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SOUTHERN INYO HOSPITAL

501 east locust street, lone pine, Calif. 93545

(760) 876-5501

1 violation related to ER care since 2015

Hospital Type

Critical Access Hospitals

Hospital Owner

Government - Hospital District or Authority

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Detailed Quality Measures

Here is a more in depth look at each quality measure, compared to state and national averages . Experts caution that very small differences between hospitals for a given measure are unlikely to correspond to noticeable differences in the real world.

This hospital has not reported any quality measures.

Violations Related to ER Care

Problems found in emergency rooms at this hospital since 2015, as identified during the investigation of a complaint. About This Data →

Violation
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ON CALL PHYSICIANS

Dec 16, 2015

Based on observation, interview and record review the hospital failed to maintain a physician on call for the emergency room (ER).

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Based on observation, interview and record review the hospital failed to maintain a physician on call for the emergency room (ER). This failure resulted in the hospital being unable to provide emergency services for the community. Findings: On December 16, 2015 at 12:45 PM, the hospital was entered to conduct an EMTALA survey. It was observed that the entrance door to the hospital had a sign that showed the following: "NO PHYSICIAN ON DUTY emergency room IS Temporarily Closed For emergency needs call 911" In an interview on December 16, 2015 at 1:05 PM, with the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), she stated, "We have no current medical staff. Dr. (MD name) was our medical director of the ER. He walked out at 8:00 AM on December 3, 2015." The CNO confirmed that they have no patients in the hospital except for the skilled nursing facility residents. The CNO stated that they have informed the residents in the community by newspaper and radio that there was currently no emergency room services. She stated that they notified the California Department of Public Health, the ambulance paramedic service and the police and fire department services of the closing of the emergency room . In addition they posted a sign on the entry door informing anyone who came to the facility that there were no emergency services. In an interview on December 16, 2015 at 1:15 PM, with the Interim Hospital Administrator, she stated the group the ER physicians belonged to terminated the physician services at the hospital due to non-payment by the hospital for their services. A review of the ER log (a document listing patients presenting to the ER for emergency services) showed that the last patients checked in to the ER for emergency services on December 2, 2015 (when the ER physician was still there).

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Notes

“Average time” refers to the median wait time (the midpoint of all patients' wait times). References to “doctor or medical practitioner” indicate a doctor, nurse practitioner or physician's assistant. CMS reports the CT scan quality measure as the percentage of patients who received a scan within 45 minutes. We have reversed that measure so that all measures follow a “lower is better” pattern.

Additional design and development by Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei.

Sources

All data comes from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Detailed quality measures at the hospital, state and national level were last updated September 2019. Most data was collected between October 2017 and October 2018. Data on ER-related violations is from January 2015 to June 2019.

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