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When you want the best hospital care in Arkansas, you come to Mercy.

Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas is proud to be named Newsweek's top hospital in the state. The ranking was unveiled as part of the news magazine's annual list of America's Best-in-State Hospitals.

Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas ranks No. 1 overall on Newsweek's 2026 Arkansas list. The rankings are based on patient-reported outcomes, patient experience surveys, federal quality metrics and more. Mercy Hospital Fort Smith was also named among the state’s top 10, and Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City was recognized as the best in Oklahoma.

Mercy Northwest Arkansas has also been honored as one of Newsweek’s top tier World’s Best Hospitals in 2025 as well as Newsweek’s top-rated maternity hospital in Arkansas.

With a long history of quality care, Mercy recently celebrated its 75^th anniversary serving Rogers and the region.

Visit mercy.net to make an appointment with a Mercy provider at one of many locations.

Newsweek ranked Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas No. 1 in Arkansas on its 2026 Best-in-State list.

Mercy, one of the 15 largest U.S. health systems and named the top large system in the U.S. for excellent patient experience by NRC Health, serves millions annually with nationally recognized care and one of the nation’s largest and highest performing Accountable Care Organizations in quality and cost. Mercy is a highly integrated, multi-state health care system including 55 acute care and specialty (heart, children’s, orthopedic and rehab) hospitals, convenient and urgent care locations, imaging centers and pharmacies. Mercy has over 1,000 physician practice locations and outpatient facilities, more than 5,000 physicians and advanced practitioners and more than 50,000 caregivers serving patients and families across Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Mercy also has clinics, outpatient services and outreach ministries in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. In fiscal year 2025 alone, Mercy provided more than half a billion dollars of free care and other community benefits, including traditional charity care and unreimbursed Medicaid.