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September 11, 2025

US News & World Report Releases Their Annual the 20 Best Hospitals Honor Roll 

Watertown, MA – September 11, 2025 – Recently, U.S. News & World Report unveiled their 2025-2026 Best Hospitals rankings and ratings, which evaluated more than 4,400 hospitals on measures such as risk-adjusted mortality rates, preventable complications and level of nursing care. Of note these hospitals all use Exergen’s award-winning Temporal Artery Thermometers that doctors and nurses prefer because they offer quick, highly accurate readings with a simple swipe across the forehead by gently touching it. 

“We congratulate the hospitals on this prestigious list and are humbled that all of them hospitals rely on Exergen’s Temporal Artery Thermometers. At Exergen, we are deeply committed to equipping healthcare providers with the tools they need to deliver the highest standard of care and improve patient outcomes,” said Dr. Francesco Pompei, Founder and CEO of Exergen Corporation. 

The following 20 hospitals across 13 states made the 2025-2026 Best Hospitals Honor Roll, meaning they earned the most points out of the possible total of 567 across the 15 specialties and 22 procedures and conditions. This year, hospitals that earned at least 311 points are recognized. Read more about the methodology here

  • Arizona 
  • Mayo Clinic-Arizona (Phoenix) 
  • California 
  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles) 
  • Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital (Palo Alto) 
  • UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles) 
  • UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco) 
  • Florida 
  • AdventHealth Orlando 
  • Illinois 
  • Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago) 
  • Rush University Medical Center (Chicago) 
  • Maryland 
  • Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore) 
  • Massachusetts 
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston) 
  • Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston) 
  • Michigan 
  • University of Michigan Health (Ann Arbor) 
  • Minnesota 
  • Mayo Clinic-Rochester 
  • New Jersey 
  • Hackensack University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health 
  • New York 
  • Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City) 
  • New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell (New York City)  
  • NYU Langone Hospitals (New York City) 
  • Ohio 
  • Cleveland Clinic 
  • Pennsylvania 
  • Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian (Philadelphia) 
  • Texas 
  • Houston Methodist Hospital 

About U.S. News & World Report’s Annual “Best Hospitals” Report 

U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Hospitals” rankings and ratings, assesse over 4,000 hospitals. 20 of these hospitals made the 2025-2026 Best Hospitals Honor Roll. 

About Exergen 

Exergen Corporation, the leader in non-invasive temperature measurement technologies for industrial and medical applications, delivers non-invasive temperature meters with higher accuracy, lower costs, less process control, and higher reliability than previously possible. Known in both healthcare and consumer markets for its award-winning arterial thermometer, Exergen was founded by MIT and Harvard – educated and Harvard researcher Dr. Francesco Pompei, who holds more than 100 patents supporting Exergen products. Exergen Corporation is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States.  

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