{"id":423547,"date":"2026-08-04T12:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423547\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T12:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:54:12","slug":"uc-san-diego-health-no-1-in-california-makes-national-honor-roll-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423547\/","title":{"rendered":"UC San Diego Health No. 1 in California, Makes National Honor Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                      <img alt=\"Drs. Taub, Shen and Daniels making &quot;number one&quot; gesture outside Jacobs Medical Center.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/usnwr-2026-taub-shen-daniels-08032026.jpg\" width=\"600\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"low\" class=\"img-wrapped\"\/> &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Members of the UC San Diego Health heart care team Pam Taub, MD, Jia Shen, MD, and Lori B. Daniels, MD, celebrate the 2026 U.S. News &amp; World Report hospital rankings.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>To determine the Best Hospitals, U.S. News &amp; World Report relies on expert input, as well as analysis of each hospital&#8217;s performance based on objective measures, such as patient experience, risk-adjusted mortality rates and preventable complications. The Best Hospitals Specialty rankings methodology and procedures and conditions ratings methodology measure patient outcomes using data from more than 800 million records of patient care.<\/p>\n<p>UC San Diego Health, the region&#8217;s only academic health system, is dedicated to delivering outstanding patient care through commitment to community, groundbreaking research and inspired teaching. Our specialty care for serious and complex conditions is consistently ranked among the nation&#8217;s best by U.S. News &amp; World Report and other organizations. The 1,101-bed academic health system includes Hillcrest Medical Center, Jacobs Medical Center, East Campus Medical Center, Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, Moores Cancer Center, Shiley Eye Institute, Koman Family Outpatient Pavilion, McGrath Outpatient Pavilion and Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute, as well as primary care and same day services at clinics throughout Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/health.ucsd.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">health.ucsd.edu<\/a>, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCSDHealth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UCSDHealth\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ucsdhealth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@ucsdhealth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/ucsdhealth\/posts\/?feedView=all\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@UCSDHealth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>, and find the latest news at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/health.ucsd.edu\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">health.ucsd.edu\/news<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Members of the UC San Diego Health heart care team Pam Taub, MD, Jia Shen, MD,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-423547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423547","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=423547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}