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Click on a hospital name for detailed ratings. Use the tabs on the left to compare this list of hospitals by conditions or procedures.

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Heart Failure: Death Rate

Poor Poor Sierra View District Hospital 16%
Too Few Cases
To Rate Too Few Cases
To Rate 		Kern Medical Center  

Heart Failure: Quality of Care

Average Average Kern Medical Center 92%
Average Average Sierra View District Hospital 93%

Heart Failure: Readmission Rate

Average Average Sierra View District Hospital 24.7% (lower is better)
Average Average Kern Medical Center 25.5% (lower is better)

Heart Failure: Average Length of Stay

Not Rated Not Rated Kern Medical Center 3.2 Days
Not Rated Not Rated Sierra View District Hospital 5.2 Days

Critical Care: ICU Death Rate

Superior Sierra View District Hospital 7.56% (lower is better)
Below Average Kern Medical Center 19.36% (lower is better)

Updated February 2012

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