FISHER-TITUS HOSPITAL (NORWALK, OH) Detailed Hospital Profile

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 32%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	3%
Ohio:	4%

Usually

Here:	21%
Ohio:	17%

Always

This Hospital:	76%
State:	79%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	4%
Ohio:	5%

Usually

Here:	20%
Ohio:	16%

Always

Here:	76%
State:	79%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	7%
Ohio:	8%

Usually

Here:	32%
State:	25%

Always

This Hospital:	61%
Ohio:	67%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	6%
State:	6%

Usually

This Hospital:	27%
Ohio:	24%

Always

Here:	67%
State:	70%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	23%
State:	20%

Usually

This Hospital:	21%
Ohio:	18%

Always

This Hospital:	56%
Ohio:	62%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	5%
Ohio:	7%

Usually

This Hospital:	19%
Ohio:	19%

Always

Here:	76%
State:	74%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	8%
State:	11%

Usually

Here:	34%
Ohio:	32%

Always

Here:	58%
Ohio:	57%

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

Yes

Here:	88%
Ohio:	85%

This Hospital:	12%
State:	15%

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

6 or lower

Here:	6%
Ohio:	8%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	20%
Ohio:	22%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	74%
Ohio:	70%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	3%
State:	4%

Yes, probably

Here:	26%
Ohio:	25%

Yes, definitely

This Hospital:	71%
Ohio:	71%

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

Atherosclerosis without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$7,197
State:	$13,937

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$3,328
Ohio:	$3,773

Number of discharges: 12

This Hospital:	1.08%
Ohio:	0.41%

Bronchitis and Asthma with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$11,147
State:	$16,788

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,810
State:	$5,543

Number of discharges: 17

Here:	1.53%
Ohio:	0.41%

Cardiac Arrhythmia and Conduction Disorders with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$15,287
Ohio:	$17,343

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,789
State:	$5,360

Number of discharges: 13

This Hospital:	1.17%
State:	1.61%

Cardiac Arrhythmia and Conduction Disorders without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$10,096
Ohio:	$12,756

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$3,601
Ohio:	$3,704

Number of discharges: 36

Here:	3.25%
State:	1.70%

Cellulitis without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$11,630
State:	$14,248

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,920
Ohio:	$5,264

Number of discharges: 51

Here:	4.60%
State:	2.07%

Chest Pain

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$9,687
State:	$13,576

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$3,140
Ohio:	$3,608

Number of discharges: 19

This Hospital:	1.71%
State:	2.13%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$13,804
Ohio:	$18,588

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,477
State:	$6,116

Number of discharges: 33

Here:	2.98%
Ohio:	2.58%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$19,789
Ohio:	$23,243

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,346
State:	$7,305

Number of discharges: 18

Here:	1.62%
Ohio:	2.57%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$12,076
Ohio:	$13,703

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,116
State:	$4,558

Number of discharges: 60

This Hospital:	5.42%
State:	1.95%

Degenerative Nervous System Disorders without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$13,475
Ohio:	$18,085

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,271
Ohio:	$5,977

Number of discharges: 15

This Hospital:	1.35%
State:	0.44%

Diabetes with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$9,935
State:	$17,034

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,559
State:	$5,364

Number of discharges: 13

Here:	1.17%
State:	0.68%

Dysequilibrium

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$9,095
State:	$15,665

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$3,647
State:	$4,123

Number of discharges: 15

Here:	1.35%
Ohio:	0.40%

Esophagitis, Gastroent and Miscellaneous Digestive Disorders without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$11,166
Ohio:	$15,976

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,121
Ohio:	$4,676

Number of discharges: 49

This Hospital:	4.42%
Ohio:	3.54%

Fx, Sprn, Strn and Disl Except Femur, Hip, Pelvis and Thigh without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$11,752
State:	$14,839

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,084
State:	$4,497

Number of discharges: 12

This Hospital:	1.08%
State:	0.31%

G.I. Hemorrhage with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$18,046
State:	$21,460

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,155
Ohio:	$6,445

Number of discharges: 21

This Hospital:	1.90%
State:	1.96%

G.I. Hemorrhage without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$11,349
Ohio:	$14,729

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,023
Ohio:	$4,440

Number of discharges: 17

Here:	1.53%
Ohio:	0.44%

G.I. Obstruction without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$8,927
Ohio:	$13,228

Average Total Payments

Here:	$3,635
State:	$4,102

Number of discharges: 11

Here:	0.99%
Ohio:	0.35%

Heart Failure and Shock with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$15,080
Ohio:	$20,118

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$5,792
Ohio:	$6,456

Number of discharges: 33

Here:	2.98%
State:	3.25%

Heart Failure and Shock with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$24,140
State:	$30,968

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$8,175
State:	$9,501

Number of discharges: 22

Here:	1.99%
Ohio:	2.81%

Heart Failure and Shock without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$11,002
State:	$13,715

Average Total Payments

Here:	$3,816
Ohio:	$4,264

Number of discharges: 23

This Hospital:	2.08%
Ohio:	1.27%

Hip and Femur Procedures Except Major Joint with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$27,164
Ohio:	$39,606

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$10,446
Ohio:	$11,457

Number of discharges: 12

Here:	1.08%
Ohio:	0.96%

Intracranial Hemorrhage or Cerebral Infarction with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$20,463
Ohio:	$25,438

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,661
State:	$7,404

Number of discharges: 16

Here:	1.44%
State:	1.32%

Intracranial Hemorrhage or Cerebral Infarction without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$17,120
Ohio:	$20,677

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$5,150
Ohio:	$5,286

Number of discharges: 15

Here:	1.35%
Ohio:	0.73%

Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$20,288
Ohio:	$22,043

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,639
State:	$7,392

Number of discharges: 19

Here:	1.71%
State:	1.00%

Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$10,721
State:	$14,573

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,412
Ohio:	$4,878

Number of discharges: 55

Here:	4.96%
State:	2.95%

Major Joint Replacement or Reattachment of Lower Extremity without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$38,599
State:	$43,077

Average Total Payments

Here:	$12,045
State:	$13,260

Number of discharges: 59

This Hospital:	5.32%
State:	5.47%

Medical Back Problems without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$11,954
State:	$17,504

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,683
Ohio:	$5,205

Number of discharges: 17

Here:	1.53%
Ohio:	1.08%

Misc Disorders of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids or Electrolytes with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$14,085
Ohio:	$22,848

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,286
Ohio:	$7,505

Number of discharges: 18

This Hospital:	1.62%
State:	0.81%

Misc Disorders of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids or Electrolytes without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$9,104
State:	$13,909

Average Total Payments

Here:	$3,863
Ohio:	$4,364

Number of discharges: 49

Here:	4.42%
State:	2.09%

Pulmonary Edema and Respiratory Failure

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$17,189
Ohio:	$27,367

Average Total Payments

Here:	$7,314
Ohio:	$8,324

Number of discharges: 11

This Hospital:	0.99%
State:	1.62%

Red Blood Cell Disorders without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$12,679
Ohio:	$17,326

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,541
State:	$5,281

Number of discharges: 28

This Hospital:	2.53%
State:	1.29%

Renal Failure with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$18,994
Ohio:	$20,095

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,077
Ohio:	$6,487

Number of discharges: 25

This Hospital:	2.26%
State:	2.36%

Renal Failure with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$27,883
State:	$32,861

Average Total Payments

Here:	$11,034
Ohio:	$10,523

Number of discharges: 14

Here:	1.26%
Ohio:	1.56%

Respiratory Infections and Inflammations with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$20,075
Ohio:	$25,602

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$8,330
State:	$8,882

Number of discharges: 20

Here:	1.81%
State:	0.69%

Respiratory System Diagnosis with Ventilator Support <96 Hours

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$33,061
State:	$49,977

Average Total Payments

Here:	$13,453
State:	$14,939

Number of discharges: 15

Here:	1.35%
State:	1.18%

Septicemia or Severe Sepsis without Mechanical Ventilation 96+ Hours with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$23,049
State:	$39,192

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$10,358
Ohio:	$12,220

Number of discharges: 16

Here:	1.44%
Ohio:	3.71%

Septicemia or Severe Sepsis without Mechanical Ventilation 96+ Hours without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$10,340
Ohio:	$22,359

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,085
Ohio:	$7,104

Number of discharges: 13

Here:	1.17%
State:	1.14%

Signs and Symptoms without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$13,688
State:	$14,688

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$3,920
State:	$4,442

Number of discharges: 23

This Hospital:	2.08%
Ohio:	0.75%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$18,379
State:	$18,745

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,957
Ohio:	$6,275

Number of discharges: 72

This Hospital:	6.50%
State:	2.85%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$22,793
Ohio:	$29,030

Average Total Payments

Here:	$7,733
Ohio:	$9,075

Number of discharges: 24

Here:	2.17%
State:	2.14%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$12,095
State:	$13,590

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,044
Ohio:	$4,407

Number of discharges: 40

Here:	3.61%
Ohio:	1.11%

Syncope and Collapse

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$12,044
Ohio:	$16,283

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,094
State:	$4,578

Number of discharges: 31

Here:	2.80%
Ohio:	2.11%

Transient Ischemia

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$13,297
State:	$18,107

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,173
Ohio:	$4,579

Number of discharges: 26

This Hospital:	2.35%
Ohio:	1.15%

Quality Measures

Percent of long-stay residents whose need for help with daily activities has increased

Here:	27.5%
State:	14.9%

Percent of long-stay residents who self-report moderate to severe pain

Here:	14.6%
Ohio:	12.5%

Percent of long-stay residents who lose too much weight

This Hospital:	6.1%
State:	7.6%

Percent of long-stay residents who have had a catheter inserted and left in their bladder

This Hospital:	2.7%
Ohio:	4.1%

Percent of long-stay residents who have depressive symptoms

Here:	6.4%
State:	16.2%

Percent of long-stay residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury

This Hospital:	5.9%
Ohio:	3.4%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

Here:	100.0%
Ohio:	94.9%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

This Hospital:	100.0%
Ohio:	94.8%

Percent of short-stay residents who self-report moderate to severe pain

Here:	29.5%
State:	26.0%

Percent of short-stay residents with Pressure ulcers that are new or worsened

This Hospital:	0.7%
Ohio:	1.6%

Percent of short-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	86.0%

Percent of short-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

Here:	99.3%
Ohio:	84.9%

Percent of short-stay residents who newly received an antipsychotic medication

Here:	0.8%
Ohio:	2.5%

Percent of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication

Here:	22.0%
State:	24.6%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

Here:	95.0%
State:	99.4%

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

This Hospital:	6
State:	7

Average number of minutes before outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack were transferred to another hospital

This Hospital:	75
Ohio:	63

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

Here:	98.0%
State:	96.0%

Patients Given a Prescription for a Statin at Discharge

This Hospital:	82.0%
Ohio:	97.8%

Heart Failure

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	99.5%

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

Here:	100.0%
Ohio:	96.8%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	99.0%
Ohio:	94.0%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
Ohio:	99.4%

Pneumonia

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

This Hospital:	95.0%
Ohio:	96.3%

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

Here:	99.0%
Ohio:	97.6%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	98.8%

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

This Hospital:	98.0%
State:	95.6%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

Here:	94.0%
Ohio:	94.8%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	99.0%
Ohio:	96.7%

Surgery

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

Here:	100.0%
Ohio:	98.2%

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

Here:	98.0%
State:	97.2%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
Ohio:	98.8%

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%
Ohio:	97.1%

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

This Hospital:	97.0%
Ohio:	98.2%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
Ohio:	99.9%

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

This Hospital:	98.0%
State:	94.6%

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

Here:	96.0%
Ohio:	97.1%

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

This Hospital:	97.0%
State:	95.7%

Outpatients having surgery who got the right kind of antibiotic (higher numbers are better)

Here:	88.0%
Ohio:	96.3%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
Ohio:	99.7%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	15.2%
State:	15.3%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	12.7%
Ohio:	11.2%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	11.0%
Ohio:	11.6%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	23.7%
Ohio:	25.0%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	18.6%
Ohio:	19.0%

Use of Medical Imaging

Outpatients with low back pain who had an MRI without trying recommended treatments first, such as physical therapy.

Here:	37.400%
Ohio:	34.110%

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

Here:	10.700%
Ohio:	8.691%

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

Here:	0.132%
State:	0.119%

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

This Hospital:	0.004%
State:	0.024%

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

Here:	9.200%
Ohio:	5.607%

Outpatients with brain CT scans who got a sinus CT scan at the same time

This Hospital:	0.700%
Ohio:	2.782%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Blood infection from a catheter in a large vein

Here:	0.264%
State:	0.348%

Complaint Deficiency

Approved construction type or materials
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Exits that are accessible at all times
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Proper exit design
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- Scope: Few
Properly care for residents needing special services, including: injections, colostomy, ureostomy, ileostomy, tracheostomy care, tracheal suctioning, respiratory care, foot care, and prostheses
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Exits that are accessible at all times
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Did not have a written emergency evacuation plan
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Record of quarterly fire drills for each shift under varying conditions
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Weekly inspections and monthly testing of generators
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Provide food in a way that meets a resident's needs
- Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- Scope: Few
Train all employees on what to do in an emergency, and carry out announced staff drills
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some

FISHER-TITUS HOSPITAL - NORWALK, OH

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

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

Quality Measures

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Surgery

Outcome of Care

Use of Medical Imaging

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Complaint Deficiency

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