SANFORD LUVERNE MEDICAL CENTER (LUVERNE, MN) Detailed Hospital Profile

Use of Medical Imaging

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

Here:	6.300%
Minnesota:	6.118%

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

This Hospital:	0.022%
Minnesota:	0.072%

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

Here:	3.500%
State:	5.841%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: Between 100 and 299
Survey Response Rate: 44%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	2%
State:	3%

Usually

Here:	16%
Minnesota:	18%

Always

Here:	82%
Minnesota:	79%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	1%
Minnesota:	3%

Usually

This Hospital:	12%
State:	14%

Always

This Hospital:	87%
State:	83%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	3%
State:	6%

Usually

Here:	22%
State:	22%

Always

This Hospital:	75%
State:	72%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

Here:	4%
Minnesota:	5%

Usually

This Hospital:	27%
Minnesota:	25%

Always

Here:	69%
Minnesota:	70%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	8%
State:	16%

Usually

Here:	15%
Minnesota:	20%

Always

Here:	77%
State:	64%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	5%
Minnesota:	6%

Usually

This Hospital:	14%
State:	18%

Always

Here:	81%
Minnesota:	76%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	6%
Minnesota:	7%

Usually

This Hospital:	24%
State:	30%

Always

This Hospital:	70%
State:	63%

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

Yes

This Hospital:	84%
State:	86%

This Hospital:	16%
Minnesota:	14%

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

6 or lower

This Hospital:	8%
State:	6%

7 or 8

Here:	20%
Minnesota:	22%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	72%
Minnesota:	72%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	4%
Minnesota:	3%

Yes, probably

This Hospital:	21%
Minnesota:	24%

Yes, definitely

This Hospital:	75%
State:	73%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

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

This Hospital:	7
State:	7

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

Here:	94.0%
State:	96.6%

Heart Failure

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

Here:	62.0%
Minnesota:	97.5%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	100.0%
Minnesota:	97.1%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
Minnesota:	92.8%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Hospital:	85.0%
Minnesota:	94.9%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	12.9%
Minnesota:	11.2%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	11.5%
State:	11.4%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	25.2%
State:	24.3%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	16.4%
State:	18.3%

SANFORD LUVERNE MEDICAL CENTER - LUVERNE, MN

Use of Medical Imaging

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Outcome of Care

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