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NYU Langone Hospitals in New York City is once again the best US hospital for neurology care, according to the 2025-2026 U.S. News & World Report annual ranking of best hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery.
NYU Langone also claimed the top spot in last year’s ranking.
University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Health-UCSF Medical Center has climbed to second place for neurology care, improving from third last year. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell in New York City has also moved up, now ranked third after holding fourth place previously.
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, has fallen from No. 2 last year to No. 4 this year. Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, ranks fifth this year, rising two spots from No. 7 last year.
Rounding out the top 10 hospitals for neurology/neurosurgery (in order) are Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago; Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas; and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
To determine the rankings, U.S. News evaluated 1227 top neurology hospitals and ranked them based on care for brain hemorrhage, conditions affecting the central nervous system, spinal disorders and injuries, degenerative nervous system diagnoses such as multiple sclerosis, care for stroke, seizures, meningitis, and more.
Best Hospitals Honor Roll
As in prior years, this year U.S. News also recognized “honor roll” hospitals that have excelled across multiple areas of care. There are 20 this year, listed in alphabetical order here:
- AdventHealth, Orlando, Florida
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
- Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland
- Hackensack University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health, Hackensack, New Jersey
- Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Medicine
- Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston
- Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Mayo Clinic, Arizona, Phoenix
- Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
- Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell
- Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital
- NYU Langone Hospitals
- Rush University Medical Center
- Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto, California
- University of California Los Angeles Medical Center
- UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center
- University of Michigan Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan
The full report is available online.
