58 CA Hospitals Named Best In State: U.S. News

CALIFORNIA — The 33rd edition of hospital rankings from U.S. News & World Report was released Tuesday with four California facilities landing in the top 20 in the nation. The report also lists the 58 best-performing hospitals in the state.

U.S. News evaluated more than 4,500 hospitals in 15 specialties and 19 procedures and conditions, adding rankings for ovarian cancer surgery, prostate cancer surgery and uterine cancer surgery to its 2022 list.

The 2022-23 rankings also took into account several health equity measures for the first time, noting hospitals which provide more care to low income patients and those which have racial disparities in medical and surgical outcomes.

The rankings are meant to help patients and doctors make health care decisions, according to Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor of U.S. News.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was named the top hospital in California, and the second in the nation behind the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

The other California hospitals that made the national top 20 are UCLA, which tied for the 5th position with Johns Hopkins Hospital; Stanford Hospital was No. 10; and UCSF Medical Center was No. 12. A link to the full listings is below.

Here in California, 58 hospitals were ranked as High Performing in one or more specialties.

• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (1)
• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (2)
• Stanford Health Care (3)
• UCSF Medical Center (4)
• UC San Diego Medical Center - Hillcrest (5)
• University of California, Davis Medical Center (6)
• Keck Hospital of USC (7)
• Scripps Memorial Hospital-La Jolla (8)
• Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian (9)
• John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek (10)
• Torrance Memorial Medical Center (11)
• Loma Linda University Medical Center (12)
• UCI Medical Center (13)
• Sharp Memorial Hospital (14)
• Long Beach Medical Center (15-tie)
• Mission Hospital Mission Viejo (15-tie)
• John Muir Medical Center, Concord (17-tie)
• Providence Holy Cross Medical Center (17-tie)
• Providence Saint John's Health Center (17-tie)
• Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center (20)
• Kaiser Permanente Orange County Anaheim Medical Center (21-tie)
• St. Joseph Hospital Orange (21-tie)
• Eisenhower Health (21-tie)
• Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center (24-tie)
• PIH Health Hospital - Whittier (24-tie)
• Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center (26-tie)
• Adventist Health Glendale (26-tie)
• Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center (26-tie)
• Mercy General Hospital (26-tie)
• Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center - Torrance (26-tie)
• MemorialCare, Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center (31-tie)
• St. Jude Medical Center (31-tie)
• Saddleback Medical Center (33-tie)
• Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center (33-tie)
• Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (33-tie)
• Community Memorial Hospital (36)
• Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (37-tie)
• Kaiser Permanente Roseville Medical Center (37-tie)
• Scripps Mercy Hospital (37-tie)
• Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center (37-tie)
• Providence Tarzana Medical Center (37-tie)
• Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento (42-tie)
• Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center (42-tie)
• Oroville Hospital (42-tie)
• Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center (42-tie)
• Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center (46-tie)
• Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center (46-tie)
• Enloe Medical Center (46-tie)
• Stanford Health Care - ValleyCare (46-tie)
• Palomar Medical Center Escondido (46-tie)
• Kaiser Permanente San Leandro Medical Center (46-tie)
• Sharp Grossmont Hospital (46-tie)
• Northridge Hospital Medical Center (46-tie)
• Sequoia Hospital (46-tie)
• Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center (46-tie)
• El Camino Health (56)
• Kaweah Health (57)
• Fountain Valley Regional Hospital and Medical Center (58)

U.S. News made several adjustments in its evaluation of hospital visits in 2020 to normalize its 2022 rankings against the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The rankings excluded all hospital visits in March 2020 as well as visits in which a patient was diagnosed with COVID-19. Visits to any hospital were excluded if they occurred during a month of 2020 in which the hospital’s COVID-19 rate exceeded the national average.

Learn more about the U.S. News Best Hospitals methodology.

Of the hospitals evaluated, 164 earned top 50 rankings in at least one of the specialty care categories, and nearly 500 were recognized as Best Regional Hospitals, based on their strong performance in multiple areas of care.

In addition to state, regional and specialty rankings, U.S. News also announced the 20 hospitals named to this year’s Honor Roll, which recognizes the top hospitals nationwide that deliver exceptional treatment across multiple areas of care.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, claimed the top ranking on the Honor Roll for the seventh consecutive year. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is ranked second, and NYU Langone Hospitals came in third.

Among notable specialties, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is the top-ranked hospital for cancer, the Cleveland Clinic is No. 1 in cardiology and heart surgery and NYU Langone Hospitals is the top hospital in neurology and neurosurgery.

See this year’s Best Hospital Rankings.