Hospital Check-Up. (Up Front).UCLA Medical Center UCLA Medical Center is a hospital located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. It is rated as one of the top three hospitals in the United States and is the top hospital on the West Coast according to US News & World Report. , Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a world-renowned hospital located in Los Angeles, California. History Cedars-Sinai is the result of a merger in 1961 between two major Los Angeles hospitals, Cedars of Lebanon and Mount Sinai Home for the Incurables, with Steve Broidy as , Glendale Memorial Medical Center and other. large, private regional hospitals are among the L.A. standouts in a quality of care survey released last week. The hospitals were among dozens of local hospitals that participated ma survey conducted by The Leapfrog Group, a consortium of Fortune 500 companies and others formed in 1999 to address the problem of preventable deaths in hospitals. The survey was the first major initiative by the group, which hopes the results will prompt hospitals to improve, consumers to choose wisely and insurers to move patients to better performing facilities. The survey measured red several major areas the group contends is associated with quality of care whether hospitals had computerized systems for ordering prescriptions; the use of special doctors to oversee critical care, the number of high-risk babies cared for, and the number of various high risk surgical procedures Surgical procedures have long and possibly daunting names. The meaning of many surgical procedure names can often be understood if the name is broken into parts. For example in splenectomy, "ectomy" is a suffix meaning the removal of a part of the body. "Splene-" means spleen. hospitals performed. (Higher numbers are associated with experience and therefore generally mean better outcomes.) The survey also found regional hospitals such as Glendale Memorial, Pomona Valley The Pomona Valley, adjacent to the Inland Empire and San Gabriel Valley in California, straddles the border between Los Angeles County and San Bernardino County. Some residents consider the Pomona Valley to be a unique geographical area, independent of both. Medical Center, North ridge Hospital Medical Center and Saint. Mary Medical Center did well. Other standouts included Kaiser Permanente-Los Angeles an City of Hope National Medical Center City of Hope is one of 39 NCI-designated Cancer Centers and is located in the city of Duarte, California. City of Hope comprises an ambulatory and in-patient cancer treatment center as well as a biomedical research facility known as the Beckman Research Institute and the City of Hope . Only a handful of the better performing hospitals that responded to all questions had computerized prescription systems or used critical care specialists. Most of the hospitals distinguished themselves by the sheer volume of high-risk babies or high-risk surgeries. The use of that measure drew criticism of hospital industry officials, who noted that hospitals with smaller volumes of high-risk surgeries could still have quality care, especially if the surgeries were performed by one or two surgeons. Among the hospitals that did not rate highly were Lancaster Community Hospital This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , Pacific Hospital of Long Beach and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Metropolitan Medical Center, all with fewer than 200 beds. |
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