Best Hospitals 2021

By Newsweek

World's Best Hospitals 2021

This is the third year that Newsweek has partnered with Statista Inc, the respected global data research firm, to reveal the World's Best Hospitals— and it may be our most important ranking yet.

As the events of 2020 made clear, our lives and those of our loved ones may rest on the kind of health care we have access to. The 2,000 hospitals named in this list—which covers 25 countries, including United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Canada —stand out for their consistent excellence, including distinguished physicians, top-notch nursing care and state-of-the-art technology.

Of course we hope that we, and you, won't need to seek care or visit a friend or family member in any hospital this year. But if you do, this ranking of the World's Best Hospitals 2021 can help you feel confident as you make a critical choice about medical care.

— Nancy Cooper
Global Editor-in-Chief

Rank	Hospital	Country	Score	City
1	Hospital Clínic de Barcelona	Spain	93.90%	Barcelona
2	Hospital Universitario La Paz	Spain	93.67%	Madrid
3	Clinica Universidad de Navarra	Spain	87.64%	Pamplona/Iruña
4	Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón	Spain	87.27%	Madrid
5	Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre	Spain	86.76%	Madrid
6	Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron	Spain	86.11%	Barcelona
7	Hospital Ramón y Cajal	Spain	82.24%	Madrid
8	Hospital Universitario y Politécnico la Fe	Spain	78.50%	Valencia
9	Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz	Spain	78.43%	Madrid
10	Hospital Clínico San Carlos	Spain	78.29%	Madrid
11	Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío	Spain	78.11%	Sevilla
12	Hospital Universitario Madrid Sanchinarro	Spain	75.07%	Madrid
13	Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla	Spain	74.95%	Santander
14	Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau	Spain	74.41%	Barcelona
15	Hospital Ruber Internacional	Spain	74.22%	Madrid
16	Centro Médico Teknon	Spain	74.15%	Barcelona
17	Complexo Hospitalario Universitario a Coruña	Spain	73.33%	Coruña
18	Hospital Quirónsalud Madrid	Spain	72.88%	Pozuelo de Alarcón
19	Hospital Quirónsalud Barcelona	Spain	72.45%	Barcelona
20	Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet	Spain	71.92%	Zaragoza
21	Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro	Spain	71.86%	Majadahonda
22	Hospital Universitario Virgen de Las Nieves	Spain	71.76%	Granada
23	Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía	Spain	71.65%	Córdoba
24	Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge	Spain	71.62%	Barcelona
25	Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Infanta Leonor	Spain	71.56%	Madrid
26	Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia	Spain	71.52%	Valencia
27	Hospital Universitario la Zarzuela	Spain	71.50%	Madrid
28	Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena	Spain	71.25%	Sevilla
29	Hospital Universitario Dr. Peset Aleixandre	Spain	71.09%	Valencia
30	Hospital Universitari Quirón Dexeus	Spain	70.85%	Barcelona
31	Hospital Universitario HM Montepríncipe	Spain	70.75%	Boadilla del Monte
32	Hospital Universitario Moncloa	Spain	70.72%	Madrid
33	Hospital Universitari Sagrat Cor	Spain	70.60%	Barcelona
34	Hospital Quironsalud Málaga	Spain	70.39%	Málaga
35	Complejo Asistencial Universitario de Salamanca	Spain	70.38%	Salamanca
36	Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid	Spain	70.12%	Valladolid
37	Hospital Universitario de Cruces	Spain	69.94%	Barakaldo
38	Consorcio Hospital General Universitario de Valencia	Spain	69.90%	Valencia
39	Hospital de Barcelona	Spain	69.80%	Barcelona
40	Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias	Spain	69.66%	Oviedo
41	Hospital General de Ciudad Real	Spain	69.43%	Ciudad Real
42	Hospital Universitario de la Princesa	Spain	69.42%	Madrid
43	Hospital del Mar	Spain	69.42%	Barcelona
44	Hospital Rey Juan Carlos	Spain	69.38%	Móstoles
45	Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca	Spain	69.35%	Murcia
46	Hospital Galdakao-Usansolo	Spain	69.30%	Galdakao
47	Hospital Quironsalud Sagrado Corazón	Spain	69.19%	Sevilla
48	Hospital 9 de Octubre	Spain	69.04%	Valencia
49	Hospital General Universitario Reina Sofía	Spain	69.04%	Murcia
50	Hospital San Roque	Spain	68.95%	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
51	Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria	Spain	68.94%	Santa Cruz de Tenerife
52	Hospital Universitario Rio Hortega	Spain	68.88%	Valladolid
53	Hospital Universitari General de Catalunya	Spain	68.83%	Sant Cugat del Vallès
54	Hospital Universitario Regional de Málaga	Spain	68.78%	Málaga
55	Hospital General Universitario Santa Lucía	Spain	68.73%	Cartagena
56	Hospital Sant Rafael	Spain	68.72%	Barcelona
57	Hospital Universitario de Móstoles	Spain	68.66%	Móstoles
58	Hospital Ruber Juan Bravo 49	Spain	68.65%	Madrid
59	Hospital Universitario Torrecárdenas	Spain	68.64%	Almería
60	Hospital Universitario Virgen de Valme	Spain	68.63%	Sevilla
61	Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol de Badalona	Spain	68.59%	Badalona
62	Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago	Spain	68.58%	Santiago de Compostela
63	Hospital General Universitario de Alicante	Spain	68.54%	Alicante/Alacant
64	Hospital de Basurto	Spain	68.48%	Bilbao
65	Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Vigo	Spain	68.48%	Vigo
66	Hospital Universitario Juan Ramón Jiménez	Spain	68.46%	Huelva
67	Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Badajoz	Spain	68.33%	Badajoz
68	Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria	Spain	68.32%	Málaga
69	Hospital Universitario de Araba	Spain	68.30%	Vitoria-Gasteiz
70	Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu	Spain	68.19%	Sant Boi de Llobregat
71	Complejo Hospitalario San Millan San Pedro de la Rioja	Spain	68.15%	Logroño
72	Hospital Universitario Fundación Alcorcón	Spain	68.12%	Alcorcón
73	Hospital de Sant Joan de Déu	Spain	68.03%	Manresa
74	Hospital HM de Madrid	Spain	68.01%	Madrid
75	Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria Doctor Negrín	Spain	67.93%	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
76	Hospital Universitario de Puerto Real	Spain	67.85%	Puerto Real
77	Hospital Santa Maria	Spain	67.83%	Lleida
78	Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Albacete	Spain	67.82%	Albacete
79	Hospital la Moraleja	Spain	67.78%	Madrid
80	Hospital Universitario de Jaén	Spain	67.75%	Jaén
81	Hospital Universitario San Cecilio	Spain	67.74%	Granada
82	Complejo Hospitalario del Área de Salud de Mérida	Spain	67.68%	Mérida
83	Hospital Católico Casa de Salud	Spain	67.63%	Valencia
84	Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Ferrol	Spain	67.58%	Ferrol
85	Clínica HLA Vistahermosa	Spain	67.52%	Alicante/Alacant
86	Hospital Universitario Donostia	Spain	67.46%	Donostia/San Sebastián
87	Hospital de Sant Joan Despí Moisès Broggi	Spain	67.43%	Sant Joan Despí
88	Fundación Hospital de Jove	Spain	67.39%	Gijón
89	Clínica Sagrada Família	Spain	67.38%	Barcelona
90	Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Cáceres	Spain	67.26%	Cáceres
91	Hospital de Sabadell	Spain	67.19%	Sabadell
92	Hospital Costa del Sol	Spain	67.18%	Marbella
93	Hospital Universitario San Juan de Alicante	Spain	67.11%	Sant Joan d'Alacant
94	Hospital Universitario Príncipe de Asturias	Spain	67.11%	Alcalá de Henares
95	Complejo Asistencial Universitario de León	Spain	67.09%	León
96	Hospital Clínico Universitario Lozano Blesa	Spain	67.07%	Zaragoza
97	Hospital de Poniente	Spain	66.97%	El Ejido
98	Hospital de Manises	Spain	66.92%	Manises
99	Hospital Universitario de Getafe	Spain	66.79%	Getafe
100	Hospital General la Mancha Centro	Spain	66.76%	Alcázar de San Juan

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Global Board of Medical Experts:

The global board of medical experts was founded by Statista to support the World's Best Hospitals Project. The board is an independent body that is tasked with the continuous development of the quality and scope of the project. Current members of the board of experts are listed here.

Methodology:

The World's Best Hospital ranking lists the best hospitals in 25 countries: USA, Germany, Japan, South Korea, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Spain, Brazil, Canada, India, Australia, Mexico, The Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Thailand, Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Israel and Singapore. The countries were mainly selected based on standard of living/life expectancy, population size, number of hospitals and data availability.

The lists are based on three data sources:
• Recommendations from medical experts (doctors, hospitals managers, health care professionals)
• Results from patient surveys
• Medical KPIs on hospitals
• The number of hospitals awarded in each country varies based on the number of hospitals and data availability in the respective country. USA had the most hospitals awarded with 350, while Israel and Singapore were represented with 10 hospitals each. In total, 2,000 hospitals were ranked in this third edition of the ranking.
• Every hospital in each country is rated by a score.

Scores are only comparable between hospitals in the same country, because different sources for patient experience and medical KPIs were examined in each country. Since it was not possible to harmonize this data, cross-country comparisons of the scores are not possible (example: A score of 90 in country A doesn't necessarily mean that this hospital is better than a hospital with a score of 87 in country B).

• Specialized hospitals like heart or cancer hospitals differ in their offer from general hospitals, and therefore are displayed in a separate list. This list is sorted alphabetically because Hospitals with different specialties are not comparable.

U.S. hospitals were also awarded as best hospitals for infection prevention if they performed above the national average based on six different measures. This recognition is based on data from 01/01/2019 to 12/31/2019, published by CMS.

• In addition to the country lists, the study includes a Global Top 200 list. This list includes a ranking of the 100 best global hospitals, ranks 101-200 are sorted alphabetically.

For the 2021 rankings, a hospital survey was designed and sent out to hospitals. The purpose of this survey is to determine the status quo of Patient Reported Outcome Measurements (PROMs) implementation in hospitals which are represented in the ranking. PROMs will play a more significant part in future editions of the ranking.

Download the methodology overview here.

Download the extended methodology here.

Footnotes:

1 - No medical KPI was used to determine the score for these hospitals. Their scores relies on patient satisfaction data and recommendations from medical experts.
2 - No patient satisfaction data was used to determine the score for these hospitals. Their scores relies on results from medical KPIs and recommendations from medical experts.
3 - This hospital participated in the Statista hospital survey and is using Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs).

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