Part of the Citation Share Report: The Hospitals & Health Systems Audit index.
AdventHealth Orlando ranks #24 with a Citation Share Index score of 33 in the Citation Share Report: The Hospitals & Health Systems Audit, an AI visibility study of leading US hospitals. The score places the Central Florida institution near the bottom of the leaderboard, just ahead of Vanderbilt University Medical Center at #25 (30) and below Hackensack University Medical Center at #23 (36). According to the index, that position reflects the multi-year time horizon required to build hospital citation share, a challenge shared by other newly elevated Honor Roll hospitals.
What the Citation Share Report Measures
The Citation Share Report: The Hospitals & Health Systems Audit evaluated 25 US hospitals selected based on inclusion in the 2025-2026 US News Best Hospitals Honor Roll, plus four leading specialty institutions (MSK, MD Anderson, Boston Children's, CHOP) and Vanderbilt. Researchers ran 60+ healthcare prompts across six categories through ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, and modeled a directional Citation Share from cross-engine knowledge synthesis with primary-source verification, using the EPR Citation Share five-component formula. Honor Roll status was verified against US News Best Hospitals 2025-2026, released July 29, 2025.
The study drew on retrieval anchors including US News & World Report Best Hospitals, Newsweek World's Best Hospitals, Healthgrades, Wikipedia, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, NIH funding databases, Becker's Hospital Review, Modern Healthcare, NYT Health, STAT News, NPR Health, CMS Hospital Compare, Castle Connolly Top Doctors, the NCI-Designated Cancer Center list, and hospitals' own .edu, .org, and .com sites.
Why AdventHealth Orlando Ranks #24
AdventHealth Orlando is new to the Honor Roll in the 2025-2026 rankings. The index states that new Honor Roll entrants enter the citation share map at the bottom of the leaderboard despite their elevation, and AdventHealth Orlando, alongside Hackensack and University of Michigan, illustrates that pattern. The index attributes the position to the multi-year time horizon required to build hospital citation share.
The index also notes that new entrants gain Google AI Overviews citation share fastest. Among the five AI engines examined, Google AI Overviews is described as the most US News-driven and the fastest to reflect new Honor Roll entrants, a dynamic that is directly relevant to a hospital that only recently gained Honor Roll status.
The index identifies four shared weaknesses that drive low citation share at the bottom of the leaderboard: no named-specialty leadership, weak owned-content libraries, geographic asymmetry away from major coastal media markets, and no Newsweek dual-anchoring. It separately identifies five signals that move citation share: US News specialty ranking elevation, named-physician programs, condition-explainer content depth, Newsweek global ranking inclusion, and NIH/NCI designation surfacing.
AdventHealth Orlando, formerly Florida Hospital Orlando, has served Florida since 1908 and is part of a network of 18 hospitals and more than 100 extended service locations across Central Florida. On its corporate site, the hospital states it is recognized as the #1 health care network in Florida and among the top 20 hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, with rankings across 11 specialties. The site also notes AdventHealth is the only all "A" rated hospital network in Central Florida under the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade.
The hospital's clinical footprint spans multiple named institutes, including its Cancer Institute, Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute, Neuroscience Institute, Orthopedic Institute, Transplant Institute, and Diabetes Institute, along with AdventHealth for Children and AdventHealth for Women. Its pediatric network includes the Walt Disney Pavilion hospital in Orlando, more than 250 pediatric specialists practicing 35 specialties. These clinical assets sit alongside community partnerships with the Orlando Magic, Daytona International Speedway, Tampa Bay Lightning, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Track Shack, and runDisney.
The gap between this scale and the #24 citation share position reflects the study's finding that Honor Roll elevation and citation share operate on different timelines: recognition in US News does not translate immediately into AI citation share.
Where AdventHealth Orlando Sits in the Broader Hospital Story
The index observes that the original Honor Roll heavyweights, Mayo, Cleveland Clinic, Hopkins, Mass General, UCLA, UCSF, and NewYork-Presbyterian, command 60%+ of all "best hospital" citation share, despite US News alphabetizing the Honor Roll. Mayo Clinic tops the index at #1 (100), followed by Cleveland Clinic at #2 (96) and Johns Hopkins at #3 (92). That concentration at the top helps explain why a recent entrant like AdventHealth Orlando starts low.
The index further notes that US News retains overwhelming dominance among retrieval anchors, but Newsweek's World's Best Hospitals is the only ranking source that has gained AI citation share against US News in the last 24 months. With Newsweek dual-anchoring named as one of the signals that move citation share, and its absence named as one of the four shared weaknesses at the bottom of the leaderboard, that anchor is a defined variable in the metrics the study tracks.
For AdventHealth Orlando, a score of 33 marks the current baseline for a hospital that entered the Honor Roll in the 2025-2026 cycle. The index frames its low position as a function of timeline rather than a fixed ceiling, with new entrants gaining Google AI Overviews citation share fastest among the engines studied.
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