U.S. News & World Report: OHSU ranked best hospital in Oregon

Oregon Health & Science University once again ranks first among the best hospitals in Oregon, according to U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals 2026 – 27.

Additionally, four of OHSU’s adult specialties are ranked among the top 50 nationwide, including ophthalmology and cancer care both ranked in the top 25.

“The rankings validate what Oregonians already know — OHSU is the place to go for people who need the most complex, specialty care,” said OHSU President Shereef Elnahal, M.D., M.B.A. “Today’s recognition reflects the dedication and commitment of our people to achieve OHSU’s mission to improve the health and well-being of people in Oregon and beyond who seek our care.”

The Best Hospitals rankings, which have appeared annually since 1990, are designed to help patients and their clinicians in making informed decisions about where to receive care for challenging health conditions or for common elective procedures.

U.S. News & World Report assesses hospital performance in 14 specialty or specialty areas, from cancer to urology. In 11 of these, whether and how a hospital is ranked is determined by an extensive data-driven analysis combining performance measures in three primary dimensions of healthcare: outcomes, process and structure. For ophthalmology, psychiatry and rheumatology, rankings are determined solely through expert opinion.

OHSU adult specialties ranked among the nation’s top 50 include:

In addition, OHSU Neurology and Neurosurgery ranked as “high performing.”

OHSU stands out nationally in several areas of clinical care.

The OHSU Casey Eye Institute, established in 1991, is committed to saving sight through excellence in clinical care, scientific innovation, education and community outreach. Among its partnership with numerous generous supporters includes the Oregon State Elks Association that has helped countless children for nearly eight decades with the gift of sight.

“We are gratified to be recognized nationally for the excellence our team delivers to Oregonians day in and day out,” said Andreas Lauer, M.D., chair of ophthalmology in the OHSU School of Medicine and director of the Casey Eye Institute.

Over the past year, the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute received a record $2 billion contribution from Phil and Penny Knight while also opening a state-of-the-art inpatient expansion of OHSU Hospital on its Marquam Hill campus in southwest Portland, called Vista Pavilion.

The opening of the 14-story Vista Pavilion on April 7 culminated a four-year construction project that’s part of an overall program to improve access to Oregon’s single largest hospital. The grand opening came on the heels of the largest single donation to any university, college or academic health center in U.S. history.

Vista Pavilion employs a model of wraparound care to ensure people can focus solely on their treatment and recovery.

“The generosity of the Knights is allowing the Knight Cancer Institute to further its mission to end cancer as we know it,” said Brian Druker, M.D., president of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. “The dedication of our care teams, our innovative, research-driven cancer treatments, and Vista Pavilion’s wraparound care model is transforming the cancer care experience for patients and their families.”

The opening of Vista enables OHSU to expand cardiovascular, neurological and other forms of specialty care within the preexisting footprint of OHSU Hospital — expanding access to Oregon’s public academic health center.

U.S. News also rates hospitals on how well they treat patients 65 and older for certain common adult procedures and conditions. For 2026 – 27, hospitals were rated in 23 common procedures and conditions. Procedures and conditions were selected based on the frequency of admission in the Medicare population; the ability to make hospital-to-hospital comparisons; and the presence of a sufficient degree of risk or complexity, such that the quality of a hospital’s performance could be important.

The magazine rated OHSU as high-performing in: