LALLIE KEMP MEDICAL CENTER (INDEPENDENCE, LA) Detailed Hospital Profile

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: Between 100 and 299
Survey Response Rate: 16%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	3%
Louisiana:	4%

Usually

Here:	14%
Louisiana:	14%

Always

Here:	83%
Louisiana:	82%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	3%
State:	3%

Usually

Here:	10%
State:	11%

Always

This Hospital:	87%
State:	86%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	11%
Louisiana:	10%

Usually

Here:	18%
Louisiana:	20%

Always

Here:	71%
State:	70%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	7%
State:	7%

Usually

Here:	19%
Louisiana:	18%

Always

Here:	74%
Louisiana:	75%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	15%
Louisiana:	17%

Usually

This Hospital:	20%
Louisiana:	15%

Always

Here:	65%
Louisiana:	68%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	4%
State:	9%

Usually

Here:	14%
State:	17%

Always

This Hospital:	82%
Louisiana:	74%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	5%
Louisiana:	6%

Usually

This Hospital:	23%
State:	21%

Always

Here:	72%
Louisiana:	73%

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

Yes

Here:	82%
Louisiana:	83%

Here:	18%
State:	17%

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

6 or lower

This Hospital:	4%
State:	8%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	17%
State:	18%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	79%
Louisiana:	74%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	1%
Louisiana:	4%

Yes, probably

This Hospital:	19%
State:	21%

Yes, definitely

Here:	80%
Louisiana:	75%

Process of Care

Heart Failure

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	97.3%

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

Here:	92.0%
State:	95.0%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	94.0%
Louisiana:	90.9%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
Louisiana:	99.3%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	94.0%
State:	95.1%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
Louisiana:	96.7%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
Louisiana:	97.6%

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

This Hospital:	97.0%
State:	92.4%

Surgery

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

Here:	99.0%
State:	97.9%

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

Here:	100.0%
Louisiana:	95.7%

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

Here:	95.0%
State:	97.8%

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

This Hospital:	92.0%
State:	95.8%

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

Here:	93.0%
State:	96.5%

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%
State:	99.7%

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

Here:	94.0%
Louisiana:	92.3%

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

Here:	92.0%
State:	95.1%

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

Here:	100.0%
Louisiana:	99.6%

LALLIE KEMP MEDICAL CENTER - INDEPENDENCE, LA

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Process of Care

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Surgery

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