CHESTER REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER - CHESTER, SC

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Addresss:
1 MEDICAL PARK DRIVE
CHESTER, SC, 29706
Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (803) 581-3151

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Hospital Owner: Proprietary
Emergency Services: Yes

Employment Full-Time Equivalent
Licensed Practical Or Vocational Nurses : 16.00
Registered Professional Nurses : 54.00
Other Salaried Personnel : 304.00
Dieticians : 1.00
Physical Therapists : 4.00
Registered Pharmacists : 6.00
Respiratory Therapists : 8.00
Medical Social Workers : 1.00

Number Of Beds
Total: 82
Total Certified: 82

Provided Services
Nuclear Medicine Services
Anatomical Laboratory Services
Anesthesia Services
Blood Bank Services
Chiropractice Services
Clinical Laboratory Services
Dental Services
Diagnostic Radiology Services
Dietary Services
Emergency Services
Home Health Services
ICU - Medical/Surgical Services
Inpatient Surgical Services
Long Term Care (Swing-Beds) Services
Operating Room Services
Optometric Services
Outpatient Services
Outpatient Surgery Unit Services
Pediatric Services
Pharmacy Services
Physical Therapy Services
Postoperative Recovery Room Services
Respiratory Care Services
Social Services

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: Between 100 and 299
Survey Response Rate: 17%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never
This Hospital:

8%
State:

5%
Usually
Here:

18%
South Carolina:

15%
Always
Here:

74%
State:

80%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never
Here:

7%
South Carolina:

4%
Usually
This Hospital:

15%
South Carolina:

12%
Always
Here:

78%
South Carolina:

84%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never
This Hospital:

13%
State:

10%
Usually
This Hospital:

25%
South Carolina:

22%
Always
Here:

62%
South Carolina:

68%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never
This Hospital:

10%
State:

7%
Usually
Here:

23%
State:

21%
Always
Here:

67%
South Carolina:

72%

How often did staff explain about medicines before giving them to patients?

Sometimes or never
Here:

22%
South Carolina:

19%
Usually
Here:

20%
South Carolina:

16%
Always
This Hospital:

58%
South Carolina:

65%

How often were the patients' rooms and bathrooms kept clean?

Sometimes or never
Here:

13%
State:

9%
Usually
Here:

22%
South Carolina:

19%
Always
This Hospital:

65%
State:

72%

How often was the area around patients' rooms kept quiet at night?

Sometimes or never
This Hospital:

11%
South Carolina:

8%
Usually
Here:

26%
South Carolina:

25%
Always
Here:

63%
State:

67%

Were patients given information about what to do during their recovery at home?

Yes
This Hospital:

78%
South Carolina:

85%
No
This Hospital:

22%
State:

15%

How do patients rate the hospital overall on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest)?

6 or lower
Here:

16%
State:

8%
7 or 8
Here:

32%
State:

22%
9 or 10
Here:

52%
South Carolina:

70%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

No
Here:

10%
South Carolina:

5%
Yes, probably
Here:

38%
South Carolina:

25%
Yes, definitely
Here:

52%
State:

70%

Use of Medical Imaging

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

12.100%
State:

8.135%
Outpatient CT scans of the abdomen that were combination (double) scans.
Here:

0.046%
State:

0.132%
Outpatients who got cardiac imaging stress tests before low-risk outpatient surgery
This Hospital:

3.900%
South Carolina:

5.834%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Average number of minutes before outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack got an ECG
This Hospital:

4
State:

7
Outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack who got aspirin within 24 hours of arrival
This Hospital:

100.0%
State:

97.4%

Heart Failure

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

100.0%
South Carolina:

99.4%
Percent of Patients Given ACE Inhibitor or ARB for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)
This Hospital:

94.0%
South Carolina:

97.2%
Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions
This Hospital:

100.0%
State:

92.5%
Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling
This Hospital:

100.0%
South Carolina:

99.6%

Pneumonia

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

100.0%
South Carolina:

96.4%
Percent of Patients Whose Initial ER Blood Culture Was Performed Prior To Administration Of First Dose Of Antibiotics
Here:

100.0%
State:

97.6%
Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling
This Hospital:

100.0%
State:

99.4%
Percent of Patients Given the Most Appropriate Initial Antibiotic(s)
This Hospital:

97.0%
State:

95.6%
Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination
Here:

100.0%
State:

96.0%
Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination
This Hospital:

95.0%
State:

97.3%

Surgery

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

100.0%
South Carolina:

98.9%
Percent of Surgery Patients whose preventive antibiotics were stopped at the right time (within 24 hours after surgery)
Here:

100.0%
State:

97.4%
Percent of Surgery Patients who were given the right kind of antibiotic to help prevent infection
This Hospital:

100.0%
State:

98.6%
Percent of Surgery Patients who got treatment at right time (within 24 hours before or after surgery) to help prevent blood clot
This Hospital:

96.0%
South Carolina:

97.5%
Percent of Surgery Patients whose doctors ordered treatments to prevent blood clots after certain types of surgeries
This Hospital:

96.0%
South Carolina:

98.2%
Percent of Surgery Patients needing hair removed from the surgical area before surgery who had hair removed using a safer method
Here:

100.0%
South Carolina:

99.9%
Percent of Surgery Patients whose urinary catheters were removed on the first or second day after surgery
Here:

94.0%
State:

95.2%
Outpatients having surgery who got an antibiotic at the right time - within one hour before surgery (higher numbers are better)
This Hospital:

96.0%
State:

97.0%
Outpatients having surgery who got the right kind of antibiotic (higher numbers are better)
This Hospital:

98.0%
State:

96.4%
Patients having surgery who were actively warmed in the operating room or whose body temperature was near normal
Here:

100.0%
South Carolina:

99.8%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack
This Hospital:

16.1%
State:

15.7%
30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure
Here:

12.5%
State:

11.9%
30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia
This Hospital:

12.3%
South Carolina:

12.7%
30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack
Here:

18.8%
State:

19.5%
30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure
Here:

22.8%
State:

23.8%
30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia
Here:

17.5%
State:

18.6%

Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) - Medicare Provider Charge Data

Cardiac Arrhythmia and Conduction Disorders with Complications
Average Covered Charges
Here:

$17,494
State:

$21,305
Average Total Payments
Here:

$5,026
State:

$5,477
Number of discharges: 14
This Hospital:

4.59%
State:

1.44%
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Complications
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$12,966
South Carolina:

$26,173
Average Total Payments
Here:

$6,116
State:

$6,231
Number of discharges: 16
Here:

5.25%
State:

1.89%
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease without Complications
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$8,544
State:

$19,353
Average Total Payments
Here:

$4,405
South Carolina:

$4,645
Number of discharges: 12
Here:

3.93%
State:

1.57%
Diabetes with Complications
Average Covered Charges
Here:

$12,415
South Carolina:

$21,337
Average Total Payments
This Hospital:

$5,155
South Carolina:

$5,568
Number of discharges: 16
Here:

5.25%
South Carolina:

0.78%
Esophagitis, Gastroent and Miscellaneous Digestive Disorders without Major Complications
Average Covered Charges
Here:

$13,346
South Carolina:

$20,337
Average Total Payments
Here:

$4,595
State:

$4,791
Number of discharges: 26
This Hospital:

8.52%
South Carolina:

3.29%
G.I. Hemorrhage with Complications
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$19,418
South Carolina:

$24,170
Average Total Payments
This Hospital:

$6,362
South Carolina:

$6,618
Number of discharges: 17
Here:

5.57%
South Carolina:

2.16%
Heart Failure and Shock with Complications
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$13,157
South Carolina:

$23,914
Average Total Payments
Here:

$6,154
State:

$6,628
Number of discharges: 20
Here:

6.56%
South Carolina:

3.17%
Heart Failure and Shock with Major Complications
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$18,012
State:

$37,308
Average Total Payments
This Hospital:

$8,267
South Carolina:

$9,856
Number of discharges: 15
Here:

4.92%
South Carolina:

2.62%
Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections without Major Complications
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$10,912
South Carolina:

$19,506
Average Total Payments
This Hospital:

$4,963
South Carolina:

$5,031
Number of discharges: 23
This Hospital:

7.54%
State:

3.05%
Misc Disorders of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids or Electrolytes without Major Complications
Average Covered Charges
Here:

$9,502
State:

$17,940
Average Total Payments
Here:

$4,265
State:

$4,582
Number of discharges: 16
This Hospital:

5.25%
State:

2.35%
Pulmonary Edema and Respiratory Failure
Average Covered Charges
Here:

$22,065
State:

$31,366
Average Total Payments
Here:

$8,049
State:

$8,274
Number of discharges: 12
Here:

3.93%
State:

1.64%
Renal Failure with Complications
Average Covered Charges
Here:

$14,039
State:

$24,367
Average Total Payments
Here:

$5,878
State:

$6,649
Number of discharges: 31
This Hospital:

10.16%
South Carolina:

2.67%
Septicemia or Severe Sepsis without Mechanical Ventilation 96+ Hours with Major Complications
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$31,628
State:

$47,649
Average Total Payments
Here:

$10,956
South Carolina:

$12,850
Number of discharges: 40
This Hospital:

13.11%
State:

4.32%
Septicemia or Severe Sepsis without Mechanical Ventilation 96+ Hours without Major Complications
Average Covered Charges
Here:

$14,604
State:

$27,108
Average Total Payments
This Hospital:

$6,900
South Carolina:

$7,377
Number of discharges: 33
Here:

10.82%
State:

1.76%
Syncope and Collapse
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$13,599
South Carolina:

$19,835
Average Total Payments
This Hospital:

$4,506
State:

$4,648
Number of discharges: 14
This Hospital:

4.59%
South Carolina:

1.67%

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