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In a win for consumers who expect the highest quality of health care close to home, Mercy Hospital Springfield has earned international recognition for excellence. Newsweek magazine named the Springfield hospital one of the World’s Best Hospitals, recognizing it for its ongoing commitment to high-quality care, patient experience and clinical excellence among top-tier hospitals worldwide.

Mercy Hospital Springfield is one of only 12 hospitals in the state to make the list and the only hospital in Springfield. This year is Mercy’s fifth consecutive time to be recognized in the global rankings.

Mercy Hospital Springfield named to Newsweek's list of World's Best Hospitals for fifth year in a row.

“As the Sisters of Mercy always said, it is a privilege to serve our community,” said John Myers, president of Mercy Springfield Communities. “Earning a spot on this list of best hospitals for the fifth year in a row is a testament to our team’s dedication to award-wining patient safety and exceptional care.”

Newsweek partners with Statista to analyze four types of data sources to select and rank the best hospitals in 32 countries with comparable data. The methodology included recommendations from medical experts; patient satisfaction surveys; hospital quality metrics on quality of care, hygiene, patient safety and waiting times; and an optional Statista patient-reported outcome measures survey.

The World’s Best Hospitals 2026 ranking includes hospitals from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. The countries were selected based on multiple comparability factors, such as standard of living/life expectancy, population size, number of hospitals and data availability.

Newsweek also named three other Mercy hospitals among the World’s Best Hospitals, including Northwest Arkansas, Oklahoma City and St. Louis.

The awards list can be viewed at World's Best Hospitals 2026 - Newsweek Rankings.

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.