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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: 19.6 · 2024Who covers call-outs and breaks on this unit?Source →
Registry nursing share of nursing hours: 4.3% · 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
4.3%
2024↓ Decreasing · 2022–2024
Registry nursing hours
49,638
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
10.56
2023
10.55
2024
4.26
2022–2024 pattern: registry nursing share went from 10.6% to 4.3%.
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 14418
Retained record fields
Field
Value
value
206
raw
206
sample
368
footnote
start
2024-10-01
end
2025-09-30
sourceRow
14418
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 14419
Retained record fields
Field
Value
value
— UNKNOWN
raw
Not Available
sample
Not Available
footnote
1
start
2024-10-01
end
2025-09-30
sourceRow
14419
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 14420
Retained record fields
Field
Value
value
— UNKNOWN
raw
Not Available
sample
Not Available
footnote
1
start
2024-10-01
end
2025-09-30
sourceRow
14420
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 14421
Retained record fields
Field
Value
value
1
raw
1
sample
43799
footnote
start
2024-01-01
end
2024-12-31
sourceRow
14421
measureName
Left before being seen
Ambulance offload · records & history
MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center · CEMSIS 20379 · unique normalized hospital / retained CMS name + EMS geography
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 1.0 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 248 licensed beds match the reporting-period record. Audited workforce filing, capacity record, and uniquely matched historical contract baseline are available.
MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center has its own facility identifier and reporting scope; system affiliation does not make its workforce observations interchangeable with Orange Coast.
Workforce source
2024 productive RN hours, contract labor, and RN intensity come from the hospital financial/workforce reporting layer.