Four Baptist Memorial hospitals named to first-ever Forbes Top Hospitals 2026 list
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 5, 2026– Baptist Memorial Hospital-Booneville, Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton, Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City and Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County have been named to the first-ever Forbes Top Hospitals list, formally called Forbes Overall Hospital Quality Ratings (FOHQR).
We are excited to have four Baptist Memorial hospitals named to Forbes Top Hospitals list. To be recognized among this select group of hospitals for quality care and patient experience highlights the excellence of our team and their dedication to our patients and community.
Forbes created the list to help consumers navigate the United States health care system. The list is based on a unique rating system that evaluates general acute care hospitals throughout the United States to offer consumers unbiased information on which hospitals can offer top-notch, high-value medical services, as well as provide a benchmark that hospitals can compare their performance against.
To produce the Forbes Top Hospitals rating system, Forbes enlisted health care measurement experts, including an advisory panel — comprising clinicians, scientists, health policy researchers and patient advocates — and partnered with Inovalon, a health care data and analytics firm, to calculate the ratings. The foundation of the methodology is validated and vetted data extracted from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Provider Data Catalog. Through this dataset, Forbes identified health care quality measures that assess patient outcomes, hospital best practices, value and patient experience. These measures were chosen specifically because they have been developed and regularly tested by leaders in the health care community to meet rigorous national standards.
Approximately 5,400 general acute care hospitals — which are listed in the CMS PDC and are currently operating in the U.S. — were eligible for consideration. From that initial pool, approximately 2,500 hospitals met the inclusion criteria (detailed in the methodology). The ratings were then calculated, and of these facilities, 253 hospitals received an overall rating of five stars, and 509 hospitals received an overall rating of four stars. These four- and five-star hospitals comprise the first-ever Forbes Top Hospitals list: Forbes Top Hospitals.
Baptist Memorial Health Care is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health care systems and the largest provider of Medicaid in the region. Consistently ranking among the top integrated health care networks in the country, Baptist Memorial comprises 24 affiliate hospitals in West Tennessee, North and Central Mississippi and East Arkansas; a freestanding emergency department; more than 7,000 affiliated physicians; Baptist Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group with more than 1,500 providers in 50 specialties; Baptist Cancer Center; home, hospice and psychiatric care; walk-in and urgent care clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system that includes Baptist Health Sciences University and a college of osteopathic medicine. Baptist employs more than 23,000 people, and in fiscal year 2024 contributed more than $388 million in community benefit and uncompensated care to the communities it serves. For more information, please visit www.baptistonline.org or follow us on Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.com.
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