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Adult specialty care
U.S. News & World Report ranked UC Davis Medical Center among the nation’s best in six adult specialties for 2025-26, including cardiology, heart & vascular surgery; diabetes & endocrinology; ear, nose & throat; geriatrics; neurology & neurosurgery; and pulmonology & lung surgery.
U.S. News also rated the medical center’s services in cancer, gastroenterology & GI surgery, orthopedics and urology as “high-performing.”
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, 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 2025-26. 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 2025-26 in aortic valve surgery, back surgery, colon cancer surgery, COPD, diabetes, gynecological cancer surgery, heart arrhythmia, heart failure, kidney failure, leukemia, lymphoma & myeloma, lung cancer surgery, pacemaker implantation, pneumonia, prostate cancer surgery, stroke, and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).
