ST VINCENTS BLOUNT - ONEONTA, AL

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Addresss:
150 GILBREATH DRIVE
ONEONTA, AL, 35121
Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (205) 274-3000

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Hospital Owner: Voluntary non-profit - Private
Emergency Services: Yes

Employment Full-Time Equivalent
Licensed Practical Or Vocational Nurses : 14.00
Registered Professional Nurses : 36.00
Other Salaried Personnel : 94.50
Dieticians : 0.25
Physical Therapists : 0.25
Registered Pharmacists : 1.50
Respiratory Therapists : 3.00
Physicians : 1.00
Medical Social Workers : 1.00

Number Of Beds
Total: 40
Total Certified: 40

Provided Services
Nuclear Medicine Services
Anatomical Laboratory Services
Anesthesia Services
Blood Bank Services
Clinical Laboratory Services
Diagnostic Radiology Services
Dietary Services
Emergency Services
ICU - Medical/Surgical Services
Inpatient Surgical Services
Operating Room Services
Optometric Services
Organ Bank Services
Outpatient Services
Pharmacy Services
Physical Therapy Services
Respiratory Care Services
Social Services

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

Cellulitis without Major Complications
Average Covered Charges
Here:

$12,909
Alabama:

$17,387
Average Total Payments
Here:

$5,143
Alabama:

$4,978
Number of discharges: 11
This Hospital:

3.94%
State:

1.97%
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Complications
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$16,752
Alabama:

$20,856
Average Total Payments
Here:

$6,052
State:

$5,672
Number of discharges: 20
Here:

7.17%
State:

2.64%
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Major Complications
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$16,464
State:

$25,354
Average Total Payments
Here:

$7,395
Alabama:

$6,832
Number of discharges: 25
This Hospital:

8.96%
State:

2.62%
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease without Complications
Average Covered Charges
Here:

$14,904
State:

$15,265
Average Total Payments
Here:

$4,469
Alabama:

$4,282
Number of discharges: 14
This Hospital:

5.02%
State:

2.25%
Esophagitis, Gastroent and Miscellaneous Digestive Disorders without Major Complications
Average Covered Charges
Here:

$12,516
Alabama:

$17,880
Average Total Payments
This Hospital:

$4,749
Alabama:

$4,242
Number of discharges: 25
This Hospital:

8.96%
Alabama:

4.04%
G.I. Hemorrhage with Complications
Average Covered Charges
Here:

$18,356
Alabama:

$23,715
Average Total Payments
This Hospital:

$6,147
State:

$5,864
Number of discharges: 12
Here:

4.30%
Alabama:

2.02%
Heart Failure and Shock with Complications
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$15,376
Alabama:

$21,263
Average Total Payments
Here:

$6,165
Alabama:

$5,914
Number of discharges: 14
Here:

5.02%
State:

3.24%
Heart Failure and Shock with Major Complications
Average Covered Charges
Here:

$25,839
State:

$35,015
Average Total Payments
Here:

$9,089
Alabama:

$8,684
Number of discharges: 17
This Hospital:

6.09%
Alabama:

2.59%
Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections with Major Complications
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$17,404
State:

$26,664
Average Total Payments
Here:

$7,477
State:

$6,951
Number of discharges: 12
This Hospital:

4.30%
Alabama:

0.85%
Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections without Major Complications
Average Covered Charges
Here:

$13,347
State:

$17,029
Average Total Payments
Here:

$4,813
State:

$4,494
Number of discharges: 39
Here:

13.98%
Alabama:

3.20%
Misc Disorders of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids or Electrolytes without Major Complications
Average Covered Charges
Here:

$11,050
State:

$14,844
Average Total Payments
This Hospital:

$4,291
State:

$4,068
Number of discharges: 11
Here:

3.94%
Alabama:

2.46%
Septicemia or Severe Sepsis without Mechanical Ventilation 96+ Hours with Major Complications
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$20,707
State:

$47,447
Average Total Payments
This Hospital:

$11,142
State:

$11,185
Number of discharges: 12
Here:

4.30%
Alabama:

3.35%
Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Complications
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$17,292
State:

$24,297
Average Total Payments
Here:

$6,129
State:

$5,893
Number of discharges: 37
This Hospital:

13.26%
State:

3.09%
Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Major Complications
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$29,465
Alabama:

$37,673
Average Total Payments
This Hospital:

$8,397
Alabama:

$8,521
Number of discharges: 13
Here:

4.66%
State:

1.96%
Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy without Complications
Average Covered Charges
Here:

$11,540
State:

$16,519
Average Total Payments
This Hospital:

$4,218
Alabama:

$4,182
Number of discharges: 17
Here:

6.09%
Alabama:

1.41%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: Between 100 and 299
Survey Response Rate: 34%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never
This Hospital:

4%
Alabama:

6%
Usually
Here:

13%
State:

15%
Always
Here:

83%
State:

79%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never
Here:

3%
State:

3%
Usually
This Hospital:

9%
Alabama:

11%
Always
Here:

88%
State:

86%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never
Here:

2%
Alabama:

12%
Usually
Here:

19%
State:

22%
Always
Here:

79%
Alabama:

66%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never
This Hospital:

3%
State:

9%
Usually
This Hospital:

17%
State:

20%
Always
Here:

80%
State:

71%

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

Sometimes or never
This Hospital:

13%
State:

19%
Usually
This Hospital:

14%
State:

16%
Always
This Hospital:

73%
State:

65%

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

Sometimes or never
Here:

8%
State:

11%
Usually
This Hospital:

17%
Alabama:

19%
Always
Here:

75%
Alabama:

70%

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

Sometimes or never
This Hospital:

3%
State:

6%
Usually
Here:

22%
Alabama:

24%
Always
This Hospital:

75%
Alabama:

70%

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

Yes
Here:

79%
State:

81%
No
This Hospital:

21%
Alabama:

19%

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

6 or lower
This Hospital:

5%
Alabama:

8%
7 or 8
Here:

18%
State:

22%
9 or 10
This Hospital:

77%
Alabama:

70%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

No
Here:

4%
Alabama:

5%
Yes, probably
This Hospital:

20%
Alabama:

25%
Yes, definitely
Here:

76%
Alabama:

70%

Use of Medical Imaging

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

6.800%
State:

7.990%
Outpatient CT scans of the abdomen that were combination (double) scans.
Here:

0.074%
State:

0.208%
Outpatient CT scans of the chest that were combination (double) scans.
This Hospital:

0.108%
State:

0.046%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

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

6
State:

8
Outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack who got aspirin within 24 hours of arrival
Here:

96.0%
Alabama:

97.2%

Heart Failure

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

100.0%
Alabama:

98.0%
Percent of Patients Given ACE Inhibitor or ARB for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)
This Hospital:

100.0%
Alabama:

97.1%
Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions
Here:

100.0%
Alabama:

92.0%

Pneumonia

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

96.0%
Alabama:

97.1%
Percent of Patients Whose Initial ER Blood Culture Was Performed Prior To Administration Of First Dose Of Antibiotics
This Hospital:

99.0%
State:

97.7%
Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling
Here:

100.0%
Alabama:

99.2%
Percent of Patients Given the Most Appropriate Initial Antibiotic(s)
Here:

95.0%
Alabama:

95.0%
Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination
Here:

100.0%
Alabama:

95.4%
Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination
Here:

97.0%
State:

96.5%

Surgery

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

94.0%
Alabama:

98.9%
Percent of Surgery Patients whose preventive antibiotics were stopped at the right time (within 24 hours after surgery)
Here:

100.0%
State:

97.6%
Percent of Surgery Patients who were given the right kind of antibiotic to help prevent infection
This Hospital:

100.0%
Alabama:

98.8%
Percent of Surgery Patients who got treatment at right time (within 24 hours before or after surgery) to help prevent blood clot
Here:

96.0%
Alabama:

97.0%
Percent of Surgery Patients whose doctors ordered treatments to prevent blood clots after certain types of surgeries
Here:

96.0%
State:

97.8%
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:

99.9%
Surgery patients who were taking heart drugs called beta blockers before coming to the hospital, who were kept on them
Here:

100.0%
Alabama:

97.7%
Outpatients having surgery who got an antibiotic at the right time - within one hour before surgery (higher numbers are better)
Here:

95.0%
Alabama:

96.7%
Outpatients having surgery who got the right kind of antibiotic (higher numbers are better)
This Hospital:

100.0%
State:

96.6%
Patients having surgery who were actively warmed in the operating room or whose body temperature was near normal
Here:

100.0%
Alabama:

99.9%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure
This Hospital:

13.0%
State:

11.9%
30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia
This Hospital:

15.3%
State:

12.6%
30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure
Here:

26.8%
State:

24.3%
30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia
Here:

16.7%
State:

18.6%

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