WENATCHEE VALLEY HOSPITAL - WENATCHEE, WA

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Addresss:
820 NORTH CHELAN STREET
WENATCHEE, WA, 98801
Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (509) 663-8711

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Hospital Owner: Proprietary
Emergency Services: Yes
Type: Rehabilitation Units

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Employment Full-Time Equivalent
Licensed Practical Or Vocational Nurses : 3.91
Registered Professional Nurses : 54.05
Other Salaried Personnel : 81.46
Dieticians : 1.00
Occupational Therapists : 2.00
Physical Therapists : 3.95
Registered Pharmacists : 2.00
Speech Pathologists Or Audiologists : 0.98
Physicians : 21.05
Medical Social Workers : 0.80
Physician Assistants : 2.00

Number Of Beds
Total: 21
Total Certified: 21
Rehabilitation Unit Beds: 9

Provided Services
Nuclear Medicine Services
Anesthesia Services
Blood Bank Services
CT Scanner Services
Chemotherapy Services
Clinical Laboratory Services
Diagnostic Radiology Services
Dietary Services
Inpatient Rehabilitation (Carf Accredited) Services
Inpatient Surgical Services
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Mri) Services
Occupational Therapy Services
Operating Room Services
Opthalmic Surgery Services
Orthopedic Surgery Services
Outpatient Rehabilitation Services
Outpatient Services
Outpatient Surgery Unit Services
Pharmacy Services
Physical Therapy Services
Positron Emission Tomography (Pet) Scan Services
Postoperative Recovery Room Services
Reconstructive Surgery Services
Respiratory Care Services
Social Services
Speech Pathology Services
Therapeutic Radiology Services

Use of Medical Imaging

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

0.216%
State:

0.091%
Outpatients who got cardiac imaging stress tests before low-risk outpatient surgery
This Hospital:

3.900%
State:

4.997%
Outpatients with brain CT scans who got a sinus CT scan at the same time
Here:

0.700%
State:

2.223%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 48%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never
Here:

3%
State:

4%
Usually
This Hospital:

14%
Washington:

20%
Always
Here:

83%
Washington:

76%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never
This Hospital:

2%
State:

4%
Usually
This Hospital:

14%
Washington:

17%
Always
This Hospital:

84%
Washington:

79%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never
This Hospital:

5%
State:

9%
Usually
This Hospital:

19%
Washington:

27%
Always
Here:

76%
Washington:

64%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never
This Hospital:

5%
State:

7%
Usually
Here:

20%
State:

24%
Always
This Hospital:

75%
Washington:

69%

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

Sometimes or never
Here:

14%
State:

19%
Usually
Here:

16%
Washington:

20%
Always
Here:

70%
Washington:

61%

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

Sometimes or never
This Hospital:

7%
State:

8%
Usually
Here:

14%
Washington:

20%
Always
Here:

79%
State:

72%

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

Sometimes or never
This Hospital:

5%
Washington:

13%
Usually
This Hospital:

34%
Washington:

34%
Always
Here:

61%
Washington:

53%

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

Yes
Here:

88%
Washington:

85%
No
Here:

12%
State:

15%

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

6 or lower
This Hospital:

5%
Washington:

8%
7 or 8
This Hospital:

16%
State:

23%
9 or 10
Here:

79%
State:

69%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

No
This Hospital:

3%
Washington:

4%
Yes, probably
Here:

14%
Washington:

23%
Yes, definitely
Here:

83%
Washington:

73%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Infection from a Urinary Catheter
This Hospital:

1.527%
State:

0.775%

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

Back and Neck Procedures Except Spinal Fusion without Complications
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$14,845
State:

$28,115
Average Total Payments
This Hospital:

$6,174
State:

$7,349
Number of discharges: 15
This Hospital:

14.85%
Washington:

1.40%
Cervical Spinal Fusion without Complications
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$32,529
State:

$59,832
Average Total Payments
This Hospital:

$13,824
Washington:

$15,736
Number of discharges: 11
Here:

10.89%
Washington:

0.43%
Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections without Major Complications
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$8,947
Washington:

$17,974
Average Total Payments
This Hospital:

$4,412
State:

$5,488
Number of discharges: 11
Here:

10.89%
State:

2.50%
Major Joint Replacement or Reattachment of Lower Extremity without Major Complications
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$24,619
State:

$53,039
Average Total Payments
This Hospital:

$12,729
State:

$15,499
Number of discharges: 38
This Hospital:

37.62%
State:

8.63%
Misc Disorders of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids or Electrolytes without Major Complications
Average Covered Charges
Here:

$9,414
State:

$17,265
Average Total Payments
Here:

$3,880
State:

$5,005
Number of discharges: 12
This Hospital:

11.88%
State:

1.76%
Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Complications
Average Covered Charges
This Hospital:

$9,103
Washington:

$21,638
Average Total Payments
This Hospital:

$5,367
Washington:

$7,154
Number of discharges: 14
Here:

13.86%
State:

2.75%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

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

13
State:

11
Outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack who got aspirin within 24 hours of arrival
This Hospital:

93.0%
Washington:

96.9%

Pneumonia

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

100.0%
Washington:

96.5%
Percent of Patients Whose Initial ER Blood Culture Was Performed Prior To Administration Of First Dose Of Antibiotics
Here:

100.0%
State:

96.8%
Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling
Here:

100.0%
Washington:

98.4%
Percent of Patients Given the Most Appropriate Initial Antibiotic(s)
This Hospital:

100.0%
Washington:

95.0%
Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination
This Hospital:

100.0%
Washington:

93.0%
Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination
This Hospital:

81.0%
Washington:

96.2%

Surgery

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

99.0%
Washington:

97.4%
Percent of Surgery Patients whose preventive antibiotics were stopped at the right time (within 24 hours after surgery)
Here:

98.0%
Washington:

97.0%
Percent of Surgery Patients who were given the right kind of antibiotic to help prevent infection
This Hospital:

100.0%
Washington:

98.3%
Percent of Surgery Patients who got treatment at right time (within 24 hours before or after surgery) to help prevent blood clot
This Hospital:

99.0%
State:

97.8%
Percent of Surgery Patients whose doctors ordered treatments to prevent blood clots after certain types of surgeries
This Hospital:

99.0%
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%
State:

99.9%
Percent of Surgery Patients whose urinary catheters were removed on the first or second day after surgery
This Hospital:

98.0%
Washington:

92.1%
Surgery patients who were taking heart drugs called beta blockers before coming to the hospital, who were kept on them
Here:

100.0%
Washington:

96.5%
Outpatients having surgery who got an antibiotic at the right time - within one hour before surgery (higher numbers are better)
Here:

98.0%
State:

95.1%
Outpatients having surgery who got the right kind of antibiotic (higher numbers are better)
This Hospital:

98.0%
Washington:

96.0%
Patients having surgery who were actively warmed in the operating room or whose body temperature was near normal
This Hospital:

100.0%
State:

99.8%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia
This Hospital:

11.7%
State:

12.5%
30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia
This Hospital:

18.3%
State:

17.7%

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