LITTLETON REGIONAL HOSPITAL (LITTLETON, NH) Detailed Hospital Profile

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: Between 100 and 299
Survey Response Rate: 27%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	5%
New Hampshire:	3%

Usually

Here:	19%
New Hampshire:	17%

Always

This Hospital:	76%
New Hampshire:	80%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	4%
New Hampshire:	4%

Usually

Here:	13%
State:	15%

Always

Here:	83%
New Hampshire:	81%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	6%
New Hampshire:	7%

Usually

Here:	18%
New Hampshire:	23%

Always

Here:	76%
New Hampshire:	70%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

Here:	7%
State:	6%

Usually

Here:	23%
New Hampshire:	22%

Always

Here:	70%
New Hampshire:	72%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	18%
State:	16%

Usually

This Hospital:	16%
New Hampshire:	19%

Always

Here:	66%
State:	65%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	9%
State:	6%

Usually

Here:	15%
New Hampshire:	17%

Always

This Hospital:	76%
State:	77%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	12%
New Hampshire:	11%

Usually

This Hospital:	33%
New Hampshire:	34%

Always

Here:	55%
State:	55%

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

Yes

This Hospital:	88%
New Hampshire:	88%

Here:	12%
New Hampshire:	12%

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

6 or lower

This Hospital:	9%
State:	7%

7 or 8

Here:	22%
New Hampshire:	21%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	69%
New Hampshire:	72%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	5%
New Hampshire:	4%

Yes, probably

Here:	25%
New Hampshire:	21%

Yes, definitely

This Hospital:	70%
New Hampshire:	75%

Process of Care

Heart Failure

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

Here:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	99.4%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

This Hospital:	88.0%
New Hampshire:	94.6%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	94.0%
State:	97.2%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	97.2%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	92.0%
State:	98.7%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	96.3%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	100.0%
State:	96.8%

Surgery

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

This Hospital:	98.0%
New Hampshire:	98.7%

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

Here:	99.0%
New Hampshire:	97.4%

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

Here:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	98.7%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	97.8%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	98.4%

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%
State:	100.0%

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

Here:	96.0%
New Hampshire:	93.8%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	96.1%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	99.7%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	13.9%
New Hampshire:	11.9%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	14.8%
State:	12.8%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	22.5%
State:	23.2%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	19.9%
New Hampshire:	17.7%

LITTLETON REGIONAL HOSPITAL - LITTLETON, NH

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Process of Care

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Surgery

Outcome of Care

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