NORTHEAST GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER, INC - GAINESVILLE, GA

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NORTHEAST GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER, INC
743 SPRING STREET
GAINESVILLE, GA, 30501

Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (770) 535-3553

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Hospital Owner: Government - Local
Emergency Services: Yes
Type: Rehabilitation Units

Provided Services

Nuclear Medicine Services
Acute Renal Dialysis Services
Alcohol And/Or Drug Services
Anatomical Laboratory Services
Anesthesia Services
Blood Bank Services
Certified Trauma Center Services
Clinical Laboratory Services
Dental Services
Diagnostic Radiology Services
Dietary Services
Emergency Services
Home Health Services
Hospice Services
ICU - Cardiac (Non-Surgical)Services
ICU - Medical/Surgical Services
Inpatient Surgical Services
Long Term Care (Swing-Beds) Services
Neonatal Nursery Services
Obstetric Services
Occupational Therapy Services
Operating Room Services
Optometric Services
Outpatient Services
Outpatient Surgery Unit Services
Pediatric Services
Pharmacy Services
Physical Therapy Services
Postoperative Recovery Room Services
Psychiatric Services
Respiratory Care Services
Social Services
Speech Pathology Services
Therapeutic Radiology Services

Employment Full-Time Equivalent

Licensed Practical Or Vocational Nurses : 142.00
Registered Professional Nurses : 330.00
Other Salaried Personnel : 941.50
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA) : 1.00
Dieticians : 4.00
Occupational Therapists : 2.00
Physical Therapists : 11.00
Registered Pharmacists : 14.00
Respiratory Therapists : 1.00
Speech Pathologists Or Audiologists : 2.00
Medical Social Workers : 5.00

Number Of Beds

Total: 461
Total Certified: 461
Psychiatric Unit Beds: 54
Rehabilitation Unit Beds: 25

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 32%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	5%
State:	6%

Usually

This Hospital:	20%
State:	18%

Always

Here:	75%
Georgia:	76%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	4%
State:	4%

Usually

This Hospital:	16%
Georgia:	14%

Always

This Hospital:	80%
State:	82%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	10%
State:	13%

Usually

This Hospital:	26%
State:	24%

Always

Here:	64%
State:	63%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

Here:	6%
State:	8%

Usually

This Hospital:	24%
State:	22%

Always

Here:	70%
State:	70%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	21%
State:	23%

Usually

Here:	18%
Georgia:	17%

Always

This Hospital:	61%
State:	60%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	9%
State:	10%

Usually

This Hospital:	20%
State:	20%

Always

Here:	71%
State:	70%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	7%
Georgia:	9%

Usually

Here:	29%
Georgia:	27%

Always

This Hospital:	64%
Georgia:	64%

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

Yes

Here:	85%
Georgia:	80%

This Hospital:	15%
Georgia:	20%

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

6 or lower

This Hospital:	7%
Georgia:	9%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	19%
State:	24%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	74%
Georgia:	67%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

This Hospital:	3%
State:	6%

Yes, probably

Here:	16%
State:	25%

Yes, definitely

Here:	81%
State:	69%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

This Hospital:	99.0%
State:	98.1%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	98.3%

Percent of Patients Given ACE Inhibitor or ARB for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)

This Hospital:	100.0%
Georgia:	94.7%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

Here:	99.0%
Georgia:	98.2%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
State:	99.7%

Percent of Patients Given PCI Within 90 Minutes Of Arrival

Here:	94.0%
State:	87.4%

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

Here:	100.0%
Georgia:	95.2%

Heart Failure

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	97.5%

Percent of Patients Given ACE Inhibitor or ARB for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)

This Hospital:	96.0%
Georgia:	93.4%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

This Hospital:	65.0%
State:	86.3%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
Georgia:	98.9%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	95.0%
State:	94.9%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
State:	95.9%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
Georgia:	97.6%

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

This Hospital:	94.0%
Georgia:	91.6%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

Here:	91.0%
State:	92.4%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Hospital:	99.0%
State:	94.3%

Surgery

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
Georgia:	96.5%

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

Here:	86.0%
Georgia:	93.6%

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

Here:	97.0%
Georgia:	97.2%

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

Here:	86.0%
Georgia:	90.1%

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

This Hospital:	90.0%
Georgia:	93.0%

Percent of all Heart Surgery Patients whose blood sugar is kept under good control in the days right after surgery

Here:	96.0%
State:	92.3%

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%
Georgia:	99.6%

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

This Hospital:	86.0%
State:	89.5%

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

This Hospital:	84.0%
Georgia:	91.2%

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

This Hospital:	95.0%
Georgia:	93.8%

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

Here:	95.0%
Georgia:	94.2%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	12.8%
State:	16.0%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	9.2%
State:	11.3%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	10.6%
State:	12.1%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	17.3%
State:	19.5%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	21.5%
Georgia:	23.9%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	17.6%
Georgia:	18.3%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Falls And Trauma

This Hospital:	0.569%
Georgia:	0.635%

Vascular Catheter-Associated Infection

This Hospital:	0.171%
State:	0.368%

Catheter-Associated UTI

This Hospital:	0.569%
Georgia:	0.337%

Manifestations Of Poor Glycemic Control

Here:	0.057%
State:	0.036%

Average Medicare Payment

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w/o CC/MCC: $5,287

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w MCC: $11,797

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w CC: $7,425

Heart failure and shock w/o CC/MCC: $4,389

Heart failure and shock w MCC: $8,877

Heart failure and shock w CC: $6,118

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w/o CC/MCC: $4,410

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w MCC: $7,922

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w CC: $5,928

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy w MCC: $8,710

Diabetes w MCC: $8,266

Chest Pain: $3,229

Cardiac valve and oth maj cardiothoracic proc w/o card cath w/o CC/MCC: $26,645

Cardiac valve and oth maj cardiothoracic proc w/o card cath w MCC: $48,814

Cardiac valve and oth maj cardiothoracic proc w/o card cath w CC: $32,081

Major cardiovasc procedures w MCC or thoracic aortic aneurysm repair: $30,848

Cardiac defibrillator implant w/o cardiac cath w/o MCC: $30,356

Cardiac defibrillator implant w/o cardiac cath w MCC: $40,804

Cardiac defib implant w cardiac cath w/o AMI/HF/shock w/o MCC: $35,857

Cardiac defib implant w cardiac cath w/o AMI/HF/shock w MCC: $48,300

Extracranial procedures w/o CC/MCC: $6,079

Extracranial procedures w CC: $9,439

Coronary bypass w/o cardiac cath w/o MCC: $21,840

Coronary bypass w/o cardiac cath w MCC: $34,446

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w/o CC/MCC: $12,188

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w CC: $15,738

Perc cardiovasc proc w drug-eluting stent w/o MCC: $11,628

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w/o CC/MCC: $6,844

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $15,047

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w CC: $10,036

Cholecystectomy except by laparoscope w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $21,683

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w/o CC/MCC: $5,866

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w MCC: $15,106

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w CC: $8,518

Major small and large bowel procedures w/o CC/MCC: $9,863

Major small and large bowel procedures w CC: $15,553

Major small and large bowel procedures w MCC: $31,387

Stomach, esophageal duodenal proc w/o CC/MCC: $8,831

Cervical spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $11,629

Cervical spinal fusion w MCC: $26,824

Cervical spinal fusion w CC: $15,849

Spinal fusion except cervical w/o MCC: $21,647

Spinal fusion except cervical w MCC: $36,226

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $5,704

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w CC/MCC or disc device/neurostim: $10,458

Major shoulder or elbow joint procedures w/o CC/MCC: $6,768

Major shoulder or elbow joint procedures w CC/MCC: $10,436

Bilateral or multiple major joint procs of lower extremity w/o MCC: $19,102

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w/o MCC: $12,206

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w MCC: $19,984

Revision of hip or knee replacement w/o CC/MCC: $14,895

Revision of hip or knee replacement w CC: $18,608

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w/o CC/MCC: $8,962

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w MCC: $19,918

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w CC: $12,904

Other musculoskelet sys and conn tiss O.R. proc w MCC: $17,517

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w/o CC/MCC: $8,369

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w MCC: $19,921

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w CC: $11,324

Revision of hip or knee replacement w MCC: $23,087

Kidney and ureter procedures for non-neoplasm w MCC: $20,264

Bilateral or multiple major joint procs of lower extremity w MCC: $56,858

Transurethral procedures w MCC: $13,606

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w/o CC/MCC: $7,954

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w MCC: $16,843

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w CC: $13,124

Transurethral prostatectomy w/o CC/MCC: $3,845

Transurethral prostatectomy w CC/MCC: $6,797

Female reproductive system reconstructive procedures: $4,962

Uterine and adnexa proc for non-malignancy w/o CC/MCC: $5,129

Use of Medical Imaging

Outpatients with low back pain who had an MRI without trying recommended treatments first, such as physical therapy.

This Hospital:	27.700%
Georgia:	31.798%

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

Here:	9.600%
Georgia:	8.697%

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

This Hospital:	0.209%
Georgia:	0.178%

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

This Hospital:	0.224%
Georgia:	0.069%

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