Ridgecrest Regional Hospital, Ridgecrest, CA

Readmissions and return visits

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Medicare patients

On the 2 readmission and return-visit measures CMS could compare, Ridgecrest Regional Hospital was no different from the national rate or its expected level.

Return trips after a stay or procedure

Readmission rates count Medicare patients who were admitted to any acute-care hospital within 30 days of leaving this one, adjusted for how sick they were. "Better" or "worse" means CMS found the difference from the national rate statistically significant; most hospitals are "no different". Return-day and outpatient-surgery measures compare the hospital with what CMS expected for its own patients. The Readmissions Reduction Program ratios are shown as CMS publishes them; whether a hospital's payments are reduced depends on how its ratios compare with similar hospitals, so a ratio above 1.00 alone doesn't mean a penalty. About the data.

Timely and effective care

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · all patients unless noted · Jan 2025 – Dec 2025

Ridgecrest Regional Hospital's emergency department is classed by CMS as low volume.

CMS publishes these process-of-care measures without a better/worse verdict, so the U.S. figure is shown for context; small differences, or results based on few patients, may not mean much. *Median of all hospitals CMS reports, where CMS publishes no national figure. About the data.

Maternity care

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · reported by the hospital · Jan 2025 – Dec 2025

Maternity measures are reported by hospitals that deliver babies. The U.S. figure is the median of the hospitals CMS reports, not a CMS verdict. About the data.

Size and finances

Medicare cost report · fiscal year ending Dec 2024

As reported by the hospital to CMS; not audited. Operating margin is income from patient care divided by net patient revenue and leaves out investment income and donations. Compare California hospital finances.

Who owns Ridgecrest Regional Hospital

Medicare enrollment and ownership records (PECOS)

Medicare lists the hospital's legal name as Ridgecrest Regional Hospital, a non-profit organization, incorporated 1962.

275 doctors and other clinicians list Ridgecrest Regional Hospital as a hospital affiliation in Medicare's clinician directory.

Organizations with 5% or more ownership (directly or through other companies), partnership interests or operational control, as the hospital reported them to Medicare. Records can lag behind recent sales. Individuals are not listed. Who owns America's hospitals.

Non-profit finances

IRS Form 990 · tax year ending Dec 2023 · Ridgecrest Regional Hospital (EIN 95-2082686)

As filed with the IRS by Ridgecrest Regional Hospital. Matched by name and address, so check the filing to confirm it's the right organization. See the full Form 990 filings · Non-profit hospital finances.

The area around Ridgecrest Regional Hospital

HRSA shortage designations and BLS pay data

Primary care: Parts of Kern are federally designated health professional shortage areas (22 designations). Highest shortage score 19.

Mental health: Parts of Kern are federally designated health professional shortage areas (12 designations). Highest shortage score 20.

Dental: Parts of Kern are federally designated health professional shortage areas (15 designations). Highest shortage score 22.

Nurse pay: registered nurses in California earn a median $140,270 a year. Healthcare salaries in California.

Shortage areas are designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration where there are too few primary care, mental health or dental providers for the population; scores run from 0 to 25 for primary and mental health care and 0 to 26 for dental care, higher meaning greater need. California shortage areas