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MemorialCare Medical Centers Documented Success

Our Success is Documented

MemorialCare has received many accolades for excellence in clinical quality. Additionally, more than 1,500 of our physicians have pledged to follow MemorialCare principles of quality medicine.

A community survey of 800 local residents found that positive awareness of MemorialCare has grown by 55% and 35% said that the most salient characteristic of MemorialCare Medical Centers is excellent health care.

Clearly, in a market of contraction, MemorialCare continues to grow and thrive. We have proven that excellence in health care is not only noticed by physicians and consumers, it is demanded. We plan to continue meeting that demand.

Industry Recognition

MemorialCare Medical Centers have earned widespread recognition for extraordinary quality and progressive leadership. Accolades received include:

  • Rated among the State's safest places for OB care
  • One of the State's largest neonatal intensive care units, profiled in the bestseller Baby ER
  • A gynecology/oncology program that ranks as one of the top four in the nation for access to clinical trials
  • Recognized as performing more mammograms than any other health organization in our area
  • Featured as a "Best Practice" for breast care by the Healthcare Advisory Board
  • Listed as one of the 10 best breast care centers in America (Self Magazine)
  • Top hospital in Los Angeles County and outstanding orthopedic and oncology programs (Mercury Awards)
  • One of the safest places for heart attack survival (OSHPD)
  • Top 10 cardiovascular surgery programs in the nation (Modern Maturity)
  • One of the top 18 best places to have a baby (Fit Pregnancy)
  • Best emergency room (California Emergency Physicians)
  • Finalist for the Smithsonian Award for Computer Excellence in Medicine
  • Featured partner, Bertelsmann International Benchmarking Seminar, Germany
  • One of the nation's best governed health systems (The Governance Institute)
  • Most Wired Hospital— seven years in a row (Hospitals and Health Networks)
  • Top "Healthcare Innovator" in nation (Hospitals and Health Networks)
  • Health Technology Innovation of the Year (Modern Healthcare and Cisco Systems)
  • Top 100 Integrated Systems (Verispan)
  • Benefit Innovation Award (Pharmacy Benefit Management Institute)


What Others Are Saying About MemorialCare

MemorialCare Medical Centers’ experience with smart cards provides one good model for implementing a loyalty program.

Consumer Driven Healthcare


As an illustration of success (in aligning physicians) this study suggests hospitals attempt to remake their relationships with medical staff. As an illustration of success in such endeavors, the study outlines efforts at Long Beach, Calif.-based MemorialCare to align medical staff and hospital agencies – particularly in the area of clinical quality – through the creation of a system wide physician society.

Clinical Advisor Board


At MemorialCare, we agree it is exhilarating to be on the quality movement’s front lines. With our physicians as partners, we’ve been changed forever. What is most satisfying is that together we have changed our communities’ health care in a positive manner.

MemorialCare CEO Barry Arbuckle, quoted in Health Forum Journal

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MemorialCare Health System is a not-for-profit integrated-delivery system which includes Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach, Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center and Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in Laguna Hills and San Clemente. Our community-based hospitals are located in Southern California in both Los Angeles County and Orange County. Copyright © 1999 - 2009, Memorial Health Services. All rights reserved.