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In 2000, the Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC) determined that a uniform code system was needed after three people were killed in a shooting incident at a hospital after the wrong emergency code was called. While codes for fire (red) and medical emergency (blue) were similar in 90% of California hospitals queried, 47 different ...
S. Salton Sea. 1986 San Francisco fireworks disaster. San Francisco plague of 1900–1904. 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. Santa Susana Field Laboratory. Categories: Disasters in the United States by state. Events in California.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a non-profit, tertiary, 915-bed teaching hospital and multi-specialty academic health science center located in Los Angeles, California. Part of the Cedars-Sinai Health System, the hospital has a staff of over 2,000 physicians and 10,000 employees, supported by a team of 2,000 volunteers and more than 40 community groups.
Dameron Hospital – Stockton. Doctors Hospital of Manteca – Manteca. Kaiser Manteca Medical Center – Manteca. Lodi Memorial Hospital – Lodi. St. Joseph's Medical Center – Stockton. San Joaquin General Hospital – French Camp. Stockton State Hospital (1851–1996; closed) – the first psychiatric hospital in California.
This is a list of Legionnaires' disease outbreaks; Legionnaire's is a potentially fatal infectious disease caused by gram negative, aerobic bacteria belonging to the genus Legionella. [1] [2] The first reported outbreak was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1976 during a Legionnaires Convention at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel .
UC Davis Medical Center ranked among the nation's top hospitals for 2020–21 in 9 adult medical specialties and 4 children's medical specialties, and it is the 6th best hospital in California, according to an annual U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals survey published in July 2020.
Major Diagnostic Category. The Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC) are formed by dividing all possible principal diagnoses (from ICD-9-CM) into 25 mutually exclusive diagnosis areas. MDC codes, like diagnosis-related group (DRG) codes, are primarily a claims and administrative data element unique to the United States medical care reimbursement ...
Steamboat sank due to boiler explosion; fatalities estimated. Deadliest maritime disaster in U.S. history 1,021 1904 PS General Slocum: Accident – shipwreck: East River near New York City: Steamship sank due to fire on board. Deadliest maritime disaster in New York City, and deadliest in city's history until 2001. 1,000–2,000 1893