Average Length of Stay at Laguna Honda Hospital

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Laguna Honda Hospital (LHH) is a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility. It provides a range of services to San Franciscans who are disabled and chronically ill, including specialized care for those with wounds, head trauma, stroke, spinal cord and orthopedic injury, HIV/AIDS, and dementia. 

Laguna Honda Hospital is part of the San Francisco Health Network (SFHN). SFHN is a comprehensive system of care, overseen by the Department of Public Health (DPH), which includes primary and specialty care, dentistry, emergency and trauma treatment, skilled nursing and rehabilitation, and behavioral health. SFHN includes Laguna Honda Hospital, the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, and numerous primary care clinics managed by the Department of Public Health.

This measure represesnts the average length of stay (in days) for patients receiving skilled nursing facility (SNF) rehabilitative services at Laguna Honda Hospital. This measure represents only those patients categorized as skilled nursing rehab patients, meaning the patient is receiving rehabilitative services for the effects of illnesses and injuries such as stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury, and other major traumas.

AVERAGE LENGTH OF STAY OF SNF REHAB PATIENTS

How Performance is Measured

This measure represents the total number of "patient days" divided by the total number of patients who were admitted to the Skilled Nursing Facility rehabilitation service. SNF length of stay is a metric used for tracking purposes. There are no operational decisions made based on length of stay alone. Examples of additional information that would need to be reviewed before making an operational decision is lower level of care data and notes. This metric excludes acute rehabilitation services.

The number displayed on the scorecard page represents a fiscal year average. This is calculated as a simple average of monthly values reported in the chart above. The fiscal year average for the previous year, however, is calculated as the total (sum) number of days of SNF patient days during the fiscal year, divided by the total (sum) number of patients admitted to the SNF service during the fiscal year.

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