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Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City Named to World’s Best Hospitals List

March 9, 2026

OKLAHOMA CITY – In a win for consumers who expect the highest quality of health care close to home, Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City has earned international recognition for excellence.

An exterior shot of Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City. Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City has been named one of the World’s Best Hospitals for three straight years.

Newsweek magazine named Mercy the only facility in Oklahoma City to rank among 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 Oklahoma City was one of only four Oklahoma hospitals to make the list, and this year is its third consecutive time to be recognized in the global rankings.

“The compassionate care patients receive from our caregivers is what makes Mercy special and why they trust us with their lives,” said Bennett Geister, president of Mercy Oklahoma City Communities. “The recognition that comes with being on this list is a direct result of how our caregivers go about their work. I’m so proud to see them recognized on a global scale."

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, St. Louis and Springfield.

The World's Best Hospitals 2026 rankings are available on newsweek.com. In addition to the Newsweek ranking, the award-winning Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City has been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Top Hospitals, and it received an A grade for safety from The Leapfrog Group.

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