UCSF Medical Center has been named the 2014-15 Consumer Choice Award winner for San Francisco by National Research Corporation, which identifies hospitals across the United States that health care consumers choose as having the highest quality provided by the best clinicians.
Consumers rated UCSF Medical Center as the top choice for quality health care among all San Francisco hospitals. It has either won or shared the award for San Francisco every year since 2005-2006.
Winners, named in the Oct. 13 issue of Modern Healthcare magazine, are selected from the nation’s most comprehensive, nationwide consumer health care profile, Market Insights from National Research. Since 1996, National Research has awarded hospitals whose consumers have recognized them for providing quality health care services.
“We are honored to receive the Consumer Choice Award, a signal of our ongoing commitment to providing the highest quality care to the people of San Francisco and beyond,” said Mark R. Laret, CEO of UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals. “We are appreciative that consumers hold UCSF in such high regard and are dedicated to improving our care every day. We especially are looking forward to building on this commitment when we open our new hospitals next year.”
The new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay will be uniquely designed to meet the needs of children, women and cancer patients – setting a world-class standard for patient- and family-centered health care, safety, sustainability and translational medicine. Opening Feb. 1, 2015, it includes UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, UCSF Bakar Cancer Hospital and UCSF Betty Irene Moore Women’s Hospital.
The Market Insights survey represents more than 290,000 households in the contiguous 48 states and the District of Columbia. From the surveyed households, hospitals named by consumers are analyzed and ranked based on Core Based Statistical Areas defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. The winning facilities are ranked the highest.