America’s Best Animal Hospitals 2026 Methodology Overview

America’s Best Animal Hospitals 2026 recognizes the best animal hospitals in each state and is based on a comprehensive research study that includes an in-depth desk research effort, a nationwide survey, and an attribute-based sentiment analysis of millions of online customer reviews.     

More than 15,000 animal hospitals were considered in an initial review that evaluated their accreditations and the number of online reviews. Of these, more than 4,500 animal hospitals were selected for an in-depth evaluation in a nationwide survey that evaluated each animal hospital on a state-by-state basis.The nationwide survey in the United States invited more than 30,000 respondents to participate through multiple online access panels between Sep. 2025 – Oct. 2025. Participants were asked to identify as pet owners, indicate the type of pets they cared for, and provide their likelihood to recommend animal hospitals they were familiar with in their state.    

A proprietary Large Language Model (LLM) analyzed over 5 million online reviews from the past five years, evaluating sentiment across key satisfaction drivers such as Quality of Care, Customer Service, and Pricing & Affordability.  

Additional consideration was given to facilities accredited by the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), which collaborated as a knowledge partner by providing detailed accreditation data. Media monitoring was conducted using Onclusive’s Critical Mention platform to ensure the credibility and integrity of the results. The highest-scoring animal hospitals in each state were recognized by Newsweek as America’s Best Animal Hospitals 2026.  

The list of awarded hospitals can be found here. 

Jami Stromberg

Brooklyn Park Pet Hospital, DVM Hospital Administrator

Our veterinarians have special interest in dentistry, dermatology, internal medicine, exotic animal medicine, and behavior. A boarded chiropractor provides care for our patients here..

Dr. Alissa Fairlie

Creature Comforts Animal Hospital, Medical Director,
Founder and President

Creature Comforts Animal Hospital is proud to maintain a state-of-the-art facility with full digital x-ray services, surgical suite and ultrasound. We also have a large supply of herbal supplements..

Dr. Frances Ramires

Country Oaks Veterinary Clinic, DVM, Veterinarian and
Owner 

At Country Oaks, not only do we focus on the patient, follow the standards of care in veterinary medicine, and are AAHA Accredited, we focus on the client too. We are different because we treat the pet and owner like family..

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The ranking of America’s Best Animal Hospitals recognizes the top 500 animal hospitals in the USA based on quality of care provided. To identify the top animal hospitals, we conducted an extensive and thorough desk research effort to create a database of over 15,000 animal hospitals. We collected and analyzed more than 5m customer ratings and reviews from social media for these animal hospitals from the last five years. These animal hospitals were analyzed in terms of their overall customer ratings and 8 key categories of service & facility quality. For this analysis we built an AI large-language model using the text data from the reviews and produced a net sentiment score for each hospital.

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