Sheba Medical Center Rises to #7 in World’s Best Hospital Rankings

Ramat Gan, Israel – Sheba Medical Center has risen to #7 in Newsweek & Statista’s prestigious 2026 World’s Best Hospitals ranking, marking the eighth consecutive year the Israeli medical center has been included among the global leaders.

Sheba’s continued ascent reflects a dual commitment: delivering world-class clinical care to more than two million patients annually, while advancing systemic global transformation in healthcare.

At the core of this transformation stands ARC (Accelerate, Redesign, Collaborate), the global healthcare transformation platform of Sheba Medical Center. ARC leads Sheba’s strategy to redesign health systems, integrate artificial intelligence at scale, and build resilient, future-ready models of care.

Through ARC’s international partnerships and operational hubs, Sheba exports validated system redesign frameworks, AI-enabled clinical workflows, and digital health infrastructures already implemented across its integrated “City of Health.” This platform-driven model enables governments, hospitals, and industry partners to move from innovation to deployment – accelerating measurable transformation worldwide.

In 2025, ARC of Sheba Medical Center expanded its U.S. presence with the launch of its first healthcare accelerator in Boston, announced alongside Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey. The initiative leverages the region’s academic excellence, clinical research strength, and technology ecosystem to develop scalable AI-driven healthcare solutions designed for system-wide implementation.

Further strengthening its global AI leadership, NVIDIA and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai selected Sheba Medical Center as a strategic partner for a three-year collaboration focused on applying artificial intelligence and large language models to explore the 98 percent of the human genome that remains uncharted. This partnership reflects ARC’s role in bridging computational science and clinical translation to unlock new frontiers in disease prevention, diagnostics, and precision medicine.

Most recently, Sheba inaugurated the Roman Abramovich Theranostics and Nuclear Medicine Center, expected to treat more than 16,000 patients annually. The launch also marked the introduction of the region’s first personalized RNA-based therapy — further demonstrating how ARC-driven transformation translates scientific breakthroughs into real-world patient impact.

Prof. Yitshak Kreiss, Director General/CEO of Sheba Medical Center, said, “This achievement is emblematic of our on-going commitment to transforming healthcare on a global scale, which has been recognized by our colleagues around the world. From the EU to the USA, from Albania to Australia, Singapore, the Gulf and beyond, Sheba is creating global impact via its prescriptions for both evolutionary medical care, as well as providing the seeds for economic growth through AI and digital innovation.”

The Newsweek/Statista World’s Best Hospitals ranking evaluates over 2,500 hospitals across 32 countries, using a rigorous methodology with four data sources: hospital quality metrics, recommendations from medical experts, results from patient surveys, and Statista’s Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Implementation Survey. By capturing data and perspectives from both clinicians and patients, the evaluation process reflects how each hospital is leading in clinical research and improving patient outcomes.