HEART BYPASS SURGERY IN CALIFORNIA IN 1986

These 17 Southern California hospitals with between 10 and 100 heart bypass surgeries during 1986 were omitted from a table published Sunday. As a group, California hospitals with fewer than 100 bypass surgeries had significantly higher death rates than those with more surgeries.

Hospital Total Surgeries Centinela Hospital Medical Center, Inglewood 18 UC Irvine Medical Center, Orange 23 Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center 44 Santa Monica Hospital Medical Center 55 Glendale Memorial Hospital 55 Tri-City Medical Center, Oceanside 56 Harbor UCLA Medical Center 59 Long Beach Community Hospital 60 Hoag Mem. Hospital Presbyterian, Newport Beach 61 Pomona Valley Community Hospital 64 Beverly Hospital, Montebello 70 LA County USC Medical Center 76 White Memorial Medical Center, Los Angeles 79 Granada Hills Community Hospital 81 Garfield Medical Center, Monterey Park 84 St. John’s Regional Medical Center, Oxnard 93 Valley Presbyterian Medical Center, Van Nuys 95

Patient who underwent heart valve replacement are included in the count of total surgeries but not in the list of hospitals with high or low bypass surgery death rates that was published Sunday. There was a less than 5% probability that a hospital was listed as having a high-or low-mortality rate because of chance alone.