WARREN GENERAL HOSPITAL (WARREN, PA) Detailed Hospital Profile

Quality Measures

Percent of short-stay residents who self-report moderate to severe pain

Here:	33.6%
State:	21.2%

Percent of short-stay residents with Pressure ulcers that are new or worsened

This Hospital:	3.7%
Pennsylvania:	1.6%

Percent of short-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

Here:	99.2%
State:	85.6%

Percent of short-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

Here:	91.9%
State:	84.4%

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

Acute Myocardial Infarction, Discharged Alive with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$20,963
Pennsylvania:	$49,161

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$11,002
State:	$11,984

Number of discharges: 17

Here:	2.15%
Pennsylvania:	1.10%

Alcohol/Drug Abuse or Dependence without Rehabilitation Therapy without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$5,925
State:	$16,644

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,301
State:	$4,858

Number of discharges: 15

Here:	1.90%
Pennsylvania:	0.41%

Cardiac Arrhythmia and Conduction Disorders with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$11,925
State:	$24,639

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$5,427
Pennsylvania:	$5,656

Number of discharges: 32

Here:	4.06%
Pennsylvania:	1.67%

Cardiac Arrhythmia and Conduction Disorders with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$15,270
State:	$36,008

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$7,822
State:	$8,468

Number of discharges: 11

Here:	1.39%
Pennsylvania:	1.01%

Cardiac Arrhythmia and Conduction Disorders without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$10,502
State:	$17,588

Average Total Payments

Here:	$3,721
State:	$3,835

Number of discharges: 19

This Hospital:	2.41%
State:	1.86%

Cellulitis without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$11,734
Pennsylvania:	$21,833

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$5,440
Pennsylvania:	$5,569

Number of discharges: 39

Here:	4.94%
State:	2.29%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$14,999
State:	$29,850

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,241
State:	$6,479

Number of discharges: 42

This Hospital:	5.32%
Pennsylvania:	2.15%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$16,357
State:	$35,841

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$7,753
State:	$7,862

Number of discharges: 43

Here:	5.45%
Pennsylvania:	1.99%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$11,262
State:	$21,975

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,750
State:	$4,841

Number of discharges: 29

This Hospital:	3.68%
Pennsylvania:	1.72%

Esophagitis, Gastroent and Miscellaneous Digestive Disorders without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$10,096
State:	$24,456

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,667
State:	$4,986

Number of discharges: 19

This Hospital:	2.41%
Pennsylvania:	3.72%

G.I. Hemorrhage with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$15,167
State:	$29,883

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,547
State:	$6,883

Number of discharges: 22

Here:	2.79%
State:	2.08%

G.I. Hemorrhage with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$25,349
State:	$56,055

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$11,197
Pennsylvania:	$12,195

Number of discharges: 11

This Hospital:	1.39%
Pennsylvania:	0.73%

Heart Failure and Shock with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$15,357
Pennsylvania:	$29,163

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,604
Pennsylvania:	$6,918

Number of discharges: 46

Here:	5.83%
State:	3.75%

Heart Failure and Shock with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$28,237
Pennsylvania:	$40,714

Average Total Payments

Here:	$9,795
Pennsylvania:	$9,817

Number of discharges: 22

This Hospital:	2.79%
Pennsylvania:	2.71%

Heart Failure and Shock without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$9,594
Pennsylvania:	$20,243

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,513
State:	$4,587

Number of discharges: 27

Here:	3.42%
Pennsylvania:	1.61%

Hip and Femur Procedures Except Major Joint with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$27,021
State:	$51,161

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$12,220
Pennsylvania:	$12,050

Number of discharges: 17

This Hospital:	2.15%
State:	1.07%

Intracranial Hemorrhage or Cerebral Infarction with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$15,808
Pennsylvania:	$36,649

Average Total Payments

Here:	$7,150
Pennsylvania:	$7,863

Number of discharges: 18

This Hospital:	2.28%
State:	1.56%

Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$13,715
State:	$23,346

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$5,128
Pennsylvania:	$5,274

Number of discharges: 33

This Hospital:	4.18%
Pennsylvania:	2.94%

Major Joint Replacement or Reattachment of Lower Extremity without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$40,869
State:	$51,015

Average Total Payments

Here:	$13,869
State:	$13,679

Number of discharges: 53

This Hospital:	6.72%
State:	5.31%

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

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$11,823
State:	$21,864

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,556
State:	$4,771

Number of discharges: 19

This Hospital:	2.41%
State:	2.03%

Pulmonary Edema and Respiratory Failure

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$15,479
State:	$34,570

Average Total Payments

Here:	$7,913
Pennsylvania:	$11,356

Number of discharges: 26

Here:	3.30%
Pennsylvania:	1.07%

Renal Failure with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$13,321
State:	$29,333

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,504
State:	$7,034

Number of discharges: 18

This Hospital:	2.28%
State:	2.33%

Respiratory Infections and Inflammations with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$21,928
Pennsylvania:	$43,448

Average Total Payments

Here:	$9,448
Pennsylvania:	$9,800

Number of discharges: 16

Here:	2.03%
State:	0.82%

Septicemia or Severe Sepsis without Mechanical Ventilation 96+ Hours with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$24,517
Pennsylvania:	$50,114

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$12,101
State:	$12,705

Number of discharges: 44

Here:	5.58%
Pennsylvania:	3.92%

Septicemia or Severe Sepsis without Mechanical Ventilation 96+ Hours without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$14,238
Pennsylvania:	$28,351

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,937
State:	$7,480

Number of discharges: 21

This Hospital:	2.66%
State:	1.62%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$17,988
Pennsylvania:	$29,567

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,642
State:	$6,703

Number of discharges: 38

Here:	4.82%
State:	2.73%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$23,437
State:	$41,229

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$9,367
Pennsylvania:	$9,510

Number of discharges: 44

Here:	5.58%
Pennsylvania:	1.78%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$11,897
State:	$21,186

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,600
State:	$4,668

Number of discharges: 18

This Hospital:	2.28%
Pennsylvania:	1.11%

Syncope and Collapse

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$15,063
State:	$23,856

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,729
State:	$4,892

Number of discharges: 17

This Hospital:	2.15%
State:	2.49%

Transient Ischemia

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$13,257
Pennsylvania:	$24,723

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,814
State:	$4,885

Number of discharges: 13

Here:	1.65%
State:	1.38%

Complaint Deficiency

Allow residents to easily view the results of the nursing home's most recent survey
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Provide necessary care and services to maintain the highest well being of each resident
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
A two-hour-resistant firewall in common walls
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Protected exits that allow the resident to escape the building
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Record of quarterly fire drills for each shift under varying conditions
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly protected cooking facilities
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Approved construction type or materials
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Protected exits that allow the resident to escape the building
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Corridors or aisles that are unobstructed and are at least 8 feet in width
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Emergency lighting that can last at least 1 1/2 hours
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Record of quarterly fire drills for each shift under varying conditions
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
A fire alarm system that can be heard throughout the facility
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly protected cooking facilities
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Proper medical gas storage and administration areas
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly constructed piped-in oxygen systems
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
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
Give each resident a notice of rights, rules, services and charges. Tell each resident who can get Medicaid benefits about 1) which items and services Medicaid covers and which the resident must pay for
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Develop policies that prevent mistreatment, neglect, or abuse of residents or theft of resident property
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Maintain drug records and properly mark/label drugs and other similar products according to accepted professional standards
- Harm: Potential for minimal 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: Some
Develop policies that prevent mistreatment, neglect, or abuse of residents or theft of resident property
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide necessary care and services to maintain the highest well being of each resident
- 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: Few
Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Record of quarterly fire drills for each shift under varying conditions
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Exits that are free from obstructions and can be used at all times
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Restrictions on the use of highly flammable materials
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Proper medical gas storage and administration areas
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
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

Use of Medical Imaging

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

Here:	42.600%
State:	36.295%

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

This Hospital:	1.400%
Pennsylvania:	8.255%

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

Here:	0.218%
Pennsylvania:	0.151%

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

Here:	0.008%
State:	0.023%

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

This Hospital:	8.500%
Pennsylvania:	5.987%

Outpatients with brain CT scans who got a sinus CT scan at the same time

Here:	1.100%
State:	3.106%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

This Hospital:	95.0%
Pennsylvania:	99.4%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

This Hospital:	80.0%
Pennsylvania:	99.5%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

Here:	100.0%
State:	99.2%

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

Here:	11
Pennsylvania:	9

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
Pennsylvania:	96.6%

Patients Given a Prescription for a Statin at Discharge

Here:	64.0%
State:	97.3%

Heart Failure

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
Pennsylvania:	99.3%

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

This Hospital:	95.0%
Pennsylvania:	96.5%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

This Hospital:	75.0%
Pennsylvania:	93.4%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	99.4%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	90.0%
Pennsylvania:	96.6%

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

Here:	93.0%
State:	97.4%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	98.9%

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

This Hospital:	86.0%
State:	95.7%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

Here:	89.0%
State:	94.1%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Hospital:	93.0%
Pennsylvania:	96.6%

Surgery

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	98.6%

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

Here:	92.0%
Pennsylvania:	97.5%

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

This Hospital:	95.0%
Pennsylvania:	98.5%

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:	98.0%

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

This Hospital:	93.0%
State:	98.6%

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

Here:	100.0%
Pennsylvania:	99.9%

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

Here:	89.0%
Pennsylvania:	95.6%

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

Here:	81.0%
State:	96.9%

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

Here:	79.0%
Pennsylvania:	95.6%

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

Here:	83.0%
Pennsylvania:	95.7%

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

Here:	95.0%
Pennsylvania:	99.8%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	16.0%
State:	14.8%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	10.7%
Pennsylvania:	10.9%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	14.0%
State:	11.8%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	18.3%
Pennsylvania:	19.2%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	23.9%
State:	24.8%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	16.8%
State:	18.6%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 36%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	3%
State:	5%

Usually

This Hospital:	19%
State:	18%

Always

Here:	78%
State:	77%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	4%
State:	5%

Usually

Here:	19%
Pennsylvania:	16%

Always

This Hospital:	77%
Pennsylvania:	79%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	9%
State:	10%

Usually

Here:	22%
Pennsylvania:	26%

Always

This Hospital:	69%
State:	64%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	4%
State:	7%

Usually

This Hospital:	24%
State:	24%

Always

Here:	72%
Pennsylvania:	69%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	20%
State:	21%

Usually

This Hospital:	21%
Pennsylvania:	19%

Always

This Hospital:	59%
State:	60%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	7%
Pennsylvania:	9%

Usually

This Hospital:	22%
Pennsylvania:	20%

Always

Here:	71%
State:	71%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	15%
Pennsylvania:	14%

Usually

Here:	38%
Pennsylvania:	34%

Always

Here:	47%
Pennsylvania:	52%

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

Yes

Here:	81%
State:	83%

Here:	19%
State:	17%

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

6 or lower

This Hospital:	11%
State:	10%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	28%
Pennsylvania:	24%

9 or 10

Here:	61%
Pennsylvania:	66%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

This Hospital:	4%
Pennsylvania:	5%

Yes, probably

Here:	35%
Pennsylvania:	28%

Yes, definitely

Here:	61%
Pennsylvania:	67%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Falls and injuries

This Hospital:	0.451%
State:	0.708%

Blood infection from a catheter in a large vein

This Hospital:	0.451%
State:	0.389%

Infection from a Urinary Catheter

Here:	0.451%
Pennsylvania:	0.504%

WARREN GENERAL HOSPITAL - WARREN, PA

Quality Measures

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

Complaint Deficiency

Use of Medical Imaging

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Surgery

Outcome of Care

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Hospital Acquired Conditions

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