PALO VERDE HOSPITAL
Acute Care Hospital in Blythe, CA 92225
PALO VERDE HOSPITAL PROFILE
Palo Verde Hospital is an acute care hospital located in Blythe, CA 92225 that serves the Riverside county area. This facility is a public federal hospital with emergency services.
PALO VERDE HOSPITAL
250 North First StreetBlythe, CA 92225
Phone: (760) 922-4115
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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: Government - Federal
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.
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.
The hospital patient survey at Palo Verde 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: FairQuiet Rooms: Fair
Cleanliness: Average
Pain Management: Average
Discharge Information: Fair
Patients Recommend this Hospital: Fair
These performance measures at Palo Verde 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: 10 minutes before being seen by a doctor.Discharge Time: 3 hours 18 minutes before being sent home.
Time Before Admission: 6 hours before being admitted to hospital.
Transfer Time: 1 hour 15 minutes admitted before being taken to room.
Broken Bones: 48 minutes before receiving pain meds.
We have identified the following individual quality measures where Palo Verde Hospital has better average ratings than other hospitals in California or where the hospital is performing better compared to national averages or benchmarks.
- Better performance with the effective use of abdomen CT use of contrast material Better performance with the effective use of abdomen CT use of contrast material
The provider's use of abdomen CT use of contrast material is better and more effective compared to the average hospital rate in the state of CA. - Emergency Department: better performance with transfer time Emergency Department: better performance with transfer time
The provider's Emergency Department performance of 75 minutes for transfer time is better than the statewide average of 129 minutes in California. - Emergency Department: better performance with er waiting time Emergency Department: better performance with er waiting time
The provider's Emergency Department performance of 10 minutes for er waiting time is better than the statewide average of 28 minutes in California.
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