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You Can Trust WMMC with Your Care
WMMC is a full-service, 354 staffed-bed teaching hospital. We have served our community for 94 years. WMMC is the largest faith-based, private provider of health services in our primary service area.
WMMC provides all of its patients with the same level of high quality care. We are well- recognized for medical excellence and our mission of compassionate care.
This care includes highly advanced services and renowned specialists in such areas as heart surgery, orthopedics, vascular care, maternity services, and neo-natal intensive care services. We also provide full-service emergency services, cancer care, diabetes services, pediatrics, rehabilitation care and behavioral medicine services.Hospital Quality
You and your family can be confident in the care you receive at our hospital. WMMC has been identified as one of the state’s top performers in organizational excellence.
- The hospital has earned the Gold Seal of
Approval from the Joint Commission.
- The hospital has four times been awarded
the Eureka Award for Performance Excellence
from the California Council for Excellence.
- In 2006 WMMC received five-star customer
service awards for ranking in the top 10 percent
of participating hospitals for patient perception
of quality of care and customer service by
Professional Research Consultants, Inc. (PRC).
- In 2005 WMMC was named one of the nation’s
50 Exceptional Hospitals by Consumers Digest magazine
for safety.
- The hospital participates in widely respected
and recognized quality initiatives such as:
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS) Premiere Demonstration Project, the Institute
for Healthcare Improvement, the Society for
Thoracic Surgery, and others.
- The hospital is pursuing the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, perhaps the nation’s most rigorous measure of excellence.
White Memorial’s NICU Outcomes Rank among the Best in California
- In a recent study of almost 600 hospitals
worldwide, our NICU ranked in the top 25 percent
for lowest deaths and complications.
- In an August 2004 statewide study conducted by UC Berkeley, Stanford University and the California Department of Health Services, the area served by WMMC’s NICU saw just 1.6 neonatal deaths per 1,000 births, the lowest in the state – and 40 percent below the expected mortality rate.
Posted 1/26/07
