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AdventHealth Critical Access Birthing-friendly

Adventist Health Clearlake

15630 18th Ave - Hwy 53, Clearlake, CA 95422 · (707) 994-6486

CMS rating

1/5

Overall hospital rating

Ownership

Non-profit

Voluntary non-profit - Private

CMS Provider #

051317

Source: CMS Hospital Compare

(707) 994-6486

CMS Hospital Compare measure groups

Mortality

4

measures reported

Safety

1

measures reported

Readmission

6

measures reported

Patient experience

8

HCAHPS dimensions

Timely & effective

9

measures reported

Adventist Health Clearlake in context

ADVENTIST HEALTH CLEARLAKE is a critical-access hospital in Clearlake, California, running as a non-profit hospital and operates as part of AdventHealth. The facility is Medicare-certified under CMS Certification Number 051317, which is the join key across Hospital Compare, MACRA, and most state discharge scorecards.

CMS Hospital Compare assigns this facility an overall rating of 1 of 5 stars — the bottom tier on CMS's 1–5 scale. On measure groups versus the national rate, the facility is: 4 mortality measures reported with none flagged; 1 safety measures reported with none flagged; 6 readmission measures reported with none flagged. CMS's composite rating weights mortality, safety, readmission, patient experience, and timely & effective care across all reporting measures; it is not stratified by patient race.

Operationally: ADVENTIST HEALTH CLEARLAKE operates an emergency department (EMTALA-covered, which means it must screen and stabilize any patient regardless of ability to pay), and the CMS Birthing-Friendly designation, which requires attesting to the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) obstetric safety bundles.

Statewide context: California's Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI, formerly OSHPD) publishes patient-level discharge abstracts with race and ethnicity — the most detailed state scorecard in the country. California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC) produces hospital-level maternal morbidity rates by race.

For Black patients

If you are a Black patient being seen at ADVENTIST HEALTH CLEARLAKE in Clearlake, California, a few concrete steps:

  • Bring an advocate. National data from CDC's Black maternal mortality review show the single biggest reduction in missed-diagnosis rates comes from a second set of ears in the room — a partner, a doula, a family member. Ask in advance that they be credentialed as a visitor; the hospital cannot turn away a designated support person.
  • If you need ongoing primary care, our California provider directory filters to physicians who accept Medicaid and speak Spanish / Haitian Creole / ASL where relevant. Filter to your insurance first.
  • If the hospital doesn't take your coverage, the closest Federally Qualified Health Center is listed under our FQHCs in this area. FQHCs serve every patient on a sliding-fee scale regardless of insurance status.
  • For help paying for care, the state Medicaid navigator at /medicaid/california/ explains eligibility, documents, and how to apply (same-day presumptive eligibility for pregnancy).
  • If you are treated dismissively or your pain is ignored, every Medicare-certified hospital is required by CMS Conditions of Participation (42 CFR 482.13) to have a grievance procedure; file in writing and request the CMS regional office contact if the hospital ombuds does not respond within seven days.

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References & primary sources

  • CMS Hospital Compare — Hospital General Information (the primary source for overall star rating, measure-group counts, ownership, ER, birthing-friendly flag): data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/xubh-q36u.
  • CMS Care Compare facility profile — this hospital's public page: Care Compare.gov search by CCN.
  • 42 CFR Part 482 — Medicare Conditions of Participation for Hospitals (source for grievance-procedure rights + EMTALA): ecfr.gov / Title 42 Part 482.
  • Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) — the obstetric safety bundles underlying the CMS Birthing-Friendly designation: saferbirth.org.

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