Local Hospital Ranks Among Louisiana's Best

Newsweek’s 2025 Best-in-State Hospitals ranking placed St. Tammany Parish Hospital in Covington at No. 5 in Louisiana, according to the publication’s Louisiana list. The ranking put the Northshore hospital in the state’s top 10 alongside larger systems in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Shreveport. (rankings.newsweek.com) Newsweek and research firm Statista said the state lists were designed to identify leading hospitals closer to where patients live. The Louisiana list included 17 hospitals. ### Where did St. Tammany Parish Hospital land in the Louisiana ranking? Newsweek’s Louisiana table for its 2025 Best-in-State Hospitals list ranked St. Tammany Parish Hospital fifth. (rankings.newsweek.com) The hospitals ahead of it were Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, Willis Knighton Medical Center in Shreveport, Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge and Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center in Lafayette. The top 10 also included Ochsner Medical Center-Baton Rouge, East Jefferson General Hospital in Metairie, Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner, Baton Rouge General Medical Center and University Medical Center New Orleans. That placed Covington’s hospital in the same tier as major referral centers across south Louisiana and Shreveport. (rankings.newsweek.com) ### How many Louisiana hospitals made the 2025 list? Newsweek’s 2025 Louisiana list named 17 hospitals in the state. The ranking page shows facilities from New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Houma, Opelousas, Lake Charles, Abbeville, Marrero, Metairie, Kenner, Shreveport and Covington. (rankings.newsweek.com) A November 5, 2024 report by Louisiana radio station KEEL, which summarized the Newsweek list, also said 17 Louisiana hospitals made the 2025 ranking. That report said six of the hospitals were in the New Orleans area and three were in the Baton Rouge area. ### How did Newsweek and Statista build the ranking? (rankings.newsweek.com) Newsweek said the 2025 Best-in-State Hospitals rankings were compiled with Statista using four main inputs. Those were hospital quality metrics from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, data from the American Hospital Association Annual Survey of Hospitals Database, results from HCAHPS patient-experience surveys and a voluntary survey on patient-reported outcome measures, or PROMs. (rankings.newsweek.com) The ranking page said hospitals had to report in at least three CMS categories, including either mortality or safety, to be eligible for the hospital quality metric score. Newsweek said structural and organizational data for hospital facilities were also included in the quality metrics score, and that a nationwide online survey of medical professionals was conducted from July to August 2024. (710keel.com) ### What has St. Tammany Health System said about earlier Newsweek rankings? St. Tammany Health System said on August 5, 2024 that Newsweek’s prior state ranking had placed its flagship St. Tammany Parish Hospital fourth in Louisiana for 2024. The system said at the time that it was the only Northshore hospital on that year’s list and one of 17 Louisiana hospitals recognized. (rankings.newsweek.com) Joan Coffman, president and chief executive of St. Tammany Health System, said in that 2024 announcement that the recognition reflected the system’s effort to provide “world-class healthcare close to home” for Northshore residents. In a separate March 18, 2026 release about Newsweek’s global hospital rankings, the system said St. (rankings.newsweek.com) Tammany Parish Hospital was fifth in Louisiana in the 2026 World’s Best Hospitals list and described the hospital as a 281-bed facility in western St. Tammany Parish. ### Where can patients see the full list and compare hospitals? Newsweek’s Louisiana ranking page lists all 17 hospitals and outlines the methodology used for the 2025 state rankings. (sttammany.health) The page identifies whether hospitals received a patient experience award and shows the city for each facility. St. Tammany Health System’s own newsroom has also published updates on its Newsweek recognitions, including its August 5, 2024 release on the state ranking and its March 18, 2026 release on the separate world ranking. Those pages name Joan Coffman as the health system’s president and chief executive and describe the hospital’s size and service footprint. (sttammany.health) March 18, 2026 is the latest dated Newsweek-related update posted by St. Tammany Health System in the materials reviewed for this story, and Newsweek’s 2025 Louisiana ranking page remains available with the full state list and methodology. (sttammany.health) (sttammany.health) (rankings.newsweek.com)