Best Hospitals In California: U.S. News and World Report's New Rankings

U.S. News and World Report on Tuesday released its list of the best hospitals in the country. The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota topped the publication's rankings, which looked at how each hospital performs across different specialties, procedures and conditions.

Hospitals that scored high in those categories were compiled into a top-line ranking called the "Honor Roll," made up of the top 20 hospitals in the country. Four are in California.

Here are those top 20 hospitals nationally, according to U.S. News and World Report:

1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
2. Cleveland Clinic
3. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
4. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
5. UCLA Medical Center
6. New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
7. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
8. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
9. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
10. NYU Langone Medical Center
11. Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis
12. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Pittsburgh
13. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
14. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California
15. Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
16. Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina
17. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
18. University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor
19. Houston Methodist Hospital
20. University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora

Here in California, the top hospitals are in the population centers of the Bay Area, Southern California and Sacramento. Many are connected to universities, and Kaiser Permanente landed a few on the list.

Here are those top 20 hospitals in California, according to U.S. News and World Report:

1. UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
2. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
3. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford
4. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
5. University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento
6. UC San Diego Medical Center-UC San Diego Health, San Diego
7. Scripps La Jolla Hospitals and Clinics, La Jolla
8. Keck Medical Center of USC, Los Angeles
9. Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena
10. University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange
11. Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Newport Beach
12. John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek
13. Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco
14. Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego
15. John Muir Medical Center, Concord
16. St. Jude Medical Center, Fullerton
17. Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles
18. Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, Mission Hills
19. St. Joseph Hospital, Orange
20. Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento

To compile the rankings, U.S. News and World Report used several different objective measurements such as patient survival, number of patients and staffing numbers. The publication also used survey data from qualified physicians, who were asked to name the top five hospitals in their specialty.

Click here to see the full rankings.

In all, 153 hospitals made the rankings in at least one specialty.

By Marc Torrence and Bea Karnes; Image via Shutterstock