3 Best Hospitals In San Jose Area: US News And World Report

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, 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.

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.

In Santa Clara County, Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital ranked as the No. 1 hospital among those in the San Jose metro area and was ranked nationally across 13 specialties, achieving the highest ratings possible in nine procedures or conditions. It was one of four hospitals in California included on the honor roll, earning the rank of the ninth-best hospital in the U.S.

“We are very pleased that Stanford Hospital has again been named to the U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll,” said Stanford Health Care president and CEO David Entwistle. “This national recognition is a testament to the outstanding commitment to quality patient care and the unique Stanford spirit of innovation shared by all our physicians, nurses, administrative staff, and everyone on our care teams. We look forward to continuing our collective work to ensure that each and every patient receives personalized care of the highest quality and value.”

According to the rankings, the top three hospitals in the San Jose area are:

1. Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto
2. El Camino Hospital, Mountain View
3. Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara, Santa Clara

U.S. News and World Report ranked El Camino Hospital the 18th-best in California, stating that the hospital achieved the highest ratings possible in eight procedures or conditions.

Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center was ranked the 32nd-best in California. U.S. News noted that the the hospital achieved the highest ratings possible in four procedures or conditions.

Here are the rankings for the remaining San Jose metro-area hospitals:

• VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto
• St. Louise Regional Hospital, Gilroy
• Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital, Hollister
• Regional Medical Center of San Jose, San Jose
• Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center, San Jose
• O’Connor Hospital, San Jose
• Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose
• Good Samaritan Hospital, San Jose

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.

The hospitals on U.S. News’ honor roll are:

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
University of Michigan Hospital and Health Centers, Ann Arbor
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
New-York Presbyterian Hospital, New York
Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California
Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Pittsburgh
University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Philadelphia
Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
NYU Langone Medical Center, New York
Mayo Clinic Phoenix, Phoenix

The specialties included in the rankings are:

• Cancer
• Cardiology and Heart Surgery
• Diabetes and Endocrinology
• Ear, Nose and Throat
• Gastroenterology and GI Surgery
• Geriatrics
• Gynecology
• Nephrology
• Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopedics
• Pulmonology
• Psychiatry
• Rehabilitation
• Rheumatology
• Urology

The procedures and conditions included in the rankings are:

• COPD
• Heart Bypass Surgery
• Heart Failure
• Hip Replacement
• Knee Replacement
• Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
• Aortic Valve Surgery
• Colon Cancer Surgery
• Lung Cancer Surgery

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital was the only California hospital on U.S. News and World Report's 2017-18 national honor roll. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco; Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles; and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles were also named to the national honor roll.

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