Of the 100 hospitals that appeared on Becker's Hospital Review's 2013 "Great Hospitals in America" list, 17 are located in the West.
As designated by the U.S. Census Bureau, the West is defined as Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
Note: These hospitals appeared on the "100 Great Hospitals in America" list published in March 2013. Find information here to nominate a hospital for the 2014 edition of the list.
1. Billings (Mont.) Clinic Hospital
2. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles)
3. Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian (Newport Beach, Calif.)
4. John Muir Medical Center (Walnut Creek, Calif.)
5. LDS Hospital (Salt Lake City)
6. North Colorado Medical Center (Greeley)
7. Poudre Valley Hospital (Fort Collins, Colo.)
8. Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center (Spokane, Wash.)
9. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles)
10. Scripps Green Hospital (La Jolla, Calif.)
11. Stanford Hospital & Clinics (Palo Alto, Calif.)
12. Tri-City Medical Center (Oceanside, Calif.)
13. UC San Diego Medical Center
14. UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco)
15. University Hospital (Salt Lake City)
16. University of Colorado Hospital (Aurora)
17. University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle)