Health Equity Metrics for the US News and World Report Honor Roll Hospitals

Health equity has become a focus for value-based care in the pursuit of optimal health outcomes.¹ Every year, the US News and World Report (USNWR) ranks US hospitals on several quality and reputation factors, and identifies top hospitals to be included in the “honor roll” list. Recently, the USNWR included a set of hospital-level health equity parameters², which have not been previously reported, but these metrics were not used in the ranking methodology. We sought to examine the pattern of health equity metrics among the USNWR honor roll hospitals.