- Lakewood Regional Medical Center
Main Information: |
| Facility Type: | Short Term Acute Care |
| Ownership: | Proprietary |
| Accreditations: | The Joint Commission |
| Teaching Hospital: | Yes |
| Year Hospital Opened: | 1972 |
Description: |
We're committed to being the hospital of choice for our community through the powerful combination of care and service excellence. For over 35 years, Lakewood Regional Medical Center has provided quality health services to our local communities. We have grown into a regional medical center and hospital, with over 600 physicians 586 employees, and 40volunteers. We are very excited about the future of our facility. We're investing $10 million in support of Lakewood Regional Medical Center's mission to provide quality health care. This includes adding two new cath labs which will be finished in early 2009, upgrading two radiology rooms and we installed an advanced 64 Slice CT scanner. Lakewood Regional Medical Center is fully accredited by The Joint Commission, the nation's oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency. The hospital was designated a UnitedHealth Premium® Specialty Center for Cardiovascular Surgery and Interventional Cardiology. Lakewood Regional Medical Center supports many organizations such as the Lakewood YMCA, Pathways Volunteer Hospice, Lakewood Pharmacy Foundation, Su Casa Domestic Abuse, Meals on Wheels, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association – Mended Hearts and Project Sheppard. Lakewood Regional Medical Center currently has contracts with many insurance and managed care plans. Most major insurance plans are accepted at our facility.
Location, Maps & Directions: |
Locations, Address, Phone
- 3700 East South Street, California, CA Lakewood, 90712
- Phone Number >
- Maps & Directions >
Hospital Leadership: |
|
Mark D. Korth
Speciality: CEO Lakewood Regional Medical Center 3700 East South Street Lakewood, CA 90712 (800) 813-4345 Mark Korth has served as Chief Executive Officer for Lakewood Regional Medical Center since April 2006. Before joining Lakewood, Mr. Korth served for four years as Chief Operating Officer for Los Alamitos Medical Center. Prior to joining Tenet, Mr. Korth worked as Vice President of My ePHIT, a web-based provider of employee and health plan wellness programs, and spent five years as an executive within Sutter Health System. His time at Sutter included three years as Chief Operating Officer for Sutter Independent Physicians, a 500-physician member independent physician association. Mr. Korth received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Brigham Young University in 1992. He subsequently earned both a Master's of Healthcare Administration and a Master's of Business Administration from the University of Minnesota in 1995. |
Top Procedures and Diagnoses: |
- Heart Failure
- Coronary Interventional Procedures (Angioplasty/ Stent)
- Pneumonia
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Heart Attack
- Sepsis
- Stroke
- Gastrointestinal Bleed
- Hip Fracture Repair
- Respiratory Failure
- "If you are over 50 and end up at RCH that might cost you your life! My elderly mother went in with 4 known conditions, glaucoma, dementia, arthritis, and a possible stroke. The only meds she had was eye drops. They were getting ready to send her back home the next day. Then call me back and asked if she had a do not resuscitate order? I said yes. Called me back again asking me the same question. Then the next call I get a lil' while later they are telling me a bunch of things are wrong she...14 October 2022, 02:14
- Nice Family Lawyer Toronto13 April 2022, 03:31
- 9-3-2021 An ambulance transported me to Christus Spohn hospital in Beeville due to breathing issues, severe headaches, fever and confusion. They completely misdiagnosed me even though I was having those symptoms and doctor Joshua J White DO falsified several details on the medical report. Then they had me transported to their psychiatric hospital in Corpus Christi where I was told that my family put me in there and if I didn't take the med's I was never getting out. For three days I was disregar...14 March 2022, 04:53
Sign Up / Login