Quality & Safety of Patient Care

Hospitals and doctors are not all alike.

Across the nation and within your community, there're significant variations in the training and expertise of healthcare providers. The hospital and medical team you choose are important personal choices that affect you and your family.

Become an Informed Consumer

Medicare Care Compare

At UC San Diego Health, we are dedicated to delivering the highest quality, safest care for every patient, every time. We encourage you to compare the quality of hospitals, based on your individual health concern, and make an informed decision about where to get your care.

Medicare Care Compare

Quality & Transparency

In partnership with the California Hospital Association, the Hospital Quality Institute produces quarterly Quality Transparency Dashboards that contain publically available patient safety data for hospitals. This quantitative information is compiled and shared to help improve patient care and innovation.

Quality Report

US News & World Report honor roll badge and number 1 in San Diego

San Diego's Best Hospital

We’re ranked the #1 hospital system in San Diego for 2023-24 by U.S. News & World Report. And we’re among only 22 nationwide to make Honor Roll for outstanding patient care. We also rank among the nation's best in 10 medical and surgical specialties.

View U.S. News & World Report Specialty Rankings

Excellence in Medication-Use Safety & Pharmacy

First in the Nation

We were the first organization in the country to be recognized as a Center of Excellence in medication-use safety and pharmacy practice by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). This reflects our high-performing pharmacy department's commitment to superior patient care.

Read the ASHP news release