36 CA Hospitals Named Among Best In U.S. Ranking: List

LOS ANGELES, CA — The coronavirus pandemic brought home the importance of access to high-quality health care, Newsweek said with the announcement Thursday of the world’s best hospitals, which includes 36 facilities in California.

Newsweek partnered with the respected global data research firm Statistica Inc. to compile the ranking, which Global Editor-in-Chief Nancy Cooper said “may be our most important ranking yet” given the demand placed on hospitals during the pandemic.

This is the third year Newsweek has released the ranking, topped both globally and in the United States by the famed Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The list includes 2,000 hospitals in 25 countries that “stand out for their consistent excellence, including distinguished physicians, top-notch nursing care and state-of-the-art technology,” Cooper said in the announcement of the list.

Of the best hospitals ranked in the United States, 36 Golden State hospitals made the list.

1. Stanford Health Care - Stanford Hospital
2. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
3. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
4. UCLA Medical Center - Santa Monica
5. UCSF Medical Center
6. University of California - Davis Medical Center
7. Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla
8. UC San Diego Health - Jacobs Medical Center
9. Keck Hospital of USC
10. Torrance Memorial Medical Center
11. Sharp Memorial Hospital
12. MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center
13. Mission Hospital
14. El Camino Hospital
15. Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
16. Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center
17. John Muir Health - Walnut Creek Medical Center
18. Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center
19. Mills-Peninsula Medical Center
20. Palomar Medical Center
21. UC Irvine Medical Center
22. Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center
23. St. Jude Medical Center
24. Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
25. John Muir Medical Center - Concord Campus
26. Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center
27. Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center & Zion Medical Center
28. Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center
29. Huntington Memorial Hospital
30. Scripps Green Hospital
31. California Pacific Medical Center
32. Sharp Coronado Hospital
33. Dignity Health - Northridge Hospital Medical Center
34. Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula
35. Barton Memorial Hospital
36. Dignity Health - Sequoia Hospital

And 10 of them were ranked among some of the best hospitals in the world:

1. Stanford Health Care - Stanford Hospital (No. 13 globally)
2. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. (No. 17 globally)
3. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. (No. 50 globally)
4. UCLA Medical Center - Santa Monica (No. 55 globally)
5. UCSF Medical Center. (No. 65 globally)
6. Keck Hospital of USC (No. 101-200 globally)
7. Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla (No. 101-200 globally)
8. Torrance Memorial Medical Center (No. 101-200 globally)
9. UC San Diego Health - Jacobs Medical Center (No. 101-200 globally)
10. UC San Diego Health - Jacobs Medical Center (No. 101-200 globally)

Three data sources were used to compile the list: recommendations from medical experts; results from patient surveys; and key performance indicators measuring things such as inpatient mortality rates, injuries to patients, bed turnover, Medicare and Medicaid measures, and occupancy.

Every hospital received a score, but Newsweek noted the scores are only comparable among hospitals in the same country. For example, a score of 90 percent in one country doesn’t necessarily indicate the quality is better than in a hospital in another country that received a score of 87 percent.

The top three U.S. hospitals had the same ranking globally, and all 10 of the top U.S. hospitals were among the top 35 in the world, according to the ranking.

The Top 10 U.S. hospitals on the ranking are:

1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota (No. 1 globally)
2. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland (No. 2 globally)
3. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (No. 3 globally)
4. The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore (No. 5 globally)
5. Stanford Health Care – Stanford Hospital, Stanford, Connecticut (No. 13 globally)
6. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California (No. 17 globally)
7. The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City (No. 30 globally)
8. University of Michigan Hospitals – Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan (No. 23 globally)
9. Brigham And Women’s Hospital, Boston (No. 25 globally)
10. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York City (No. 33 globally)

» Read more on the methodology from Newsweek.