SACRED HEART HOSPITAL (ALLENTOWN, PA) Detailed Hospital Profile

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Falls and injuries

This Hospital:	0.745%
State:	0.708%

Blood infection from a catheter in a large vein

Here:	0.745%
Pennsylvania:	0.389%

Infection from a Urinary Catheter

This Hospital:	0.497%
State:	0.504%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 28%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	7%
State:	5%

Usually

This Hospital:	20%
Pennsylvania:	18%

Always

This Hospital:	73%
Pennsylvania:	77%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	6%
Pennsylvania:	5%

Usually

This Hospital:	19%
State:	16%

Always

Here:	75%
Pennsylvania:	79%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	10%
Pennsylvania:	10%

Usually

This Hospital:	27%
Pennsylvania:	26%

Always

This Hospital:	63%
Pennsylvania:	64%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

Here:	9%
State:	7%

Usually

This Hospital:	25%
State:	24%

Always

Here:	66%
Pennsylvania:	69%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	25%
Pennsylvania:	21%

Usually

Here:	18%
State:	19%

Always

Here:	57%
Pennsylvania:	60%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	10%
State:	9%

Usually

This Hospital:	21%
State:	20%

Always

Here:	69%
Pennsylvania:	71%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	10%
Pennsylvania:	14%

Usually

Here:	31%
State:	34%

Always

Here:	59%
Pennsylvania:	52%

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

Yes

Here:	80%
Pennsylvania:	83%

This Hospital:	20%
Pennsylvania:	17%

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

6 or lower

Here:	14%
Pennsylvania:	10%

7 or 8

Here:	30%
State:	24%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	56%
Pennsylvania:	66%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	10%
State:	5%

Yes, probably

This Hospital:	32%
Pennsylvania:	28%

Yes, definitely

This Hospital:	58%
Pennsylvania:	67%

Quality Measures

Percent of short-stay residents who self-report moderate to severe pain

This Hospital:	14.0%
State:	21.2%

Percent of short-stay residents with Pressure ulcers that are new or worsened

Here:	0.6%
Pennsylvania:	1.6%

Percent of short-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

Here:	89.2%
Pennsylvania:	85.6%

Percent of short-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

Here:	93.6%
State:	84.4%

Percent of short-stay residents who newly received an antipsychotic medication

Here:	0.8%
Pennsylvania:	2.6%

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

Acute Myocardial Infarction, Discharged Alive with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$40,448
State:	$35,398

Average Total Payments

Here:	$8,390
State:	$7,813

Number of discharges: 11

This Hospital:	1.19%
Pennsylvania:	0.64%

Acute Myocardial Infarction, Discharged Alive with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$59,011
State:	$49,161

Average Total Payments

Here:	$13,963
Pennsylvania:	$11,984

Number of discharges: 13

Here:	1.40%
Pennsylvania:	1.10%

Bronchitis and Asthma with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$35,377
State:	$29,111

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,233
State:	$5,893

Number of discharges: 18

Here:	1.94%
State:	0.63%

Cardiac Arrhythmia and Conduction Disorders with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$31,357
State:	$24,639

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,089
Pennsylvania:	$5,656

Number of discharges: 24

Here:	2.59%
Pennsylvania:	1.67%

Cardiac Arrhythmia and Conduction Disorders without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$24,067
Pennsylvania:	$17,588

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,174
Pennsylvania:	$3,835

Number of discharges: 13

Here:	1.40%
Pennsylvania:	1.86%

Cellulitis without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$28,917
Pennsylvania:	$21,833

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,167
State:	$5,569

Number of discharges: 28

Here:	3.02%
State:	2.29%

Chest Pain

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$22,393
State:	$21,791

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,034
Pennsylvania:	$3,879

Number of discharges: 37

This Hospital:	3.99%
State:	1.55%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$38,750
Pennsylvania:	$29,850

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$7,010
Pennsylvania:	$6,479

Number of discharges: 19

This Hospital:	2.05%
State:	2.15%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$40,639
Pennsylvania:	$35,841

Average Total Payments

Here:	$8,724
State:	$7,862

Number of discharges: 22

This Hospital:	2.37%
State:	1.99%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$25,784
Pennsylvania:	$21,975

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$5,211
State:	$4,841

Number of discharges: 16

This Hospital:	1.72%
State:	1.72%

Diabetes with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$42,292
Pennsylvania:	$27,059

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,257
Pennsylvania:	$5,943

Number of discharges: 12

Here:	1.29%
State:	0.68%

Esophagitis, Gastroent and Miscellaneous Digestive Disorders without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$20,584
Pennsylvania:	$24,456

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$5,423
State:	$4,986

Number of discharges: 36

This Hospital:	3.88%
State:	3.72%

Extracranial Procedures without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$26,402
State:	$32,783

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,836
Pennsylvania:	$6,751

Number of discharges: 11

Here:	1.19%
Pennsylvania:	0.32%

Fractures of Hip and Pelvis without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$21,777
State:	$21,079

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,392
State:	$4,697

Number of discharges: 14

This Hospital:	1.51%
State:	0.36%

G.I. Hemorrhage with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$38,067
Pennsylvania:	$29,883

Average Total Payments

Here:	$7,212
State:	$6,883

Number of discharges: 27

This Hospital:	2.91%
State:	2.08%

Heart Failure and Shock with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$35,481
Pennsylvania:	$29,163

Average Total Payments

Here:	$7,391
Pennsylvania:	$6,918

Number of discharges: 47

This Hospital:	5.06%
State:	3.75%

Heart Failure and Shock with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$39,621
Pennsylvania:	$40,714

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$9,844
State:	$9,817

Number of discharges: 12

This Hospital:	1.29%
Pennsylvania:	2.71%

Heart Failure and Shock without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$25,087
Pennsylvania:	$20,243

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,675
Pennsylvania:	$4,587

Number of discharges: 12

This Hospital:	1.29%
State:	1.61%

Hip and Femur Procedures Except Major Joint with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$78,971
Pennsylvania:	$51,161

Average Total Payments

Here:	$13,302
Pennsylvania:	$12,050

Number of discharges: 11

Here:	1.19%
State:	1.07%

Intracranial Hemorrhage or Cerebral Infarction with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$47,471
State:	$36,649

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$8,734
Pennsylvania:	$7,863

Number of discharges: 22

Here:	2.37%
State:	1.56%

Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$31,567
Pennsylvania:	$23,346

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,769
State:	$5,274

Number of discharges: 29

This Hospital:	3.13%
Pennsylvania:	2.94%

Major Cardiovasc Procedures without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$110,745
Pennsylvania:	$104,857

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$20,781
State:	$22,128

Number of discharges: 13

Here:	1.40%
Pennsylvania:	0.45%

Major Joint Replacement or Reattachment of Lower Extremity without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$70,766
Pennsylvania:	$51,015

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$14,031
State:	$13,679

Number of discharges: 50

Here:	5.39%
State:	5.31%

Major Small and Large Bowel Procedures with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$82,493
State:	$79,691

Average Total Payments

Here:	$17,357
Pennsylvania:	$17,879

Number of discharges: 12

This Hospital:	1.29%
Pennsylvania:	0.67%

Misc Disorders of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids or Electrolytes without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$19,687
Pennsylvania:	$21,864

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,829
Pennsylvania:	$4,771

Number of discharges: 18

Here:	1.94%
Pennsylvania:	2.03%

Other Vascular Procedures with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$74,499
State:	$82,069

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$16,642
Pennsylvania:	$17,250

Number of discharges: 22

Here:	2.37%
State:	0.52%

Other Vascular Procedures with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$81,948
State:	$112,209

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$21,650
Pennsylvania:	$23,625

Number of discharges: 11

Here:	1.19%
Pennsylvania:	0.44%

Peripheral Vascular Disorders with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$33,687
Pennsylvania:	$28,031

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$7,219
State:	$6,643

Number of discharges: 23

This Hospital:	2.48%
State:	0.65%

Psychoses

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$33,855
Pennsylvania:	$19,685

Average Total Payments

Here:	$7,846
State:	$6,362

Number of discharges: 131

Here:	14.12%
Pennsylvania:	0.98%

Renal Failure with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$29,980
Pennsylvania:	$29,333

Average Total Payments

Here:	$7,134
Pennsylvania:	$7,034

Number of discharges: 29

Here:	3.13%
State:	2.33%

Renal Failure with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$39,251
State:	$43,566

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$11,303
State:	$11,198

Number of discharges: 15

This Hospital:	1.62%
State:	1.49%

Respiratory System Diagnosis with Ventilator Support <96 Hours

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$65,296
State:	$74,959

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$18,358
State:	$16,074

Number of discharges: 12

Here:	1.29%
Pennsylvania:	0.96%

Septicemia or Severe Sepsis without Mechanical Ventilation 96+ Hours with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$76,958
State:	$50,114

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$13,452
State:	$12,705

Number of discharges: 19

This Hospital:	2.05%
Pennsylvania:	3.92%

Signs and Symptoms without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$20,560
State:	$24,920

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,725
State:	$5,242

Number of discharges: 12

This Hospital:	1.29%
State:	0.72%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$32,555
Pennsylvania:	$29,567

Average Total Payments

Here:	$7,077
State:	$6,703

Number of discharges: 19

Here:	2.05%
State:	2.73%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$44,393
State:	$41,229

Average Total Payments

Here:	$10,082
State:	$9,510

Number of discharges: 20

This Hospital:	2.16%
State:	1.78%

Spinal Fusion Except Cervical without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$165,835
State:	$100,572

Average Total Payments

Here:	$28,409
State:	$26,454

Number of discharges: 39

This Hospital:	4.20%
State:	0.77%

Syncope and Collapse

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$25,919
State:	$23,856

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$5,178
Pennsylvania:	$4,892

Number of discharges: 37

This Hospital:	3.99%
Pennsylvania:	2.49%

Transient Ischemia

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$35,424
Pennsylvania:	$24,723

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,131
Pennsylvania:	$4,885

Number of discharges: 12

Here:	1.29%
Pennsylvania:	1.38%

Complaint Deficiency

Proper stairway enclosures and vertical shafts
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Protected exits that allow the resident to escape the building
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly located and lighted Exit signs
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Proper medical gas storage and administration areas
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly constructed piped-in oxygen systems
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Provide care for residents in a way that keeps or builds each resident's dignity and respect of individuality
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
A two-hour-resistant firewall in common walls
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Approved construction type or materials
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Proper stairway enclosures and vertical shafts
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly constructed piped-in oxygen systems
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Give each resident a notice of rights, rules, services and charges. Tell each resident who can get Medicaid benefits about 1) which items and services Medicaid covers and which the resident must pay for
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
1) Make sure that each resident's drug regimen is free from unnecessary drugs; 2) Each resident's entire drug/medication is managed and monitored to achieve highest well being
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

This Hospital:	100.0%
Pennsylvania:	99.4%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

This Hospital:	95.0%
Pennsylvania:	99.5%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	99.2%

Patients Given a Prescription for a Statin at Discharge

Here:	100.0%
State:	97.3%

Heart Failure

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	99.3%

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

Here:	100.0%
Pennsylvania:	96.5%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

This Hospital:	92.0%
Pennsylvania:	93.4%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
Pennsylvania:	99.4%

Pneumonia

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
State:	96.6%

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

This Hospital:	95.0%
State:	97.4%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	98.9%

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

Here:	97.0%
State:	95.7%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	85.0%
State:	94.1%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	84.0%
State:	96.6%

Surgery

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

Here:	96.0%
State:	98.6%

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

Here:	95.0%
State:	97.5%

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

This Hospital:	97.0%
Pennsylvania:	98.5%

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

This Hospital:	94.0%
Pennsylvania:	98.0%

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

Here:	96.0%
Pennsylvania:	98.6%

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%
Pennsylvania:	99.9%

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

This Hospital:	86.0%
State:	95.6%

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

This Hospital:	94.0%
Pennsylvania:	96.9%

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

This Hospital:	93.0%
Pennsylvania:	95.6%

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

This Hospital:	86.0%
Pennsylvania:	95.7%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
Pennsylvania:	99.8%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	15.5%
State:	14.8%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	9.7%
Pennsylvania:	10.9%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	9.6%
State:	11.8%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	19.3%
Pennsylvania:	19.2%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	24.0%
Pennsylvania:	24.8%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	18.2%
State:	18.6%

Use of Medical Imaging

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

Here:	6.800%
Pennsylvania:	8.255%

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

This Hospital:	0.118%
Pennsylvania:	0.151%

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

Here:	0.026%
Pennsylvania:	0.023%

Outpatients who got cardiac imaging stress tests before low-risk outpatient surgery

Here:	3.300%
State:	5.987%

Outpatients with brain CT scans who got a sinus CT scan at the same time

This Hospital:	5.700%
State:	3.106%

SACRED HEART HOSPITAL - ALLENTOWN, PA

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Quality Measures

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

Complaint Deficiency

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Surgery

Outcome of Care

Use of Medical Imaging

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