Seven Baptist Memorial hospitals in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee have been named to the 2024–2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals list.

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis (Memphis) and Mississippi Baptist Medical Center (Jackson, Mississippi) have been named the No. 1 hospitals in their cities. MBMC was also named the Best Hospital in the state.

Four other Mississippi Baptist Memorial hospitals were rated High Performing Hospitals — Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto, Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle, Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi in Oxford and Baptist Anderson Regional Medical Center.

NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro, Arkansas, was also rated high performing.

“Having seven Baptist Memorial hospitals named to the U.S. News & World Report 2024–25 Best Hospitals list highlights the excellence of our staff and their commitment to consistently providing high-quality care for our communities across the tristate area of Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee,” said Dr. Bill Cloud, vice president/chief medical officer for Baptist Memorial Health Care. “While this is just one of the recognitions our hospitals have received for the care they provide, it demonstrates our staff’s enduring commitment to taking care of patients and providing top-notch care, as well as the quality of our entire health care system.”

Four Baptist Memorial hospitals in Mississippi also received A’s from Leapfrog Group for providing safe care, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services awarded four Mississippi Baptist Memorial hospitals four stars and Baptist Memorial Hospital-Leake five stars, its highest rating for quality. Go to https://www.baptistonline.org/about/accreditations-and-awards for more information about Baptist’s health care awards and accreditations.

Baptist Memorial Health Care is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit healthcare systems and the largest provider of Medicaid in the region. Consistently ranking among the top integrated healthcare networks in the country, Baptist Memorial comprises 24 affiliate hospitals in West Tennessee, North and Central Mississippi and East Arkansas; a freestanding emergency department; more than 5,400 affiliated physicians; Baptist Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group with more than 1,100 providers; Baptist Cancer Center; home, hospice and psychiatric care; walk-in and urgent care clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system that includes Baptist Health Sciences University and a college of osteopathic medicine.

Baptist employs more than 22,000 people, and in fiscal year 2023 contributed more than $465 million in community benefit and uncompensated care to the communities it serves. For more information, please visit www.baptistonline.org or follow us on Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.com.