Ben Harder

On April 14, U.S. News will publish the 2026 edition of Best Senior Living, a free, web-based decision-support tool created to help consumers searching for a senior living community for themselves, a friend, or a family member. Covering more than 3,000 senior living communities across the country, Best Senior Living includes ratings designed to help seniors and their families choose the best living arrangement for their unique needs.

The annual U.S. News physician survey, which captures medical specialists’ expert opinions on which hospitals provide high-quality referral care in their specialty, began today. As we do each year, our first wave of invitations was emailed to a randomly selected 10-percent subset of the eligible physicians who are users of Doximity. We start with a 10-percent subset to ensure that there are no issues with rollout before we send invitations to the entire eligible population.

Since 2021, U.S. News has collected data from maternity hospitals for its annual evaluation of the Best Hospitals for Maternity Care. This evaluation is designed to help expectant parents, in consultation with their healthcare providers, make well-informed decisions about where to receive maternity care for uncomplicated pregnancies, and to help hospitals benchmark and identify opportunities to improve the care that they provide to pregnant patients.