ALHAMBRA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER (ALHAMBRA, CA) Detailed Hospital Profile

Use of Medical Imaging

Outpatient CT scans of the abdomen that were combination (double) scans.

Here:	0.212%
State:	0.170%

Outpatient CT scans of the chest that were combination (double) scans.

Here:	0.116%
State:	0.043%

Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) - Medicare Provider Charge Data

Acute Myocardial Infarction, Discharged Alive with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$76,057
State:	$83,364

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$15,400
State:	$15,491

Number of discharges: 28

Here:	2.65%
State:	0.94%

Cardiac Arrhythmia and Conduction Disorders with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$39,548
State:	$39,980

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$8,082
State:	$7,146

Number of discharges: 11

This Hospital:	1.04%
California:	1.30%

Cellulitis without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$34,563
California:	$36,707

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$7,930
State:	$7,245

Number of discharges: 31

Here:	2.93%
State:	2.08%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$39,919
State:	$46,809

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$9,179
California:	$8,290

Number of discharges: 22

Here:	2.08%
California:	1.75%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$48,356
State:	$58,013

Average Total Payments

Here:	$11,192
California:	$10,305

Number of discharges: 53

Here:	5.01%
California:	2.00%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$30,836
State:	$35,163

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,393
California:	$6,206

Number of discharges: 11

This Hospital:	1.04%
California:	1.11%

Diabetes with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$32,464
California:	$38,964

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$7,774
California:	$7,470

Number of discharges: 16

This Hospital:	1.51%
State:	0.69%

Esophagitis, Gastroent and Miscellaneous Digestive Disorders without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$36,792
California:	$36,899

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,884
California:	$6,233

Number of discharges: 12

This Hospital:	1.14%
State:	3.09%

G.I. Hemorrhage with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$48,169
California:	$46,039

Average Total Payments

Here:	$9,694
California:	$8,685

Number of discharges: 21

This Hospital:	1.99%
California:	1.95%

G.I. Hemorrhage with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$91,879
California:	$80,936

Average Total Payments

Here:	$16,334
State:	$15,696

Number of discharges: 15

This Hospital:	1.42%
State:	0.79%

G.I. Obstruction with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$33,391
California:	$44,086

Average Total Payments

Here:	$9,015
State:	$8,042

Number of discharges: 14

This Hospital:	1.32%
California:	0.72%

Heart Failure and Shock with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$46,818
California:	$47,292

Average Total Payments

Here:	$9,820
State:	$8,831

Number of discharges: 23

Here:	2.18%
State:	2.91%

Heart Failure and Shock with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$73,426
State:	$70,963

Average Total Payments

Here:	$14,089
State:	$13,159

Number of discharges: 50

This Hospital:	4.73%
California:	3.03%

Hip and Femur Procedures Except Major Joint with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$76,174
State:	$88,197

Average Total Payments

Here:	$17,847
California:	$15,201

Number of discharges: 11

This Hospital:	1.04%
California:	1.05%

Infectious and Parasitic Diseases with O.R. Procedure with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$168,136
State:	$260,329

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$43,017
State:	$51,393

Number of discharges: 12

Here:	1.14%
California:	0.87%

Intracranial Hemorrhage or Cerebral Infarction with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$48,666
California:	$55,669

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$10,840
State:	$9,837

Number of discharges: 22

This Hospital:	2.08%
California:	1.65%

Intracranial Hemorrhage or Cerebral Infarction with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$78,858
State:	$95,326

Average Total Payments

Here:	$17,573
California:	$17,327

Number of discharges: 15

Here:	1.42%
State:	1.11%

Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$57,339
State:	$52,262

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$10,970
California:	$10,172

Number of discharges: 17

Here:	1.61%
State:	0.99%

Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$33,686
State:	$36,114

Average Total Payments

Here:	$7,099
California:	$6,728

Number of discharges: 35

Here:	3.31%
State:	2.98%

Misc Disorders of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids or Electrolytes without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$31,325
State:	$32,446

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,666
State:	$5,975

Number of discharges: 21

This Hospital:	1.99%
State:	2.21%

Other Circulatory System Diagnoses with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$72,100
State:	$89,034

Average Total Payments

Here:	$16,655
State:	$17,349

Number of discharges: 16

This Hospital:	1.51%
State:	0.83%

Other Digestive System Diagnoses with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$46,172
State:	$49,604

Average Total Payments

Here:	$9,561
State:	$8,812

Number of discharges: 14

This Hospital:	1.32%
State:	0.66%

Peripheral Vascular Disorders with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$46,796
State:	$46,464

Average Total Payments

Here:	$9,431
California:	$8,334

Number of discharges: 11

This Hospital:	1.04%
California:	0.45%

Renal Failure with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$44,803
California:	$48,439

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$9,570
California:	$8,967

Number of discharges: 31

This Hospital:	2.93%
California:	1.90%

Renal Failure with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$69,515
State:	$72,128

Average Total Payments

Here:	$15,255
California:	$14,548

Number of discharges: 26

This Hospital:	2.46%
California:	1.48%

Respiratory Infections and Inflammations with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$58,644
California:	$70,949

Average Total Payments

Here:	$13,533
State:	$12,543

Number of discharges: 35

Here:	3.31%
State:	1.04%

Respiratory Infections and Inflammations with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$97,348
State:	$101,885

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$18,780
State:	$17,925

Number of discharges: 71

This Hospital:	6.72%
California:	1.30%

Septicemia or Severe Sepsis with Mechanical Ventilation 96+ Hours

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$227,680
California:	$277,564

Average Total Payments

Here:	$47,866
State:	$53,075

Number of discharges: 34

This Hospital:	3.22%
State:	0.64%

Septicemia or Severe Sepsis without Mechanical Ventilation 96+ Hours with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$91,094
State:	$90,173

Average Total Payments

Here:	$18,300
State:	$16,748

Number of discharges: 245

Here:	23.18%
State:	7.21%

Septicemia or Severe Sepsis without Mechanical Ventilation 96+ Hours without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$42,520
California:	$50,385

Average Total Payments

Here:	$10,723
California:	$9,612

Number of discharges: 48

Here:	4.54%
California:	2.35%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$46,843
State:	$48,755

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$9,432
California:	$8,695

Number of discharges: 32

This Hospital:	3.03%
California:	2.75%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$61,350
California:	$70,362

Average Total Payments

Here:	$13,970
State:	$12,496

Number of discharges: 42

This Hospital:	3.97%
State:	1.89%

Syncope and Collapse

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$34,765
State:	$37,038

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,698
California:	$6,233

Number of discharges: 12

This Hospital:	1.14%
California:	1.60%

Complaint Deficiency

Provide housekeeping and maintenance services
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Conduct initial and periodic assessments of each resident's functional capacity
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Develop a complete care plan that meets all of a resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Give proper treatment to residents with feeding tubes to prevent problems (such as aspiration pneumonia, diarrhea, vomiting, dehydration, metabolic abnormalities, nasal-pharyngeal ulcers) and help restore eating skills, if possible
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
1) Make sure that each resident's drug regimen is free from unnecessary drugs; 2) Each resident's entire drug/medication is managed and monitored to achieve highest well being
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Maintain drug records and properly mark/label drugs and other similar products according to accepted professional standards
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Develop a complete care plan that meets all of a resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Keep each resident free from drugs that restrain them, unless needed for medical treatment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
1) Hire only people with no legal history of abusing, neglecting or mistreating residents; or 2) report and investigate any acts or reports of abuse, neglect or mistreatment of residents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Develop policies that prevent mistreatment, neglect, or abuse of residents or theft of resident property
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide care for residents in a way that keeps or builds each resident's dignity and respect of individuality
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Provide a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Review or revise the resident's care plan after any major change in a resident's physical or mental health
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure each resident receives an accurate assessment by a qualified health professional
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide necessary care and services to maintain the highest well being of each resident
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Give residents proper treatment to prevent new bed (pressure) sores or heal existing bed sores
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that each resident who enters the nursing home without a catheter is not given a catheter, and receive proper services to prevent urinary tract infections and restore normal bladder function
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly care for residents needing special services, including: injections, colostomy, ureostomy, ileostomy, tracheostomy care, tracheal suctioning, respiratory care, foot care, and prostheses
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
1) Make sure that each resident's drug regimen is free from unnecessary drugs; 2) Each resident's entire drug/medication is managed and monitored to achieve highest well being
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Safely provide drugs and other similar products available, which are needed every day and in emergencies, by a licensed pharmacist
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

Here:	92.0%
California:	99.3%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

Here:	83.0%
State:	99.0%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

This Hospital:	88.0%
California:	98.5%

Average number of minutes before outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack got an ECG

Here:	4
State:	9

Outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack who got aspirin within 24 hours of arrival

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	97.2%

Patients Given a Prescription for a Statin at Discharge

This Hospital:	83.0%
State:	97.5%

Heart Failure

Percent of patients who were given an evaluation of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)

Here:	98.0%
California:	98.9%

Percent of Patients Given ACE Inhibitor or ARB for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)

This Hospital:	97.0%
State:	96.2%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	86.0%
California:	93.5%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
California:	99.4%

Pneumonia

Percent of Patients Given Initial Antibiotic(s) within 6 Hours After Arrival

Here:	99.0%
California:	96.1%

Percent of Patients Whose Initial ER Blood Culture Was Performed Prior To Administration Of First Dose Of Antibiotics

This Hospital:	96.0%
California:	96.7%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
State:	98.1%

Percent of Patients Given the Most Appropriate Initial Antibiotic(s)

This Hospital:	97.0%
California:	95.9%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	87.0%
California:	94.3%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Hospital:	99.0%
State:	95.8%

Surgery

Percent of Surgery Patients given an antibiotic at the right time (within one hour before surgery) to help prevent infection

This Hospital:	99.0%
State:	98.1%

Percent of Surgery Patients whose preventive antibiotics were stopped at the right time (within 24 hours after surgery)

This Hospital:	89.0%
State:	96.3%

Percent of Surgery Patients who were given the right kind of antibiotic to help prevent infection

Here:	94.0%
State:	98.2%

Percent of Surgery Patients who got treatment at right time (within 24 hours before or after surgery) to help prevent blood clot

This Hospital:	99.0%
State:	96.0%

Percent of Surgery Patients whose doctors ordered treatments to prevent blood clots after certain types of surgeries

Here:	100.0%
State:	96.9%

Percent of Surgery Patients needing hair removed from the surgical area before surgery who had hair removed using a safer method

This Hospital:	100.0%
California:	99.8%

Percent of Surgery Patients whose urinary catheters were removed on the first or second day after surgery

This Hospital:	88.0%
California:	93.9%

Surgery patients who were taking heart drugs called beta blockers before coming to the hospital, who were kept on them

This Hospital:	78.0%
California:	96.1%

Outpatients having surgery who got an antibiotic at the right time - within one hour before surgery (higher numbers are better)

Here:	92.0%
State:	95.1%

Outpatients having surgery who got the right kind of antibiotic (higher numbers are better)

Here:	92.0%
State:	95.5%

Patients having surgery who were actively warmed in the operating room or whose body temperature was near normal

This Hospital:	100.0%
California:	99.6%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	14.2%
California:	14.9%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	9.2%
California:	10.9%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	9.1%
California:	11.7%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	17.6%
State:	19.3%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	23.1%
State:	24.4%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	17.0%
California:	18.3%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 17%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	10%
California:	7%

Usually

Here:	30%
State:	21%

Always

Here:	60%
California:	72%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	8%
California:	6%

Usually

This Hospital:	25%
California:	17%

Always

This Hospital:	67%
State:	77%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	13%
State:	13%

Usually

Here:	33%
California:	28%

Always

Here:	54%
California:	59%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	14%
California:	8%

Usually

This Hospital:	30%
State:	25%

Always

Here:	56%
State:	67%

How often did staff explain about medicines before giving them to patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	30%
State:	23%

Usually

This Hospital:	21%
State:	19%

Always

Here:	49%
California:	58%

How often were the patients' rooms and bathrooms kept clean?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	7%
State:	10%

Usually

This Hospital:	24%
State:	21%

Always

This Hospital:	69%
California:	69%

How often was the area around patients' rooms kept quiet at night?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	20%
California:	18%

Usually

This Hospital:	36%
State:	33%

Always

Here:	44%
California:	49%

Were patients given information about what to do during their recovery at home?

Yes

Here:	84%
State:	81%

Here:	16%
California:	19%

How do patients rate the hospital overall on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest)?

6 or lower

Here:	11%
State:	10%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	33%
State:	24%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	56%
State:	66%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	7%
California:	7%

Yes, probably

Here:	31%
California:	24%

Yes, definitely

This Hospital:	62%
California:	69%

ALHAMBRA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER - ALHAMBRA, CA

Use of Medical Imaging

Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) - Medicare Provider Charge Data

Complaint Deficiency

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Surgery

Outcome of Care

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

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