SAN MATEO MEDICAL CENTER

Acute Care Hospital in San Mateo, CA 94403

SAN MATEO MEDICAL CENTER PROFILE

San Mateo Medical Center is an acute care hospital located in San Mateo, CA 94403 that serves the San Mateo county area. This facility is a public hospital with emergency services.

SAN MATEO MEDICAL CENTER

222 W 39th Ave
San Mateo, CA 94403
Phone: (650) 573-2222
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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 - Local

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.

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 San Mateo Medical Center 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: Average

Pain Management: Fair

Discharge Information: Poor

Patients Recommend this Hospital: Average

EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT TIMES

These performance measures at San Mateo Medical Center 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: 1 hour 32 minutes before being seen by a doctor.

Discharge Time: 2 hours 42 minutes before being sent home.

Time Before Admission: 6 hours 2 minutes before being admitted to hospital.

Transfer Time: 2 hours 42 minutes admitted before being taken to room.

Broken Bones: 1 hour 17 minutes before receiving pain meds.

HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS

We have identified the following individual quality measures where San Mateo Medical Center 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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