GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL (KEARNEY, NE) Detailed Hospital Profile

Complaint Deficiency

Walls or barriers that prevent smoke from passing through and would resist fire for at least one hour
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Record of quarterly fire drills for each shift under varying conditions
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Properly installed hallway dispensers for alcohol-based hand rub
- 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: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Signs that state that exit doors are to be kept closed
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Properly protected cooking facilities
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly installed hallway dispensers for alcohol-based hand rub
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
1) Make sure that each resident's drug regimen is free from unnecessary drugs; 2) Each resident's entire drug/medication is managed and monitored to achieve highest well being
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Safely provide drugs and other similar products available, which are needed every day and in emergencies, by a licensed pharmacist
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
At least once a month, have a licensed pharmacist review each resident's medication(s) and report any irregularities to the attending doctor
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some

Quality Measures

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

Here:	45.0%
State:	27.0%

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

This Hospital:	0.8%
Nebraska:	1.6%

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

Here:	91.5%
Nebraska:	88.1%

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

This Hospital:	96.9%
Nebraska:	83.7%

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

This Hospital:	2.3%
State:	2.7%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 40%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	3%
Nebraska:	3%

Usually

Here:	21%
Nebraska:	16%

Always

This Hospital:	76%
State:	81%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	2%
State:	2%

Usually

This Hospital:	17%
State:	14%

Always

Here:	81%
Nebraska:	84%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	8%
Nebraska:	5%

Usually

This Hospital:	31%
Nebraska:	23%

Always

This Hospital:	61%
Nebraska:	72%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	5%
Nebraska:	4%

Usually

Here:	26%
State:	25%

Always

This Hospital:	69%
State:	71%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	15%
Nebraska:	15%

Usually

Here:	25%
State:	21%

Always

This Hospital:	60%
Nebraska:	64%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	5%
State:	6%

Usually

Here:	20%
Nebraska:	16%

Always

This Hospital:	75%
Nebraska:	78%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	7%
Nebraska:	7%

Usually

Here:	33%
State:	30%

Always

This Hospital:	60%
Nebraska:	63%

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

Yes

Here:	88%
State:	87%

Here:	12%
Nebraska:	13%

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

6 or lower

This Hospital:	5%
State:	5%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	20%
Nebraska:	21%

9 or 10

Here:	75%
Nebraska:	74%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

This Hospital:	2%
Nebraska:	2%

Yes, probably

Here:	20%
Nebraska:	23%

Yes, definitely

This Hospital:	78%
Nebraska:	75%

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

Acute Myocardial Infarction, Discharged Alive with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$25,858
Nebraska:	$27,880

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$10,000
Nebraska:	$7,773

Number of discharges: 17

Here:	0.72%
State:	0.56%

Acute Myocardial Infarction, Discharged Alive with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$38,564
State:	$37,101

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$13,152
Nebraska:	$11,563

Number of discharges: 12

This Hospital:	0.51%
State:	0.62%

Acute Myocardial Infarction, Discharged Alive without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$18,632
Nebraska:	$25,739

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$5,689
State:	$5,686

Number of discharges: 11

Here:	0.47%
Nebraska:	0.32%

Back and Neck Procedures Except Spinal Fusion without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$27,446
Nebraska:	$24,689

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$7,498
State:	$6,698

Number of discharges: 39

Here:	1.65%
State:	0.80%

Cardiac Arrhythmia and Conduction Disorders with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$11,402
Nebraska:	$17,632

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,956
State:	$5,536

Number of discharges: 24

Here:	1.02%
Nebraska:	1.62%

Cardiac Arrhythmia and Conduction Disorders with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$24,033
Nebraska:	$26,283

Average Total Payments

Here:	$10,021
Nebraska:	$8,240

Number of discharges: 24

This Hospital:	1.02%
State:	0.82%

Cardiac Arrhythmia and Conduction Disorders without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$10,357
State:	$12,629

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,371
Nebraska:	$3,825

Number of discharges: 35

This Hospital:	1.48%
State:	1.90%

Cellulitis without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$13,895
Nebraska:	$15,796

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,941
State:	$5,579

Number of discharges: 25

This Hospital:	1.06%
Nebraska:	1.81%

Cervical Spinal Fusion without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$35,601
State:	$46,543

Average Total Payments

Here:	$15,531
State:	$13,663

Number of discharges: 32

This Hospital:	1.35%
State:	0.40%

Chest Pain

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$13,257
State:	$14,499

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,256
Nebraska:	$4,124

Number of discharges: 58

This Hospital:	2.45%
State:	1.53%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$21,766
State:	$22,825

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,848
State:	$6,118

Number of discharges: 30

This Hospital:	1.27%
Nebraska:	1.94%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$22,745
State:	$29,531

Average Total Payments

Here:	$8,477
Nebraska:	$7,751

Number of discharges: 39

Here:	1.65%
Nebraska:	2.10%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$17,373
Nebraska:	$18,363

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,243
Nebraska:	$4,796

Number of discharges: 21

This Hospital:	0.89%
State:	1.39%

Circulatory Disorders Except Acute Myocardial Infarction, with Card Cath without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$23,665
State:	$29,201

Average Total Payments

Here:	$8,284
Nebraska:	$7,150

Number of discharges: 77

This Hospital:	3.26%
Nebraska:	1.68%

Esophagitis, Gastroent and Miscellaneous Digestive Disorders without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$15,137
Nebraska:	$17,373

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,298
State:	$4,872

Number of discharges: 70

Here:	2.96%
Nebraska:	3.45%

Extracranial Procedures without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$18,299
Nebraska:	$17,837

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$7,225
State:	$6,373

Number of discharges: 31

Here:	1.31%
State:	0.80%

Fractures of Hip and Pelvis without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$11,672
Nebraska:	$13,066

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,121
State:	$4,446

Number of discharges: 12

This Hospital:	0.51%
Nebraska:	0.32%

G.I. Hemorrhage with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$19,637
State:	$20,594

Average Total Payments

Here:	$7,235
Nebraska:	$6,675

Number of discharges: 38

This Hospital:	1.61%
Nebraska:	2.03%

G.I. Hemorrhage without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$14,046
Nebraska:	$15,608

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,112
State:	$4,799

Number of discharges: 19

This Hospital:	0.80%
State:	0.45%

G.I. Obstruction with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$18,801
State:	$17,962

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$7,017
Nebraska:	$6,191

Number of discharges: 17

This Hospital:	0.72%
State:	0.93%

G.I. Obstruction without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$12,259
Nebraska:	$13,222

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,531
State:	$4,342

Number of discharges: 14

Here:	0.59%
Nebraska:	0.61%

Heart Failure and Shock with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$19,800
State:	$21,193

Average Total Payments

Here:	$7,647
State:	$6,633

Number of discharges: 53

Here:	2.24%
Nebraska:	2.95%

Heart Failure and Shock with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$35,309
State:	$32,565

Average Total Payments

Here:	$12,440
Nebraska:	$9,703

Number of discharges: 45

This Hospital:	1.90%
Nebraska:	1.90%

Heart Failure and Shock without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$14,335
Nebraska:	$15,196

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,836
State:	$4,482

Number of discharges: 29

Here:	1.23%
Nebraska:	1.10%

Hip and Femur Procedures Except Major Joint with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$31,453
State:	$38,153

Average Total Payments

Here:	$13,568
State:	$12,156

Number of discharges: 86

This Hospital:	3.64%
State:	1.77%

Hip and Femur Procedures Except Major Joint with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$48,165
State:	$52,785

Average Total Payments

Here:	$21,356
State:	$18,982

Number of discharges: 17

Here:	0.72%
State:	0.38%

Hip and Femur Procedures Except Major Joint without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$22,476
State:	$29,452

Average Total Payments

Here:	$10,898
Nebraska:	$9,705

Number of discharges: 15

Here:	0.63%
Nebraska:	0.36%

Hypertension without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$8,944
State:	$13,638

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,751
State:	$4,420

Number of discharges: 11

Here:	0.47%
Nebraska:	0.15%

Intracranial Hemorrhage or Cerebral Infarction with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$32,089
Nebraska:	$25,437

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$8,309
State:	$7,381

Number of discharges: 24

This Hospital:	1.02%
Nebraska:	1.55%

Intracranial Hemorrhage or Cerebral Infarction with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$49,134
State:	$39,603

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$15,920
Nebraska:	$12,941

Number of discharges: 14

This Hospital:	0.59%
State:	0.72%

Intracranial Hemorrhage or Cerebral Infarction without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$16,810
Nebraska:	$18,932

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,594
Nebraska:	$5,652

Number of discharges: 35

Here:	1.48%
State:	0.83%

Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$15,215
Nebraska:	$16,292

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,572
Nebraska:	$5,051

Number of discharges: 25

Here:	1.06%
Nebraska:	2.40%

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy without C.D.E. without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$20,281
State:	$27,751

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$8,602
Nebraska:	$7,820

Number of discharges: 15

Here:	0.63%
State:	0.27%

Major Cardiovasc Procedures without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$51,620
Nebraska:	$62,453

Average Total Payments

Here:	$21,864
Nebraska:	$20,711

Number of discharges: 21

Here:	0.89%
Nebraska:	0.67%

Major Joint Replacement or Reattachment of Lower Extremity with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$75,913
State:	$64,865

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$25,620
State:	$21,417

Number of discharges: 13

This Hospital:	0.55%
Nebraska:	0.36%

Major Joint Replacement or Reattachment of Lower Extremity without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$39,174
Nebraska:	$41,415

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$15,764
Nebraska:	$13,621

Number of discharges: 384

This Hospital:	16.24%
Nebraska:	10.93%

Major Small and Large Bowel Procedures with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$43,000
Nebraska:	$58,606

Average Total Payments

Here:	$18,079
Nebraska:	$17,045

Number of discharges: 23

This Hospital:	0.97%
State:	1.11%

Major Small and Large Bowel Procedures with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$72,192
State:	$124,251

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$39,371
Nebraska:	$38,147

Number of discharges: 11

Here:	0.47%
Nebraska:	0.87%

Medical Back Problems without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$17,038
Nebraska:	$18,170

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,893
State:	$5,416

Number of discharges: 37

Here:	1.57%
Nebraska:	1.07%

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

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$10,487
Nebraska:	$14,536

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,886
Nebraska:	$4,721

Number of discharges: 36

Here:	1.52%
State:	2.14%

Other Vascular Procedures with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$37,918
State:	$53,463

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$17,054
State:	$15,995

Number of discharges: 11

This Hospital:	0.47%
State:	0.57%

Other Vascular Procedures without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$23,486
Nebraska:	$43,270

Average Total Payments

Here:	$11,794
Nebraska:	$10,864

Number of discharges: 11

Here:	0.47%
Nebraska:	0.45%

Percutaneous Cardiovascular Procedures with Drug-Eluting Stent with Major Complications or 4+ Vessels/Stents

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$59,681
Nebraska:	$63,340

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$22,757
Nebraska:	$22,394

Number of discharges: 26

Here:	1.10%
State:	0.21%

Percutaneous Cardiovascular Procedures with Drug-Eluting Stent without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$45,257
State:	$57,833

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$14,835
Nebraska:	$13,581

Number of discharges: 110

This Hospital:	4.65%
Nebraska:	1.99%

Percutaneous Cardiovascular Procedures with Non-Drug-Eluting Stent without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$40,457
Nebraska:	$59,284

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$13,148
Nebraska:	$12,917

Number of discharges: 48

Here:	2.03%
State:	0.49%

Percutaneous Cardiovascular Procedures without Coronary Artery Stent without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$35,000
Nebraska:	$50,606

Average Total Payments

Here:	$12,763
State:	$12,170

Number of discharges: 13

This Hospital:	0.55%
Nebraska:	0.33%

Peripheral Vascular Disorders with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$15,910
Nebraska:	$17,324

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,981
Nebraska:	$6,076

Number of discharges: 12

Here:	0.51%
Nebraska:	0.49%

Permanent Cardiac Pacemaker Implant with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$29,772
Nebraska:	$49,167

Average Total Payments

Here:	$18,808
State:	$16,519

Number of discharges: 26

Here:	1.10%
State:	0.68%

Permanent Cardiac Pacemaker Implant without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$21,742
Nebraska:	$41,172

Average Total Payments

Here:	$14,432
State:	$13,215

Number of discharges: 30

Here:	1.27%
Nebraska:	0.50%

Red Blood Cell Disorders without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$13,362
Nebraska:	$18,005

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$5,660
State:	$5,448

Number of discharges: 20

This Hospital:	0.85%
State:	0.98%

Renal Failure with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$23,232
Nebraska:	$21,735

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$7,820
State:	$6,612

Number of discharges: 30

This Hospital:	1.27%
State:	1.85%

Renal Failure with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$38,598
Nebraska:	$37,525

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$12,095
State:	$11,123

Number of discharges: 32

This Hospital:	1.35%
Nebraska:	1.09%

Respiratory Infections and Inflammations with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$28,968
Nebraska:	$32,629

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$10,553
State:	$9,162

Number of discharges: 18

This Hospital:	0.76%
Nebraska:	0.78%

Respiratory Infections and Inflammations with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$44,877
State:	$43,032

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$14,935
Nebraska:	$12,982

Number of discharges: 16

This Hospital:	0.68%
State:	0.69%

Respiratory System Diagnosis with Ventilator Support <96 Hours

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$43,527
Nebraska:	$57,319

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$17,390
State:	$15,649

Number of discharges: 26

Here:	1.10%
Nebraska:	0.99%

Seizures without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$21,810
Nebraska:	$17,727

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,419
State:	$5,261

Number of discharges: 15

Here:	0.63%
State:	0.61%

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

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$38,761
State:	$44,748

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$14,142
State:	$12,923

Number of discharges: 65

This Hospital:	2.75%
Nebraska:	2.83%

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

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$19,646
State:	$24,009

Average Total Payments

Here:	$8,819
State:	$7,353

Number of discharges: 33

This Hospital:	1.40%
State:	1.21%

Signs and Symptoms without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$17,064
Nebraska:	$14,968

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,882
State:	$4,420

Number of discharges: 11

This Hospital:	0.47%
State:	0.98%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$19,673
Nebraska:	$23,784

Average Total Payments

Here:	$7,264
Nebraska:	$6,549

Number of discharges: 75

This Hospital:	3.17%
Nebraska:	3.84%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$31,820
State:	$35,930

Average Total Payments

Here:	$11,317
Nebraska:	$9,661

Number of discharges: 39

Here:	1.65%
State:	1.96%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$14,952
State:	$16,735

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$5,045
Nebraska:	$4,700

Number of discharges: 62

Here:	2.62%
Nebraska:	1.48%

Spinal Fusion Except Cervical without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$60,109
State:	$81,640

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$28,611
Nebraska:	$25,168

Number of discharges: 50

This Hospital:	2.12%
State:	1.55%

Syncope and Collapse

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$14,080
Nebraska:	$16,920

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$5,328
State:	$4,930

Number of discharges: 29

Here:	1.23%
Nebraska:	1.37%

Transient Ischemia

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$21,829
State:	$17,521

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,200
Nebraska:	$4,792

Number of discharges: 17

This Hospital:	0.72%
Nebraska:	0.88%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

This Hospital:	100.0%
Nebraska:	99.7%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

Here:	98.0%
Nebraska:	99.7%

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

This Hospital:	93.0%
State:	98.8%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

This Hospital:	99.0%
Nebraska:	99.7%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	99.8%

Percent of Patients Given PCI Within 90 Minutes Of Arrival

Here:	87.0%
Nebraska:	92.6%

Patients Given a Prescription for a Statin at Discharge

Here:	97.0%
State:	98.5%

Heart Failure

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
Nebraska:	97.3%

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

Here:	90.0%
Nebraska:	96.8%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	94.0%
Nebraska:	93.5%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	99.1%

Pneumonia

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

This Hospital:	97.0%
Nebraska:	97.3%

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

Here:	97.0%
State:	98.1%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	95.0%
State:	97.1%

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

Here:	92.0%
Nebraska:	94.1%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	98.0%
State:	93.8%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Hospital:	98.0%
Nebraska:	93.9%

Surgery

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
Nebraska:	97.0%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
State:	97.0%

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

Here:	99.0%
Nebraska:	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:	99.0%
State:	97.5%

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
Nebraska:	98.5%

Percent of all Heart Surgery Patients whose blood sugar is kept under good control in the days right after surgery

Here:	98.0%
State:	96.2%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	100.0%

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

This Hospital:	89.0%
Nebraska:	91.2%

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

Here:	96.0%
State:	96.1%

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

Here:	95.0%
State:	95.6%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
Nebraska:	97.2%

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

Here:	100.0%
Nebraska:	99.8%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	15.3%
State:	15.2%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	14.2%
State:	12.4%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	15.6%
State:	12.3%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	18.8%
Nebraska:	19.6%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	22.2%
Nebraska:	24.4%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	18.1%
Nebraska:	18.4%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Falls and injuries

This Hospital:	0.775%
Nebraska:	1.214%

Blood infection from a catheter in a large vein

Here:	0.129%
State:	0.387%

Infection from a Urinary Catheter

Here:	0.129%
State:	0.664%

Severe pressure sores (bed sores)

This Hospital:	0.388%
Nebraska:	0.212%

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	31.300%
State:	37.588%

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

Here:	12.800%
Nebraska:	9.790%

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

Here:	0.109%
State:	0.126%

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

This Hospital:	0.007%
State:	0.033%

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

Here:	5.700%
State:	5.403%

GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL - KEARNEY, NE

Complaint Deficiency

Quality Measures

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

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

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Surgery

Outcome of Care

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Use of Medical Imaging

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