Colorado’s top hospital? Still UCHealth
For more than a decade, University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora has been Colorado’s No. 1 hospital — and 2025 wasn’t about to break the streak.
“This achievement underscores the remarkable commitment of UCHealth’s staff and providers, whose compassion and expertise place our patients at the center of everything we do,” Elizabeth B. Concordia, UCHealth president and CEO, said in a statement. “Improving lives and delivering exceptional care isn’t just our mission, it’s our daily promise to the communities we serve.”
The hospital has held the distinction with U.S. News and World Report since 2012.
UCHealth was nationally ranked in four specialties: pulmonology and lung surgery; cancer, diabetes and endocrinology and obstetrics and gynecology — the same as last year.
To achieve a national ranked in a specialty, a hospital must “excel in caring for the sickest, most medically complex patients.”
UCHealth was also listed as one the best regional hospitals among the most-populous metropolitan in the U.S.
Two health systems — Intermountain Health and HCA HealthONE — had two hospitals fall in the top five.
Intermountain Health Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver ranked second (again) and Good Samaritan at fourth.
HCA HealthONE Sky Ridge Medical Center in Lone Tree ranked third followed by the Swedish Medical Center, which tied for fourth.
UCHealth is a nonprofit health system that operates 14 acute-care hospitals across Colorado, southern Wyoming and western Nebraska.
Last fiscal year, UCHealth cared for 2.7 million patients, providing $570 million in charity care, according to the hospital.
The annual rankings are intended to help patients and their physicians choose the most suitable hospital for their individual needs.
The national publication releases each year national and regional rankings after compiling and analyzing patient care data for roughly 5,000 hospitals across the U.S.
This year, the publication recognized more than 500 regional hospitals in 49 states.
Click here for the full rankings in the metro Denver area.