UCLA, Cedars-Sinai make top-hospital list

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U.S. News & World Report has released its annual America’s Top Hospitals list, and if there’s something positive to be said about living in a smoggy, traffic-clogged urban area it’s this: We have access to some pretty fine medical care.

The magazine was after ‘truly outstanding care,’ it says, not in routine procedures but in difficult cases. The hospitals were ranked in 16 specialties, such as cancer, heart disease and urology, and the data were parsed in various ways (here’s the methodology for selecting 170 hospitals to feature out of 5,453).

Several local institutions make the broader list, but on the honor roll, the 19 institutions that achieved high scores in at least six specialties, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center was No. 3 and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was No. 18. Somewhat farther from home, but still in California, so let’s claim it is UC San Francisco Medical Center, at No. 7.

Fifty children’s hospitals are ranked in general pediatrics and six pediatric specialties, with Childrens Hospital Los Angeles ranking No. 9 in general pediatrics and in pediatric cancer.

-- Tami Dennis