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November 3, 2025

Exergen Congratulates Top 10 Children’s Hospitals Named to U.S. News & World Report 2025–26 Honor Roll 

Watertown, MA, November 3, 2025 – U.S. News & World Report released the 2025-26 edition of “Best Children’s Hospitals.” This is the annual evaluation of pediatric hospitals by specialty and by location, released on Oct. 7, featuring 10 Honor Roll hospitals. Continuing the collaboration with RTI International, a North Carolina-based research and consulting firm, they collected and examined data from 118 children’s hospitals and surveyed thousands of pediatric specialists.  The rankings reflect measures such as clinical outcomes, compliance with established best practices, and level and quality of hospital resources directly related to patient care. 

“We congratulate each of the children’s hospitals on the 2025–26 U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll. They have set the standards in pediatric care, and we are proud that they use Exergen’s Temporal Artery Thermometers to deliver patient care. We designed our technology to support caregivers and patients with fast, easy, accurate, and non-invasive temperature measurement because when every second matters, trust and precision are crucial,” said Dr. Francesco Pompei, founder and CEO of Exergen Corporation. 

Doctors and nurses prefer  prefer Exergen’s Temporal Artery Thermometer because it is clinically accurate, very easyto use, non-invasive, very cost efficient, user- and patient friendly, and improves significantly productivity. The Temporal Artery Thermometers use infrared technology to measure the heat naturally emitting from the skin surface on the forehead the temporal artery on the forehead which is positioned 2 mm below the skin. In addition, this method incorporates a patented arterial heat balance system to automatically account for the effects of ambient temperature on the skin. 

The ten US children’s hospitals that US News & World Report recognized at the top of their class for 2025-2024 include: 

  • Boston Children’s Hospital  
  • Children’s Hospital Colorado (Aurora)  
  • Children’s Hospital Los Angeles  
  • Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia  
  • Children’s National Hospital (Washington, D.C.)  
  • Cincinnati Children’s  
  • Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Columbus, Ohio)  
  • Rady Children’s Hospital (San Diego)  
  • Seattle Children’s Hospital  
  • Texas Children’s Hospital (Houston) 

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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