SOUTH PENINSULA HOSPITAL LTC (HOMER, AK) Detailed Nursing Home Profile

Complaint Deficiency

Make sure each resident has the right to have a choice over activities, their schedules and health care according to his or her interests, assessment, and plan of care
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Portable fire extinguishers
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Prepare food that is nutritional, appetizing, tasty, attractive, well-cooked, and at the right temperature
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Make sure that special or therapeutic diets are ordered by the attending doctor
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Actual harm
- Scope: Some
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Keep accurate, complete and organized clinical records on each resident that meet professional standards
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Record of quarterly fire drills for each shift under varying conditions
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Outside doors or windows in every resident room
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
An approved automatic sprinkler system connected to the fire alarm system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Heating and ventilation systems that have been properly installed according to the manufacturer's instructions
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly protected cooking facilities
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Restrictions on the use of highly flammable materials
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Weekly inspections and monthly testing of generators
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Back-up procedures in place for a faulty automatic sprinkler system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
An approved back-up procedure for a faulty fire alarm system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Develop a complete care plan that meets all of a resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide care by qualified persons according to each resident's written plan of care
- 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: Many
Have enough backup water supply for essential areas of the nursing home
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many

Use of Medical Imaging

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

Here:	14.200%
State:	10.007%

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

Here:	0.016%
State:	0.077%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: Between 100 and 299
Survey Response Rate: 45%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	3%
State:	4%

Usually

Here:	17%
Alaska:	19%

Always

This Nursing Home:	80%
Alaska:	77%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	1%
State:	4%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	15%
Alaska:	16%

Always

Here:	84%
Alaska:	80%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	4%
Alaska:	9%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	28%
State:	24%

Always

This Nursing Home:	68%
Alaska:	67%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

Here:	7%
Alaska:	7%

Usually

Here:	22%
State:	25%

Always

This Nursing Home:	71%
Alaska:	68%

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

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	15%
State:	16%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	21%
State:	18%

Always

Here:	64%
State:	66%

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

Sometimes or never

This Nursing Home:	8%
Alaska:	9%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	16%
State:	21%

Always

This Nursing Home:	76%
Alaska:	70%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	6%
State:	10%

Usually

This Nursing Home:	23%
Alaska:	30%

Always

Here:	71%
Alaska:	60%

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

Yes

This Nursing Home:	89%
State:	85%

This Nursing Home:	11%
Alaska:	15%

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

6 or lower

Here:	6%
Alaska:	9%

7 or 8

This Nursing Home:	21%
State:	25%

9 or 10

This Nursing Home:	73%
State:	66%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	4%
Alaska:	4%

Yes, probably

Here:	24%
State:	26%

Yes, definitely

Here:	72%
Alaska:	70%

Process of Care

Heart Failure

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

Here:	93.0%
Alaska:	97.5%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	92.0%
State:	93.7%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	86.0%
Alaska:	95.7%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Nursing Home:	94.0%
Alaska:	97.0%

Surgery

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

This Nursing Home:	9.0%
Alaska:	95.2%

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

Here:	9.0%
Alaska:	95.3%

Percent of Surgery Patients needing hair removed from the surgical area before surgery who had hair removed using a safer method

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
State:	99.7%

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

Here:	93.0%
State:	100.0%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Nursing Home:	10.8%
State:	12.5%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Nursing Home:	12.2%
State:	12.1%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	24.1%
State:	23.2%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Nursing Home:	19.1%
Alaska:	17.4%

SOUTH PENINSULA HOSPITAL LTC - HOMER, AK

Complaint Deficiency

Use of Medical Imaging

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Process of Care

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Surgery

Outcome of Care

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