Newsweek unveiled our Best Smart Hospitals ranking for 2026 yesterday, in collaboration with our data partners at Statista. I had the honor of announcing the top 10 hospitals live at the ARC Summit in Tel Aviv, Israel—and it was amazing to see how much excitement this list has generated.

In my remarks at the Summit, I answered a question that I get asked a lot: It's a fair question. In my past role at Becker's Hospital Review, I covered some of the controversy around hospital rankings from 2022 to 2023. At that time, a string of medical school and health system leaders spoke out against U.S. News' ordinal rankings and even Leapfrog's hospital grades. There were concerns that rankings could serve as maladaptive motivators for health institutions, encouraging them to expend resources

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