U.S. News Rates Johns Hopkins as Top Rheumatology Hospital

For the 8^th consecutive year, Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has been ranked as the best hospital for rheumatology by U.S. News & World Report.

The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, took the second place, while Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York City took third. The magazine announced the 2025-2026 rankings on July 29.

The rankings through No. 9 remain the same as 2024-2025, though, this year, the University of Michigan Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, supplanted University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital for the No. 10 spot.

U.S. News & World Report ranks hospitals in 15 specialties; while most specialty rankings are based on objective performance measures, the rankings for ophthalmology, psychiatry, and rheumatology are based on expert opinion.

The top 10 rheumatology hospitals were nominated by at least 5% of rheumatologist respondents to U.S. News surveys in 2022, 2023, and 2024. An additional 18 hospitals were recommended by at least 1% of responding rheumatologists.

The top 10 hospitals were:

1. Johns Hopkins Hospital
2. Cleveland Clinic
3. HSS, New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
4. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
5. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
6. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
7. University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Health-UCSF Medical Center
8. University of California Los Angeles Medical Center
9. NYU Langone Hospitals, New York City
10. University of Michigan Health

All 10 hospitals on this list also made the Best Hospitals Honor Roll for 2025-2026, meaning they were nationally ranked across multiple specialties.