UCSF Medical Center Named a Top 10 Hospital for 11th Consecutive Year
UCSF Medical Center ranks among the nation's top 10 premier hospitals for the 11th consecutive year and is the best in Northern California, according to the 2011-2012 Best Hospitals Survey conducted by U.S. News & World Report.
UCSF was named the seventh best hospital in the country, earning a spot on the survey’s honor roll. According to the survey, “a place on the Best Hospitals Honor Roll is reserved for medical centers that demonstrate unusually high expertise across multiple specialties, scoring at or near the top in at least six of 16 specialties. Just 17 of the nearly 5,000 hospitals evaluated for the 2011-12 rankings qualified.”
In addition to the overall ranking, U.S. News evaluated 16 medical specialties. In eight specialties, UCSF placed among the top 10 medical centers nationwide: cancer, diabetes and endocrinology, gynecology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, ophthalmology, rheumatology and urology.
UCSF Medical Center is recognized throughout the world as a leading academic medical center that provides innovative treatments, uses advanced technology, fosters collaboration among clinicians and scientists, and employs a highly compassionate team of doctors, nurses and staff.
U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals Honor Roll:
1. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
2. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
3. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
4. Cleveland Clinic
5. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
6. New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, N.Y.
7. UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
8. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
9. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
10. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
11. Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis
12. UPMC-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
13. University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle
14. University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor
14. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville
16. Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York
17. Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, Calif.
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