Acute Care Hospital

UCSF Medical Center

505 Parnassus Ave, Box 0296, San Francisco, CA 94143

24/7 Emergency Services

5 out of 5 Stars Why 5 stars?

CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating · UCSF Medical Center

How was UCSF Medical Center's 5-star rating calculated?

The CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating applies to acute care hospitals like UCSF Medical Center. CMS standardizes every underlying measure against the national rate, computes a weighted score for each of five domains, sums them by the fixed weights below, and assigns 1–5 stars using k-means clustering across all reporting hospitals.

Domains that fed UCSF Medical Center's rating
Domain	Weight	Measures reported	Hospital performance vs. national
Mortality	22%	7 of 7	4 better 3 same 0 worse
Safety of Care	22%	19 of 19	4 better 14 same 1 worse
Readmissions	22%	6 of 6	3 better 2 same 1 worse
Timely & Effective Care	12%	14 of 22	1 better 4 same 9 worse
Patient Experience	22%	HCAHPS	See HCAHPS detail below

How star meaning varies by hospital type. This CMS Overall Star Rating only applies to acute care hospitals. Children's hospitals (Pediatric Quality), psychiatric hospitals (IPFQR), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF QRP), long-term acute care hospitals (LTACH QRP), and VA medical centers each use separate quality programs designed for their patient populations. Comparing star ratings across these facility types isn't meaningful — see the methodology page for the full mapping of which program applies to which facility.

How CareRanks computes ratings → · CMS official methodology ↗

Measures the rate at which patients die within 30 days of hospital admission for specific conditions. A lower mortality rate indicates better outcomes.

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Tracks hospital-acquired infections, surgical complications, and other patient safety indicators. Lower rates indicate better safety practices.

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Measures how often patients return to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. Lower readmission rates suggest effective treatment and discharge planning.

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Based on the HCAHPS survey — patient satisfaction with communication, cleanliness, pain management, and discharge information.

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Patient survey detail — the questions feeding the Patient Experience domain above expand ↓

CMS computes the Patient Experience domain from the federal HCAHPS survey. Each bar below is one survey question; the percentage is the share of UCSF's recent patients who gave the most positive response. HCAHPS percentages aren't directly comparable across all measures — see the methodology page for how CMS weights them.

Communication with Nurses 80%
Communication with Doctors 80%
Hospital Cleanliness 72%
Hospital Quietness 53%
Staff Responsiveness N/A
Discharge Information 88%
Overall Hospital Rating (9 or 10) 76%
Would Recommend Hospital 82%

Percentages represent patients who gave the most positive response. Survey conducted by CMS through the HCAHPS program.

Measures how quickly the hospital provides important treatments such as antibiotics for pneumonia or interventions for heart attacks.

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Clinical Staff

UCSF Medical Center has 2,675 CMS-affiliated clinicians on its roster — physicians, advanced practice providers, and other Medicare-enrolled professionals who list this hospital as an affiliated facility.

Top specialties

Nurse Practitioner 369
Internal Medicine 248
Diagnostic Radiology 186
Neurology 159
Anesthesiology 157
Hospitalist 138
Physician Assistant 85
Family Practice 85

Self-reported primary specialty in the CMS Doctors & Clinicians dataset. Many clinicians serve multiple facilities.

Practice characteristics

Accept Medicare assignment: 2,652 (99%)
Offer telehealth: 1,542 (58%)

Medicare quality scoring (MIPS)

1,422 of these clinicians have a published Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) final score. Of those, 289 (20%) score above the national median of 85.5.

MIPS scoring is heavily compressed at the top of the 0–100 range, so individual scores are not a reliable consumer signal. We surface roster-level coverage and the share above the national median instead.

Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians (Care Compare) national downloadable file and MIPS Performance Year final scores, as of 2026-05-27. Affiliations from the CMS Facility Affiliations dataset. About 16% of small facilities (critical access, rural emergency, freestanding psych, IRF/LTCH) do not appear in the affiliations file and therefore have no panel.

Find a Doctor

Search the 2,675 clinicians affiliated with UCSF Medical Center. Each name links to that clinician's official Medicare Care Compare profile, where you can see their credentials, secondary specialties, group affiliations, and (when applicable) MIPS quality scores.

Showing 30 of 2,675 clinicians (alphabetical)

Alvin Joseph Abad, NP

Nurse Practitioner

✓ Medicare
Mohamed Abdelgadir Adam, MD

General Surgery

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Ahmed M. Abdelhak

Neurology

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Shoko E. Abe, MD

General Surgery

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Heather Abellana, NP

Nurse Practitioner

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Teklehaimanot Abraha, NP

Nurse Practitioner

✓ Medicare
Maria R. Abraham, MD

Cardiovascular Disease (cardiology)

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Theodore P. Abraham, MD

Cardiovascular Disease (cardiology)

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Igor Abramovich, MD

Anesthesiology

✓ Medicare
Donald I. Abrams, MD

Medical Oncology

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Gary M. Abrams, MD

Neurology

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Chris R. Abrecht, MD

Anesthesiology

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Katrina Abuabara, MD

Dermatology

✓ Medicare
Ashraf H. Abugroun, MD

Hospitalist

✓ Medicare
Brenda I. Aceves, NP

Nurse Practitioner

✓ Medicare
Nisha Acharya, MD

Ophthalmology

✓ Medicare
Dieter Adelmann, MD

Anesthesiology

✓ Medicare
Deborah B. Adey, MD

Nephrology

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Kwame O. Adjepong, MD

Neurology

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Joshua S. Adler, MD

Internal Medicine

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Kent M. Adler, MD

Medical Oncology

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Armin R. Afshar, MD

Ophthalmology

✓ Medicare
Anushree Agarwal, MD

Cardiovascular Disease (cardiology)

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Neha Agarwal, MD

Internal Medicine

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Rishabh Agarwal, MD

Diagnostic Radiology

✓ Medicare
Emily E. Ager, MD

Emergency Medicine

✓ Medicare
Rahul R. Aggarwal, MD

Hematology/oncology

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Manish K. Aghi, MD

Neurosurgery

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Eliana Z. Agudelo, PA

Physician Assistant

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Aditi Ahlawat, MD

Neurology

📡 Telehealth

Roster from CMS Doctors and Clinicians (Care Compare), updated 2026-05-27. A clinician may also practice at other facilities; "affiliated" means this hospital is on their CMS profile, not that they exclusively work here.

Pricing & Costs

Facility Information

Facility type: Acute Care Hospitals
Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Other
Emergency services: Yes — 24/7

About this data

Quality and ratings data are sourced from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare program. Star ratings are CMS's own calculation; CareRanks does not modify or re-weight them. Facility-level details (address, beds, ownership, teaching status) come from CMS provider files and the CMS Provider of Services file.

Pricing data, where shown, is drawn from the hospital's own Machine-Readable File (MRF) published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. See our methodology for the full update cadence and limitations.

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Quality measures

Mortality

Safety of Care

Readmissions

Patient Experience

Timely & Effective Care

Clinical Staff

Top specialties

Practice characteristics

Medicare quality scoring (MIPS)

Find a Doctor

Pricing & Costs

Facility Information