Palomar Medical Center Poway

2Location

Poway, CA

3Type

Not a teaching hospital · 95 beds · Government · Urban

4Payment adjustment factor, FY2027

0.9997

CMS’s value. A factor below one is a cut.

5Reduction

0.03%

cut One minus the factor, as a percent.

Readmissions, estimated FY2026 Estimate

−$22K

cut

The net across all three programs adds each program’s estimated dollars for FY2026, the latest year they share. Readmissions’ part can differ from the FY2027 values on this page.

This hospital across the programs

What CMS measured, FY2027

The conditions CMS measured for this hospital in FY2027, with the excess readmission ratio as CMS published it and the median of the hospital’s peer group.
Condition	Eligible discharges	Excess readmission ratio	Peer group median	Counted by CMS
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI)	4	1.0092 above 1	0.9963	No
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)	86	0.9455 at or below 1	0.9976	No
Heart failure (HF)	232	0.9699 at or below 1	1.0027	No
Pneumonia (PN)	438	0.9781 at or below 1	0.9941	No
Elective total hip or knee arthroplasty (THA/TKA)	43	1.0172 above 1	0.9914	Yes

A ratio above 1 means more readmissions than expected for the hospital’s patients. CMS counts a condition only when it has enough eligible discharges and its ratio is above the median of the hospital’s peer group, so a counted ratio can sit at or below 1. A counted condition adds to the hospital’s reduction, which can round to none.

Full explorer on Thirty Day Readmissions (opens in a new tab)

Source: CMS’s FY2027 Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program files, as pinned by Thirty Day Readmissions. CMS’s values appear as CMS published them; dollars are this site’s estimates.

A cut is a program’s formula at work, not a verdict on a hospital’s care. Nothing on this page ranks hospitals.