Arroyo Grande Community Hospital is a hospital in
Arroyo Grande
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* Arroyo (creek), an intermittently dry creek
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, California, United States. It is part of the
Dignity Health
Dignity Health (formerly Catholic Healthcare West) was a California-based not-for-profit public-benefit corporation that operates hospitals and ancillary care facilities in three states. Dignity Health was the fifth-largest hospital system in th ...
system.
History
Arroyo Grande Community Hospital (AGCH) was founded in 1961 and has been operated by several different owners. In 1992, the facility was purchases by Vista Hospital System, a non-profit California based healthcare system. Vista operated the facility until 2003 when it entered bankruptcy and sold AGCH, along with
French Hospital Medical Center and
Corona Regional Medical Center
Corona Regional Medical Center is a for-profit hospital in Corona, California that is owned and operated by Universal Health Services Inc., Universal Health Services. The hospital is a 238-bed community hospital network comprising a 160-bed acute ...
, to for-profit
Universal Health Services
Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) is an American Fortune 500 company that provides hospital and healthcare services, based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. In 2021, its annual revenues were $12.6 billion.
Company history
Alan B. Miller, ...
in a $120,600,000 transaction. Operations under UHS were short-lived however, when UHS soon after sold AGCH and French Hospital Medical Center to
Catholic Healthcare West
Dignity Health (formerly Catholic Healthcare West) was a California-based not-for-profit public-benefit corporation that operates hospitals and ancillary care facilities in three states. Dignity Health was the fifth-largest hospital system in the ...
in early 2004 for $32.5 million.
Hospital rating data
The
HealthGrades website contains the latest quality data for Arroyo Grande Community Hospital, as of 2015. For this rating section three different types of data from HealthGrades are presented: quality ratings for eleven inpatient conditions and procedures, twelve patient safety indicators, percentage of patients giving the hospital a 9 or 10 (the two highest possible ratings).
For inpatient conditions and procedures, there are three possible ratings: worse than expected, as expected, better than expected. For Arroyo Grande the data for this category is:
*Worse than expected - 1
*As expected - 9
*Better than expected - 1
For patient safety indicators, there are the same three possible ratings. For this hospital four indicators were rated as:
*Worse than expected - 1
*As expected - 9
*Better than expected - 2
Data for patients giving this hospital a 9 or 10 are:
*Patients rating this hospital as a 9 or 10 - 58%
*Patients rating hospitals as a 9 or 10 nationally - 69%
[HealthGrades website, at http://www.healthgrades.com/hospital-directory/california-ca-southern/arroyo-grande-community-hospital-hgst3b418d46050016 .]
See also
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List of hospitals in California
This is a list of hospitals in California (U.S. state), grouped by County and sorted by hospital name. In healthcare in California, only a General Acute Care Hospital (GACH) or Acute Psychiatric Hospital (APH), as licensed by the California Depar ...
References
External links
This hospital in the CA Healthcare Atlas A project by OSHPD
Hospitals in California
Buildings and structures in San Luis Obispo County, California
Arroyo Grande, California
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