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In healthcare in California, only a general acute care hospital or acute psychiatric hospital, as licensed by the California Department of Public Health, can be referred to as a "hospital." As of 2018, the CPHD Center for Health Care Quality Cal Health Find database [ 1 ] reports 422 general acute care hospitals statewide, as well as 128 acute ...
The state of California was divided into three numbering plan areas (NPAs) with distinct area codes: 213, 415, and 916, for the southern, central, and northern parts of the state, respectively. [1] As of July 2023, California has 38 active area codes.
Olive View–UCLA Medical Center is a hospital, funded by Los Angeles County, [1] located in the Sylmar neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.It is one of the primary healthcare delivery systems in the north San Fernando Valley, serving the area's large working-class population.
Blue Shield of California is a mutual benefit corporation and health plan [6] [7] founded in 1939 by the California Medical Association. It is based in Oakland, California, and serves 4.5 million health plan members and more than 65,000 physicians across the state. Blue Shield of California was founded as a not-for-profit organization.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) threatened the Rancho Springs Medical Center and Inland Valley Regional Medical Center in California with decertification in June 2010 while the State of California warned of a possible hospital license revocation. [29]
Fremont (/ ˈ f r iː m ɒ n t /) is a city in Alameda County, California, United States.Located in the East Bay region of the Bay Area, Fremont has a population of 230,504 as of 2020, [11] making it the fourth most populous city in the Bay Area, behind San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland.
Highland Hospital is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and is also home to the UCSF East Bay Surgery Program. Their Medical and Surgical residency programs are among the most competitive and highly sought after in the nation. In October 2020, the staff at Highland went on strike to improve safety for patients.
In 1991, Presbyterian Hospital (at that time known as Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center [23]) and Children's Hospital merged, medical staffs were combined, and a large joint physician group was established in 1993. [24] The new multiple-facility entity was named California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC).