ELLSWORTH COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER (ELLSWORTH, KS) Detailed Hospital Profile

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: Between 100 and 299
Survey Response Rate: 23%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	4%
Kansas:	3%

Usually

This Hospital:	21%
Kansas:	17%

Always

Here:	75%
Kansas:	80%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	1%
State:	3%

Usually

Here:	18%
State:	14%

Always

Here:	81%
State:	83%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	5%
State:	6%

Usually

Here:	22%
Kansas:	24%

Always

Here:	73%
Kansas:	70%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

Here:	5%
State:	5%

Usually

Here:	40%
Kansas:	24%

Always

This Hospital:	55%
Kansas:	71%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	16%
State:	17%

Usually

This Hospital:	24%
Kansas:	19%

Always

Here:	60%
State:	64%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	1%
Kansas:	7%

Usually

This Hospital:	10%
State:	18%

Always

Here:	89%
State:	75%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	5%
Kansas:	7%

Usually

Here:	36%
State:	28%

Always

Here:	59%
State:	65%

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

Yes

This Hospital:	74%
Kansas:	85%

This Hospital:	26%
Kansas:	15%

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

6 or lower

Here:	3%
Kansas:	6%

7 or 8

Here:	28%
State:	20%

9 or 10

Here:	69%
State:	74%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	1%
Kansas:	3%

Yes, probably

Here:	26%
Kansas:	21%

Yes, definitely

This Hospital:	73%
Kansas:	76%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

This Hospital:	100.0%
Kansas:	99.1%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

This Hospital:	50.0%
State:	99.1%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	98.7%

Heart Failure

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

This Hospital:	86.0%
Kansas:	96.1%

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

Here:	80.0%
Kansas:	95.8%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	50.0%
Kansas:	89.1%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	50.0%
Kansas:	98.5%

Pneumonia

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
Kansas:	96.4%

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

This Hospital:	89.0%
State:	97.9%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
Kansas:	97.0%

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

This Hospital:	75.0%
State:	90.7%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	100.0%
Kansas:	92.6%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	77.0%
State:	93.5%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	11.7%
State:	12.0%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	12.5%
State:	12.2%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	25.9%
Kansas:	24.3%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	21.5%
State:	18.2%

ELLSWORTH COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER - ELLSWORTH, KS

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Outcome of Care

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