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Preferred Languages Spoken in California Facilities
Out of the 16 million patient encounters statewide in 2021, patients in more than two million encounters preferred a language...
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Coronary Artery Bypass Graft: Hospital Performance Ratings, 2021
120 state-licensed hospitals performed adult CABG surgery during 2020-2021. The statewide isolated CABG mortality rate for 2021 was 2.4 percent....
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Physician Supply and Preventable Hospitalizations by County
Thirty-four California counties (58.6 percent) have low rates of physicians who care for patients with pneumonia and have high rates...
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Mental and Behavioral Health Diagnoses in Emergency Department and Inpatient Discharges by Healthy Places Index Ranking
In 2020, 24 percent of diagnoses in the emergency department and inpatient settings were mental health disorders, substance use disorders,...
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Effects of COVID-19 on Hospital Utilization Trends
With the onset of COVID-19, hospitals statewide saw a sharp drop in inpatient discharges, emergency department utilization, and ambulatory surgeries.
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Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Program Report, 2021
Twenty-one hospitals are now certified to perform elective PCIs without onsite cardiac surgery, and the procedure continues to be safe...
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Coronary Artery Bypass Graft: Hospital Performance Ratings, 2020
123 state-licensed hospitals performed adult CABG surgery during 2019-2020. The statewide isolated CABG mortality rate for 2020 was 2.64 percent....
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Inpatient Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits for Persons Experiencing Homelessness in California: Patient Demographics By Facility
From 2019-2020, persons experiencing homelessness (PEH) accounted for 3.0 percent of hospital encounters in California hospitals. The visualizations show the...
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Preventable Hospitalizations for Acute Conditions
In 2020, nearly 20 percent of the 217,736 preventable hospitalizations in adults occurred for an acute condition. With access to high-quality...
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Patients Leaving California Hospitals Against Medical Advice (AMA)
In 2019-2020, there were 133,445 discharges against medical advice in California, representing 2.6 percent of all discharges. Patients leaving California...