Castle Connolly Names San Antonio Regional Hospital a Top Hospital

Castle Connolly’s 2026 Top Hospital List recognizes the nation’s leading healthcare institutions.  Over 6,000 hospitals were evaluated for overall excellence as well as performance in six specialties and nineteen procedures.  Only 1,663 institutions made the 2026 Top Hospitals list,  including San Antonio.  

Castle Connolly’s methodology combines comprehensive all-payor insurance claims data, sophisticated performance measures (mortality rates, complication rates, and patient safety indicators), and the influence of Castle Connolly Top Doctors to identify clinical excellence.

“Our goal is to make complex healthcare decisions easier for patients and their healthcare providers,” says Steve Leibforth, Managing Director at Castle Connolly.  “By combining current  outcomes data with the vetted expertise of Top Doctors, we highlight hospitals that truly excel in specific procedures, supporting patients in their most critical healthcare decisions.”

San Antonio Regional Hospital in Upland, California is a 363-bed, nonprofit, acute care hospital that combines excellent clinical care with exceptional compassion. The award-winning hospital offers a comprehensive range of general medical and surgical services, along with the latest technological advances in cardiac care, cancer care, orthopedics, neurosciences, women’s health, maternity and neonatal care, and emergency services. Founded in 1907, with only 18 beds and 5 physicians, San Antonio Regional Hospital is continually growing with its community and is now recognized as a premier regional medical facility with satellite locations across the rapidly expanding Inland Empire. Given its broad geographic reach and the depth and breadth of its services and programs, supported by the latest medical science and technology, San Antonio is a hospital of the future, offering state-of-the-art healthcare services in a healing environment focused on the patient and family. To learn more, visit SARH.org.