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French Hospital Medical Center
★★★★★ 5/5San Luis Obispo, California · Acute Care Hospitals
Federal CMS data, no proprietary rating.
This hospital profile is compiled from CMS Medicare provider enrollment and cost-report data. PlainDoctor does not assign quality scores or editorial ratings.
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5 ★
CMS Rating
of 5 stars · CMS Hospital Compare
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Acute Care Hospitals
Type
Voluntary non-profit - Private
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Yes
Emergency
Emergency department
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CMS-affiliated providers
What the federal data reveals: French Hospital Medical Center is a acute care hospitals in San Luis Obispo, California, operating under voluntary non-profit - private ownership with an emergency department. CMS assigns this facility a 5-star overall rating, a composite across mortality, readmission, patient experience, safety, and timely & effective care measures.
Specialties represented
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CMS Overall Rating
5/5
Hospital ownership
Voluntary non-profit - Private
About French Hospital Medical Center
French Hospital Medical Center is a acute care hospitals located in San Luis Obispo, California. According to CMS Hospital General Information, the facility operates under Voluntary non-profit - Private ownership and provides emergency services. Its CMS Hospital Compare overall rating is 5/5 stars, a composite score derived from mortality, readmission, patient experience, safety, timely-care, and efficient-use-of-medical-imaging measures across the year of reporting. According to CMS Hospital Compare and the National Provider Identifier Registry, covering more than 5,000 U.S. hospitals with a CMS Overall Star Rating published since July 2016 you can search and compare here, every figure traces to its source in our methodology.
We synthesize French Hospital Medical Center's data from four federal CMS datasets (Hospital General Information for ratings, Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File for provider affiliations, NPI Registry for provider identity, and Quality Payment Program for MIPS scores) to produce a single research-platform view. Read our methodology for how these sources cross-reference.
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Data sources
- • CMS Hospital General Information - facility identity, ownership, rating, emergency-services flag (data.cms.gov)
- • CMS Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File - provider-to-facility affiliations (data.cms.gov)
- • CMS NPI Registry (NPPES) - provider identity (npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov)
- • CMS Quality Payment Program (MIPS) - provider quality scores (data.cms.gov)
What this data shows
The profile above reads French Hospital Medical Center entirely through federal records, so it is worth knowing what each figure can and cannot tell you. The CMS Hospital Overall Rating shown here as 5 of 5 stars is a composite that blends mortality, readmission, patient experience, safety, and timely and effective care measures into a single number, which means two hospitals with the same star count can differ sharply on the measures a particular patient cares about most, such as surgical complication rates or how a unit handles a specific condition. The ownership type, facility category, and emergency services flag describe the operating model rather than the quality of any single department, and the affiliated clinicians listed are providers who report a Medicare billing relationship with this CCN, not a guarantee that a given doctor practices here today. For care decisions, treat these numbers as a starting map, then confirm specifics with the facility, your insurer, and your own physician. See CMS Care Compare for measure-level detail and the methodology behind the star rating at CMS, and verify any individual clinician through the CMS NPI Registry.
This is a directory of publicly available government data and is not medical advice, a placement recommendation, or a substitute for consulting your physician. Inclusion or CMS Overall Rating here does not imply a recommendation. Always consult your own physician, contact the facility directly, and verify any affiliated clinician's license through your state medical board before making care decisions. Methodology · About
Every figure on PlainDoctor is rendered directly from the federal CMS NPPES registry, Medicare Part D, MIPS, and Open Payments records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-05-20.