ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL (BUCKHANNON, WV) Detailed Hospital Profile

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

Cardiac Arrhythmia and Conduction Disorders without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$8,348
West Virginia:	$8,528

Average Total Payments

Here:	$3,554
State:	$3,482

Number of discharges: 18

This Hospital:	8.74%
West Virginia:	1.87%

Cellulitis without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$9,246
West Virginia:	$9,955

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,077
West Virginia:	$4,934

Number of discharges: 15

Here:	7.28%
State:	2.14%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$10,410
West Virginia:	$9,702

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,507
West Virginia:	$4,286

Number of discharges: 24

This Hospital:	11.65%
West Virginia:	3.30%

Esophagitis, Gastroent and Miscellaneous Digestive Disorders without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$9,592
West Virginia:	$11,121

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,489
West Virginia:	$4,399

Number of discharges: 21

Here:	10.19%
State:	3.99%

Heart Failure and Shock with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$10,567
State:	$13,518

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,448
West Virginia:	$6,064

Number of discharges: 11

This Hospital:	5.34%
State:	3.11%

Heart Failure and Shock without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$9,729
West Virginia:	$9,106

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,202
West Virginia:	$4,047

Number of discharges: 14

This Hospital:	6.80%
State:	1.40%

Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$7,781
West Virginia:	$10,257

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,785
West Virginia:	$4,701

Number of discharges: 19

This Hospital:	9.22%
West Virginia:	3.45%

Major Joint Replacement or Reattachment of Lower Extremity without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$23,173
State:	$33,555

Average Total Payments

Here:	$13,167
State:	$12,548

Number of discharges: 13

Here:	6.31%
West Virginia:	4.22%

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

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$9,266
West Virginia:	$9,782

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,200
West Virginia:	$4,200

Number of discharges: 21

Here:	10.19%
West Virginia:	1.96%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$15,971
West Virginia:	$14,392

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,323
State:	$6,029

Number of discharges: 24

Here:	11.65%
West Virginia:	3.71%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$12,222
State:	$9,911

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,360
State:	$4,263

Number of discharges: 26

This Hospital:	12.62%
West Virginia:	1.55%

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	5.800%
West Virginia:	8.958%

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

Here:	0.625%
West Virginia:	0.275%

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

Here:	0.021%
West Virginia:	0.071%

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

This Hospital:	8.800%
State:	5.768%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

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

Here:	15
West Virginia:	11

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

Here:	100.0%
West Virginia:	96.9%

Heart Failure

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

Here:	100.0%
West Virginia:	98.4%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	76.0%
State:	91.6%

Pneumonia

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

This Hospital:	98.0%
West Virginia:	95.2%

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

Here:	94.0%
State:	96.0%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	82.0%
State:	98.3%

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

Here:	88.0%
State:	93.3%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	92.0%
West Virginia:	93.2%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	96.0%
State:	95.7%

Surgery

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
West Virginia:	98.3%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
State:	96.1%

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

This Hospital:	94.0%
West Virginia:	98.2%

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

This Hospital:	73.0%
State:	95.5%

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

This Hospital:	76.0%
State:	96.5%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	99.8%

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

This Hospital:	94.0%
State:	94.5%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	95.9%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	94.8%

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

Here:	88.0%
State:	93.8%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	98.9%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	12.0%
State:	11.6%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	14.4%
State:	12.3%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	23.9%
State:	25.6%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	17.9%
West Virginia:	19.6%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: Between 100 and 299
Survey Response Rate: 30%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	4%
West Virginia:	6%

Usually

This Hospital:	16%
West Virginia:	17%

Always

Here:	80%
West Virginia:	77%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	3%
West Virginia:	4%

Usually

Here:	10%
West Virginia:	14%

Always

Here:	87%
State:	82%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	5%
State:	12%

Usually

Here:	20%
State:	23%

Always

This Hospital:	75%
West Virginia:	65%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

Here:	5%
West Virginia:	8%

Usually

Here:	21%
West Virginia:	23%

Always

Here:	74%
West Virginia:	69%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	17%
State:	20%

Usually

Here:	16%
West Virginia:	18%

Always

This Hospital:	67%
West Virginia:	62%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	7%
West Virginia:	9%

Usually

This Hospital:	22%
State:	18%

Always

Here:	71%
State:	73%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	8%
State:	13%

Usually

Here:	31%
State:	32%

Always

This Hospital:	61%
State:	55%

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

Yes

This Hospital:	88%
State:	83%

Here:	12%
State:	17%

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

6 or lower

Here:	7%
State:	11%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	18%
State:	24%

9 or 10

Here:	75%
State:	65%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

This Hospital:	3%
State:	6%

Yes, probably

Here:	25%
West Virginia:	29%

Yes, definitely

This Hospital:	72%
West Virginia:	65%

ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL - BUCKHANNON, WV

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

Use of Medical Imaging

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Surgery

Outcome of Care

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

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