ST LUKES HOSPITAL (COLUMBUS, NC) Detailed Hospital Profile

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	26.300%
State:	33.381%

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

This Hospital:	7.600%
North Carolina:	8.387%

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

This Hospital:	0.143%
State:	0.085%

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

This Hospital:	0.255%
State:	0.026%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: Between 100 and 299
Survey Response Rate: 40%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	5%
North Carolina:	4%

Usually

Here:	16%
North Carolina:	16%

Always

This Hospital:	79%
State:	80%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	4%
North Carolina:	4%

Usually

Here:	11%
North Carolina:	13%

Always

Here:	85%
North Carolina:	83%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	6%
North Carolina:	9%

Usually

This Hospital:	19%
State:	24%

Always

This Hospital:	75%
North Carolina:	67%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	8%
State:	7%

Usually

This Hospital:	19%
North Carolina:	22%

Always

This Hospital:	73%
North Carolina:	71%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	19%
State:	19%

Usually

This Hospital:	17%
North Carolina:	16%

Always

This Hospital:	64%
State:	65%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	10%
North Carolina:	10%

Usually

Here:	18%
State:	19%

Always

This Hospital:	72%
State:	71%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	11%
State:	9%

Usually

This Hospital:	31%
State:	28%

Always

This Hospital:	58%
State:	63%

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

Yes

Here:	85%
State:	84%

This Hospital:	15%
State:	16%

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

6 or lower

Here:	7%
North Carolina:	7%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	22%
State:	23%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	71%
North Carolina:	70%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

This Hospital:	4%
North Carolina:	5%

Yes, probably

Here:	22%
State:	24%

Yes, definitely

Here:	74%
North Carolina:	71%

Process of Care

Heart Failure

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

Here:	100.0%
North Carolina:	99.5%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	98.0%
State:	95.8%

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

Here:	97.0%
State:	96.7%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	95.8%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

Here:	100.0%
State:	95.4%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Hospital:	92.0%
North Carolina:	97.2%

Surgery

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

Here:	98.0%
State:	98.8%

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
North Carolina:	97.7%

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

Here:	100.0%
North Carolina:	99.0%

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%
State:	97.5%

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

Here:	95.0%
State:	98.4%

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%
North Carolina:	99.9%

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

Here:	96.0%
State:	96.0%

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

Here:	100.0%
North Carolina:	97.6%

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

Here:	100.0%
North Carolina:	99.8%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	13.6%
State:	11.5%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	14.0%
State:	12.5%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	24.6%
North Carolina:	24.1%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	16.6%
North Carolina:	18.8%

ST LUKES HOSPITAL - COLUMBUS, NC

Use of Medical Imaging

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Process of Care

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Surgery

Outcome of Care

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