DALLAS COUNTY HOSPITAL (PERRY, IA) Detailed Hospital Profile

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	6.900%
Iowa:	8.069%

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

Here:	0.116%
Iowa:	0.138%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: Fewer than 100
Survey Response Rate: 36%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	1%
Iowa:	3%

Usually

Here:	15%
Iowa:	17%

Always

This Hospital:	84%
State:	80%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	2%
State:	3%

Usually

Here:	12%
Iowa:	13%

Always

Here:	86%
State:	84%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	4%
State:	6%

Usually

This Hospital:	14%
State:	25%

Always

This Hospital:	82%
State:	69%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	6%
State:	5%

Usually

Here:	19%
Iowa:	24%

Always

Here:	75%
Iowa:	71%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	18%
State:	15%

Usually

Here:	11%
Iowa:	21%

Always

This Hospital:	71%
State:	64%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	3%
Iowa:	6%

Usually

This Hospital:	20%
State:	16%

Always

Here:	77%
State:	78%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	4%
Iowa:	7%

Usually

Here:	27%
Iowa:	30%

Always

Here:	69%
Iowa:	63%

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

Yes

Here:	72%
Iowa:	85%

Here:	28%
Iowa:	15%

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

6 or lower

This Hospital:	8%
Iowa:	6%

7 or 8

Here:	23%
State:	20%

9 or 10

Here:	69%
Iowa:	74%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	4%
Iowa:	3%

Yes, probably

Here:	23%
Iowa:	22%

Yes, definitely

Here:	73%
State:	75%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

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

This Hospital:	8
State:	6

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

This Hospital:	91.0%
State:	97.2%

Pneumonia

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	97.4%

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

Here:	86.0%
State:	97.8%

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

This Hospital:	85.0%
Iowa:	93.4%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Hospital:	86.0%
Iowa:	94.3%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	13.7%
Iowa:	12.0%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	17.9%
State:	17.9%

DALLAS COUNTY HOSPITAL - PERRY, IA

Use of Medical Imaging

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Pneumonia

Outcome of Care

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