WellSpan Health Hospitals Achieve Top Rankings in national healthgrades Awards
YORK, PA – WellSpan Health hospitals are being recognized for extraordinary quality of care, wiht six facilities named among the nation’s best by Healthgrades for 2025 and 2026. the awards span multiple specialties, including cardiac care, critical care, neurosurgery, pulmonary care, and gastrointestinal treatment, solidifying wellspan’s commitment to patient safety and superior outcomes.
Notably, WellSpan York Hospital is the only hospital in Pennsylvania to receive the prestigious “America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Cardiac Care” award for the second year in a row (2025-2026) and also earned the “America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Critical Care” distinction in 2026 - again, the sole Pennsylvania hospital to achieve this honor.
Across the WellSpan system, hospitals received a total of 19 Healthgrades recognitions. Key accolades include:
* America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Cardiac Care: WellSpan York Hospital (2025-2026)
* America’s 100 Best Hospitals for critical care: WellSpan York Hospital (2026)
* Healthgrades Critical Care Excellence Award™: WellSpan York Hospital (2026)
* cranial Neurosurgery Excellence Award™: WellSpan York Hospital (2026)
* Top 5% in the Nation for Critical Care: WellSpan York Hospital (2026)
* Top 5% in the Nation for GI Medical Treatment: WellSpan facilities (fourth consecutive year, 2023-2026)
* Top 10% in the Nation for Cardiology Services: WellSpan facilities (second consecutive year, 2025-2026)
* Top 10% in the Nation for Cranial Neurosurgery: WellSpan facilities (2026)
* Top five in critical care in pennsylvania: WellSpan facilities (2026)
Further demonstrating consistent excellence, WellSpan hospitals earned Five-Star Distinctions in the treatment of Sepsis (for 10 consecutive years, 2017-2026), Heart Failure (sixth year, 2021-2026), Stroke (sixth year, 2021-2026), GI Bleed (sixth year, 2021-2026), Cranial Neurosurgery (second year, 2025-2026), Coronary Interventional Procedures (second year, 2025-2026), Pneumonia (second year, 2025-2026), Respiratory Failure (second year, 2025-2026), Heart Attack (2026) and Valve Surgery (2026).
Healthgrades’ analysis, based on risk-adjusted mortality and complication rates for over 4,500 hospitals nationwide, highlights the impact of quality care. According to Healthgrades, if all hospitals performed at the level of five-star recipients between 2022-2024, over 230,000 lives could have been saved and nearly 157,000 complications avoided.
“Healthgrades’ specialty awards identify the nation’s top-performing hospitals in key service areas, helping consumers find high quality care tailored to their specific needs,” said Alana Biggers, MD, MPH, medical advisor at Healthgrades. “We’re proud to recognize wellspan Health for its consistently superior outcomes in key service areas, including Pulmonary Care, Critical Care, Stroke, and Neurosurgery.”
The Healthgrades 2026 Specialty Awards are based on data from 2022-2024 Medicare patient records. More information on the methodology can be found at http://healthgrades.com/quality/ratings-awards/methodology/specialty-excellence-awards-americas-best-hospitals-for-specialty-care-awards-methodology. Consumers can explore hospital quality ratings at https://www.healthgrades.com/quality/americas-best-hospitals. Details about WellSpan Health’s acute care hospitals are available at http://www.wellspan.org/Hospitals.
