John Muir Health

Last updated
John Muir Health
Nonprofit
John Muir Health logo.svg
Geography
LocationContra Costa County, CA, United States
Organization
Funding Non-profit hospital
Affiliated university UCSF Medical Center, Stanford University [1]
Network John Muir Health Physician Network
Services
Emergency department Level II trauma center
Beds817
Helipad Yes
History
Opened1997
Links
Website www.johnmuirhealth.com
Lists Hospitals in the United States

John Muir Health is a hospital network headquartered in Walnut Creek, California and serving Contra Costa County, California and surrounding communities (all considered suburbs of Oakland and San Francisco). It was formed in 1997 from the merger of John Muir Medical Center (based in Walnut Creek) and Mount Diablo Medical Center (based in neighboring Concord).

Contents

John Muir Health includes two of the largest medical centers in Contra Costa County: John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek, a medical center that serves as Contra Costa County's only designated trauma center; and John Muir Medical Center, Concord. Together, they are recognized as highly regarded centers for neurosciences, orthopedics, cancer care, cardiovascular care and high-risk obstetrics. Other areas of specialty include general surgery, robotic surgery, weight loss surgery, rehabilitation and critical care. Both hospitals are accredited by The Joint Commission, a national surveyor of quality patient care.

John Muir Health also offers complete inpatient and outpatient behavioral health programs and services at its Behavioral Health Center, a fully accredited, 73-bed psychiatric hospital located in Concord.

Since its inception in 1996, the John Muir Physician Network has become one of the largest physician networks in Northern California, with more than 900 primary care and specialty physicians. Physicians associated with the Physician Network belong to either John Muir Medical Group (JMMG) or Muir Medical Group IPA, Inc. The Physician Network owns and operates primary care practices staffed by JMMG physicians in 23 locations from Brentwood to Pleasanton.

In addition, John Muir Health provides outpatient services throughout the community and urgent care centers in Brentwood, Concord, San Ramon and Walnut Creek.

John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek

John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek is a 554-bed acute care facility that is designated as a level II trauma center, the only trauma center for Contra Costa County and portions of Solano County. Recognized as one of the region's premier health care providers, [2] its areas of specialty include high- and low-risk obstetrics, orthopedics, rehabilitation, neurosciences, cardiac care, and cancer care. In spring 2011, The Tom and Billie Long Patient Care Tower, with 230 private rooms opened. Key areas of expansion include emergency, trauma, imaging, lab, surgery, critical care, neonatal intensive care unit, birth center, orthopedics and rehabilitation.

John Muir Medical Center, Concord

John Muir Medical Center, Concord, is a 244-bed acute care facility that serves Contra Costa and southern Solano counties. The medical center is a center for cancer care and cardiovascular care, including open heart surgery and interventional cardiology. Other areas of specialty include general surgery, orthopedic and neurology programs. In November 2010, The Hofmann Family Patient Care Tower opened, housing private patient rooms, a centralized cardiovascular institute and a new emergency department.

On July 28, 2011, Becker's Hospital Review listed John Muir Medical Center, Concord under 60 Hospitals With Great Orthopedic Programs. The hospital's orthopedic department includes joint replacement, extremity care, spinal surgery and sports medicine. The hospital's spine surgeons perform operations for patients who need surgical intervention. [3]

History

The John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek opened in 1965 after the efforts of several local doctors, who received financing in part from a Hill–Burton Act grant. [4]

Concord Hospital was established in 1930, in a modest one-story home at 2334 Almond Avenue (which exists to this day and is used as a private residence). Concord Hospital was founded by Edna Haywood, a nurse; the facility would expand into a two-story hospital. In 1972, further expansion led to the creation and construction of Mount Diablo Hospital/Medical Center. [5] [6]

In 1997, John Muir Medical Center merged with Mt. Diablo Medical Center, based in neighboring Concord, to form the John Muir/Mt. Diablo Health Network. Because Mt. Diablo was a publicly run facility, residents of the Mt. Diablo service area needed to approve the merger by popular vote, which they did in 1996. [7] In 2005, the system adopted its current name to further define itself as one common healthcare system. [8]

On January 13, 2022, John Muir Health was sued by Dr. Alicia Kalamas who alleged that institutional failures led to the death of a child and several adult patients. She alleged that profit motives interfered with patient care decisions. The hospital denied wrongdoing and stated that patient safety was a top priority. [9]

On April 7, 2022, the San Francisco Chronicle ran an 8 ½ page article exposing how John Muir's Walnut Creek hospital performed a complex surgery on a child, Ailee Jong, despite being warned that they lacked the ability to safely perform the surgery.  The article detailed how John Muir Health entered into a branding arrangement with Stanford Health but actually lacked the skills offered at Stanford's facilities. The parents then chose John Muir Medical Center thinking they were obtaining the same care as they would have received at Stanford. The child died on the operating table. [10] [11]

John Muir Health responded to the article stating that the surgery was properly performed and that the child was frail and could have died even under optimal circumstances. [12]  On April 15, 2022, the Medical Board of California launched an investigation of John Muir and its doctors relating to the death of Ailee Jong. [13]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Contra Costa County, California</span> County in California, United States

Contra Costa County is a county located in the U.S. state of California, in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 1,165,927. The county seat is Martinez. It occupies the northern portion of the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area and is primarily suburban. The county's name refers to its position on the other side of the bay from San Francisco. Contra Costa County is included in the San Francisco–Oakland–Berkeley, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Walnut Creek, California</span> City in California, United States

Walnut Creek is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, about 16 miles east of the city of Oakland. Walnut Creek has a total population of 70,127 per the 2020 census, is located at the junction of the highways from Sacramento and San Jose (I-680) and San Francisco/Oakland (SR-24), and is accessible by BART. The city shares its borders with Clayton, Lafayette, Alamo, Pleasant Hill, and Concord.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stanford University Medical Center</span> Private hospital affiliated with Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford University Medical Center is a teaching hospital which includes Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children's Health. It serves as a private hospital for the Stanford University School of Medicine. In 2022–23, it was ranked by the US News as the 3rd-best hospital in California and 10th-best in the country.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">East Bay</span> Eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, US

The East Bay is the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area and includes cities along the eastern shores of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay. The region has grown to include inland communities in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. With a population of roughly 2.5 million in 2010, it is the most populous subregion in the Bay Area.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">University of California, Irvine Medical Center</span> Hospital in California, United States

The University of California, Irvine Medical Center is a major research hospital located in Orange, California. It is the teaching hospital for the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">UC Davis Medical Center</span> Hospital in California, United States

UC Davis Medical Center (UCDMC) is part of UC Davis Health and a major academic health center located in Sacramento, California. It is owned and operated by the University of California as part of its University of California, Davis campus. The medical center sits on a 142-acre (57 ha) campus (often referred to as the Sacramento Campus to distinguish it from the main campus in nearby Davis) located between the Elmhurst, Tahoe Park, and Oak Park residential neighborhoods. The site incorporates the land and some of the buildings of the former Sacramento Medical Center (which was acquired from the County of Sacramento in 1973) as well as much of the land (and two buildings) previously occupied by the California State Fair until its 1967 move to a new location.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kaiser Richmond Medical Center</span> Hospital in California, United States

Kaiser Richmond Medical Center is a large Kaiser Permanente hospital in downtown Richmond, California which serves 77,000 members registered under its medical plans. It opened in 1995 replacing the historic 1942 Richmond Field Hospital that serviced Liberty shipyard workers and thus gave birth to the HMO. However it was deemed seismically unsafe and this new campus was built.

Mount Diablo Unified School District (MDUSD) is a public school district in Contra Costa County, California. It currently operates 29 elementary schools, 9 middle schools, and 5 high schools, with 7 alternative school programs and an adult education program. MDUSD is one of the largest school districts in the state of California, with over 56 school sites and a budget of approximately $270,000,000. The district has over 36,000 K-12 students, over 20,000 adult education students, and over 3,500 employees, including over 2,000 certificated educators. The district covers 150 square miles (390 km2), including the cities of Concord and Clayton; as well as most of Pleasant Hill and portions of Walnut Creek, Pittsburg, Lafayette, and Martinez; and unincorporated areas, including Pacheco, Clyde, and Bay Point.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">San Francisco General Hospital</span> Hospital in California, United States

The Priscilla Chan and MarkZuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG) is a public hospital in San Francisco, California, under the purview of the city's Department of Public Health. It serves as the only Level I trauma center for the 1.5 million residents of San Francisco and northern San Mateo County. It is the largest acute inpatient and rehabilitation hospital for psychiatric patients in the city. Additionally, it is the only acute hospital in San Francisco that provides 24-hour psychiatric emergency services.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sharp HealthCare</span>

Sharp HealthCare is a not-for-profit regional health care group located in San Diego. Sharp includes four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, three affiliated medical groups, and a health plan. Sharp has approximately 2,600 physicians, and more than 18,000 employees.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rose Medical Center</span> Hospital in Colorado, United States

Rose Medical Center is a part of HCA Healthcare's HealthONE network. It is colloquially known as Denver's "Baby Hospital," but also provides comprehensive women's care, orthopedics and total joint replacement, heart and vascular care, weight-loss treatment, cancer care, surgical services, internal medicine and emergency care. An acute care hospital with 422 licensed beds, Rose cares for more than 160,000 patients annually with a team of 1,300 full-time employees, 100 volunteers and more than 1,200 physicians. The medical center is a Level IV trauma center. Casey Guber is the President and chief executive officer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rhode Island Hospital</span> Hospital in Rhode Island, United States

Rhode Island Hospital is a private, not-for-profit hospital located in the Upper South Providence neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island. It is the largest academic medical center in the region, affiliated with Brown University since 1959. As an acute care teaching hospital, Rhode Island Hospital is the principal provider of specialty care in the region and the only Level I Trauma Center in southeastern New England. The hospital provides a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic services to patients, with particular expertise in cardiology, including the state's only open heart surgery program; diabetes, emergency medical and trauma, neurosciences, oncology/radiation oncology, orthopedics, pediatrics, and surgery. Rhode Island Hospital's pediatrics division, Hasbro Children's Hospital, is the only pediatric facility in the state. Recording nearly 154,000 visits in the fiscal year of 2016, Rhode Island Hospital's adult and pediatric emergency wings are among the busiest in the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arrowhead Regional Medical Center</span> Hospital in California, United States

Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC) is a teaching hospital located in Colton, California, within Southern California's Inland Empire. ARMC is owned and operated by the County of San Bernardino. The emergency department (ED) at ARMC is the second busiest ED in the state of California. The hospital operates ten different residency training programs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">University of Missouri Health Care</span>

University of Missouri Health Care is an American academic health system located in Columbia, Missouri. It's owned by the University of Missouri System. University of Missouri Health System includes five hospitals: University Hospital, Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, Missouri Orthopedic Institute and University of Missouri Women's and Children's Hospital — all of which are located in Columbia. It's affiliated with Capital Region Medical Center in Jefferson City, Missouri. It also includes more than 60 primary and specialty-care clinics and the University Physicians medical group.

Providence Mission Hospital is a 523-bed acute care regional medical center in Orange County, California with two campuses - one in Mission Viejo, and the second in Laguna Beach. The hospital has designated adult and pediatric Level II Trauma centers in the state of California. Mission Hospital provides cardiovascular, neuroscience and spine, orthopedics, cancer care, women's services, mental health, wellness and a variety of other specialty services. Mission Hospital in Laguna Beach (MHLB) provides South Orange County coastal communities with 24-hour emergency and intensive care as well as medical-surgical/telemetry services, orthopedics and also general and GI surgery. CHOC Children's at Mission Hospital is a 48-bed facility that is the area's only dedicated pediatric hospital. Mission Hospital is one of only 3 Hospitals in Orange County rated as a Regional Trauma Center.

Beaumont Health was Southeast Michigan’s largest health care system and was headquartered in Southfield, Michigan. It merged with Spectrum Health of West Michigan in 2023 to form Corewell Health, with the headquarters of the new health system being located in Grand Rapids. At the time of its merger, the health system had a net revenue of $4.7 billion and consisted of eight hospitals with 3,375 beds, 155 outpatient sites, nearly 5,000 physicians, more than 33,000 employees and about 2,000 volunteers. The flagship hospital of the system was the Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, located in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, Michigan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mount Diablo Thrust Fault</span> Seismic fault in California, United States

The Mount Diablo Thrust Fault, also known as the Mount Diablo Blind Thrust, is a thrust fault in the vicinity of Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County, California. The fault lies between the Calaveras Fault, the Greenville Fault, and the Concord Fault, all right-lateral strike-slip faults, and appears to transfer movement from the Calaveras and Greenville Faults to the Concord Fault, while continuing to uplift Mount Diablo.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Natividad Medical Center</span> Hospital in California, USA

Natividad Medical Center, also known as Natividad Hospital, or simply just as, Natividad, is a 172-bed acute-care teaching hospital located in Salinas, California. The hospital is owned and operated by Monterey County and the hospital's emergency department receives approximately 52,000 visits per year.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Walnut Creek (Contra Costa County)</span> Stream in Contra Costa County

The Walnut Creek mainstem is a 12.3-mile-long (19.8-kilometer) northward-flowing stream in northern California. The Walnut Creek watershed lies in central Contra Costa County, California and drains the west side of Mount Diablo and the east side of the East Bay Hills. The Walnut Creek mainstem is now mostly a concrete or earthen flood control channel until it reaches Pacheco Creek on its way to Suisun Bay. Walnut Creek was named for the abundant native Northern California walnut trees which lined its banks historically. The city of Walnut Creek, California was named for the creek when its post office was established in the 1860s.

References

  1. https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/location/john-muir [ bare URL ]
  2. "John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek". www.vituity.com. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
  3. "1 - Page 2". www.beckershospitalreview.com.
  4. "John Muir Medical Center honors one of its founders". East Bay Times. 2008-10-26. Retrieved 2019-05-27.
  5. "John Muir Medical Center, Concord Is Home to a Wide Range of Specialists". Canopy Health. 14 June 2017. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  6. "Concord Hospital". concordhistory.com. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  7. Hallissy, Erin (1996-08-03). "John Muir, Mt. Diablo Hospital Merger on November Ballot". sfgate.com (San Francisco Chronicle). Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  8. Rauber, Chris (October 31, 2005). "'Mt. Diablo' being dropped from East Bay health system's name". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  9. Gafni, Matthias (2022-01-13). "Former doctor for John Muir Health claims hospitals put money ahead of patient safety, cites child's death". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  10. Gafni, Matthias; Dizikes, Cynthia (2022-04-15). "California medical board to investigate 2-year-old's death at John Muir Medical Center". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
  11. Losing the 'best baby' , retrieved 2022-04-15
  12. "DocumentCloud". www.documentcloud.org. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
  13. Gafni, Matthias; Dizikes, Cynthia (2022-04-15). "California medical board to investigate 2-year-old's death at John Muir Medical Center". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2022-04-15.