Admission information

• Admission to the Medical Center
• Pre-Admission Testing Services (PATS)
• Power of attorney

Admission to the Medical Center

Your physician will make the necessary arrangements for your admission to LLUMC and will notify you of the time you are to check in at the Medical Center. At the designated time, you should report to the admitting office on the lobby level of the Medical Center. A patient service representative will be waiting for you and will carefully guide you through the admissions process. Financial arrangements for your care will be handled at this time. If your insurance does not cover the entire cost of your care, you will be asked to pay the remainder at the time services are rendered, or to work out special arrangements. Your patient service representative will also notify you of your right to a "durable power of attorney for health-care decisions" (see power of attorney).

The admitting office is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and remains open on all holidays. For more information call (909) 558-4425.

For questions about admissions, call (800) 872-1212, or visit: physician referral.

Pre-Admission Testing Service (PATS)

Patients having surgery or those being admitted for any procedure that requires anesthesia will be asked by their physician to report to the Pre-Admission Testing Service a day or two before their admission to the Medical Center.

A patient service representative will take you through the admitting process and then send you to the PATS office, where the required medical tests will be done and you will meet with an anesthesiologist about your care.

Decisions about medical treatment

LLUMC recognizes that competent adults have the right to make their own decisions regarding the withholding or withdrawing of treatment when they are aware of the consequences of such actions. The Medical Center consequently pledges the following:

• to facilitate and uphold every patient's right to make decisions regarding his or her own medical care and treatment;
• to assure that full evaluations of the various benefits, risks, and consequences of all treatment alternatives are fully explained to each patient; and
• to identify standards that must be followed when the patient or a legal surrogate requests his or her health provider to consider foregoing or withholding life-sustaining treatment.

When patients are unable to make decisions regarding treatment options for themselves, a surrogate decision-maker must be identified. At the time of admission, patients will be instructed about assigning a "durable power of attorney."

Power of attorney

California requires that hospitals give patients the opportunity to select a person to serve as an attorney-in-fact to make health-care decisions on their behalf, when unable to do so for themselves. This gives patients the right to have their desires of self-determination fulfilled even though their physical condition is such that they are unable to act in their own best interest. A patient service representative will provide instruction and forms regarding these matters at the time of admission.