UTHealth Houston Teaching Hospitals Rank Among Top Five in Texas
Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital are among the top five Best Hospitals and top five Best Children’s Hospitals in Texas, respectively, according to the 2025 U.S. News and World Report rankings. Memorial Hermann-TMC is the primary teaching hospital for the Department of Neurology and the Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, while Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital serves as the primary teaching hospital for the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the medical school.
“This achievement reflects the dedication and clinical excellence of our faculty physicians as well as the strength of our academic partnership with our teaching hospitals,” says LaTanya J. Love, MD, dean of McGovern Medical School, H. Wayne Hightower Distinguished Professor in Medical Sciences, and executive vice president of student and university affairs at UTHealth Houston. “Together, we are training the next generation of leaders while delivering world-class care to the patients and families in our community.”
In addition to the overall rankings, pediatric neurology and neurosurgery ranked 30th among all children’s hospitals. Adult neurology and neurosurgery were ranked 48th in the nation.
For more than 35 years, U.S. News and World Report’s annual Best Hospitals rankings has been helping patients find, in consultation with their doctors, the best hospital for their health needs. Rankings are based on objective data, including patient outcomes, survival rates, quality of care, and patient experience, with the greatest weight placed on measurable results.