ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL (LITCHFIELD, IL) Detailed Hospital Profile

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

Here:	3%
Illinois:	5%

Usually

Here:	18%
State:	18%

Always

This Hospital:	79%
Illinois:	77%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	2%
Illinois:	4%

Usually

This Hospital:	10%
Illinois:	16%

Always

This Hospital:	88%
Illinois:	80%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	12%
State:	11%

Usually

Here:	23%
Illinois:	25%

Always

Here:	65%
Illinois:	64%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	5%
Illinois:	7%

Usually

Here:	23%
State:	24%

Always

This Hospital:	72%
State:	69%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	20%
State:	21%

Usually

This Hospital:	16%
Illinois:	19%

Always

This Hospital:	64%
Illinois:	60%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	4%
Illinois:	9%

Usually

This Hospital:	14%
State:	19%

Always

This Hospital:	82%
Illinois:	72%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	8%
Illinois:	12%

Usually

This Hospital:	29%
Illinois:	31%

Always

This Hospital:	63%
State:	57%

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

Yes

Here:	83%
Illinois:	83%

This Hospital:	17%
Illinois:	17%

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

6 or lower

Here:	7%
State:	9%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	24%
State:	24%

9 or 10

Here:	69%
State:	67%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	4%
Illinois:	5%

Yes, probably

Here:	30%
Illinois:	27%

Yes, definitely

This Hospital:	66%
State:	68%

Use of Medical Imaging

Outpatients with low back pain who had an MRI without trying recommended treatments first, such as physical therapy.

Here:	28.700%
State:	37.406%

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

This Hospital:	12.100%
State:	8.337%

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

Here:	0.603%
State:	0.171%

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

This Hospital:	0.059%
State:	0.056%

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

Here:	3.000%
State:	5.573%

Process of Care

Heart Failure

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

This Hospital:	92.0%
State:	99.0%

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

This Hospital:	93.0%
Illinois:	96.7%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	83.0%
State:	94.0%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	95.0%
Illinois:	96.2%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
State:	97.5%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	96.0%
State:	98.5%

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

Here:	80.0%
Illinois:	93.1%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	93.0%
Illinois:	94.4%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	87.0%
Illinois:	95.5%

Surgery

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	98.2%

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

This Hospital:	91.0%
State:	97.1%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	98.4%

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

Here:	95.0%
Illinois:	96.7%

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

Here:	95.0%
Illinois:	97.4%

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

Here:	98.0%
Illinois:	99.9%

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

This Hospital:	87.0%
State:	94.3%

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

Here:	94.0%
Illinois:	96.8%

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

Here:	92.0%
State:	99.7%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	16.5%
Illinois:	14.6%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	14.7%
State:	11.0%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	16.2%
State:	11.7%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	20.2%
Illinois:	20.1%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	25.6%
Illinois:	25.6%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	19.5%
State:	19.4%

ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL - LITCHFIELD, IL

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Use of Medical Imaging

Process of Care

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Surgery

Outcome of Care

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