+3.1%Patient-day change · Q1 2025 → Q1 2026
Patient days do not describe acuity, boarding, assignment complexity, or conditions on a particular unit.
California Nursing ObservatoryPublic evidence for nurses
Free · IndependentMemorial Hospital Modesto
Stanislaus County · HCAI 106500939 · CMS 050557
Evidence statusFiling still in processWorkforce: 2024Capacity: 2025 · Quarterly context: Q1 2026
What the available records supportPatient days changed +3.1% from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026. Reported staffed beds changed from 367 to 342 (-25).
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.
367 → 342Reported quarterly staffed beds
A staffed-bed measure is not a vacancy count and does not identify which units were open.
17.4Hospital-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.
2.8% → 1.8%2018–2019 baseline → 2024 contract share
Contract reliance was 1.0 percentage points below the hospital’s pre-pandemic baseline. This does not measure vacancies or adequacy.
The answer the record can defend.
Recent demand and staffed-bed movement can be compared, but recent RN labor cannot.
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.
Official HCAI parent-facility identity and 419 licensed beds match the reporting-period record. The current official name is Memorial Medical Center - Modesto; the dataset uses Memorial Hospital Modesto.
Open official facility source ↗Stable HCAI ID 106500939 reconciles the naming difference. The workforce filing remains in process and must not be described as audited.
2024 productive RN hours, contract labor, and RN intensity come from the hospital financial/workforce reporting layer.
Open HCAI hospital financials ↗Q1 2025 and Q1 2026 demand and staffed-bed measures provide newer context but contain no nursing hours.
Open California health data ↗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?”