Acute Care Hospital

Scripps Mercy Hospital

4077 5th Ave, San Diego, CA 92103

24/7 Emergency Services

3 out of 5 Stars Why 3 stars?

CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating · Scripps Mercy Hospital

How was Scripps Mercy Hospital's 3-star rating calculated?

The CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating applies to acute care hospitals like Scripps Mercy Hospital. CMS standardizes every underlying measure against the national rate, computes a weighted score for each of five domains, sums them by the fixed weights below, and assigns 1–5 stars using k-means clustering across all reporting hospitals.

Domains that fed Scripps Mercy Hospital's rating
Domain	Weight	Measures reported	Hospital performance vs. national
Mortality	22%	7 of 7	2 better 4 same 1 worse
Safety of Care	22%	18 of 19	2 better 16 same 0 worse
Readmissions	22%	6 of 6	1 better 4 same 1 worse
Timely & Effective Care	12%	16 of 22	8 better 5 same 3 worse
Patient Experience	22%	HCAHPS	See HCAHPS detail below

How star meaning varies by hospital type. This CMS Overall Star Rating only applies to acute care hospitals. Children's hospitals (Pediatric Quality), psychiatric hospitals (IPFQR), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF QRP), long-term acute care hospitals (LTACH QRP), and VA medical centers each use separate quality programs designed for their patient populations. Comparing star ratings across these facility types isn't meaningful — see the methodology page for the full mapping of which program applies to which facility.

How CareRanks computes ratings → · CMS official methodology ↗

Measures the rate at which patients die within 30 days of hospital admission for specific conditions. A lower mortality rate indicates better outcomes.

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Tracks hospital-acquired infections, surgical complications, and other patient safety indicators. Lower rates indicate better safety practices.

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Measures how often patients return to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. Lower readmission rates suggest effective treatment and discharge planning.

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Based on the HCAHPS survey — patient satisfaction with communication, cleanliness, pain management, and discharge information.

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Patient survey detail — the questions feeding the Patient Experience domain above expand ↓

CMS computes the Patient Experience domain from the federal HCAHPS survey. Each bar below is one survey question; the percentage is the share of Scripps's recent patients who gave the most positive response. HCAHPS percentages aren't directly comparable across all measures — see the methodology page for how CMS weights them.

Communication with Nurses 77%
Communication with Doctors 78%
Hospital Cleanliness 69%
Hospital Quietness 45%
Staff Responsiveness N/A
Discharge Information 87%
Overall Hospital Rating (9 or 10) 67%
Would Recommend Hospital 68%

Percentages represent patients who gave the most positive response. Survey conducted by CMS through the HCAHPS program.

Measures how quickly the hospital provides important treatments such as antibiotics for pneumonia or interventions for heart attacks.

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Psychiatric Unit Quality (IPFQR)

Scripps Mercy Hospital operates a Medicare-certified inpatient psychiatric unit that reports under the federal IPFQR program. The measures below are specific to that unit — not the hospital as a whole. They cover restraint and seclusion use, screening for medication side effects, substance-use and tobacco treatment, transitions of care, follow-up after discharge, and readmissions.

Physical Restraint Use 0.0 hours per 1,000 patient-hours

National median: 0.1 hours Near national median

HBIPS-2 — hours of physical restraint use per 1,000 patient-hours. Lower is better; restraints carry physical and psychological risks.

Seclusion Use 0.0 hours per 1,000 patient-hours

National median: 0.0 hours Near national median

HBIPS-3 — hours of seclusion per 1,000 patient-hours. Lower is better; seclusion is used only when no other intervention works.

Metabolic Screening (SMD) 99.0 %

National median: 92.0 % Near national median

SMD — % of patients on antipsychotics screened for metabolic side effects (BMI, blood glucose, cholesterol). Antipsychotics raise metabolic-syndrome risk; screening catches it early.

Substance-Use Treatment Provided 96.0 %

National median: 74.0 % Better than national median

SUB-2 — % of patients with alcohol/drug use referred for treatment during admission.

Substance-Use Treatment at Discharge 99.0 %

National median: 77.0 % Better than national median

SUB-3 — % of patients with substance-use disorder offered or referred to treatment at discharge.

Tobacco-Use Treatment at Discharge 96.0 %

National median: 64.0 % Better than national median

TOB-3 — % of patients using tobacco who received counseling and/or medication at discharge.

Transition Record Completed 94.0 %

National median: 77.0 % Better than national median

TR-1 — % of discharges with a completed transition record including medications, follow-up plan, and crisis instructions.

Medication Continuation 85.9 %

National median: 78.2 % Near national median

MedCont — % of discharged patients with continued antipsychotic / antidepressant medication post-discharge.

30-Day Readmission Rate 17.1 %

National median: 19.1 % Better than national median

READM-30-IPF — risk-standardized 30-day readmission rate. No Different Than the National Rate

Influenza Immunization 97.0 %

National median: 87.0 % Better than national median

IMM-2 — % of patients given a flu vaccine during the inpatient stay.

Source: CMS Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Quality Reporting Program. Reporting period ending 12/31/2024.

Clinical Staff

Scripps Mercy Hospital has 780 CMS-affiliated clinicians on its roster — physicians, advanced practice providers, and other Medicare-enrolled professionals who list this hospital as an affiliated facility.

Top specialties

Internal Medicine 120
Diagnostic Radiology 69
Hospitalist 53
Family Practice 50
Emergency Medicine 45
Nurse Practitioner 41
Anesthesiology 38
Physician Assistant 32

Self-reported primary specialty in the CMS Doctors & Clinicians dataset. Many clinicians serve multiple facilities.

Practice characteristics

Accept Medicare assignment: 774 (99%)
Offer telehealth: 312 (40%)

Medicare quality scoring (MIPS)

149 of these clinicians have a published Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) final score. Of those, 65 (44%) score above the national median of 85.5.

MIPS scoring is heavily compressed at the top of the 0–100 range, so individual scores are not a reliable consumer signal. We surface roster-level coverage and the share above the national median instead.

Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians (Care Compare) national downloadable file and MIPS Performance Year final scores, as of 2026-05-27. Affiliations from the CMS Facility Affiliations dataset. About 16% of small facilities (critical access, rural emergency, freestanding psych, IRF/LTCH) do not appear in the affiliations file and therefore have no panel.

Find a Doctor

Search the 780 clinicians affiliated with Scripps Mercy Hospital. Each name links to that clinician's official Medicare Care Compare profile, where you can see their credentials, secondary specialties, group affiliations, and (when applicable) MIPS quality scores.

Showing 30 of 780 clinicians (alphabetical)

Zina A. Abbas

Internal Medicine

✓ Medicare
Khalid S. Abdullah, MD

Hospitalist

✓ Medicare
Richard R. Abello, MD

Diagnostic Radiology

✓ Medicare
Mark C. Adrian, MD

Internal Medicine

✓ Medicare
Jennifer Agueda, NP

Nurse Practitioner

✓ Medicare
Aakif Ahmad, DO

Endocrinology

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Mohammed Al-Jasim, MD

Infectious Disease

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Omar Al-Nouri, DO

Vascular Surgery

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Erick H. Alayo, MD

Gastroenterology

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Ovidiu Alb, MD

Family Practice

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Simona Alb, MD

Family Practice

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Victor Alcalde, MD

Emergency Medicine

✓ Medicare
Joshua Alexander, DO

Neurology

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Sonia L. Ali, MD

Hematology/oncology

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Derrick R. Allen, MD

Diagnostic Radiology

✓ Medicare
Ziad I. Allos, MD

Family Practice

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Mahlet Alula, MD

Internal Medicine

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Miguel Alvarez-Estrada, MD

Family Practice

✓ Medicare
Soroosh Amanat, MD

Family Practice

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Sara Amen, MD

Emergency Medicine

✓ Medicare
Giuseppe Ammirati, MD

Interventional Radiology

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
William S. Anapoell, MD

Hospitalist

✓ Medicare
Gregory S. Anderson, MD

Diagnostic Radiology

✓ Medicare
Kendell R. Anderson, DO

Hospitalist

📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
Nathalie V. Andry, MD

Diagnostic Radiology

✓ Medicare
Jaleel Anjum, MD

Hospitalist

✓ Medicare
John-Vincent L. Arcilla, MD

Internal Medicine

✓ Medicare
Rodolfo Arcovedo, MD

General Surgery

✓ Medicare
Noemi Arrieta, DO

Family Practice

✓ Medicare
Ruchita S. Asudani, MD

Hospitalist

✓ Medicare

Roster from CMS Doctors and Clinicians (Care Compare), updated 2026-05-27. A clinician may also practice at other facilities; "affiliated" means this hospital is on their CMS profile, not that they exclusively work here.

Pricing & Costs

This hospital participates in price transparency under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. View 508 published procedures — gross charges, cash prices, and per-payer negotiated rates where available.

Across this hospital's priced procedures:

vs. CA median +116% runs 116% above the state median

vs. national median +130% runs 130% above the national median

Median percent difference across the 508 DRGs where this hospital has a comparable published price and the comparison cohort has enough hospitals to compute a stable median.

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Facility Information

Facility type: Acute Care Hospitals
Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
Emergency services: Yes — 24/7

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About this data

Quality and ratings data are sourced from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare program. Star ratings are CMS's own calculation; CareRanks does not modify or re-weight them. Facility-level details (address, beds, ownership, teaching status) come from CMS provider files and the CMS Provider of Services file.

Pricing data, where shown, is drawn from the hospital's own Machine-Readable File (MRF) published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. See our methodology for the full update cadence and limitations.

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Quality measures

Mortality

Safety of Care

Readmissions

Patient Experience

Timely & Effective Care

Psychiatric Unit Quality (IPFQR)

Clinical Staff

Top specialties

Practice characteristics

Medicare quality scoring (MIPS)

Find a Doctor

Pricing & Costs

Facility Information

Nearby Hospitals

Hillcrest Medical Center at Uc San Diego Health

Select Specialty Hospital - San Diego

Nmc San Diego