TEMPLE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL (LOS ANGELES, CA) Detailed Hospital Profile

Complaint Deficiency

Provide housekeeping and maintenance services
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Provide necessary care and services to maintain the highest well being of each resident
- 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
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Restrictions on the use of flammable curtains
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Other fire safety features required by fire safety codes
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
An approved back-up procedure for a faulty fire alarm system
- 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: Few
Put firmly secured handrails on each side of hallways
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
A fire alarm system that can be heard throughout the facility
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Other fire safety features required by fire safety codes
- 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: Few
Make sure each resident receives an accurate assessment by a qualified health professional
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Assist those residents who need total help with eating/drinking, grooming and personal and oral hygiene
- 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
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 each resident gets a nutritional and well balanced diet, unless it is not possible to do so
- 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
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
An approved installation, maintenance and testing program for fire alarm systems
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Exits that are free from obstructions and can be used at all times
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Restrictions on the use of flammable curtains
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Emergency showers
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
An elevator that firefighters can control in the event of a fire
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

Here:	100.0%
California:	99.3%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

Here:	100.0%
California:	99.0%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
California:	96.8%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

Here:	100.0%
State:	98.5%

Patients Given a Prescription for a Statin at Discharge

This Hospital:	100.0%
California:	97.5%

Heart Failure

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
California:	98.9%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	96.2%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	100.0%
State:	93.5%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
State:	99.4%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	100.0%
California:	96.1%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	100.0%
California:	94.3%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	95.8%

Surgery

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

Here:	97.0%
California:	96.0%

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

Here:	97.0%
California:	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%
State:	99.8%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	93.9%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	96.1%

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

This Hospital:	93.0%
California:	95.1%

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

Here:	97.0%
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%
State:	99.6%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	15.8%
California:	14.9%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	10.0%
State:	10.9%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	11.7%
California:	11.7%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	19.5%
State:	19.3%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	25.8%
California:	24.4%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	19.0%
State:	18.3%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Falls and injuries

This Hospital:	0.276%
California:	0.625%

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	0.684%
State:	0.170%

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

Acute Myocardial Infarction, Discharged Alive with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$43,034
State:	$55,746

Average Total Payments

Here:	$10,959
California:	$9,903

Number of discharges: 16

Here:	1.41%
California:	0.48%

Atherosclerosis without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$20,974
California:	$28,823

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$5,363
State:	$4,913

Number of discharges: 11

This Hospital:	0.97%
State:	0.40%

Cardiac Arrhythmia and Conduction Disorders with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$30,754
California:	$39,980

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$7,716
California:	$7,146

Number of discharges: 31

This Hospital:	2.73%
State:	1.30%

Cardiac Arrhythmia and Conduction Disorders without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$22,687
State:	$28,713

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,252
California:	$4,819

Number of discharges: 20

This Hospital:	1.76%
State:	1.18%

Cellulitis with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$44,509
State:	$67,232

Average Total Payments

Here:	$13,196
California:	$12,858

Number of discharges: 11

Here:	0.97%
California:	0.28%

Cellulitis without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$28,051
California:	$36,707

Average Total Payments

Here:	$7,707
California:	$7,245

Number of discharges: 67

Here:	5.89%
California:	2.08%

Chest Pain

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$19,559
State:	$29,034

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$5,059
State:	$4,742

Number of discharges: 37

Here:	3.25%
California:	2.11%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$30,856
California:	$46,809

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$8,922
California:	$8,290

Number of discharges: 126

Here:	11.08%
California:	1.75%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$43,210
State:	$58,013

Average Total Payments

Here:	$10,835
California:	$10,305

Number of discharges: 45

This Hospital:	3.96%
California:	2.00%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$27,954
California:	$35,163

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,605
California:	$6,206

Number of discharges: 81

This Hospital:	7.12%
State:	1.11%

Cranial and Peripheral Nerve Disorders without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$30,806
State:	$42,162

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$7,917
State:	$7,743

Number of discharges: 12

Here:	1.06%
California:	0.28%

Degenerative Nervous System Disorders without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$28,268
California:	$45,639

Average Total Payments

Here:	$8,602
California:	$8,555

Number of discharges: 11

Here:	0.97%
State:	0.31%

Diabetes with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$30,777
California:	$38,964

Average Total Payments

Here:	$7,641
State:	$7,470

Number of discharges: 15

This Hospital:	1.32%
State:	0.69%

Esophagitis, Gastroent and Miscellaneous Digestive Disorders without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$29,148
California:	$36,899

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,599
State:	$6,233

Number of discharges: 67

Here:	5.89%
State:	3.09%

G.I. Hemorrhage with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$38,832
California:	$46,039

Average Total Payments

Here:	$9,832
California:	$8,685

Number of discharges: 13

This Hospital:	1.14%
State:	1.95%

G.I. Hemorrhage without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$24,283
State:	$31,715

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,574
State:	$5,899

Number of discharges: 12

Here:	1.06%
California:	0.44%

Heart Failure and Shock with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$39,601
California:	$47,292

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$9,521
California:	$8,831

Number of discharges: 40

Here:	3.52%
State:	2.91%

Heart Failure and Shock with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$48,012
State:	$70,963

Average Total Payments

Here:	$13,395
State:	$13,159

Number of discharges: 13

Here:	1.14%
California:	3.03%

Heart Failure and Shock without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$29,739
California:	$32,995

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,305
State:	$5,851

Number of discharges: 12

This Hospital:	1.06%
State:	1.02%

Hypertension without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$23,788
California:	$30,058

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,636
California:	$5,453

Number of discharges: 46

This Hospital:	4.05%
State:	0.19%

Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$36,928
State:	$36,114

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$7,235
State:	$6,728

Number of discharges: 56

Here:	4.93%
State:	2.98%

Medical Back Problems without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$23,594
California:	$42,156

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$7,512
State:	$6,908

Number of discharges: 19

This Hospital:	1.67%
State:	0.92%

Misc Disorders of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids or Electrolytes with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$43,924
California:	$49,218

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$10,592
State:	$10,092

Number of discharges: 25

This Hospital:	2.20%
State:	0.94%

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

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$26,202
California:	$32,446

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,363
State:	$5,975

Number of discharges: 57

Here:	5.01%
California:	2.21%

Other Digestive System Diagnoses with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$32,285
California:	$49,604

Average Total Payments

Here:	$9,144
State:	$8,812

Number of discharges: 17

Here:	1.50%
California:	0.66%

Peripheral Vascular Disorders with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$31,724
State:	$46,464

Average Total Payments

Here:	$8,994
State:	$8,334

Number of discharges: 12

This Hospital:	1.06%
State:	0.45%

Red Blood Cell Disorders without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$33,177
California:	$35,878

Average Total Payments

Here:	$7,320
State:	$7,039

Number of discharges: 14

This Hospital:	1.23%
State:	1.21%

Renal Failure with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$34,308
State:	$48,439

Average Total Payments

Here:	$9,423
State:	$8,967

Number of discharges: 32

This Hospital:	2.81%
State:	1.90%

Renal Failure with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$38,904
State:	$72,128

Average Total Payments

Here:	$14,073
State:	$14,548

Number of discharges: 29

This Hospital:	2.55%
California:	1.48%

Seizures without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$28,656
State:	$38,752

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$7,009
State:	$6,932

Number of discharges: 28

Here:	2.46%
State:	0.59%

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

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$66,866
California:	$90,173

Average Total Payments

Here:	$17,462
California:	$16,748

Number of discharges: 42

This Hospital:	3.69%
State:	7.21%

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

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$47,545
State:	$50,385

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$11,079
California:	$9,612

Number of discharges: 41

Here:	3.61%
State:	2.35%

Signs and Symptoms without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$24,171
State:	$35,628

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,316
State:	$6,112

Number of discharges: 11

This Hospital:	0.97%
California:	0.53%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$43,864
California:	$48,755

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$9,340
California:	$8,695

Number of discharges: 24

This Hospital:	2.11%
California:	2.75%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$59,562
State:	$70,362

Average Total Payments

Here:	$13,548
State:	$12,496

Number of discharges: 12

This Hospital:	1.06%
California:	1.89%

Syncope and Collapse

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$26,707
California:	$37,038

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,598
California:	$6,233

Number of discharges: 19

This Hospital:	1.67%
California:	1.60%

Transient Ischemia

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$23,687
California:	$37,396

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,726
California:	$6,120

Number of discharges: 13

Here:	1.14%
California:	0.94%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: Between 100 and 299
Survey Response Rate: 8%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	12%
State:	7%

Usually

This Hospital:	21%
California:	21%

Always

Here:	67%
State:	72%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	5%
State:	6%

Usually

Here:	14%
California:	17%

Always

This Hospital:	81%
California:	77%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	20%
State:	13%

Usually

Here:	26%
California:	28%

Always

This Hospital:	54%
State:	59%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	15%
State:	8%

Usually

This Hospital:	22%
California:	25%

Always

This Hospital:	63%
State:	67%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	24%
State:	23%

Usually

Here:	14%
California:	19%

Always

Here:	62%
California:	58%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	18%
State:	10%

Usually

This Hospital:	20%
California:	21%

Always

Here:	62%
California:	69%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	15%
California:	18%

Usually

This Hospital:	26%
State:	33%

Always

Here:	59%
State:	49%

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

Yes

This Hospital:	77%
California:	81%

This Hospital:	23%
California:	19%

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

6 or lower

Here:	15%
State:	10%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	27%
California:	24%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	58%
State:	66%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	14%
California:	7%

Yes, probably

This Hospital:	29%
State:	24%

Yes, definitely

Here:	57%
California:	69%

TEMPLE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL - LOS ANGELES, CA

Complaint Deficiency

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Surgery

Outcome of Care

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Use of Medical Imaging

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

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

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