Best Hospitals in Bay Area by Rank – 1 – UCSF Medical Center
Best Hospitals in Bay Area by Rank – 1 – UCSF Medical Center
Overview
UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco, Calif. is ranked No. 6 on the Best Hospitals Honor Roll. It is nationally ranked in 15 adult and 10 pediatric specialties and rated high performing in 6 adult procedures and conditions. It is a general medical and surgical facility. It scored high in patient safety, demonstrating commitment to reducing accidents and medical mistakes. It is a teaching hospital. The UCSF Medical Center is a network of more than a half-dozen campuses across the San Francisco Bay Area. The three main campuses are the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights, the UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion and the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay. Parnassus Heights is home to the medical center’s original campus and features the Ambulatory Care Center and Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. While this emergency department offers many types of critical care, including pediatrics, there is also a Children’s Emergency Department at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital at Mission Bay. Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and Clinics offer inpatient, outpatient and partial hospitalization accommodations for mental illness and other types of conditions.
The Mount Zion campus is home to the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. This clinic offers modern treatments melded with globally minded healing practices, complete with a meditative garden. Members of the team includ e massage therapists, acupuncturists, cancer and integrative medicine specialists, physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists, integrative psychiatrists and others.
The Obesity and Weight Management Clinic offers patients tools to a healthier lifestyle including dietary plans, exercise programs, support groups, lectures, behavior modification and surgery. The UCSF Bariatric Surgery Center performs procedures for obese patients with Type 2 diabetes, weight loss for an organ transplant, obstructive sleep apnea and other conditions.
For new mothers, UCSF’s Pregnancy and Postpartum Mood Assessment Clinic provides mental health services for those experiencing anxiety or mood changes during the course of and after their pregnancy. It offers therapy, medication, support groups and an individualized mental health plan for mothers.
The newest of the UCSF campuses, Mission Bay, is home to UC San Francisco’s research center, the UCSF Betty Irene Moore Women’s Hospital and the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. The cancer center works to apply research to early detection, viable treatments and quality of life for patients.
Rankings & Ratings at UCSF Medical Center
To help patients decide where to receive care, U.S. News generates hospital rankings by e v a luating data on nearly 5,000 hospitals in 16 adult medical specialties, 9 adult medical procedures or conditions and 10 pediatric specialties. To be nationally ranked in a specialty, a hospital must excel in caring for the sickest, most medically complex patients. The ratings in procedures and conditions, by contrast, focus on typical Medicare patients. Hospitals that do well in multiple areas of adult care may be ranked in their state and metropolitan area. UCSF Medical Center is ranked nationally in 15 adult specialties and 10 children’s specialties . It also achieved the highest rating possible in 6 procedures or conditions. Read more about how we rank best hospitals.
Adult Specialty Rankings
U.S. News e v a luates each hospital in up to 16 different medical specialties. In most medical specialties, the top 50 hospitals nationally are numerically ranked based on hospital performance indicators. Hospitals that nearly made the top 50 may be recognized as high performing.
Children’s Specialty Rankings
U.S. News gathers clinical data directly from children’s hospitals through a detailed survey spanning 10 pediatric specialties. The children’s hospital rankings indicate performance in pediatric specialty care. U.S. News includ es UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, San Francisco and Oakland in e v a luating the performance of UCSF Medical Center.
Procedures & Conditions
U.S. News e v a luates hospitals in certain procedures and conditions and assigns each hospital a rating of high performing, average or below average in each procedure or condition. Eligibility to be rated is based on the number of patients treated during the e v a luation period.
| Procedure/Condition | Rating | |
| Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair | High Performing | Scorecard |
| Aortic Valve Surgery | Average | Scorecard |
| Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) | Average | Scorecard |
| Colon Cancer Surgery | High Performing | Scorecard |
| Heart Bypass Surgery | Average | Scorecard |
| Heart Failure | High Performing | Scorecard |
| Hip Replacement | High Performing | Scorecard |
| Knee Replacement | High Performing | Scorecard |
| Lung Cancer Surgery | High Performing | Scorecard |
Doctors at UCSF Medical Center
The U.S. News Doctor Finder has compiled extensive information in each doctor's profile, including where he or she was educated and trained, which hospital he or she admits patients to, and in some cases which insurance plans he or she accepts.
