These Are The Top-Ranked Hospitals In CA: U.S. News

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is the top hospital in California, according to the new 2025-2026 Best Hospitals ranking released Tuesday by U.S. News and World Report.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ranks nationally in 11 specialties including No. 6 in cardiology, heart and vascular surgery. It is high performing in 22 procedures/conditions.

For its 36th annual report, U.S. News evaluated more than 4,440 hospitals based on their performance across 30 medical and surgical services.

California’s other top hospitals are:

• UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles is nationally ranked in 14 specialties including No. 2 in ear, nose and throat and No. 4 in pulmonology and lung surgery. It is high performing in 22 procedures/conditions.

• UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco is nationally ranked in 13 specialties including No. 2 in both geriatrics and in neurology and neurosurgery surgery. It is high performing in 21 procedures/conditions.

• Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto is nationally ranked in 11 specialties including No. 4 in ear, nose and throat and No. 7 in orthopedics. It is high performing in 22 procedures/conditions.

These hospitals are also among the 504 Best Regional Hospitals across 49 states and 95 metro areas ranked by U.S. News. Hospitals that earned high performance ratings across eight surgery and specialty areas made the cut

“For most Americans, health care decisions are made close to home. The Best Regional Hospitals rankings underscore the difference high-performing local medical centers make,” Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News, said in a news release.

“These local hospital rankings, entirely performance-driven, equip individuals and their families, in consultation with their medical providers, to choose the highest quality care available in their own communities,” Harder said.

Other California hospitals recognized as the best regional facilities are listed in order highest ranking:

• UC San Diego Health-La Jolla, Hillcrest, and East Campus Medical Centers
• Scripps La Jolla Hospitals
• UC Davis Medical Center
• Torrance Memorial Medical Center
• Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
• Keck Medical Center of USC
• Huntington Health Medical Center-Pasadena
• Sharp Memorial Hospital
• MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center
• John Muir Health-Concord Medical Center
• John Muir Health-Walnut Creek Medical Center
• Loma Linda University Medical Center
• Sutter Medical Center-Sacramento
• El Camino Health-Mountain View
• Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente Anaheim and Irvine Medical Centers
• Kaiser Permanente Fontana and Ontario Medical Centers
• Eisenhower Medical Center
• Providence Mission Hospital-Mission Viejo and Laguna Beach
• UC Irvine Medical Center
• Providence St. Joseph Hospital-Orange
• Providence St. John's Health Center
• Sutter Roseville Medical Center
• MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center
• PIH Health Hospital-Whittier
• Kaiser Permanente San Diego Zion and San Diego Medical Center
• Providence Holy Cross Medical Center
• Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center
• Scripps Mercy Hospital
• Kaiser Permanente Oakland and Richmond Medical Centers
• Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
• Community Regional Medical Center
• St. Agnes Medical Center
• Adventist Health Glendale
• Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Torrance
• Alta Bates Summit Medical Center-Oakland
• Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center
• Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula
• Kaiser Permanente Roseville Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center
• Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center
• California Pacific Medical Center-Van Ness Campus
• Mills-Peninsula Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center
• MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center
• Providence St. Joseph Medical Center-Burbank
• Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center
• Scripps Memorial Hospital-Encinitas
• Sharp Grossmont Hospital
• Enloe Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center
• St. John's Regional Medical Center
• Mercy San Juan Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center
• Providence St. Jude Medical Center
• Memorial Medical Center-Modesto
• Community Memorial Hospital-Ventura
• Mercy General Hospital
• Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek Medical Center

The report also named 20 hospitals across 13 states to its Honor Roll, which represents the best of the best hospitals. Listed in alphabetical order, they are:

• AdventHealth, Orlando, Florida
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
• Cleveland Clinic
• Hackensack University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health, Hackensack, New Jersey
• Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
• Houston Methodist Hospital
• Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
• Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
• Mayo Clinic-Arizona, Phoenix
• Mayo Clinic-Rochester, Minnesota
• Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
• New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell
• Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
• NYU Langone Hospitals, New York
• Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
• Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto, California
• UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
• UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
• University of Michigan Health-Ann Arbor

U.S. News evaluated 4,400 hospitals and ranked them based on their performance on objective measures such as risk-adjusted mortality rates, preventable complications and level of nursing care. The Best Hospitals Specialty rankings methodology and Procedures & Conditions ratings methodology measure patient outcomes using data from over 800 million records of patient care.

This year, among other methodology refinements, U.S. News added ratings in two new cohorts, Heart Arrhythmia and Pacemaker Implantation, to the existing Procedures & Conditions ratings, for a new total of 22 ratings.