA hospitals are the best in 2025, US News & World Report says."