WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL (PITTSBURGH, PA) Detailed Hospital Profile

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

Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$18,876
State:	$23,346

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,849
Pennsylvania:	$5,274

Number of discharges: 12

This Hospital:	100.00%
Pennsylvania:	2.94%

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	11.200%
State:	8.255%

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

This Hospital:	0.082%
State:	0.151%

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

This Hospital:	0.005%
State:	0.023%

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

Here:	4.500%
Pennsylvania:	5.987%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 37%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	6%
State:	5%

Usually

Here:	19%
Pennsylvania:	18%

Always

Here:	75%
Pennsylvania:	77%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	5%
State:	5%

Usually

This Hospital:	16%
Pennsylvania:	16%

Always

This Hospital:	79%
State:	79%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	10%
Pennsylvania:	10%

Usually

Here:	24%
Pennsylvania:	26%

Always

This Hospital:	66%
State:	64%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	8%
State:	7%

Usually

This Hospital:	24%
State:	24%

Always

Here:	68%
Pennsylvania:	69%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	17%
Pennsylvania:	21%

Usually

This Hospital:	23%
State:	19%

Always

Here:	60%
Pennsylvania:	60%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	13%
Pennsylvania:	9%

Usually

This Hospital:	23%
Pennsylvania:	20%

Always

This Hospital:	64%
Pennsylvania:	71%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	10%
State:	14%

Usually

This Hospital:	27%
Pennsylvania:	34%

Always

Here:	63%
Pennsylvania:	52%

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

Yes

This Hospital:	85%
State:	83%

Here:	15%
State:	17%

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

6 or lower

This Hospital:	8%
State:	10%

7 or 8

Here:	23%
Pennsylvania:	24%

9 or 10

Here:	69%
State:	66%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	6%
Pennsylvania:	5%

Yes, probably

This Hospital:	21%
State:	28%

Yes, definitely

Here:	73%
Pennsylvania:	67%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Falls and injuries

This Hospital:	0.872%
Pennsylvania:	0.708%

Blood infection from a catheter in a large vein

This Hospital:	0.218%
Pennsylvania:	0.389%

Process of Care

Surgery

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

Here:	99.0%
Pennsylvania:	98.6%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
Pennsylvania:	97.5%

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

This Hospital:	98.0%
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:	99.0%
Pennsylvania:	98.0%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	98.6%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
Pennsylvania:	99.9%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	95.6%

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

Here:	98.0%
State:	96.9%

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

Here:	100.0%
Pennsylvania:	95.6%

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

Here:	94.0%
State:	95.7%

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

Here:	100.0%
Pennsylvania:	99.8%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	18.2%
State:	14.8%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	10.5%
State:	10.9%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	11.5%
State:	11.8%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	21.5%
State:	19.2%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	23.1%
State:	24.8%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	20.0%
State:	18.6%

WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL - PITTSBURGH, PA

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

Use of Medical Imaging

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Process of Care

Surgery

Outcome of Care

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