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Adult specialty care
U.S. News & World Report ranked UC Davis Medical Center among the nation’s best in eight adult specialties for 2024-25, including cancer; cardiology, heart & vascular surgery; diabetes & endocrinology; ENT; geriatrics; neurology & neurosurgery; orthopedics; and pulmonology & lung surgery.
The UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center is the only in inland Northern California to hold “comprehensive” designation from the National Cancer Institute, awarded to a very small percentage of U.S. centers.
Pediatric & maternity specialty care
U.S. News ranked UC Davis Children’s Hospital among the nation’s best in five pediatric specialties for 2024-25, including neonatology, nephrology, orthopedics* (*with Shriners Children’s Northern California), pediatric & adolescent behavioral health and pulmonology & lung surgery.
Newsweek also ranked UC Davis Medical Center as one of America’s Best Maternity Hospitals for 2022, 2023 and 2024.
#1 in Sacramento
U.S. News & World Report perennially ranks UC Davis Medical Center the No. 1 hospital in Sacramento, and did so again for 2024-25. UC Davis was the only Sacramento hospital listed among California’s ten best.
The medical center has also earned Magnet® nursing recognition, the nation’s highest form of recognition for nursing excellence.
Conditions & procedures
U.S. News also rates several common types of care, and UC Davis Medical Center placed at the top level of “high-performing” for 2024-25 in back surgery, colon cancer surgery, COPD, gastroenterology & GI surgery, gynecological cancer surgery, heart attack, heart failure, hip fracture, kidney failure, leukemia, lymphoma & myeloma, lung cancer surgery, pneumonia, prostate cancer surgery, stroke, and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).
