zReports Research Institute · Updated September 2026
California has 377 active licensed hospitals on the state's public file. zReports analyzed CMS Hospital Compare general information and quality data to produce a records layer grade for every one, the government's own verdicts, mapped through one fixed rule. No facility can pay to change a score, and the grade is free.
| Statistic | Value |
|---|---|
| Active licensed hospitals | 377 |
| Cities covered | 234 |
| Statewide average records layer score | 79.2 |
| Grade A facilities | 214 (56.8%) |
| Grade B facilities | 75 (19.9%) |
| Grade C facilities | 59 (15.6%) |
| Grade D facilities | 29 (7.7%) |
| Facilities with a clean record (no deficiencies on file) | 377 (100%) |
| Serious (high severity) findings on the record | 0 |
| Moderate findings on the record | 0 |
| General Acute Care Hospital | 289 |
| Psychiatric Hospital | 40 |
| Critical Access Hospital | 38 |
| Children'S Hospital | 10 |
#1 Peninsula Medical Center Burlingame · A
#2 Uc San Diego Health Hillcrest - Hillcrest Med Ctr San Diego · A
#3 Alta Bates Summit Medical Center Oakland · A
#4 Santa Monica - Ucla Med Ctr & Orthopaedic Hospital Santa Monica · A
#5 Woodland Memorial Hospital Woodland · A
#6 Novato Community Hospital Novato · A
#7 Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Los Angeles Los Angeles · A
#8 St Mary Medical Center Long Beach · A
#9 Sequoia Hospital Redwood City · A
#10 Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian Newport Beach · A
#11 French Hospital Medical Center San Luis Obispo · A
#12 Fresno Va Medical Center (Va Central California Healthcare System) Fresno · A
#13 Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley Pleasanton · A
#14 Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital Santa Rosa · A
#15 Sutter Roseville Medical Center Roseville · A
#16 Palo Alto Va Medical Center Palo Alto · A
#17 Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla La Jolla · A
#18 Torrance Memorial Medical Center Torrance · A
#19 Providence Little Company Of Mary Med Ctr Torrance Torrance · A
#20 Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital Santa Barbara · A
#21 Marinhealth Medical Center Greenbrae · A
#22 Scripps Green Hospital La Jolla · A
#23 Stanford Health Care Stanford · A
#24 Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital Auburn · A
#25 Providence Mission Hospital Mission Viejo · A
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The free grade on this page contains zero zReports judgment: it maps the state's own published licensing and enforcement verdicts through one fixed rule, applied identically to every hospital in America. Where the record and public reputation diverge, a highly reviewed facility with serious findings on file, the paid Consumer Intelligence Report™ surfaces it through the composite Consumer Z Score™ and our published ten point methodology. Facilities are never contacted and cannot pay to change a score. Read the full methodology →
Hospitals in California are overseen by the state's licensing authority, whose certification, inspection, and quality-reporting data is published on the public record. This page is computed from CMS Hospital Compare general information and quality data, the government’s own filings, not reviews or advertising.
California has 377 active licensed hospitals on the state's public file, across 234 cities. Every one has a free records layer grade on zReports.
Los Angeles, with 19 licensed hospitals, followed by San Francisco (13) and Sacramento (10).
The free records layer grade contains zero zReports judgment. It maps the government's own published verdicts, CMS Hospital Compare general information and quality data, through one fixed rule, applied identically to every hospital in the country. The paid Consumer Intelligence Report™ adds the composite Consumer Z Score™, which audits the record against public reputation through our published ten point methodology.
Reviews and records are different surfaces. Reviews reflect what visitors chose to write, and can be managed by the business. Inspection and enforcement records are filed by the state, are mandatory, and cannot be edited by the facility. When the two diverge, the record is the surface worth checking. That divergence is exactly what zReports was built to surface.
Rankings refresh whenever California republishes its licensing data; facility pages carry the records-verified date for each provider. This page was generated from the current file as of September 2026.
No. Facilities are never contacted, never notified, and cannot pay to be listed, delisted, or re-scored. zReports has no business relationship with any facility it grades, independence is the product.
This report was generated from the zReports Consumer Records Database™, a continuously updated database that normalizes official government licensing, inspection, enforcement, ownership, and safety records across multiple federal and state agencies. Every statistic in this report is traceable to its originating public record. Facilities cannot pay to alter scores, rankings, or findings.
Data source: zReports Consumer Intelligence Database™ v2026.09 · Built from: CMS Provider Data Catalog · HHS OIG Exclusions List (LEIE) · Public consumer review signals (audited, never trusted, in the composite Consumer Z Score™) · Proprietary Consumer Z Score™ methodology · Updated: September 2026
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