BUENA VISTA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER (STORM LAKE, IA) Detailed Hospital Profile

Process of Care

Heart Failure

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

Here:	65.0%
Iowa:	96.9%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	75.0%
Iowa:	90.2%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	90.0%
State:	97.4%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	97.8%

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

This Hospital:	81.0%
State:	93.4%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	68.0%
State:	91.6%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	96.0%
Iowa:	94.3%

Surgery

Percent of Surgery Patients given an antibiotic at the right time (within one hour before surgery) to help prevent infection

Here:	95.0%
Iowa:	97.8%

Percent of Surgery Patients whose preventive antibiotics were stopped at the right time (within 24 hours after surgery)

This Hospital:	97.0%
State:	96.3%

Percent of Surgery Patients who were given the right kind of antibiotic to help prevent infection

This Hospital:	95.0%
State:	98.7%

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

This Hospital:	92.0%
Iowa:	96.3%

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

Here:	92.0%
Iowa:	97.2%

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

Here:	100.0%
Iowa:	99.8%

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

Here:	98.0%
Iowa:	94.2%

Surgery patients who were taking heart drugs called beta blockers before coming to the hospital, who were kept on them

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	96.5%

Patients having surgery who were actively warmed in the operating room or whose body temperature was near normal

Here:	100.0%
Iowa:	99.6%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	13.0%
Iowa:	12.0%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	14.8%
Iowa:	12.0%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	24.4%
State:	23.7%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	18.7%
State:	17.9%

Use of Medical Imaging

Outpatients who had a follow-up mammogram or ultrasound within 45 days after a screening mammogram.

This Hospital:	3.600%
Iowa:	8.069%

Outpatient CT scans of the abdomen that were combination (double) scans.

Here:	0.449%
Iowa:	0.138%

Outpatient CT scans of the chest that were combination (double) scans.

Here:	0.356%
State:	0.031%

Outpatients who got cardiac imaging stress tests before low-risk outpatient surgery

This Hospital:	1.500%
Iowa:	4.961%

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