LIBERTY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER (HINESVILLE, GA) Detailed Hospital Profile

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	3.400%
Georgia:	8.789%

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

This Hospital:	0.091%
State:	0.125%

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

This Hospital:	0.016%
State:	0.053%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

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

This Hospital:	16
State:	33

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

This Hospital:	91.0%
State:	95.8%

Heart Failure

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

This Hospital:	91.0%
State:	99.2%

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

Here:	96.0%
Georgia:	95.8%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	87.0%
Georgia:	89.3%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	62.0%
State:	99.5%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	80.0%
State:	96.3%

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

Here:	89.0%
State:	97.0%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	55.0%
State:	98.9%

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

Here:	80.0%
State:	94.9%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	100.0%
State:	96.2%

Surgery

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

Here:	97.0%
State:	98.2%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
Georgia:	96.5%

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

This Hospital:	97.0%
Georgia:	98.4%

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

Here:	98.0%
State:	96.5%

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

This Hospital:	98.0%
Georgia:	97.4%

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%
Georgia:	99.6%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	93.5%

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

Here:	95.0%
Georgia:	96.6%

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

This Hospital:	94.0%
Georgia:	97.0%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	10.4%
Georgia:	11.6%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	12.6%
Georgia:	12.6%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	25.9%
Georgia:	24.1%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	18.5%
State:	18.5%

LIBERTY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER - HINESVILLE, GA