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↑ Increasing · ↓ Decreasing · → Stable · Provisional = filing still in process
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Trends: ↑ increasing, ↓ decreasing, → stable over the dates shown. Provisional means a filing is still in process.
CMS / CDPH comparisons: ↑ above, ↓ below, ↔ equal to the national number or the source reports no difference. The label identifies which comparison is shown.
Charge-nurse patient assignment — UNKNOWN · charge availability affects every nurse’s backupIs the charge nurse free of a patient assignment on this unit? If not, is it a partial or full assignment, how many patients, and how often? What dedicated RN/LVN support is provided, and who covers charge duties during emergencies?Source →
RN hours / patient day: 18.96 · 2024Who covers call-outs and breaks on this unit?Source →
Registry nursing share of nursing hours: 6.3% · 2024How many agency RNs are here now? How long is orientation?Source →
Hospital RN turnover: Not yet reviewed · hospital RN vacancies: Not yet reviewed · unit-level records separateWhat is this unit’s RN turnover over the last year? How many RN vacancies?Source →
Mostly acute-care patient days. This broad group differs from the similar-reporting-unit comparison, which also matches licensed-bed size and exact care categories.
Registry nursing personnel may include RNs, LVNs, and aides/orderlies. Traveler-only and RN-only registry shares are not reported in this source category. Category definition · GAO →
Registry nursing hours / reported nursing hours
6.3%
2024↓ Decreasing · 2022–2024
Registry nursing hours
91,530
2024
📈 Registry nursing share of nursing hours · annual reports
Registry nursing share of nursing hours · annual reports · % of nursing hours
Period
% of nursing hours
2022
12.7
2023
11.8
2024
6.29
2022–2024 pattern: registry nursing share went from 12.7% to 6.3%.
OP_18b · Average (median) time patients spent in the emergency department before leaving from the visit, excluding patients transferred to another facility or psychiatric care/mental health patients. A lower number of minutes is better · source row 14808
Retained record fields
Field
Value
value
154
raw
154
sample
368
footnote
start
2024-10-01
end
2025-09-30
sourceRow
14808
measureName
Average (median) time patients spent in the emergency department before leaving from the visit, excluding patients transferred to another facility or psychiatric care/mental health patients. A lower number of minutes is better
OP_18c · Average (median) time psychiatric/mental health patients spent in the emergency department before leaving from the visit. A lower number of minutes is better · source row 14809
Retained record fields
Field
Value
value
— UNKNOWN
raw
Not Available
sample
Not Available
footnote
1
start
2024-10-01
end
2025-09-30
sourceRow
14809
measureName
Average (median) time psychiatric/mental health patients spent in the emergency department before leaving from the visit. A lower number of minutes is better
OP_18d · Average (median) time patients spent in the emergency department before being transferred to another facility. A lower number of minutes is better · source row 14810
Retained record fields
Field
Value
value
— UNKNOWN
raw
Not Available
sample
Not Available
footnote
1
start
2024-10-01
end
2025-09-30
sourceRow
14810
measureName
Average (median) time patients spent in the emergency department before being transferred to another facility. A lower number of minutes is better
OP_22 · Left before being seen · source row 14811
Retained record fields
Field
Value
value
0
raw
0
sample
50813
footnote
start
2024-01-01
end
2024-12-31
sourceRow
14811
measureName
Left before being seen
CMS patient experience, infection, readmission & mortality records
CMS 050678 · MEMORIALCARE ORANGE COAST MEDICAL CENTER · 9920 TALBERT AVENUE, FOUNTAIN VALLEY 92708 · unique normalized address + city + ZIP
Unweighted median of hospital report ratios PRD_HR_RN / DAY_TOT. Middle 50%: inclusive linear-interpolated 25th and 75th percentiles. Same 2024 selected-report file; audited Comparable reports, 365 or 366 days, majority (>50%) patient-day care group, exact unique HCAI IDs, reconciled care-day totals and existing CNO ratio. Includes reported zero RN hours; excludes missing values. No reference for mixed care-day groups or cohorts smaller than eight.
Reported contract reliance was 1.4 percentage points above the hospital’s pre-pandemic baseline.
The reported share uses a source-defined denominator that is not reconstructed from the displayed contract and productive-RN hour fields.
Where the numbers came from.
Facility record
Official HCAI facility identity and 221 licensed beds match the reporting-period record. Audited workforce filing, capacity record, and uniquely matched historical contract baseline are available.
MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center is a separate Orange County facility and must not be pooled with Saddleback, Long Beach, or other MemorialCare hospitals.
Workforce source
2024 productive RN hours, contract labor, and RN intensity come from the hospital financial/workforce reporting layer.