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Adult specialty care
U.S. News & World Report ranked UC Davis Medical Center among the best in six adult specialties for 2026-27, including cancer care, cardiology, heart & vascular surgery, geriatrics, neurology & neurosurgery, orthopedics, and pulmonology & lung surgery.
Pediatric & maternity specialty care
U.S. News ranked UC Davis Children’s Hospital among the nation’s best in three pediatric specialties for 2025-26, including nephrology, orthopedics* (*with Shriners Children’s Northern California), and pulmonology & lung surgery.
Newsweek also ranked UC Davis Medical Center as one of America’s Best Maternity Hospitals for 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.
#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 2026-27. 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.
Procedures & conditions
U.S. News also rates several procedures and conditions, and UC Davis Medical Center placed “high-performing” for 2026-27 in colon cancer surgery, COPD, diabetes, ear, nose & throat surgery, gynecological cancer surgery, heart arrhythmia, heart attack, heart failure, hip fracture, hip replacement, kidney failure, leukemia, lymphoma & myeloma, lung cancer surgery, pneumonia, and stroke.
