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Emanuel Medical Center

Stanislaus County · HCAI 106500867

Evidence statusAudited filingWorkforce: 2024Capacity: 2025
What the available records supportA reviewed 2024 nursing snapshot and 2025 capacity record are available. A defensible recent demand trend is not.

Different reporting years remain separate. This profile does not convert hospital-level filings into a judgment about a unit, shift, or patient-safety condition.

What changed—and what can we actually answer?

The useful answer is sometimes a number. Sometimes it is a clearly marked evidence gap that management should be asked to fill.

Are we busier?Insufficient comparable quarterly data for a meaningful recent demand answer.
UnknownNo reviewed recent same-quarter demand comparison

Patient days do not describe acuity, boarding, assignment complexity, or conditions on a particular unit.

Did available capacity change?84 of 209 reported licensed beds were staffed in the 2025 capacity record.
40.2%Reported staffed share of licensed beds · 2025

A staffed-bed measure is not a vacancy count and does not identify which units were open.

What did the nursing record show?17.9 RN hours per patient day.
17.9Hospital-wide RN intensity · 2024

This is not an RN-to-patient ratio, an assignment, or a unit-level workload measure. A newer comparable nursing record is needed to say whether staffing kept pace with later demand.

Who was filling the gap?Contract nurses represented 5.4% of reported RN labor.
9.7%5.4%2018–2019 baseline → 2024 contract share

Contract reliance was 4.3 percentage points below the hospital’s pre-pandemic baseline. This does not measure vacancies or adequacy.

The answer the record can defend.

The available profile is a reviewed snapshot—not yet a full year-over-year hospital reconstruction.

A nurse can compare lived experience with these hospital-level signals, but the missing unit evidence still matters: assignments, acuity, charge coverage, breaks, vacancies, turnover, floating, and orientation.

Ask management: What changed in patient demand, staffed beds, and permanent RN coverage during the same reporting period?

Evidence trail and boundaries.

Facility record

Official HCAI identity and 209 licensed beds match the source record. Audited workforce filing, capacity record, and uniquely matched historical baseline are available.

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Reporting scope

Emanuel Medical Center is a distinct Turlock facility; it must not be pooled with Doctors Medical Center in Modesto.

Workforce source

2024 productive RN hours, contract labor, and RN intensity come from the hospital financial/workforce reporting layer.

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What remains unknown

Unit census, acuity, actual assignments, charge-nurse workload, breaks, overtime, vacancies, turnover, educator support, and whether any particular shift was safe.

“What changed in this hospital’s patient demand, staffed capacity, and permanent RN coverage during the same period—and what happened on my unit?”
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