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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Several Calif. Hospitals Rank Among Best in U.S. for Specialty Care

Several California hospitals made U.S. News & World Report's 2012-2013 list of the top U.S. hospitals, U-T San Diego reports.

Methodology

To compile the list, U.S. News evaluated 732 hospitals in 16 specialties.

Rankings were based on federal data that included:

Infection rates;
Nurse-to-patient ratios;
Patient safety; and
Patient survival rates.

U.S. News also considered national surveys of medical specialists (Lavelle, U-T San Diego, 7/16).

California Hospital Rankings

According to U.S. News, the top 10 hospitals in California ranked in order are:

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, with 14 nationally ranked specialties;
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, with 12 nationally ranked specialties;
UC-San Francisco Medical Center, with 11 nationally ranked specialties;
Stanford Hospital and Clinics in Palo Alto, with 10 nationally ranked specialties;
UC-San Diego Medical Center, with four nationally ranked specialties;
Keck Hospital of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, with three nationally ranked specialties;
John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, with three nationally ranked specialties;
Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, with two nationally ranked specialties;
Scripps La Jolla Hospitals and Clinics, with one nationally ranked specialty; and
UC-Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, with one nationally ranked specialty (Comarow [1], U.S. News & World Report, 7/16).

Honor Roll Hospitals

U.S. News also assembled an "Honor Roll" that recognizes 17 hospitals in the U.S. that achieved high scores in six or more specialties.

California hospitals included on the Honor Roll are Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco (Comarow [2], U.S. News & World Report, 7/16).