This Toronto hospital was just named the second best in the world, Canada Reviews

A Toronto hospital just received a major honour: it was crowned one of the top hospitals in the entire world! University Health Network’s Toronto General Hospital was named the second-best hospital on the planet, receiving the highest ranking a Canadian hospital has ever seen.

Toronto General has been considered one of the top three hospitals for the past two years, but this year it ascended from number three to the number two spot — rubbing shoulders with powerhouses like the Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic.

This is according to the annual World’s Best Hospitals list, a ranking of over 2,500 hospitals in 32 countries by American publication Newsweek. The scores were based on recommendations from medical experts, hospital quality metrics, patient experience data and patient surveys.

The report from Newsweek notes that the number of hospitals worldwide is approaching 216,000 this year, making Toronto General’s achievement more incredible than ever.

Two other Toronto hospitals cracked the top 30: Mount Sinai Hospital, in spot 27 (up from 32 in 2025), and Sunnybrook Health Science Centre in spot 30 (the same ranking as last year). No other cities in Canada had hospitals in the top 50 ranking.

Other Canadian hospitals that made the full 250-hospital ranking include Toronto’s North York General Hospital (67), Montreal General Hospital – McGill University Health Centre (89), St. Michael’s Hospital – Unity Health Toronto (116), Toronto Western – University Health Network (128), Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital (133), Vancouver General Hospital (156) and Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (158).

Read below for the top 30 ranking:

1. Mayo Clinic- Rochester, U.S.
2. Toronto General – University Health Network, Canada
3. Cleveland Clinic, U.S.
4. Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Sweden
5. Massachusetts General Hospital, U.S.
6. The Johns Hopkins Hospital, United States
7. Sheba Medical Center, Israel
8. Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
9. Universitätsspital Zürich, Switzerland
10. Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
11. AP-HP – Hôpital Universitaire Pitié Salpêtrière, France
12. Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Germany
13. The University of Tokyo Hospital, Japan
14. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, U.S.
15. Rigshospitalet – Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
16. Einstein Hospital Israelita, Brazil
17. LMU Klinikum, Germany
18. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, U.S.
19. Les Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG), Switzerland
20. Universitätsklinikum AKH Wien / Medizinische Universität Wien, Austria
21. Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Switzerland
22. The Mount Sinai Hospital, U.S.
23. Universitätsspital Basel, Switzerland
24. Stanford Health Care – Stanford Hospital, U.S.
25. Aarhus Universitetshospital, Denmark
26. Samsung Medical Center, South Korea
27. Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada
28. Asan Medical Center, South Korea
29. St Thomas’ Hospital, U.K.
30. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Canada