48 California Hospitals Ranked Among America’s Best: LIST

Forty-eight hospitals in California are among the top 250 hospitals in the country for 2019, according to a new list released by Healthgrades. Published on Tuesday, the list identifies the top 250, the top 100 and the top 50 hospitals in the United States.

Healthgrades said that its analysis revealed that on average, the hospitals on its list outperformed others in treating a core group of conditions that account for more than 80 percent of deaths in the areas evaluated for the rankings.

The hospitals that place in the top 50 in the country are in the top 1 percent of hospitals in the nation “for providing overall clinical excellence across a broad spectrum of conditions and procedures consistently for six or more consecutive years,” according to Healthgrades. The hospitals in the top 100 are in the top 2 percent of hospitals in the country “for exhibiting clinical excellence for five or more consecutive years,” Healthgrades says. The top 250 hospitals are in the top 5 percent for overall clinic excellence for the current year.

The California hospitals ranked among the top 250 in the country are:

• Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - Alta Bates Camp, Berkeley
• Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - Summit, Oakland
• Cedars - Sinai Medical Center, West Hollywood
• Eden Medical Center, Castro Valley
• Hoag Hospital Newport Beach, Newport Beach
• John Muir Medical Center - Walnut Creek, Walnut Creek
• Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center, Baldwin Park
• Kaiser Permanente Fresno Medical Center, Fresno
• Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, Oakland
  • Including: Kaiser Permanente Richmond Medical Center, Richmond
• Kaiser Permanente Orange County - Anaheim Medical Center, Anaheim
  • Including: Kaiser Permanente Orange County – Irvine Medical Center, Irvine
• Kaiser Permanente Redwood City Medical Center, Redwood City
• Kaiser Permanente Sacramento Medical Center, Sacramento
• Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center, San Jose
• Kaiser Permanente San Leandro Medical Center, San Leandro
• Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical Center, San Rafael
• Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center, Santa Clara
• Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center, Woodland Hills
• Kaweah Delta Medical Center, Visalia
• Memorial Medical Center, Modesto
• Mercy Hospital Of Folsom, Folsom
• Methodist Hospital of Southern California, Arcadia
• Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, Burlingame
  • Including: Mills Health Center, San Mateo
• Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo, Mission Viejo
  • Including: Mission Hospital - Laguna Beach, Laguna Beach
• Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Northridge
• Palomar Medical Center Downtown Escondido, Escondido
• PIH Health Hospital - Whittier, Whittier
• Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, Mission Hills
• Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Burbank
• Providence Tarzana Medical Center, Tarzana
• Queen Of The Valley Medical Center, Napa
• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
• Scripps Green Hospital, La Jolla
• Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas, Encinitas
• Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, La Jolla
• Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego, San Diego
  • Including: Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista, Chula Vista
• Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, Chula Vista
• St.Jude Medical Center, Fullerton
• Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford
• Sutter Roseville Medical Center, Roseville
• UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, Santa Monica
• UCSD Medical Center - Hillcrest, San Diego
• UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus, San Francisco
  • Including: UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion, San Francisco

The hospitals listed above are organized alphabetically and are not ranked in any particular order. Healthgrades’ complete list of the top 250 hospitals are organized by state and are also not ranked in any order.

Healthgrades evaluates hospital performance for 32 procedures and conditions and in order to be eligible for the list, a hospital must have evaluations in at least 21 of the procedures and conditions. After identifying eligible hospitals, Healthgrades has a series of steps it uses to compile the list of the top 250 hospitals. The procedures and conditions evaluated by Healthgrades include heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, respiratory failure, sepsis and stroke. (You can read the full methodology here.)

You can see the full list of hospitals from Healthgrades here.

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