Two hospitals were named among the best in New Hampshire this year.

U.S. News & World Report recently released its 2026 Best Hospitals list, with 20 hospitals making the national Honor Roll and 505 ranking among the Best Regional Hospitals in their respective states.

The publication analyzed each facility’s performance and awarded points based on measures such as risk-adjusted mortality rates, preventable complications, and patient experience. The 20 U.S. hospitals that earned the most points made the U.S. News 2026-2027 Best Hospitals Honor Roll.

New Hampshire, which has 30 hospitals, ranks ninth in the country for health care, based on factors including care access, quality, and public health, U.S. News says.

US News’ best hospitals in New Hampshire

Out of 30 hospitals in New Hampshire, two facilities were recognized as the state’s best, according to U.S. News & World Report. Here are the Best Regional Hospitals rankings for New Hampshire:

No. 1: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, NH)

No. 2: Catholic Medical Center (Manchester, NH)

US News’ best hospitals in the US

The following 20 hospitals from across the country, listed in alphabetical order, made the U.S. News 2026-2027 Best Hospitals Honor Roll:

• Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston, MA)
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, CA)
• Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH)
• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
• Houston Methodist Hospital (Houston, TX)
• Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, MD)
• Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA)
• Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN)
• Mayo Clinic-Arizona (Phoenix, AZ)
• Mayo Clinic-Florida (Jacksonville, FL)
• Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, NY)
• NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell (New York, NY)
• Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago, IL)
• NYU Langone Hospitals (New York, NY)
• Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, IL)
• Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital (Palo Alto, CA)
• UC San Diego Health-La Jolla, Hillcrest, and East Campus Medical Centers (San Diego, CA)
• UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center (Los Angeles, CA)
• UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco, CA)
• University of Michigan Health-Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)

Miguel Legoas of the Savannah Morning News contributed to this report.

The national blood shortage that began earlier in the year has now become a blood crisis, meaning there’s a critical depletion in blood supply across the country.

The American Red Cross is asking for donors of all blood types.

Dan Dowling is the regional communications manager for the American Red Cross of Northern New England. He said appointments for blood donations have been dropping since Memorial Day.

“It’s usually a time of year when we don’t see a lot of donations happening simply because families are finishing up summer vacations. Kids are heading back to school soon,” Dowling said. “If we can get through the next couple of weeks, I think we’re optimistic that the fall will be in better shape.”

The summer also sees increased trauma that can contribute to lower blood supply.

Dowling said there has only been one other time in Red Cross history that there has been a blood crisis, in January 2022.

“We’re at a four-year summer low,” Dowling said. “We’re really trying to get donors to come in and donate.”

Dowling said donations for all blood types are welcome, though they are also looking for type O donations.

“It’s fallen below a one-day supply over the past couple of weeks,” Dowling said. “Type O is a universal type of blood. That’s what they reach for in an emergency.”

The Red Cross has begun limiting its distributions of type O blood to hospitals.

Sign up to donate blood at https://redcrossblood.org.