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2 WellSpan hospitals named among Healthgrades’ America’s Best

2025 Healthgrades Ephrata, YH - INET

WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital team (left) and the WellSpan York Hospital team (right) gather to be recognized.

Two WellSpan Health hospitals have been named to Healthgrades’ America’s Best Hospitals list for 2025:

  • WellSpan York Hospital was recognized as one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals. It was in the top 2% of hospitals nationwide for overall clinical performance across the most common conditions and procedures.
  • WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital was recognized as one of America’s 250 Best Hospitals. Its achievement placed it in the top 5%.

"The quality care we provide our patients every day is how we have become such a trusted partner within the communities we serve. It’s rooted in everything we do at WellSpan," said Dr. Michael Seim, senior vice president and chief quality officer at WellSpan Health. "We are honored by these elite recognitions from Healthgrades, which showcases our commitment to being the safest place in the country for our patients to receive care."

Healthgrades evaluated patient mortality and complication rates for more than 30 of the most common conditions and procedures at nearly 4,500 hospitals across the country to identify the top-performing hospitals. This year’s analysis revealed significant variation between America’s Best 250 Hospitals and hospitals that did not receive the distinction. In fact, the study showed that if all hospitals performed similarly to America’s 250 Best, more than 178,000 lives could have been saved*.

“As two of America’s 250 Best Hospitals, WellSpan Health is elevating the standard for quality care nationwide,” said Dr. Brad Bowman, chief medical officer and head of data science at Healthgrades. “Healthgrades commends WellSpan Health for their ongoing leadership and commitment to providing the best possible care for all patients in PA.”

This announcement follows WellSpan’s 61 specialty care recognitions from Healthgrades, earned in October of 2024. 

Consumers can visit www.Healthgrades.com to learn more about how Healthgrades measures hospital quality.

WellSpan's personalized approach ensures a patient’s experience at WellSpan is designed to meet their specific needs, while always maintaining a focus on high-quality care. To learn more about WellSpan’s acute care hospitals, visit www.WellSpan.org/Hospitals

*Statistics are based on Healthgrades analysis of MedPAR data for years 2021 through 2023 and represent three-year estimates for Medicare patients only. Click here to view the complete 2025 America’s Best Hospital Awards Methodology.