Redwood Memorial Hospital Recognized for Improved Quality of Care
Press release from Providence Redwood Memorial Hospital:
Providence Redwood memorial Hospital in Fortuna. [Photo from Providence Humboldt County’s Facebook page]
Providence Redwood Memorial Hospital is excited to announce that it was recently recognized as one of just nine hospitals to receive at least 90% or above by Partnership Health Plan’s (PHP) Hospital Quality Improve Program (Hospital QIP). In fact, Redwood Memorial Hospital achieved 100% in all 14 measures.
The goal of the Hospital QIP is to improve the quality of care provided to PHP members. PHP provides quality health care to over 660,000 Medi-Cal recipients across 14 Northern California counties, including Humboldt County.
“Partnership is proud to recognize the exemplary performance of these hospitals and their top-quality scores across multiple domains,” said CEO Elizabeth Gibboney. “We acknowledge the challenges these hospitals have endured in recent years and offer well-deserved praise for their ability to uphold a standard of excellence in providing top-notch care to our communities.”
Redwood Memorial Hospital is a 35-bed critical access hospital in Fortuna that primarily serves the communities in the Eel River Valley. The hospital scored exceptionally high across the various categories PHP measures quality, including readmissions, advance care planning, clinical quality, patient safety, operations and patient experience.
“This recognition is a testament to the compassionate and dedicated care that is delivered daily by our caregivers and providers at Redwood Memorial Hospital,” said Darian Harris, chief executive of Providence in Humboldt County. “Our patients are our friends, family members and neighbors. That’s why we make it our top priority to pursue excellence in service to their health and well-being. We’re exceptionally proud of this honor!”
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Another great welfare-hospital!
I worked here, and I would not rate it this highly, but the ER is modern…
They used to deliver babies here, and flaunted the luxurious “birthing rooms” to new employees!
Considering the size of the Native American Population in the area, it is probably better than running everyone up the highway to the only other operating hospital, in Eureka.
Providence plays a loud tune, but we are talking subsistence level here, almost as good as an old-fashioned “County Hospital”…
What about Mad River Hospital in Arcata? Good place, NOT Providence.
The folks I know who swear by the need for a Fortuna Hospital are white settlers. This one replaced the old Scotia hospital. We had a county hospital in Eureka for years. The catholic hospital gobbled it up long ago, same as General Hospital. Now when we need real help, we try to get the heck out of town.
MRH only survives because they have people willing to work for below-market wages. How they survive in the long run is mostly through pig-headed stubbornness and infusions from IHS…
MRH discriminates against Elder hires, men in general and persons of non-white ethnicity…
Eventually, the University will need it’s own hospital, as the State of California builds up Arcata until it looks like Sacramento, but the dearth of insured patients in the North State and the large population of Medicare/Medi-Cal/Partnership folks causes a perpetual starvation of MRH’s resources.
I advise a scoot down to Santa Rosa and beyond for any serious care, and UCSF if you can get there, for Cancer or Surgery, Pacific Med Ctr for Cardiac/Renal and anywhere but Eureka/Fortuna/Arcata or GBV for anything beyond primary services…
Absolute garbage clinic. They will just tell you to take ibuprofen and deal with it.
But they cannot provide maternity care. How “provident”
” I remember when” I was born in the old St Joe on E st. Right after that they built the new St Joe. And there was the new General between H&I st. Then the county hospital my Grama worked at on Harrison. 3 good hospitals back then. All in one town.