East Bay Hospital Rankings: US News & World Report

EAST BAY, CA – U.S. News and World Report released its annual rankings of the best hospitals in the country for 2017-18, ranking more than 4,500 medical centers in the U.S. in 25 specialties, procedures and conditions. The rankings also looked at the best hospitals in every state and 20 hospitals made it to the honor roll, a distinction given to hospitals that deliver exceptional treatment across multiple specialties.

On a local level, in the San Francisco Bay area, there are several that meet top qualifications.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota topped the honor roll for the second consecutive year. The hospital was ranked across 15 specialties and ranked in the top five for 13 of the specialties. Cleveland Clinic was ranked number two and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore climbed up the rankings one spot this year to number three on the honor roll.

U.S. News ranked 152 hospitals nationally in at least one specialty and 535 hospitals were recognized as best regional hospitals for those seeking care close to home.

The top rated hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area is UCSF Medical Center, ranked the 5th best in the country.

In the East Bay, one hospital is nationally ranked: John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek.

It is rated as the #50 hospital in the entire nation for gynecology. In addition, it is rated as high performing in 6 Adult Procedures/Conditions: COPD, Colon Cancer Surgery, Heart Failure, Hip Replacement, Knee Replacement and Lung Cancer Surgery.

John Muir Medical Center, Concord is rated as high performing in 9 Adult Procedures/Conditions: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair, Aortic Valve Surgery, COPD, Colon Cancer Surgery, Heart Bypass Surgery, Heart Failure, Hip Replacement, Knee Replacement and Lung Cancer Surgery.

Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center is rated as high performing in 4 Adult Procedures/Conditions:Colon Cancer Surgery, Heart Failure, Hip Replacement and Knee Replacement.

Washington Hospital in Fremont is rated High Performing in 4 Adult Procedures/Conditions: COPD, Heart Failure, Hip Replacement and Knee Replacement.

Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland is rated High Performing in 3 Adult Procedures/Conditions: Colon Cancer Surgery, Heart Bypass Surgery and Heart Failure.

Kaiser Permanente Antioch Medical Center is rated High Performing in 3 Adult Procedures/Conditions: Heart Failure, Hip Replacement and Knee Replacement.

Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek Medical Center is rated High Performing in 2 Adult Procedures/Conditions: Colon Cancer Surgery and Heart Failure.

Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch is rated High Performing in 2 Adult Procedures/Conditions: COPD and Heart Failure.
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley is rated High Performing in 1 Adult Procedure/Condition: Hip Replacement.

Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley is rated High Performing in 1 Adult Procedure/Condition: Colon Cancer Surgery.

Here are links to all ratings for East Bay Hospitals:

• Alameda Hospital
• Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Berkeley
• Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Oakland
• Contra Costa Regional Medical Center
• Eden Medical Center
• Fremont Hospital
• Fremont Medical Center
• Highland Hospital
• John Muir Behavioral Health Center
• John Muir Medical Center, Concord
• John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek
• Kaiser Permanente Antioch Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek Medical Center
• Kindred Hospital-San Francisco Bay Area
• San Leandro Hospital
• Sutter Delta Medical Center
• UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
• Washington Hospital
• Willow Rock Center

The methodology used by U.S. News is based largely on objective measures with more than 70 percent of the rankings relying on such data. The rankings also took into account survey answers from more than 125,000 physicians across the country about reputation.

U.S. News also looked at five years of Medicare data and the number of patients treated in hospitals. The methodology was also updated to avoid penalizing hospitals for treating low-income patients or for accepting high-risk cases transferred from other hospitals. For the best regional hospitals, procedures and conditions rankings were emphasized more than specialty rankings.

Watch for the statewide ranking of California hospitals, this weekend on Patch.

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