UCLA Health

U.S. News & World ReportBest Hospitals Honor Roll 2026–27No. 1 in California & Los Angeles*

NewsweekWorld’s Best Hospitals 2026*Tied ranking. UCLA Health hospitals.

Los Angeles · Host city of the 2028 Olympic & Paralympic Games

Antimicrobial Stewardship Program

Recognition & scholarship

CDPH GoldState stewardship honor roll, Dec 2024

66Peer-reviewed papers since 2021

2026 CDC Antimicrobial Resistance Threats

Urgent

  • Candida auris (C. auris)
  • Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter
  • Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE)
  • Drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Serious

  • Clostridioides difficile (C. diff)
  • Drug-resistant Campylobacter
  • Drug-resistant Candida
  • Drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Drug-resistant Neisseria meningitidis
  • Drug-resistant nontyphoidal Salmonella
  • Drug-resistant Salmonella Typhi
  • Drug-resistant Shigella
  • Drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae
  • Extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacterales (ESC-RE)
  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
  • Multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE)

Concerning

  • Clindamycin-resistant group B Streptococcus (GBS)
  • Drug-resistant group A Streptococcus (GAS)