Barbara Young and David Nicholson sent a public letter to 43 trusts which have performed strongly for the last two years, saying there were all deemed 'excellent' for quality.
The CQC also sent letters to 13 trusts which had made notable improvements in their ratings performance.
Those hailed as high performing trusts included Alder Hey children's NHS foundation trust and The Royal Orthopaedic hospital NHS foundation trust, and those which had made considerable improvements included Moorfields eye hospital.
Ms Young and Mr Nicholson said to do well the trusts had to perform strongly across a broad range of standards and indicators.
Ms Young said: 'The NHS is one of our most valuable public services and it is really important to celebrate the achievements of those in it who do a good job.'
Responding to the ratings health minister Mike O’Brien said: 'The assessment has been more challenging this year. The CQC introduced tough new criteria for mental health and ambulance trusts, we introduced the hygiene code a year early and there has been greater scrutiny of some core standards, such as child safeguarding following the tragic Baby Peter case.
'We also know that Trusts themselves have carried out a more rigorous self-assessment ahead of the requirement to seek registration with the CQC next year.
'This is the most rigorous assessment of standards that the NHS has ever seen, carried out by a new independent regulator who we established and tasked with making sure the toughest standards are enforced routinely across the system. This makes it difficult to compare with previous years but is essential as we move towards registration of all NHS services.
'For the small number of Trusts whose performance is weak, we expect immediate action to be taken to remedy this quickly and to prepare for registration with the CQC next year. Earlier this year we introduced a tough new performance regime and will not hesitate to trigger this if we need to.'
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