Committment to Quality and Safety
We make an extraordinary commitment to provide safe, high quality care and are routinely measured against strict standards as an academic medical center.
As your partner in health, we are committed to providing you with excellent, comprehensive, integrated care centered on you and your family.
Among the nation’s best hospitals for adults and children, UC Davis Medical Center is one of the top 10 hospitals in California, and #1 in Sacramento as ranked by U.S. News & World Report.
Equally important, we are a leading referral center for the most seriously injured or ill patients and the most medically complex cases, and are nationally ranked in multiple adult and pediatric specialties.
Your UC Davis primary care team is structured as a patient-centered medical home. This model of care emphasizes shared decision-making with you, spending more time listening, and supporting your health goals and challenges so you can live a healthier life.
Your UC Davis primary care team focuses on delivering personalized preventive care, to keep you and your family healthy as much as possible in a proactive way.
Whether your priority is reducing stress, staying active, or managing a chronic condition, we’re here to help. We also offer health education classes and wellness resources to help support and improve your quality of life.
UC Davis Health is a recognized leader in diversity, inclusion, and LGBTQ+ healthcare equality. We’re proud to offer a welcoming environment and culturally sensitive care to patients of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ages, religions, languages and abilities.
We make an extraordinary commitment to provide safe, high quality care and are routinely measured against strict standards as an academic medical center.
You are the most valuable member of your health care team. We encourage you to share information about your medical history, health conditions and other care you have received.
Our patient and visitor partnership pledge is about shared responsibility, being on the same team and pledging to help maintain a safe, calm and healing environment.
A U.S. News & World Report best hospital in cancer, cardiology, heart & vascular surgery, diabetes & endocrinology, ENT, geriatrics, neurology & neurosurgery, orthopedics, and pulmonology & lung surgery.
U.S. News & World Report ranked UC Davis Children’s Hospital among the best in neonatology, nephrology, orthopedics*, pediatric & adolescent behavioral health, and pulmonology & lung surgery. (*Together with Shriners Children’s Northern California)
Ranked Sacramento’s #1 hospital by U.S. News, and high-performing in back surgery, COPD, colon cancer surgery, gynecological cancer surgery, heart attack, heart failure, hip fracture, kidney failure, leukemia, lymphoma & myeloma, lung cancer surgery, pneumonia, prostate cancer surgery, stroke, TAVR, and gastroenterology & GI surgery.
U.S. News & World Report ranked the UC Davis School of Medicine in Tier 1, or top, category for primary care.
U.S. News & World Report ranked the UC Davis School of Medicine in Tier 2 for research.
U.S. News & World Report ranks the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing’s Master’s Entry Program in Nursing #24 (tie) in the nation.
U.S. News & World Report ranked the UC Davis School of Medicine No. 4 in the nation for diversity.
UC Davis Medical Center has received Magnet® recognition, the nation’s highest honor for nursing excellence.
One of ~56 U.S. cancer centers designated “comprehensive” by the National Cancer Institute.
For the 13th consecutive year, UC Davis Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the educational arm of America’s largest civil rights organization.