UC Davis Medical Center slips to ninth on U.S. News’ best California hospitals list
The UC Davis Medical Center dropped to ninth place from sixth in the U.S. News & World Report ranking of California’s best hospitals, but maintained its position as the leading hospital in Sacramento.
“Once again this year, UC Davis Medical Center ranked as the No. 1 hospital in Sacramento and among the top 10 in California,” said Charles Casey, a spokesperson for UC Davis Health. “Fluctuations from year to year are not unusual for annual ratings reports, especially with some of the significant methodology changes made by U.S. News in calculating this year’s report.”
Other regional hospitals also landed spots on the state list of 60 hospitals: Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, ranked 27th, tying with three other hospitals. Enloe Medical Center in Chico, Sacramento’s Mercy General Hospital and Sutter Roseville Medical center tied for 37th with five other hospitals. Kaiser Permanente Roseville Medical Center ranked 45th with five other state hospitals. Methodist Hospital of Sacramento placed 51st with eight other hospitals.
The UCD Medical Center was also among 134 hospitals, out of 4,500-plus examined nationally, that garnered a ranking for care provided in one or more adult-care specialties. UCD scored in nine specialties: cancer (36); cardiology and heart surgery (36); ear, nose and throat (30); geriatrics (24), nephrology (30); neurology and neurosurgery (37); orthopedics (32); pulmonology and lung surgery (29); and urology (31).
The other seven specialties that the magazine ranked were diabetes and endocrinology; gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery; gynecology; ophthalmology; psychiatry, rehabilitation and rheumatology. No other Sacramento-area hospitals received a ranking in these categories.
U.S. News also gave a high-performing mark to the gastroenterology and gastrointestinal medical team at UC Davis and to the orthopedics team at the Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento.
It’s common for consumers to go into hospitals for certain types of procedures or conditions, and the magazine scored how well hospitals did in providing these services. Below you’ll find a list of the procedures and the local hospitals rates as high performing in providing them:
Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: Enloe, UCD
Aortic valve surgery: Mercy General; Sutter Sacramento;
Heart bypass surgery: Mercy General; Sutter Sacramento
Heart failure: Enloe, Kaiser Roseville; Mercy General; Methodist Hospital; Sutter Roseville Medical Center: Sutter Sacramento; UCD
Colon cancer surgery: Enloe, Kaiser Roseville; Mercy General; Sutter Roseville; UCD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD: Enloe, Mercy General; Methodist; Sutter Roseville; Sutter Sacramento; UCD
Hip replacement: Kaiser Roseville; Sutter Roseville; Sutter Sacramento
Knee replacement: Enloe, Kaiser Roseville; Methodist; Sutter Sacramento
Lung cancer surgery: Sutter Roseville, UCD
A centerpiece of the U.S. News ranking is an honor roll showing the 20 best hospitals in the nation. This year’s top 10 are listed below, along with individual rankings from last year in parentheses:
1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota (1)
2. Cleveland Clinic (4)
3. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore (3)
4. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York (5)
4. UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles (6)
6. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (2)
7. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles (8)
8. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco (7)
9. NYU Langone Hospitals, New York (9)
10. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago (10)
This year’s U.S. News report on the nation’s best hospitals focuses on the impact of COVID-19 and the health care heroes who have helped their communities with the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic.
“The pandemic has altered, perhaps permanently, how patients get care and from whom they get it. Amid the disruption, we are steadfastly committed to providing the public with authoritative data for comparing hospital quality,” said Ben Harder, managing editor and chief of health analysis at U.S. News. “No hospital’s clinical team came through this unprecedented health crisis unscathed.”
This story was originally published July 28, 2020 at 12:01 AM.
