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Healthgrades America's 50 Best Hospitals 2026 badge, Healthgrades America's 50 Best Outpatient Joint Replacement 2026 badge, Newsweek World's Best Hospitals 2026 badge, Forbes Top Hospitals Four-Star Honoree 2026 badge, Magnet Recognized by American Nurses Credentialing Center badge, The Joint Commission National Quality Approval badge, and Verras Best Value Hospital badge

Magnet Recognition

The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) honored Reading Hospital in 2016 with Magnet® recognition, the most prestigious distinction a healthcare organization can receive for nursing excellence and quality patient outcomes. In 2021 and 2025, Reading Hospital achieved Magnet redesignation by the ANCC.

Healthgrades

  • America's 50 Best Hospitals Award™ (2022-2026)
  • America's 100 Best Hospitals Award™ (2017-2024)
  • America's 250 Best Hospitals Award™ (2014-2024)
  • America's 100 Best Specialty Care: Stroke Care (2025-2025)
  • Recipient of Excellence Award™: Cardiac Surgery, Joint Replacement, Neurosciences, Outpatient Orthopedic Surgery, Pulmonary Care

Newsweek

World's Best Hospitals (2021, 2023-2025)

Verras' Medical Value Index™

One of 10 Best Value Hospitals in Pennsylvania

Accreditations

  • American College of Radiology
  • American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet Recognized
  • Blue Cross/Blue Shield Blue Distinction Center® for Hip and Knee Replacement
  • Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities – Acute Stroke Specialty Program
  • Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities – Adult Inpatient Rehabilitation Programs (Hospital, Brain Injury, Amputation, and Spinal Cord Specialty Programs)
  • Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons
  • Committee on Stereotactic Breast Biopsy for Mammotest
  • Joint Commission Advanced Certification for Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement
  • Joint Commission Disease-Specific Certification (Heart Failure Program and Advanced Primary Stroke Center)
  • National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers
  • The Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (Outpatient Hematology-Oncology)

Cancer

National Pancreas Foundation (NPF) Center of Excellence

Heart

Healthgrades

  • Five-Star Recipient for Coronary Bypass Surgery
  • Five-Star Recipient for Valve Surgery (2022-2023)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Heart Failure (2013-2026)

Joint Commission

  • Top Performer on Key Quality Measures for Acute MI and Heart Failure
  • Disease-Specific Certification for Heart Failure Program

American Heart Association

  • Get With The Guidelines® - Gold Plus
    • Heart Failure Honor Roll
    • Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
  • Mission: Lifeline® - STEMI Receiving Center – Gold Plus

NCDR Platinum Performance Achievement Award ACTION Registry-GWTG

NCDR Premier Status Achievement Award Acute Coronary Syndrome-GWTG

Blue Cross/Blue Shield Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care

Becker’s Hospital Review: Top 100 Hospitals with Great Heart Programs in the Nation

Stroke Care/Neurosciences

Healthgrades

  • America's 100 Best Hospitals for Stroke Care™
  • Neurosciences Excellence Award™
  • Stroke Care Excellence Award™ (2007-2024)
  • Top 5 percent in the Nation for Neurosciences (2015-2017)
  • Top 5 percent in the Nation for Treatment of Stroke (2023-2024)
  • Top 10 percent in the Nation for Treatment of Stroke (2007-2024)
  • Top 10 percent in the Nation for Neurosciences
  • Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Stroke (2006-2026)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Cranial Neurosurgery (2026)

American Heart Association/American Stroke Association

  • Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award (2007-2024)
    • Target: Stroke Elite Honor Roll
    • Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
    • Target: Stroke Advanced Therapy Honor Roll

Critical Care

Healthgrades

  • America's 100 Best Hospitals for Critical Care™ (2014-2017)
  • Critical Care Excellence Award™ (2014-2017)
  • Top 5 percent in the Nation for Critical Care (2014-2017)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Sepsis (2008-2026)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism (2020-2023)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Respiratory Failure (2015-2023)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Diabetic Emergencies (2015-2016)

Becker’s Healthcare

  • 100 hospitals and health systems with great neurosurgery and spine programs, 2017

Labor and Delivery

Healthgrades

  • Five-Star Recipient for Vaginal Delivery (2015-2016)
  • Five-Star Recipient for both Natural Birth and Gynecologic Procedures

Orthopedics

Healthgrades

  • America's 50 Best Hospitals for Outpatient Joint Replacement (2026)
  • America's 100 Best Hospitals for Joint Replacement
  • Joint Replacement Excellence Award™
  • Orthopedic Surgery Excellence Award
  • Top 10 percent in the Nation for Joint Replacement
  • Five-Star Recipient for Total Hip Replacement (2021-2023, 2026)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Total Knee Replacement

Joint Commission

  • The Joint Commission Advanced Certification for Total Hip and Total Knee Replacements, achieved by only 6 percent of hospitals in the US

Pulmonary

Healthgrades

  • America's 100 Best Hospitals for Pulmonary Care™ (2013-2017)
  • Pulmonary Care Excellence Award™ (2013-2023)
  • Top 5 percent in the Nation for Overall Pulmonary Services (2013-2017)
  • Top 10 percent in the Nation for Overall Pulmonary Services (2013-2023)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (2013-2017, 2026)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Pneumonia (2012-2017)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism (2020-2023)

Women's Health

Healthgrades

  • Women's Health Excellence Award™
  • Top 10 percent in the Nation for Women's Health in Labor and Delivery (2015)
  • Labor and Delivery Excellence Award™
  • Superior Performance in Labor and Delivery (2015)
  • Top 5 percent of Hospitals Evaluated for Labor and Delivery (2015)
  • Top 10 percent of Hospitals Evaluated for Labor and Delivery (2015)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Vaginal Delivery (2015-2016)

American College of Radiology’s Commission on Quality and Safety and Commission on Breast Imaging Care Award

International Board Certified Lactation Consultant® Care Award

Surgical Services

Healthgrades

  • Five-Star Recipient for Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery (2026)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Overall Bariatric Surgery (2015)
  • Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Bowel Obstruction (2022-2023)
  • General Surgery Excellence Award (2017)
  • Top 10 percent in the Nation for General Surgery (2017)

Joint Commission

  • Top Performer on Key Quality Measures for Surgical Care
  • Disease-Specific Certification in Total Hip Replacement
  • Disease-Specific Certification in Total Knee Replacement

Blue Cross/Blue Shield

  • Blue Distinction Center for Knee & Hip Replacement
  • Blue Distinction Center for Spine Surgery
  • Blue Distinction Center for Bariatric Surgery

American Society of Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence

Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine

Center of Distinction for Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Medicine

Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council

Case-mix adjusted charges are better than State and Regional benchmarks in every category.
The 30-day hospital readmission rate was significantly lower than expected for elective knee replacements