Sonoma Co., North Bay Hospitals Ranked: US News And World Report

NORTH SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA -- 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 No. 2 and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore climbed up the rankings one spot this year to No. 3 on the honor roll. Four California hospitals made the honor roll: UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, No. 5; Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, No. 7; Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, No. 9; and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, No. 11.

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.

Among hospitals in the North Bay's Sonoma, Napa and Solano counties, U.S. News and World Report ranked NorthBay Regional Medical Center in Fairfield the 32nd-best regional hospital in the state of California. According to the rankings, the hospital achieved the highest rating possible in four procedures or conditions.

St. Helena Hospital Napa Valley in Saint Helena was ranked the 44th-best regional hospital in the state, achieving the highest rating possible in three procedures or conditions.

Click on the links below to view rankings for North Bay hospitals in the three counties:

• NorthBay Medical Center
• St. Helena Hospital Napa Valley
• California Medical Facility
• David Grant USAF Medical Center
• Healdsburg District Hospital
• Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente Vacaville Medical Center
• Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center
• Napa State Hospital
• Petaluma Valley Hospital
• Queen of the Valley Medical Center
• Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital
• Sonoma Developmental Center
• Sonoma Valley Hospital
• St. Helena Hospital Center for Behavioral Health
• Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital
• Sutter Solano Medical Center

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 were:

• 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 were:

• 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

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