California hospitals showed improvement in the timely and effective delivery of care for heart attack and heart failure patients. Inpatient mortality rates for several heart-related conditions and procedures were cut in half.

Racial disparities persisted in hospital admissions for diabetes and heart patients.

Maternal mortality rates declined overall, but rates for African American women were still significantly higher than for other racial/ethnic groups.

Cesarean section rates remained stable since 2009 after rising for a decade.

Compared to the United States, California’s nursing homes performed better on a number of measures, including weight loss, depression, and preventing falls but performed worse on the physical restraint of patients.

California home health agencies performed better than the nation on some measures related to physical and mental health but were among the worst in improving activities of daily living.

Medicare patients in California were more likely than those nationwide to die in a hospital and to have an ICU admission in the days preceding death.