WAVERLY HEALTH CENTER (WAVERLY, IA) Detailed Hospital Profile

Process of Care

Heart Attack

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

Here:	7
Iowa:	6

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

Here:	100.0%
Iowa:	97.2%

Heart Failure

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

Here:	79.0%
Iowa:	96.9%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	100.0%
State:	90.2%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	100.0%
Iowa:	97.4%

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

This Hospital:	98.0%
State:	97.8%

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

This Hospital:	97.0%
Iowa:	93.4%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	87.0%
Iowa:	91.6%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	96.0%
Iowa:	94.3%

Surgery

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

Here:	94.0%
Iowa:	97.8%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	96.3%

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

This Hospital:	94.0%
State:	98.7%

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

Here:	96.0%
Iowa:	96.3%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
Iowa:	97.2%

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%
State:	99.8%

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

Here:	81.0%
Iowa:	95.7%

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

Here:	100.0%
Iowa:	97.7%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	99.6%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	13.2%
Iowa:	12.0%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	10.8%
State:	12.0%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	23.6%
State:	23.7%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	15.1%
State:	17.9%

Use of Medical Imaging

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

Here:	4.700%
State:	8.069%

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

This Hospital:	0.024%
Iowa:	0.138%

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

Here:	0.008%
Iowa:	0.031%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 43%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	1%
State:	3%

Usually

Here:	15%
Iowa:	17%

Always

Here:	84%
State:	80%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	2%
State:	3%

Usually

Here:	12%
State:	13%

Always

This Hospital:	86%
State:	84%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	4%
Iowa:	6%

Usually

This Hospital:	29%
Iowa:	25%

Always

This Hospital:	67%
Iowa:	69%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	7%
State:	5%

Usually

Here:	23%
Iowa:	24%

Always

Here:	70%
State:	71%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	12%
Iowa:	15%

Usually

This Hospital:	25%
Iowa:	21%

Always

This Hospital:	63%
State:	64%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	3%
State:	6%

Usually

This Hospital:	17%
State:	16%

Always

Here:	80%
Iowa:	78%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	5%
State:	7%

Usually

This Hospital:	23%
Iowa:	30%

Always

This Hospital:	72%
State:	63%

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

Yes

This Hospital:	88%
Iowa:	85%

This Hospital:	12%
Iowa:	15%

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

6 or lower

Here:	3%
State:	6%

7 or 8

Here:	18%
Iowa:	20%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	79%
Iowa:	74%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	2%
Iowa:	3%

Yes, probably

This Hospital:	14%
State:	22%

Yes, definitely

Here:	84%
State:	75%

WAVERLY HEALTH CENTER - WAVERLY, IA

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Surgery

Outcome of Care

Use of Medical Imaging

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

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