Stanford University Medical Center

Stanford University Medical Center is an American teaching hospital complex made up of Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children's Health. It serves the Stanford University School of Medicine, and its main hospital stands at 500 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, California, with the main building and the Hoover Pavilion inside Palo Alto city limits. The campus also includes the Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Neurosciences Health Center and a rooftop landing site for the Life Flight helicopter.

Brand Finance ranks Stanford University Medical Center No. 3 in its Global Top 250 Hospitals 2026, which measures brand strength. Wikipedia also notes that U.S. News ranked it 3rd in California and 10th in the United States in 2022–23.

Wikipedia names transplant surgery, cancer care, heart and vascular medicine and surgery, and the neurosciences as its clinical fields of worldwide renown. In 1981 the medical center completed the world's first successful combined heart-lung transplant. It provides both general acute care and tertiary care, and gives the medical school's researchers a clinical setting for turning new knowledge into patient care.

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