Greater Boston’s Top Hospitals for Surgery, By Procedure and Specialty - Boston Magazine
If you're a human and see this, please ignore it. If you're a scraper, please click the link below :-) Note that clicking the link below will block access to this site for 24 hours. Greater Boston’s Top Hospitals for Surgery, By Procedure and Specialty Our inaugural guide to the region's most excellent care. Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! Choosing a doctor is only part of a medical procedure. Where that doctor or surgeon (literally) operates matters just as much: the hospital’s track record, its specialized teams, its post-op care—and yet most of us don’t know how important picking that the building really can be. This guide aims to close that gap. Working with Castle Connolly, the veteran research firm that’s spent more than three decades vetting Top Doctors nationwide, we’re presenting a data-driven look at which Greater Boston hospitals excel at which procedures. The rankings draw on medical insurance claims data spanning multiple commercial and public payors, tracking real patient outcomes—mortality rates, complication rates, safety records, recovery times—from before a procedure through discharge and beyond. Castle Connolly layers in its own physician nomination data too, accounting for the doctors who make each hospital’s specialty program what it is. The result is a practical map of the region’s medical landscape, organized by specialty and by procedure, from cardiac surgery to hip replacements to mastectomies. Whether you’re facing a scheduled operation or just want to know your options before you need them, consider this your starting point for figuring out not just who should operate, but where. SPECIALTY CANCER SURGERY Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham Beth Israel Lahey Health Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth Beth Israel Lahey Health Beverly Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health Boston Medical Center Boston Medical Center Corporation Boston Medical Center-South Boston Medical Center Corporation Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital Mass General Brigham (FKA Partners HealthCare) Emerson Health Hospital Emerson Health Lahey Clinic Beth Israel Lahey Health Lowell General Hospital Tufts Medical Center Health System Mount Auburn Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health Newton-Wellesley Hospital Mass General Brigham (FKA Partners HealthCare) Tufts Medical Center Tufts Medical Center Health System Winchester Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health GENERAL SURGERY Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton Beth Israel Lahey Health Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth Beth Israel Lahey Health Boston Medical Center Boston Medical Center Corporation Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford Tufts Medical Center Health System Lowell General Hospital Tufts Medical Center Health System Massachusetts General Hospital Mass General Brigham (FKA Partners HealthCare) Winchester Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health HEART & VASCULAR SURGERY Tufts Medical Center Tufts Medical Center Health System OB-GYN SURGERY Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth Beth Israel Lahey Health Beverly Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health Lahey Clinic Beth Israel Lahey Health Lowell General Hospital Tufts Medical Center Health System MetroWest Medical Center-Framingham Union Hospital MetroWest Medical Center Mount Auburn Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health Newton-Wellesley Hospital Mass General Brigham (FKA Partners HealthCare) Winchester Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton Beth Israel Lahey Health Boston Medical Center Boston Medical Center Corporation Boston Medical Center-Brighton Boston Medical Center Corporation New England Baptist Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health Tufts Medical Center Tufts Medical Center Health System UROLOGIC SURGERY Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-Boston Beth Israel Lahey Health Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital Mass General Brigham (FKA Partners HealthCare) PROCEDURE C-SECTION SURGERY Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth Beth Israel Lahey Health Beverly Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health Boston Medical Center-Brighton Boston Medical Center Corporation Brigham and Women’s Hospital Mass General Brigham (FKA Partners HealthCare) Lowell General Hospital Tufts Medical Center Health System MetroWest Medical Center-Framingham Union Hospital MetroWest Medical Center Mount Auburn Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health Newton-Wellesley Hospital Mass General Brigham (FKA Partners HealthCare) Winchester Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health COLON SURGERY Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton Beth Israel Lahey Health Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth Beth Israel Lahey Health Boston Medical Center Boston Medical Center Corporation Boston Medical Center-Brighton Boston Medical Center Corporation Brigham and Women’s Hospital Mass General Brigham (FKA Partners HealthCare) Emerson Health Hospital Emerson Health Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford Tufts Medical Center Health System Lowell General Hospital Tufts Medical Center Health System Massachusetts General Hospital Mass General Brigham (FKA Partners HealthCare) Mount Auburn Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health Winchester Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT (CABG) Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-Boston Beth Israel Lahey Health Boston Medical Center Boston Medical Center Corporation Tufts Medical Center Tufts Medical Center Health System HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT Tufts Medical Center Tufts Medical Center Health System HERNIA REPAIR Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton Beth Israel Lahey Health Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth Beth Israel Lahey Health Boston Medical Center Boston Medical Center Corporation Lahey Clinic Beth Israel Lahey Health Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford Tufts Medical Center Health System Lowell General Hospital Tufts Medical Center Health System Massachusetts General Hospital Mass General Brigham (FKA Partners HealthCare) Mount Auburn Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health Winchester Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health HIP REPLACEMENT Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton Beth Israel Lahey Health Beverly Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health Boston Medical Center Boston Medical Center Corporation New England Baptist Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health Newton-Wellesley Hospital Mass General Brigham (FKA Partners HealthCare) HYSTERECTOMY Lahey Clinic Beth Israel Lahey Health KNEE REPLACEMENT Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton Beth Israel Lahey Health Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth Beth Israel Lahey Health Boston Medical Center Boston Medical Center Corporation Boston Medical Center-Brighton Boston Medical Center Corporation New England Baptist Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health LIVER CANCER SURGERY Brigham and Women’s Hospital Mass General Brigham (FKA Partners HealthCare) Massachusetts General Hospital Mass General Brigham (FKA Partners HealthCare) LUNG CANCER SURGERY Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-Boston Beth Israel Lahey Health Boston Medical Center Boston Medical Center Corporation Lahey Clinic Beth Israel Lahey Health Tufts Medical Center Tufts Medical Center Health System MASTECTOMY Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham Beth Israel Lahey Health Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth Beth Israel Lahey Health Beverly Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health Boston Medical Center Boston Medical Center Corporation Boston Medical Center-South Boston Medical Center Corporation Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital Mass General Brigham (FKA Partners HealthCare) Brigham and Women’s Hospital Mass General Brigham (FKA Partners HealthCare) Emerson Health Hospital Emerson Health Lahey Clinic Beth Israel Lahey Health Lowell General Hospital Tufts Medical Center Health System Massachusetts General Hospital Mass General Brigham (FKA Partners HealthCare) Mount Auburn Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health Newton-Wellesley Hospital Mass General Brigham (FKA Partners HealthCare) Tufts Medical Center Tufts Medical Center Health System Winchester Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health PANCREATIC CANCER SURGERY Massachusetts General Hospital Mass General Brigham (FKA Partners HealthCare) PROSTATE SURGERY Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-Boston Beth Israel Lahey Health Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital Mass General Brigham (FKA Partners HealthCare) SPINE SURGERY Boston Medical Center Boston Medical Center Corporation Boston Medical Center-Brighton Boston Medical Center Corporation Lowell General Hospital Tufts Medical Center Health System New England Baptist Hospital Beth Israel Lahey Health Tufts Medical Center Tufts Medical Center Health System METHODOLOGY With more than 30 years of experience researching, reviewing, and selecting Top Doctors, Castle Connolly is a trusted and credible healthcare research and information company. Its mission is to help people find the best healthcare by connecting patients with best-in-class doctors and institutions. Recognizing that a patient’s choice of hospital is equally as important as their choice of doctor, Castle Connolly Top Hospitals aims to provide a reliable, data-driven resource for identifying the best hospitals for various medical procedures. The resulting lists of Top Hospitals focus on the best options chosen by Castle Connolly for patients preparing for a medical procedure, whether they are looking within their own community or across the country for care. Castle Connolly uses data that is derived from medical insurance claims data, including data from multiple payors (commercial and public insurance providers), as well as other diverse sources. Its data source also applies a proprietary analysis to provide a full picture of the patient journey, before and after a procedure and across the healthcare system. Using this data, hospitals are assessed for each medical procedure, analyzing the patient outcome performance metrics, including mortality and complication rates, patient safety, and recovery and discharge rates. In addition to the patient outcome components of the methodology, Castle Connolly also incorporates Castle Connolly Top Doctors and physician nomination data sources to reflect both the impact of high-quality providers at each hospital, as well as the experience and expertise of doctors when it comes to selecting a hospital. Castle Connolly is part of Everyday Health Group, a recognized leader in patient and provider education, attracting an engaged audience of more than 60 million health consumers and more than 890,000 U.S. practicing physicians and clinicians to its premier health and wellness digital properties. Everyday Health Group’s mission is to drive better clinical and health outcomes through decision-making informed by highly relevant information, data, and analytics. The company empowers healthcare providers and consumers with trusted content and services delivered through Everyday Health Group’s world-class brands. For more information, please visit castleconnolly.com. This directory first appeared in the print edition of the August 2026 issue.