LOS ALAMITOS MEDICAL CENTER - LOS ALAMITOS, CA

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LOS ALAMITOS MEDICAL CENTER
3751 KATELLA AVENUE
LOS ALAMITOS, CA, 90720

Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (562) 799-3220

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Hospital Owner: Proprietary
Emergency Services: Yes
Type: Psychiatric Units

Provided Services

Nuclear Medicine Services
Acute Renal Dialysis Services
Anatomical Laboratory Services
Anesthesia Services
Blood Bank Services
Clinical Laboratory Services
Diagnostic Radiology Services
Dietary Services
Emergency Services
ICU - Cardiac (Non-Surgical)Services
ICU - Medical/Surgical Services
Inpatient Rehabilitiation (Not Carf Accredited) Services
Inpatient Surgical Services
Long Term Care (Swing-Beds) Services
Obstetric Services
Occupational Therapy Services
Operating Room Services
Outpatient Services
Outpatient Surgery Unit Services
Pharmacy Services
Physical Therapy Services
Postoperative Recovery Room Services
Psychiatric Services
Respiratory Care Services
Social Services
Speech Pathology Services
Therapeutic Radiology Services

Employment Full-Time Equivalent

Registered Professional Nurses : 146.70
Other Salaried Personnel : 305.25
Dieticians : 1.60
Physical Therapists : 5.00
Registered Pharmacists : 6.15
Respiratory Therapists : 12.00
Medical Social Workers : 0.50

Number Of Beds

Total: 167
Total Certified: 167
Psychiatric Unit Beds: 25

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Falls And Trauma

This Hospital:	1.078%
California:	0.456%

Vascular Catheter-Associated Infection

This Hospital:	0.216%
California:	0.437%

Catheter-Associated UTI

Here:	0.431%
California:	0.313%

Use of Medical Imaging

Outpatients who had a follow-up mammogram or ultrasound within 45 days after a screening mammogram.

Here:	5.500%
California:	8.494%

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

Here:	0.083%
California:	0.224%

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

This Hospital:	0.005%
California:	0.054%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 38%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	8%
California:	8%

Usually

This Hospital:	22%
State:	22%

Always

This Hospital:	70%
California:	70%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	5%
California:	7%

Usually

Here:	15%
State:	17%

Always

This Hospital:	80%
California:	76%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	14%
California:	15%

Usually

This Hospital:	29%
California:	28%

Always

Here:	57%
State:	57%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

Here:	8%
State:	9%

Usually

This Hospital:	23%
State:	25%

Always

Here:	69%
California:	66%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	26%
California:	25%

Usually

Here:	20%
California:	19%

Always

Here:	54%
California:	56%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	12%
State:	11%

Usually

This Hospital:	21%
California:	21%

Always

This Hospital:	67%
State:	68%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	26%
California:	19%

Usually

Here:	39%
State:	34%

Always

Here:	35%
State:	47%

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

Yes

This Hospital:	80%
State:	79%

Here:	20%
State:	21%

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

6 or lower

Here:	11%
California:	11%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	26%
California:	25%

9 or 10

Here:	63%
State:	64%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	8%
State:	7%

Yes, probably

Here:	25%
State:	25%

Yes, definitely

Here:	67%
California:	68%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

This Hospital:	99.0%
State:	98.6%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

This Hospital:	96.0%
State:	98.2%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	95.6%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

This Hospital:	99.0%
California:	97.9%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
California:	99.6%

Percent of Patients Given PCI Within 90 Minutes Of Arrival

This Hospital:	91.0%
California:	91.0%

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

Here:	13
State:	9

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
California:	96.2%

Heart Failure

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

This Hospital:	98.0%
State:	98.1%

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

Here:	95.0%
State:	94.9%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	90.0%
California:	91.2%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
California:	98.6%

Pneumonia

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

This Hospital:	98.0%
California:	95.2%

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

This Hospital:	97.0%
State:	95.3%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
California:	97.3%

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

This Hospital:	91.0%
California:	92.5%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

Here:	100.0%
State:	91.1%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	97.0%
State:	93.1%

Surgery

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

This Hospital:	98.0%
State:	96.1%

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

Here:	98.0%
California:	92.5%

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

This Hospital:	95.0%
California:	96.7%

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

Here:	91.0%
California:	89.4%

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

Here:	93.0%
California:	90.8%

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

Here:	99.0%
State:	99.4%

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

This Hospital:	90.0%
California:	88.3%

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

Here:	91.0%
State:	91.5%

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

Here:	91.0%
California:	90.3%

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

This Hospital:	95.0%
State:	92.5%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	15.1%
California:	15.8%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	11.9%
California:	11.0%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	10.9%
State:	11.8%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	19.7%
State:	19.3%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	22.8%
State:	24.6%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	16.7%
State:	18.1%

Average Medicare Payment

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w/o CC/MCC: $1,068

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w MCC: $13,075

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w CC: $8,187

Heart failure and shock w/o CC/MCC: $4,865

Heart failure and shock w MCC: $9,839

Heart failure and shock w CC: $6,785

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w/o CC/MCC: $4,888

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w MCC: $8,780

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w CC: $6,575

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy w MCC: $9,654

Diabetes w MCC: $19,024

Chest Pain: $3,581

Major cardiovasc procedures w MCC or thoracic aortic aneurysm repair: $34,191

Cardiac defibrillator implant w/o cardiac cath w/o MCC: $33,665

Cardiac defibrillator implant w/o cardiac cath w MCC: $45,370

Extracranial procedures w/o CC/MCC: $6,742

Extracranial procedures w CC: $10,461

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w/o CC/MCC: $13,516

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w CC: $17,443

Perc cardiovasc proc w drug-eluting stent w/o MCC: $12,888

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w/o CC/MCC: $7,590

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $16,687

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w CC: $11,123

Cholecystectomy except by laparoscope w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $24,055

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w/o CC/MCC: $6,501

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w MCC: $1,068

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w CC: $9,350

Major small and large bowel procedures w/o CC/MCC: $10,932

Major small and large bowel procedures w CC: $17,243

Major small and large bowel procedures w MCC: $34,814

Stomach, esophageal duodenal proc w/o CC/MCC: $5,430

Cervical spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $12,897

Cervical spinal fusion w MCC: $29,731

Cervical spinal fusion w CC: $9,350

Spinal fusion except cervical w/o MCC: $12,407

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $6,323

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w CC/MCC or disc device/neurostim: $11,472

Bilateral or multiple major joint procs of lower extremity w/o MCC: $21,251

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w/o MCC: $13,528

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w MCC: $22,170

Revision of hip or knee replacement w/o CC/MCC: $16,338

Revision of hip or knee replacement w CC: $20,639

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w CC: $7,686

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w/o CC/MCC: $9,275

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w CC: $12,551

Revision of hip or knee replacement w MCC: $30,613

Kidney and ureter procedures for non-neoplasm w MCC: $7,485

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w MCC: $18,698

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w CC: $1,068

Transurethral prostatectomy w/o CC/MCC: $4,262

Transurethral prostatectomy w CC/MCC: $5,978

Female reproductive system reconstructive procedures: $5,500

Uterine and adnexa proc for non-malignancy w/o CC/MCC: $5,685

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