THE UNIVERSITY of Santo Tomas Hospital (USTH) placed 28th among Philippine hospitals in Newsweek’s World’s Best Hospitals 2026.
USTH was among 33 Philippine hospitals that made it in the ranking of more than 2,500 hospitals evaluated worldwide.
This year marked the first time the Philippines was included in the Newsweek ranking, which assessed hospitals in over 30 countries.
St. Luke’s Medical Center in Taguig ranked first among Philippine hospitals with a score of 89.06%.
Makati Medical Center (88.46%) and Asian Hospital and Medical Center (86.51%) followed suit.
St. Luke’s Medical Center in Quezon City placed fourth with a score of 86.14%, while The Medical City in Pasig completed the top five with a rating of 85.32%.
UST Hospital, a teaching hospital with a clinical division for indigent patients, scored 71.35%.
The Mayo Clinic of Rochester, Minnesota in United States ranked first globally with four “PROMs ribbons,” followed by University Health Network – Toronto General Hospital of Canada and Cleveland Clinic of Ohio in the U.S.
Under a partnership with statistics platform Statista, Newsweek used the former’s Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Implementation survey (PROMs) to rank the hospitals.
PROMs are standardized and validated questionnaires completed by patients to track progress, care quality, and support value-based healthcare.
The service quality of each hospital was also measured by using metrics like quality of care for specific treatments, hygiene measures, and the number of patients per doctor or nurse.
Results from patient experience surveys were incorporated into the scoring model, with publicly available data from existing patient surveys used to analyze patient experience.
The rankings also took into account hospital recommendations from medical experts and health care professionals through an online survey, although they were not allowed to recommend their own hospitals.
Scores were calculated for each hospital in each of the four categories and weighted: Hospital quality metrics (40%), peer recommendations (30% national, 5% international), patient experience (18.5%) and PROMs implementation (6.5%).
