ALEXANDRIA VA MEDICAL CENTER (PINEVILLE, LA) Detailed Hospital Profile

Process of Care

Heart Failure

Percent of patients who were given an evaluation of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)

Here:	99.0%
State:	97.3%

Percent of Patients Given ACE Inhibitor or ARB for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)

Here:	100.0%
State:	95.0%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	100.0%
State:	90.9%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
Louisiana:	99.3%

Pneumonia

Percent of Patients Given Initial Antibiotic(s) within 6 Hours After Arrival

Here:	94.0%
Louisiana:	95.1%

Percent of Patients Whose Initial ER Blood Culture Was Performed Prior To Administration Of First Dose Of Antibiotics

This Hospital:	91.0%
State:	96.7%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	97.0%
State:	97.6%

Percent of Patients Given the Most Appropriate Initial Antibiotic(s)

Here:	94.0%
State:	92.4%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	91.0%
Louisiana:	90.7%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Hospital:	97.0%
State:	93.5%

Surgery

Percent of Surgery Patients who got treatment at right time (within 24 hours before or after surgery) to help prevent blood clot

This Hospital:	100.0%
Louisiana:	95.8%

Percent of Surgery Patients whose doctors ordered treatments to prevent blood clots after certain types of surgeries

This Hospital:	100.0%
Louisiana:	96.5%

Percent of Surgery Patients needing hair removed from the surgical area before surgery who had hair removed using a safer method

Here:	100.0%
State:	99.7%

Percent of Surgery Patients whose urinary catheters were removed on the first or second day after surgery

Here:	100.0%
State:	92.3%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	10.5%
Louisiana:	11.7%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	11.4%
Louisiana:	12.5%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	27.1%
Louisiana:	25.4%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	20.5%
State:	18.7%

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ALEXANDRIA VA MEDICAL CENTER - PINEVILLE, LA