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Centinela Hospital Medical Center
Inglewood, CA
(9 reviews)

Rating Breakdown

Team Culture1.5 / 5.0
Communication Interdisciplinary Coordination0.0 / 5.0
Resources Support Staff2.0 / 5.0
Safety Best Practices1.5 / 5.0
Workload2.0 / 5.0
Compensation Benefits3.0 / 5.0
Staffing Levels Ratios1.5 / 5.0
Leadership Management Support1.0 / 5.0

Reviews Received

  • February 28, 2023
    Emergency Room
    1.0

    Came here as a student and hired as a new grad, terrible staff. The whole unit up and quit a few months ago and they had to close a whole wing of the hospital. No one stays here, all new grads and travelers. The kitchen is understaffed and closed a lot now. Overall weird, chilling, self isolating experience.

  • February 28, 2023
    Emergency Room
    1.0

    Came here as a student and hired as a new grad, terrible staff. The whole unit up and quit a few months ago and they had to close a whole wing of the hospital. No one stays here, all new grads and travelers. The kitchen is understaffed and closed a lot now. Overall weird, chilling, self isolating experience.

  • February 28, 2023
    Emergency Room
    1.0

    Came here as a student and hired as a new grad, terrible staff. The whole unit up and quit a few months ago and they had to close a whole wing of the hospital. No one stays here, all new grads and travelers. The kitchen is understaffed and closed a lot now. Overall weird, chilling, self isolating experience.

  • December 12, 2022
    Telemetry/Step-down
    1.0
  • December 12, 2022
    Telemetry/Step-down
    1.0
  • April 24, 2021
    RNEmergency Room
    2.0

    ER director was very unwelcoming to the crisis nurses. He told the staff how much money the crisis nurses were making- trying to cause problems. The few staff were all new grads. There would be 3-4 staff nurses assigned to float as resource nurses in the ER (which meant they did they didn’t do much) while the crisis nurses would take 2 icu holds plus 2 ER beds. Equipment always broken, no bedside charting, no nurses station. WOWs in the hallways which didn’t all have a med scanner. No organization of supplies- not all kept in supply room. Staff tell you just to look in all of the rooms for supplies (52 bed ER). Area very unsafe. Would not recommend.

  • March 28, 2021
    Ned/Surg-Tele RNMed-Surg
    3.0

    Old school Meditech from the 80’s or something. Charting takes forever here because of the outdated charting system. And don’t forget the lack of WOW’s that were fully functional. Good luck finding one with a working scanner, decent battery life, and could actually roll. It’s common for outlets not to work or to receive equipment with frayed cords from central supply. Some of the floors have been remodeled and are nicer and cleaner. And by that I mean acceptable not anything above and beyond just not to where you notice how dilapidated it is the entire time. The patient population is majority poor, homeless, and/or drug addicts. Restraint use was common. Staff was mostly nice but they hire 30 new graduates/month in all specialities. So don’t expect them to know their business. And hopefully this was just while I was there under a Covid crisis contract but when you call a Rapid you only got RT and an ICU nurse. Maybe charge would come out of the office for a few minutes too. I was told it’s nickname was “Centi-hella.” Accurate.

  • June 1, 2025
    Med-Surg
    2.5
  • July 8, 2025
    Emergency Room
    1.5

    Inner city low income hood hospital. Place has a reputation. Horrible patient ratios. Hospital refuses to divert. (Ex 4:1 ICU. 2ICU/2ED. 10:1 Boarded/ED). Charge nurse and coworkers often has 10+ patients so asking for help is a burden. Admitting physicians make it hard to contact them when patient boarded. Overriding medication is a must to keep people alive. Common for nurses to run codes here. No materials. Be ready to do the drop factor for many meds. (Limited pumps, No PPE, ran out of NS before there was even a shortage, etc) Since the community is mostly poor people, acuity is super high. LVNs take the common ER patients most other ERs have. RNs take the super unstable patients. RSI almost every shift. Very limited axillary staff. Most staff are new grads. You get 10+ years experience in 1 year. Real life Pitt if you’re looking for that, just dangerous for license. It’s a shame that black and brown people are limited to this hospital. Only EDAP/STEMI/Stroke Center in the hood. (No trauma centers in the hood so homie drop offs are normal).Only the future will tell if things will change due to the gentrification around the Inglewood/ South Central LA area.

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