CA's Best Hospitals For 2025: See Full List

Throughout 2025, several data-based national rankings and safety grades helped California residents navigate the complex landscape of health care, and make decisions about the best places to have a baby, find a specialist or take care of other medical issues.

Here's a review of how the Golden State stacked up in analyses and rankings from various publications, health care watchdog groups and others:

U.S. News & World Report's respected rankings included looks at the best maternity, children’s, specialty and overall hospitals in California. Read more:

• 9 CA Children's Hospitals Among Nation's Best: U.S. News Rankings
• These CA Hospitals Are Ranked Among Best For Maternity Care
• These Are The Top-Ranked Hospitals In CA: U.S. News

Newsweek also took a look at California residents' access to top hospitals. Read more:

• 41 CA Hospitals Among Best In The World, New Ranking Says

The watchdog Leapfrog Group's twice-a-year safety grades use both data and patient surveys to measure Golden State hospitals' records on patient safety, infection rates and other patient experiences. Read more:

• These Are CA's Safest, And Least Safe, Hospitals: New Leapfrog Ranking
• CA Hospital Scores 'F' In New Safety Ranking, While 122 Earn Top Grades

Healthgrades, which maintains a comprehensive database of ratings and comparisons for physicians, hospitals and health care providers, also released ratings on hospitals in California and others. Read more:

• 11 CA Hospitals In Top 1% Nationwide, Report Says
• 85 CA Hospitals Named Among Best For Patient Safety, Experience