2027 Awards logos for Healthgrades America's 100 Best Joint Replacement, Healthgrades America's 50 Best Outpatient Joint Replacement, Newsweek World's Best Hospitals 2026, Forbes Top Hospitals Four-Star Honoree 2026, Get with the Guidelines Gold Plus for Heart Failure and Stroke 2026, Get with the Guidelines Bronze for Resuscitation, Magnet Recognition, The Joint Commission, and Verras Best Value Hospital

Magnet Recognition

The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) honored Reading Hospital in 2016 with Magnet® recognition, the most prestigious distinction a healthcare organization can receive for nursing excellence and quality patient outcomes. In 2021 and 2025, Reading Hospital achieved Magnet redesignation by the ANCC.

Healthgrades

  • America’s 50 Best Hospitals for Outpatient Joint Replacement Award™ (2025-2027)
  • America's 100 Best for Joint Replacement™ (2027)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Cranial Neurosurgery (2026)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Outpatient Total Knee Replacement (2026-2027)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Total Hip Replacement (2026-2027)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Total Knee Replacement (2027)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of COPD (2026-2027)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Sepsis (2008-2027)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Stroke (2006-2027)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery (2026-2027)
  • Recipient of Excellence Award™: Joint Replacement, Outpatient Joint Replacement, Outpatient Orthopedic Surgery

Accredited by Joint Commission

  • Certified Comprehensive Stroke Center, Advanced Hip/Knee Replacement, Heart Failure,
    and Pediatric Asthma

American Heart Association

  • Get With The Guidelines® - Heart Failure Gold Plus - Target: Heart Failure Optimal;
    Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
  • Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Gold Plus with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite,
    Advanced Therapy and Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll

Newsweek

  • World’s Best Hospitals (2021, 2023-2026)

U.S. News & World Report

  • Top 7 Best Regional Hospital in Pennsylvania
  • Nationally Ranked in 1 Adult Specialty
  • High Performing in 1 Adult Specialty and 16 Procedures/Conditions

Forbes

  • Top Hospitals (2026)

Verras’ Medical Value Index™

  • One of 10 Best Value Hospitals in Pennsylvania