11 CA Hospitals In Top 1% Nationwide, Report Says

CALIFORNIA - Eleven hospitals in California are ranked among the top one percent of clinical care facilities in the country, according to a new report out Tuesday.

The 2025 America’s Best Hospitals Awards from Healthgrades, an online resource to help people find doctors and hospitals, is a three-tiered ranking of the top 50, 100 and 250 hospitals, which, respectively, represent the top 1 percent, 2 percent and 5 percent of clinical care hospitals nationwide.

In California, medical centers named to America’s 50 Best Hospitals are:

• Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, Burlingame, included on the Best Of list for 18 consecutive years
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, included on the Best Of list for 15 consecutive years
• Sutter Roseville Medical Center, Roseville, included on the Best Of list for 15 consecutive years
• Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles, included on the Best Of list for 14 consecutive years
• Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, Mission Hills, included on the Best Of list for 12 consecutive years
• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, included on the Best Of list for 11 consecutive years
• Stanford Health Care, Stanford, included on the Best Of list for 11 consecutive years
• Memorial Medical Center, Modesto, included on the Best Of list for 10 consecutive years
• Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas, Encinitas, included on the Best Of list for 10 consecutive years
• Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Oakland, included on the Best Of list for 9 consecutive years
• Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego, San Diego, included on the Best Of list for 8 consecutive years

Click here to see all 31 California hospitals that made the top 250 list.

Healthgrades said it uses clinically validated methodology that focuses solely on patient outcomes to help consumers choose doctors who practice at hospitals recognized for their quality.

Healthgrades evaluated clinical performance for about 4,500 hospitals across more than 30 common procedures and conditions. The rankings are designed to increase patients’ confidence in choosing a doctor and hospital.

“While there are several factors to consider when looking for a doctor, hospital quality is one that can have a critical impact on a patient’s overall quality of care,” Dr. Brad Bowman, Healthgrades’ chief medical officer and head of data science, said in a news release.

The persistent performance gap between the nation’s highest and lowest performers underscores the importance of ensuring that consumers have access to objective measures of hospital quality, Healthgrades said.

If all hospitals performed similarly to America’s 250 Best Hospitals, 174,081 lives could have been saved, Healthgrades said.