Sharp Grossmont Hospital Named Among Best In State: U.S. News

LA MESA, CA — Eight hospitals in San Diego County — including Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa — have been named among the best-performing hospitals in the state, according to the 33rd edition of hospital rankings from U.S. News & World Report.

U.S. News evaluated more than 4,500 hospitals in 15 specialties and 19 procedures and conditions, adding rankings for ovarian cancer surgery, prostate cancer surgery and uterine cancer surgery to its 2022 list.

The 2022-23 rankings also took into account several health equity measures for the first time, noting hospitals which provide more care to low income patients and those which have racial disparities in medical and surgical outcomes.

The rankings are meant to help patients and doctors make health care decisions, according to Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor of U.S. News.

In California, 58 hospitals were ranked as "high performing" in one or more specialties.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was named the top hospital in California, and the second in the nation behind the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

The other California hospitals that made the national top 20 are UCLA, which tied for the 5th position with Johns Hopkins Hospital; Stanford Hospital was No. 10; and UCSF Medical Center was No. 12.

In California, these San Diego area hospitals were ranked as "high performing" in one or more specialties:

• UC San Diego Medical Center-Hillcrest (5th)
• Scripps Memorial Hospital-La Jolla (8th)
• Sharp Memorial Hospital (14th)
• Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center (24th-tie)
• Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center (26th-tie)
• Scripps Mercy Hospital (37th-tie)
• Palomar Medical Center Escondido (46th-tie)
• Sharp Grossmont Hospital (46th-tie)

U.S. News made several adjustments in its evaluation of hospital visits in 2020 to normalize its 2022 rankings against the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The rankings excluded all hospital visits in March 2020 as well as visits in which a patient was diagnosed with COVID-19. Visits to any hospital were excluded if they occurred during a month of 2020 in which the hospital's COVID-19 rate exceeded the national average.

Learn more about the U.S. News Best Hospitals methodology.

Of the hospitals evaluated, 164 earned top 50 rankings in at least one of the specialty care categories, and nearly 500 were recognized as Best Regional Hospitals, based on their strong performance in multiple areas of care.

In addition to state, regional and specialty rankings, U.S. News also announced the 20 hospitals named to this year's Honor Roll, which recognizes the top hospitals nationwide that deliver exceptional treatment across multiple areas of care.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, claimed the top ranking on the Honor Roll for the seventh consecutive year. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is ranked second, and NYU Langone Hospitals came in third.

Among notable specialties, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is the top-ranked hospital for cancer, the Cleveland Clinic is No. 1 in cardiology and heart surgery and NYU Langone Hospitals is the top hospital in neurology and neurosurgery.

See this year's Best Hospital Rankings.