Highlights
- Mayo Clinic in Phoenix ranked No. 1 in Arizona for the 14th consecutive year, per U.S. News & World Report's 2026-2027 Best Hospitals list.
- Mayo was the only Arizona hospital on the 20-hospital national honor roll, a distinction it has held for 10 straight years.
- HonorHealth Scottsdale Shea Medical Center ranked second in Arizona among regional hospitals, followed by Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix.
- Mayo Clinic was nationally ranked in nine specialties, with its highest finish in Gastroenterology & GI Surgery at No. 13.
Mayo Clinic in Phoenix held its position as Arizona's top-ranked hospital for the 14th consecutive year in U.S. News & World Report's 2026-2027 Best Hospitals rankings, released Tuesday.
The Phoenix campus was also the only Arizona hospital to make the magazine's 20-hospital national honor roll, a distinction it has now earned for 10 straight years. U.S. News describes the honor roll as recognizing institutions that demonstrate exceptional breadth and depth of clinical excellence.
Mayo Clinic was nationally ranked in nine specialties: Gastroenterology & GI Surgery (No. 13), Geriatrics (No. 18), Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Surgery (No. 19), Neurology & Neurosurgery (No. 19), Pulmonology & Lung Surgery (No. 22), Cancer (No. 29), Diabetes & Endocrinology (No. 30), Urology (No. 30) and Orthopedics (No. 33).
Five other Arizona hospitals joined Mayo on the regional best-hospitals list. In order of in-state ranking: HonorHealth Scottsdale Shea Medical Center, Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix, HonorHealth Scottsdale Thompson Peak Medical Center, Banner-University Medical Center in Tucson and Banner Boswell Medical Center in Sun City. Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix also earned a national ranking, coming in at No. 49 in Geriatrics.
U.S. News said its evaluations draw on more than 800 million patient care records, examining risk-adjusted mortality rates, preventable complications and patient experience.
The rankings arrive alongside a separate Yale University study finding Arizona has added the third-most new hospitals in the nation since 2001, with 23 openings and 11 closures between 2000 and 2026. The most openings were in Gilbert and Mesa, with three hospitals each. Arizona's hospital beds per thousand residents fell from 1.9 to 1.7 over that period, an 11% decline, according to Yale's Health Care Affordability Lab.
In the Valley, Banner Health broke ground in May 2025 on a $750 million, 300-bed Scottsdale hospital, with an anticipated opening in early 2027. A separate nonprofit project, Where Hope Lives, has proposed a 170-bed, $60 million facility in the West Valley for young survivors of sex trafficking.
The full 2026-2027 Best Hospitals rankings are available at U.S. News & World Report's website; the Yale Closures and Openings Explorer launched this month at the Health Care Affordability Lab.
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