DOMINICAN HOSPITAL

Acute Care Hospital in Santa Cruz, CA 95065

DOMINICAN HOSPITAL PROFILE

Dominican Hospital is an acute care hospital located in Santa Cruz, CA 95065 that serves the Santa Cruz county area. This facility is a non-profit hospital with emergency services.

DOMINICAN HOSPITAL

1555 Soquel Drive
Santa Cruz, CA 95065
Phone: (831) 462-7700
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Patient Survey Summary Rating Summary Star Rating
The summary star rating combines data from different aspects of the patient’s experience of care to make hospital comparison easier.

Fair

ABOUT THIS PROVIDER

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals What's an acute care hospital?
An acute care hospital provides inpatient medical care, services related for surgery and medical services for short-term illnesses, acute medical conditions or injuries.

Hospital Owner: Voluntary Non-profit - Church

Electronic Lab Results: Yes Able to receive lab results electronically
The provider has the ability of receiving laboratory results through a certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) system as discrete searchable data.

Electronically Track Patients Visits: Yes Able to track patients’ lab results, tests, and referrals electronically between visits
The provider is capable of tracking lab tests, diagnostic studies, or patient referrals through a certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) system.

Outpatient Safe Surgery Checklist: Yes Safe surgery checklist use (outpatient)
This hospital follows a safe surgery checklist based on accepted standards of practice. Safe surgery checklists include three critical perioperative periods: 1) The period before the administration of anesthesia; 2) The period before surgical skin incision; and 3) The period of closure of incision and before the patient leaving the operating room for outpatient surgical procedures.

Cardiac Surgery Registry: Yes Cardiac surgery registry
The provider participates in the cardiac surgery registry. Participation in this registry does not mean that the hospital is specialized or only provides this type of care. Registries provide hospitals with the information necessary to help them improve the care they provide.

Nursing Care Registry: Yes Nursing care registry
The provider participates in the nursing care registry. This registry collects and analyzes information on nursing care topics, conditions, or procedures.

Inpatient Safe Surgery Checklist: Yes Safe surgery checklist use (inpatient)
This hospital follows a safe surgery checklist based on accepted standards of practice. Safe surgery checklists include three critical perioperative periods: 1) The period before the administration of anesthesia; 2) The period before surgical skin incision; and 3) The period of closure of incision and before the patient leaving the operating room for inpatient surgical procedures.


Emergency Services: Yes Emergency Department
This hospital provides emergency services which might include acute medical care or trauma care.

PATIENT EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

The hospital patient survey at Dominican Hospital is administered to a random sample of adult inpatients after discharge. The following are the results of some the survey’s five-star quality ratings.

Doctor Communication: Fair

Quiet Rooms: Poor

Cleanliness: Fair

Pain Management: Fair

Discharge Information: Average

Patients Recommend this Hospital: Fair

EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT TIMES

These performance measures at Dominican Hospital show how rapidly emergency departments give recommended treatments known to get the best results for patients with certain common conditions. This information could help patients compare which hospitals provide the right care at the right time.

ER Wait Time: 20 minutes before being seen by a doctor.

Discharge Time: 2 hours 30 minutes before being sent home.

Time Before Admission: 4 hours 54 minutes before being admitted to hospital.

Transfer Time: 2 hours 6 minutes admitted before being taken to room.

Broken Bones: 54 minutes before receiving pain meds.

HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS

We have identified the following individual quality measures where Dominican Hospital has better average ratings than other hospitals in California or where the hospital is performing better compared to national averages or benchmarks.

NEARBY HOSPITALS

The following providers were found within a 30 mile range from this location.
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SUTTER MATERNITY & SURGERY CENTER OF SANTA CRUZ2900 Chanticleer Avenue
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No0.39 miCompare
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SANTA CLARA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER751 South Bascom Avenue
San Jose, CA 95128
Yes22.52 miCompare
SAINT LOUISE REGIONAL HOSPITAL9400 No Name Uno
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Yes23.05 miCompare
O'CONNOR HOSPITAL2105 Forest Avenue
San Jose, CA 95128
Yes23.46 miCompare
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL-SANTA CLARA700 Lawrence Expressway
Santa Clara, CA 95051
Yes23.89 miCompare

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