ATHENS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER - ATHENS, GA

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ATHENS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
1199 PRINCE AVENUE
ATHENS, GA, 30606

Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (706) 475-7000

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Hospital Owner: Voluntary non-profit - Other
Emergency Services: Yes
Type: Psychiatric Units

Provided Services

Nuclear Medicine Services
Alcohol And/Or Drug Services
Anatomical Laboratory Services
Anesthesia Services
Blood Bank Services
Clinical Laboratory Services
Diagnostic Radiology Services
Dietary Services
Emergency Services
ICU - Cardiac (Non-Surgical)Services
ICU - Medical/Surgical Services
Inpatient Rehabilitiation (Not Carf Accredited) Services
Inpatient Surgical Services
Neonatal Nursery Services
Obstetric Services
Occupational Therapy Services
Operating Room 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 : 89.25
Registered Professional Nurses : 220.00
Other Salaried Personnel : 1040.50
Dieticians : 1.00
Occupational Therapists : 5.50
Physical Therapists : 7.50
Registered Pharmacists : 13.00
Respiratory Therapists : 7.00
Speech Pathologists Or Audiologists : 3.50
Physicians : 0.50
Medical Social Workers : 4.50

Number Of Beds

Total: 315
Total Certified: 315
Psychiatric Unit Beds: 20

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 27%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	4%
Georgia:	6%

Usually

Here:	19%
State:	18%

Always

This Hospital:	77%
State:	76%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	5%
State:	4%

Usually

This Hospital:	16%
Georgia:	14%

Always

Here:	79%
State:	82%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	10%
State:	13%

Usually

Here:	28%
Georgia:	24%

Always

Here:	62%
State:	63%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	8%
Georgia:	8%

Usually

Here:	26%
Georgia:	22%

Always

This Hospital:	66%
Georgia:	70%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	22%
State:	23%

Usually

This Hospital:	19%
State:	17%

Always

Here:	59%
State:	60%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	8%
State:	10%

Usually

This Hospital:	21%
State:	20%

Always

Here:	71%
State:	70%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	8%
State:	9%

Usually

Here:	34%
State:	27%

Always

This Hospital:	58%
Georgia:	64%

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

Yes

Here:	79%
State:	80%

This Hospital:	21%
State:	20%

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

6 or lower

Here:	5%
Georgia:	9%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	24%
State:	24%

9 or 10

Here:	71%
State:	67%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	2%
Georgia:	6%

Yes, probably

This Hospital:	18%
Georgia:	25%

Yes, definitely

Here:	80%
Georgia:	69%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

Here:	100.0%
Georgia:	98.1%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

Here:	99.0%
State:	98.3%

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

Here:	95.0%
Georgia:	94.7%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

This Hospital:	99.0%
Georgia:	98.2%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
Georgia:	99.7%

Percent of Patients Given PCI Within 90 Minutes Of Arrival

Here:	97.0%
State:	87.4%

Heart Failure

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

Here:	99.0%
State:	97.5%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	93.4%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	83.0%
Georgia:	86.3%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
State:	98.9%

Pneumonia

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
State:	94.9%

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

Here:	99.0%
Georgia:	95.9%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	97.6%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
Georgia:	91.6%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

Here:	90.0%
State:	92.4%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	92.0%
Georgia:	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:	96.0%
Georgia:	93.6%

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

Here:	91.0%
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

This Hospital:	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:	99.0%
State:	92.3%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	99.6%

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

Here:	90.0%
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:	92.0%
State:	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%
State:	93.8%

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

This Hospital:	93.0%
State:	94.2%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	17.0%
Georgia:	16.0%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	12.0%
Georgia:	11.3%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	10.5%
Georgia:	12.1%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	18.9%
Georgia:	19.5%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	21.9%
State:	23.9%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	17.7%
State:	18.3%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Foreign Object Retained After Surgery

This Hospital:	0.280%
State:	0.092%

Falls And Trauma

This Hospital:	0.314%
Georgia:	0.635%

Vascular Catheter-Associated Infection

Here:	0.314%
State:	0.368%

Catheter-Associated UTI

Here:	0.314%
Georgia:	0.337%

Average Medicare Payment

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w/o CC/MCC: $5,227

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w MCC: $11,678

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w CC: $7,350

Heart failure and shock w/o CC/MCC: $4,345

Heart failure and shock w MCC: $8,787

Heart failure and shock w CC: $6,052

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w/o CC/MCC: $4,366

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w MCC: $7,842

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w CC: $5,872

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy w MCC: $8,622

Diabetes w MCC: $8,182

Chest Pain: $3,198

Cardiac valve and oth maj cardiothoracic proc w/o card cath w/o CC/MCC: $53,484

Cardiac valve and oth maj cardiothoracic proc w/o card cath w MCC: $48,343

Cardiac valve and oth maj cardiothoracic proc w/o card cath w CC: $31,775

Major cardiovasc procedures w MCC or thoracic aortic aneurysm repair: $30,537

Cardiac defibrillator implant w/o cardiac cath w/o MCC: $30,067

Cardiac defibrillator implant w/o cardiac cath w MCC: $40,392

Cardiac defib implant w cardiac cath w/o AMI/HF/shock w/o MCC: $35,464

Cardiac defib implant w cardiac cath w/o AMI/HF/shock w MCC: $47,857

Extracranial procedures w/o CC/MCC: $6,021

Extracranial procedures w CC: $9,337

Coronary bypass w/o cardiac cath w/o MCC: $21,632

Coronary bypass w/o cardiac cath w MCC: $34,108

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w/o CC/MCC: $12,072

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w CC: $15,579

Perc cardiovasc proc w drug-eluting stent w/o MCC: $11,511

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w/o CC/MCC: $6,779

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $14,904

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w CC: $9,934

Cholecystectomy except by laparoscope w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $17,051

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w/o CC/MCC: $5,806

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w MCC: $14,941

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w CC: $8,426

Major small and large bowel procedures w/o CC/MCC: $9,764

Major small and large bowel procedures w CC: $15,400

Major small and large bowel procedures w MCC: $31,093

Stomach, esophageal duodenal proc w/o CC/MCC: $8,744

Cervical spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $11,529

Cervical spinal fusion w MCC: $37,657

Cervical spinal fusion w CC: $15,698

Spinal fusion except cervical w/o MCC: $21,448

Spinal fusion except cervical w MCC: $63,570

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $5,647

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w CC/MCC or disc device/neurostim: $10,352

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w/o MCC: $12,083

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w MCC: $19,800

Revision of hip or knee replacement w/o CC/MCC: $14,744

Revision of hip or knee replacement w CC: $18,422

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w/o CC/MCC: $10,520

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w MCC: $18,706

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w CC: $12,757

Other musculoskelet sys and conn tiss O.R. proc w MCC: $9,763

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w/o CC/MCC: $8,273

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w MCC: $19,729

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w CC: $11,195

Revision of hip or knee replacement w MCC: $27,305

Kidney and ureter procedures for non-neoplasm w MCC: $20,071

Bilateral or multiple major joint procs of lower extremity w MCC: $27,381

Transurethral procedures w MCC: $13,474

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w/o CC/MCC: $7,868

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w MCC: $16,673

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w CC: $12,991

Transurethral prostatectomy w/o CC/MCC: $3,806

Transurethral prostatectomy w CC/MCC: $6,721

Female reproductive system reconstructive procedures: $4,912

Uterine and adnexa proc for non-malignancy w/o CC/MCC: $5,078

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	23.600%
Georgia:	31.798%

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

Here:	10.400%
State:	8.697%

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

This Hospital:	0.069%
Georgia:	0.178%

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

This Hospital:	0.002%
State:	0.069%

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