It’s become survival of the fittest for American hospitals. Still operating in the long shadow of the pandemic, amid labor shortages, rising costs, and the loss of government COVID-19 relief funds, the industry is also contending with more lasting change like cyberthreats and the continued migration of services to outpatient settings.
Not all will make it: Hospital closures and bankruptcies are markedly up this year; many others, particularly America’s rural hospitals, are under serious strain. That backdrop makes this year’s Fortune/PINC AI 100 Top Hospitals list, which crunches the numbers to identify America’s best performers all the more salient. In a field of 2,644 short-term, acute care non-federal US hospitals, these 100 organizations—which represent teaching and community hospitals of various sizes—stand apart and serve as guides for the broader industry.
