San Francisco Hospital Among Best In World, New Analysis Says

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — UCSF Medical Center is the best hospital in California and the 5th best in the nation according to a new list from Newsweek identifying the best hospitals in the world.

The magazine’s “World’s Best Hospitals 2019” list was created in partnership with Statista, a global market research and consumer data company. According to Newsweek, 1,000 hospitals from around the world were selected for the list “based on recommendations from medical professionals, patient survey results and medical performance indicators.”

More than 200 U.S. hospitals made Newsweek's 2019 list. The top one in California is UCSF Medical Center, which ranked 5th in the nation. The four hospitals that ranked over it also made the Top 10 world rankings. Those hospital, with their world rankings:

Mayo Clinic-Rochester; Rochester, Minnesota (1)
Cleveland Clinic; Cleveland, Ohio (2)
The Johns Hopkins Hospitals; Baltimore, Maryland (4)
Massachusetts General Hospital; Boston, Massachusetts (6)

Other California hospitals that made the Top 20 U.S.rankings are Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (8), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (11), Stanford Hospital (13), and UCLA Medical Center-Santa Monica (17).

Newsweek’s rankings list the best hospitals in the U.S., Canada, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Switzerland, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Australia and Israel.

You can read more about the rankings and methodology from Newsweek here.

— Patch editors Feroze Dhanoa and Bea Karnes contributed to this story

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