{"id":194016,"date":"2026-02-26T01:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194016\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T01:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:42:07","slug":"long-beach-memorialcare-medical-center-crowned-in-worlds-best-hospitals-for-eighth-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194016\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach MemorialCare Medical Center crowned in \u2018World\u2019s Best Hospitals\u2019 for eighth straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.memorialcare.org\/locations\/long-beach-medical-center\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center<\/a> has earned recognition on <a href=\"https:\/\/rankings.newsweek.com\/worlds-best-hospitals-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newsweek<\/a>\u2019s annual list of the world\u2019s best hospitals for the eighth consecutive year. The ranking reinforces Long Beach Medical Center\u2019s longstanding reputation for clinical excellence and high-quality patient care, they said in a public statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On the 2026 list, Long Beach Medical Center ranked among the top 100 hospitals in the United States, top 20 hospitals in California and top five hospitals in the region. Long Beach Medical Center continues to be the only hospital in the greater region, including Lakewood and Los Alamitos, to receive the distinction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cBeing recognized among the world\u2019s best hospitals for eight consecutive years is a testament to our unwavering commitment to quality, safety, and continuous process and performance improvement\u2014hallmarks of high-quality clinical outcomes,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/eugene-kim-b405a11b7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Eugene Kim, M.D.<\/a>, chief medical officer of Long Beach Medical Center, in a public statement. \u201cOur teams consistently uphold standards that go above and beyond, reflecting the level of care our community deserves.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The world best hospitals recognition presented by Newsweek in partnership with Statista Inc., honors hospitals that \u201cdemonstrate excellence in adapting to evolving healthcare challenges while delivering exceptional patient-centered care.\u201d The distinction highlights the innovative treatments, advanced clinical expertise and compassionate care provided by the care team at Long Beach Medical Center to communities throughout Los Angeles and Orange Counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For 2026, the Long Beach Medical Center was named an 8-year champion and all-time winner, a distinction reserved for hospitals that consistently earned placement on the World\u2019s Best Hospitals list over multiple consecutive years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">To compile their rankings, Newsweek and Statista Inc. use four primary data sources:<\/p>\n<p>Hospital quality metrics: including indicators related to patient safety and quality of care<\/p>\n<p>Recommendations from medical experts: including doctors, hospital managers and healthcare professionals<\/p>\n<p>Results from patient surveys: reflecting patient experience and satisfaction<\/p>\n<p>Statista PROMs Implementation Survey: assessing the use of patient-reported outcome measures<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The World\u2019s Best Hospitals 2026 rankings evaluates hospitals across 32 countries, selected based on factors such as standard of living, life expectancy, population size, number of hospitals and data availability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/the-signal-tribune-newspaper.square.site\/\" aria-label=\"BANNER PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS (online) (1)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772070127_799_BANNER-PRINT-SUBSCRIPTIONS-online-1.png\" alt=\"\"   width=\"2000\" height=\"800\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center has earned recognition on Newsweek\u2019s annual list of the world\u2019s best hospitals for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1583,131,133,90293,132,2224,90709,100],"class_list":{"0":"post-194016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-hospital","9":"tag-long-beach","10":"tag-long-beach-headlines","11":"tag-long-beach-medical-center","12":"tag-long-beach-news","13":"tag-memorialcare","14":"tag-memorialcare-medical-group","15":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}