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Outpatient Benchmarks for Recommended Care

We want you to feel confident about making important decisions about your healthcare at St. Joseph Hospital. Find out how we compare with other hospitals in the state and nationally in providing the recommended care to adults who are being treated in the Emergency Department (ED), Outpatient Surgery, and in Imaging Efficiency. St. Joseph Hospital voluntarily participates as part of a national initiative, to make information on hospital quality and safety available to the general public. For more information about this initiative, please visit NHQualitycare.org.

 

AMI Cardiac CareSurgical CareImaging Efficiency

AMI Cardiac Care

SJH 
2nd Quarter 2010-1st Quarter 2011

State
Performance

National
Performance

 

Median time to fibrinolysis.

0 patients

26 minutes

29 minutes

Fibrinolytic therapy received within 30 minutes of ED arrival.

0 patients

58%

57%

Median time to transfer to another facility for acute coronary intervention-reporting rate.

48 minutes based on 12 patients (1)

46 minutes

60 minutes

Aspirin at arrival.

100% of 30 patients

97%

96%

Median time to ECG.

8 minutes based on 32 patients

6 minutes

8 minutes

Reporting Period for Clinical Process Measures: Second Quarter 2010 through First Quarter 2011 Encounters  
Reporting Period for Outpatient Imaging Efficiency Measures: 01/01/2009-12/31/2009. All paid Medicare FFS claims. 
(1) The number of cases is too small to reliably tell how well a hospital is performing.

 
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