KERN MEDICAL CENTER (BAKERSFIELD, CA) Detailed Hospital Profile

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

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Average Covered Charges

Here:	$35,155
State:	$24,503

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$12,132
State:	$8,916

Number of discharges: 178

Here:	100.00%
California:	2.32%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 24%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	13%
California:	7%

Usually

Here:	31%
California:	21%

Always

This Hospital:	56%
California:	72%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	10%
California:	6%

Usually

This Hospital:	23%
State:	17%

Always

This Hospital:	67%
California:	77%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	28%
State:	13%

Usually

This Hospital:	34%
State:	28%

Always

Here:	38%
State:	59%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

Here:	17%
State:	8%

Usually

Here:	30%
California:	25%

Always

This Hospital:	53%
State:	67%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	26%
State:	23%

Usually

Here:	25%
California:	19%

Always

This Hospital:	49%
State:	58%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	22%
State:	10%

Usually

Here:	26%
California:	21%

Always

This Hospital:	52%
State:	69%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	32%
State:	18%

Usually

This Hospital:	36%
California:	33%

Always

This Hospital:	32%
State:	49%

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

Yes

This Hospital:	74%
State:	81%

Here:	26%
State:	19%

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

6 or lower

Here:	21%
California:	10%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	28%
California:	24%

9 or 10

Here:	51%
California:	66%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

This Hospital:	15%
State:	7%

Yes, probably

This Hospital:	38%
California:	24%

Yes, definitely

This Hospital:	47%
State:	69%

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	0.108%
California:	0.170%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	99.3%

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

This Hospital:	18
California:	9

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
California:	97.2%

Heart Failure

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

Here:	97.0%
State:	98.9%

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

This Hospital:	93.0%
California:	96.2%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

This Hospital:	86.0%
State:	93.5%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	94.0%
State:	99.4%

Pneumonia

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

This Hospital:	84.0%
California:	96.1%

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

This Hospital:	91.0%
State:	96.7%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	97.0%
California:	98.1%

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

Here:	90.0%
California:	95.9%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

Here:	74.0%
California:	94.3%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Hospital:	58.0%
California:	95.8%

Surgery

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

This Hospital:	90.0%
California:	98.1%

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

Here:	79.0%
California:	96.3%

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

Here:	86.0%
California:	98.2%

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

Here:	83.0%
State:	96.0%

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

This Hospital:	92.0%
State:	96.9%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	94.7%

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

Here:	100.0%
California:	99.8%

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

This Hospital:	89.0%
State:	93.9%

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

Here:	98.0%
California:	96.1%

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

This Hospital:	91.0%
California:	95.1%

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

This Hospital:	82.0%
State:	95.5%

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

Here:	99.0%
California:	99.6%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	25.5%
State:	24.4%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Falls and injuries

This Hospital:	1.340%
California:	0.625%

Severe pressure sores (bed sores)

Here:	0.670%
California:	0.321%

KERN MEDICAL CENTER - BAKERSFIELD, CA

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

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Use of Medical Imaging

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Surgery

Outcome of Care

Hospital Acquired Conditions

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