LIST: The 8 Best Children's Hospitals In California

U.S. News & World Report released a list of the best children's hospitals in the country this week, and California has landed facilities in two of the top 10 spots.

The magazine — which publishes some of the most respected rankings on schools, hospitals, jobs and more — used data from a clinical survey of 183 hospitals along with a survey of pediatric specialists and sub-specialists. It then ranked the hospitals across 10 specialties — such as cancer and orthopedics — based on these three factors, weighted equally:

• "Clinical outcomes," such as cancer survival and infection rates
• "Efficient coordination of care," or how well the hospital complies with industry best practices
• "Sufficient care-related resources," such as having adequate staff and programs for certain conditions

To make the magazine's national "honor roll," a hospital had to rank in the top 10 percent in at least three specialties. Then, hospitals were assigned a points score — two points for ranking in the top 5 percentile of a specialty and one point for ranking in the next 5 percentile — to come up with the overall ranking.

Children's Hospital Los Angeles tied for the seventh best hospital on the list, while Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford in Palo Alto tied for tenth place. (Click here to see the top 10 overall list.)

On the state level, here are the top eight children's hospitals in California, according to U.S. News & World Report:

1. Children's Hospital Los Angeles; Los Angeles; (NATIONALLY RANKED in 10 Children's Specialties)
2. Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford; Palo Alto; (NATIONALLY RANKED in 10 Children's Specialties)
3. Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA; Los Angeles; (NATIONALLY RANKED in 10 Children's Specialties)
4. UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, San Francisco and Oakland; San Francisco; (NATIONALLY RANKED in 10 Children's Specialties)
5. Rady Children's Hospital; San Diego; (NATIONALLY RANKED in 10 Children's Specialties)
6. CHOC Children's Hospital; Orange; (NATIONALLY RANKED in 8 Children's Specialties)
7. University of California Davis Children's Hospital; Sacramento; (NATIONALLY RANKED in 5 Children's Specialties
8. Valley Children's Healthcare and Hospital; Madera; (NATIONALLY RANKED in 1 Children's Specialty)

Explore the full children's hospital rankings, including by specialty, here.

— Patch Editor Marc Torrence contributed to this report. (Image via Shutterstock)