§00
Comparison / hospitals / CA
Adventist Health Hanford vs Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Los Angeles
7 measures are reported by both. Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Los Angeles is ahead on 5 of them, with 1 measure level or without a stated direction.
“Ahead” means better on a measure whose direction the publishing agency states. Where the agency states no direction, neither column wins — a bigger number is not automatically a better one, and deciding otherwise here would be this site inventing a finding.
§01
Measure by measure
Both columns come from the same release of the same dataset, so the two are directly comparable.
| Measure | Adventist Health Hanford | Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Los Angeles | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 3 | 5 | higher is better |
| Measures reported | 44 | 32 | higher is better |
| Measures better than national | 2 | 4 | higher is better |
| Measures worse than national | 2 | 1 | lower is better |
| Mortality measures better | 0 | 0 | higher is better |
| Safety measures better | 2 | 3 | higher is better |
| Readmission measures better | 0 | 1 | higher is better |
§02