Best Hospitals Near Highland Park-Mount Washington: U.S. News and World Report

LOS ANGELES, CA — As Washington throws around health care as a political football, LA's medical centers are getting on with business – and they're in excellent health. The annual U.S. News and World Report into the nation's best hospitals was released Tuesday – and the city's hospitals rank among the best hospitals in the state.

Huntington Hospital was ranked ninth statewide. Two Los Angeles hospitals are among the top four statewide, and four Los Angeles County hospitals are ranked among California's top 10.

According to the rankings, Los Angeles hospitals among the state's top 10 are:

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (2)

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (4)

Huntington Memorial Hospital (9)

Keck Hospital of USC (10)

U.S. News and World Report released its annual rankings of the best hospitals in the country for 2017-18, ranking more than 4,500 medical centers in the U.S. in 25 specialties, procedures and conditions. The rankings also looked at the best hospitals in every state and 20 hospitals made it to the honor roll, a distinction given to hospitals that deliver exceptional treatment across multiple specialties.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota topped the honor roll for the second consecutive year. The hospital was ranked across 15 specialties and ranked in the top five for 13 of the specialties. Cleveland Clinic was ranked number two and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore climbed up the rankings one spot this year to number three on the honor roll.

U.S. News ranked 152 hospitals nationally in at least one specialty and 535 hospitals were recognized as best regional hospitals for those seeking care close to home.

In California, ranked as the number one hospital in the state and was ranked across nine specialties and was recognized as being high performing in two specialties. It was the only hospital in Connecticut to be ranked across specialties. No Connecticut hospitals made it to the honor roll.

According to the rankings, the best hospitals in the Los Angeles area are:

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (1)

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (2)

Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian (3)

Huntington Memorial Hospital (4)

Keck Hospital of USC (5)

UC Irvine Medical Center (6)

Long Beach Memorial Medical Center (7)

Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Torrance (8)

St. Joseph Hospital (9)

St. Jude Medical Center (9)

Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center (11)

Providence Holy Cross Medical Center (11)

Kaiser Permanente Anaheim Medical Center (13)

Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center (13)

Torrance Memorial Medical Center (14)

Glendale Adventist Medical Center (16)

Mission Hospitals, Mission Viejo and Laguna Beach (17)

Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center (18)

Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center (18)

Providence Tarzana Medical Center (18)

The methodology used by U.S. News is based largely on objective measures with more than 70 percent of the rankings relying on such data. The rankings also took into account survey answers from more than 125,000 physicians across the country about reputation. U.S. News also looked at five years of Medicare data and the number of patients treated in hospitals. The methodology was also updated to avoid penalizing hospitals for treating low-income patients or for accepting high-risk cases transferred from other hospitals. For the best regional hospitals, procedures and conditions rankings were emphasized more than specialty rankings.

The hospitals on U.S. News’ honor roll are:

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
University of Michigan Hospital and Health Centers, Ann Arbor
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
New-York Presbyterian Hospital, New York
Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California
Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Pittsburgh
University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Philadelphia
Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
NYU Langone Medical Center, New York
Mayo Clinic Phoenix, Phoenix

The specialties included in the rankings are:
Cancer
Cardiology and Heart Surgery
Diabetes and Endocrinology
Ear, Nose and Throat
Gastroenterology and GI Surgery
Geriatrics
Gynecology
Nephrology
Neurology and Neurosurgery
Ophthalmology
Orthopedics
Pulmonology
Psychiatry
Rehabilitation
Rheumatology
Urology

The procedures and conditions included in the rankings are:
COPD
Heart Bypass Surgery
Heart Failure
Hip Replacement
Knee Replacement
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
Aortic Valve Surgery
Colon Cancer Surgery
Lung Cancer Surgery

By Patch Staffers Feroze Dhanoa Adam Nichols Photo by Fuzzy901 via Wikimedia Commons