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CMS certification 05020F

NH Camp Pendleton

200 Mercy Cir, Camp Pendleton, CA 92055

Acute Care - Department of Defense Emergency services

CMS does not publish an overall star rating for NH Camp Pendleton. 75% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 28 min in its emergency department before leaving (US median 2 h 42 min).

Every figure on this page is published by CMS; we arrange and explain it, and score nothing ourselves.

CMS overall rating Not rated Overall star ratings are not calculated for Department of Defense (DoD) hospitals.
Would definitely recommend 75% US average 71%
Patient survey rating 4/5 336 completed surveys
Compared with the nation Too few cases for CMS to compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 336 completed surveys, 22% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Would definitely recommend the hospital
75%
CA 69% · US 71% · 4 of 5 stars
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10
75%
CA 68% · US 72% · 4 of 5 stars
Nurses always communicated well
86%
CA 76% · US 80% · 5 of 5 stars
Doctors always communicated well
84%
CA 76% · US 80% · 4 of 5 stars
Staff always explained new medicines
71%
CA 59% · US 62% · 4 of 5 stars
Given information about recovering at home
91%
CA 85% · US 86% · 5 of 5 stars
Room was always clean
70%
CA 72% · US 74% · 3 of 5 stars
Always quiet at night
79%
CA 48% · US 60% · 5 of 5 stars

This hospital California average US average

Emergency department

How long emergency patients spent here and how some time-critical care went, from CMS's timely and effective care measures, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025. CMS classes this emergency department's patient volume as medium; busier departments tend to have longer times, so the national median for departments of the same volume is shown too. These are medians over a year of visits, not a live wait time.

Measure This hospital CA US
Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 347 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 45 min 2 h 28 min 2 h 54 min 2 h 42 min
Left before being seen Lower is better · 35,235 patients 3% 2% 2%
Severe sepsis and septic shock: all recommended care given Higher is better · 28 patients 54% 70% 65%

How NH Camp Pendleton compares with nearby hospitals

The closest hospitals of the same kind that CMS rates or surveys - the same city first, then the same county and ZIP area. Every figure is CMS's: the overall star rating, the share of patients who would definitely recommend the hospital, the median time emergency patients spent before leaving, and how many death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS found better or worse than the national rate.

Hospital CMS stars Would recommend ER median time Vs the nation
NH Camp PendletonThis hospitalNot rated75%2 h 28 min—
Tri-City Medical CenterSame county · Oceanside1/552%4 h 8 min2 better 1 worse
Palomar Medical Center PowaySame county · Poway4/561%3 h 20 min2 better
Scripps Green HospitalSame county · La Jolla5/586%—7 better 1 worse
Scripps Memorial Hospital La JollaSame county · La Jolla5/585%3 h 6 min9 better 2 worse
Kaiser Foundation Hospital - San MarcosSame county · San Marcos4/588%—No different

Hospitals differ in size and in how sick their patients are. CMS adjusts its outcome measures for that, but a star or a percentage is a starting point for questions, not a verdict.

Not reported for this hospital

CMS had too few cases here to publish results for deaths, complications, infections caught in the hospital, readmissions and return visits. That is common at small, rural and specialty hospitals, and says nothing either way about quality.

Clinicians registered at this address

388 clinicians give this hospital's street address as their practice location in NPPES, the federal provider registry. The same address can take in offices and clinics in the building, and a listing does not prove admitting privileges or current employment.

Specialty Clinicians
Family Medicine 36
General Practice 33
Clinical 23
Physical Therapist 20
Dentist 16
Emergency Medicine 16
Physician Assistant 15
Surgery 15
Anesthesiology 14
Case Management 13
Obstetrics & Gynecology 10
Military Health Care Provider 9

First 12 alphabetically

How to read this page

  • Everything here is published by CMS on Care Compare. We arrange it and explain it; the star ratings and the better / worse verdicts are CMS's, not ours.
  • “No different” is the most common result on most measures at most hospitals. CMS only calls a result better or worse when the difference from the national rate is statistically clear.
  • Death, complication and readmission rates are adjusted by CMS for how sick patients were, so hospitals that treat sicker patients can be compared fairly.
  • Infection results are ratios: 1.0 means as many infections as CMS predicted for a hospital like this one, below 1.0 is fewer.
  • These are hospital-wide results. They do not rate an individual doctor, nurse or department, and they are not medical advice.

CMS Care Compare data retrieved 4 Oct 2026, refreshed weekly. Where this data comes from and how we handle it · Report an error

Common questions about NH Camp Pendleton

Would patients recommend NH Camp Pendleton?

75% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 336 completed HCAHPS surveys.

How long is the wait in the NH Camp Pendleton emergency room?

Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 28 min in its emergency department before leaving (US median 2 h 42 min). Among US emergency departments with medium patient volume, like this one, the median is 2 h 45 min. 3% of emergency patients left before being seen (US 2%). These are medians over a year of visits, not a live wait time.