VAIL VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER (VAIL, CO) Detailed Hospital Profile

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

Major Joint Replacement or Reattachment of Lower Extremity without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$53,480
Colorado:	$60,268

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$30,633
Colorado:	$14,362

Number of discharges: 78

Here:	81.25%
Colorado:	11.40%

Spinal Fusion Except Cervical without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$98,352
Colorado:	$130,597

Average Total Payments

Here:	$54,261
State:	$28,151

Number of discharges: 18

Here:	18.75%
Colorado:	2.38%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

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

This Hospital:	10
State:	8

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	97.8%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	97.0%

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

This Hospital:	78.0%
Colorado:	97.0%

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

Here:	64.0%
Colorado:	94.2%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	84.0%
State:	94.4%

Surgery

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

Here:	95.0%
Colorado:	97.9%

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

Here:	92.0%
Colorado:	97.0%

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
State:	98.6%

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

Here:	97.0%
Colorado:	96.9%

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

Here:	97.0%
Colorado:	98.0%

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
Colorado:	99.9%

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

Here:	92.0%
State:	93.2%

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

This Hospital:	95.0%
Colorado:	95.6%

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

Here:	95.0%
Colorado:	95.7%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
Colorado:	96.6%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
Colorado:	99.8%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	17.1%
Colorado:	17.7%

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	9.300%
Colorado:	8.917%

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

Here:	0.103%
State:	0.136%

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

Here:	0.014%
State:	0.028%

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

Here:	4.600%
Colorado:	4.979%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 30%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	4%
State:	4%

Usually

This Hospital:	19%
Colorado:	18%

Always

Here:	77%
State:	78%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	4%
Colorado:	4%

Usually

Here:	16%
State:	15%

Always

Here:	80%
Colorado:	81%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	7%
State:	7%

Usually

This Hospital:	26%
State:	24%

Always

Here:	67%
Colorado:	69%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	6%
State:	6%

Usually

This Hospital:	22%
Colorado:	23%

Always

This Hospital:	72%
State:	71%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	18%
Colorado:	17%

Usually

This Hospital:	20%
State:	19%

Always

Here:	62%
Colorado:	64%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	5%
Colorado:	7%

Usually

This Hospital:	12%
State:	19%

Always

Here:	83%
Colorado:	74%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	9%
Colorado:	7%

Usually

Here:	28%
State:	30%

Always

This Hospital:	63%
Colorado:	63%

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

Yes

This Hospital:	86%
Colorado:	86%

Here:	14%
Colorado:	14%

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

6 or lower

This Hospital:	6%
Colorado:	7%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	18%
State:	20%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	76%
Colorado:	73%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

This Hospital:	4%
State:	4%

Yes, probably

Here:	16%
Colorado:	20%

Yes, definitely

This Hospital:	80%
State:	76%

VAIL VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER - VAIL, CO

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

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Pneumonia

Surgery

Outcome of Care

Use of Medical Imaging

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

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