LOS ANGELES, CA — Two Los Angeles County hospitals are among the 50 best in the world, according to a new ranking published recently by Newsweek.
The publication’s World’s Best Hospitals for 2025 list was released in late February and recognizes hospitals that display excellence in patient care, safety and clinical quality.
Six Los Angeles County hospitals were ranked among the top 100 in the U.S., while four ranked in the top 250 in the entire world.
Of those, two facilities made the global top 50 list:
HospitalU.S. RankGlobal RankRonald Reagan UCLA Medical Center514Cedars-Sinai Medical Center1046UCLA Health – Santa Monica Medical Center24140Keck Hospital of USC30201Torrance Memorial Medical Center50-MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center91-
The World’s Best Hospitals awards are presented by Newsweek in partnership with statistics provider Statista. The 2026 list highlights leading hospitals across 32 countries, selected based on factors such as standard of living, population size, number of hospitals and data availability.
Hospital awards are based on four primary data sources:
Recommendations from medical experts, based on surveys of doctors, health care professionals and hospital managers in 32 countriesResults from patient satisfaction surveysHospital quality metrics, including treatments, hygiene measures, patient safety and wait timesUse of patient reported outcome measures to assess health status reported outcome measures to assess health status
The full awards list can be found on Newsweek’s website.