GRACE MEDICAL CENTER (LUBBOCK, TX) Detailed Hospital Profile

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

Cellulitis without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$13,636
Texas:	$22,187

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,743
Texas:	$5,512

Number of discharges: 16

Here:	5.42%
Texas:	2.13%

Cervical Spinal Fusion without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$42,899
Texas:	$57,689

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$11,965
Texas:	$13,787

Number of discharges: 22

This Hospital:	7.46%
State:	0.45%

Esophagitis, Gastroent and Miscellaneous Digestive Disorders without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$17,673
Texas:	$24,361

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,144
State:	$4,830

Number of discharges: 17

Here:	5.76%
State:	3.07%

Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$16,413
Texas:	$22,532

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,333
Texas:	$5,086

Number of discharges: 14

This Hospital:	4.75%
State:	3.62%

Major Joint Replacement or Reattachment of Lower Extremity without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$57,831
Texas:	$60,653

Average Total Payments

Here:	$12,222
Texas:	$13,908

Number of discharges: 138

This Hospital:	46.78%
Texas:	6.27%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$18,068
Texas:	$30,598

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$5,731
State:	$6,580

Number of discharges: 23

This Hospital:	7.80%
Texas:	2.99%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$15,729
State:	$21,702

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,099
State:	$4,627

Number of discharges: 22

This Hospital:	7.46%
Texas:	1.33%

Spinal Fusion Except Cervical without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$76,923
State:	$103,546

Average Total Payments

Here:	$22,631
Texas:	$25,970

Number of discharges: 43

This Hospital:	14.58%
Texas:	1.13%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

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

This Hospital:	22
State:	8

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

This Hospital:	91.0%
State:	95.6%

Heart Failure

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

This Hospital:	93.0%
State:	98.7%

Pneumonia

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

This Hospital:	94.0%
State:	96.4%

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

Here:	96.0%
Texas:	97.4%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	93.0%
State:	98.9%

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

This Hospital:	88.0%
State:	95.2%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	83.0%
Texas:	94.7%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Hospital:	88.0%
Texas:	96.2%

Surgery

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

Here:	99.0%
Texas:	98.4%

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

This Hospital:	98.0%
State:	97.0%

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
Texas:	98.4%

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
State:	96.7%

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
State:	97.6%

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

Here:	100.0%
Texas:	99.9%

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

Here:	100.0%
Texas:	95.1%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	96.7%

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

Here:	96.0%
Texas:	97.2%

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

Here:	98.0%
Texas:	96.5%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	99.7%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	10.3%
State:	11.2%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	9.9%
State:	11.8%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	24.0%
State:	24.2%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	17.2%
Texas:	18.0%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: Between 100 and 299
Survey Response Rate: 31%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	3%
State:	5%

Usually

Here:	15%
State:	17%

Always

This Hospital:	82%
Texas:	78%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	2%
Texas:	4%

Usually

This Hospital:	11%
Texas:	13%

Always

Here:	87%
Texas:	83%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	4%
State:	10%

Usually

Here:	22%
Texas:	23%

Always

This Hospital:	74%
Texas:	67%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	5%
Texas:	7%

Usually

This Hospital:	22%
State:	21%

Always

Here:	73%
Texas:	72%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	15%
State:	19%

Usually

Here:	21%
State:	17%

Always

Here:	64%
Texas:	64%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	7%
Texas:	9%

Usually

Here:	17%
State:	18%

Always

This Hospital:	76%
Texas:	73%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	1%
Texas:	8%

Usually

Here:	26%
Texas:	25%

Always

This Hospital:	73%
Texas:	67%

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

Yes

Here:	89%
Texas:	83%

Here:	11%
Texas:	17%

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

6 or lower

Here:	5%
Texas:	8%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	17%
Texas:	21%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	78%
State:	71%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	3%
Texas:	5%

Yes, probably

This Hospital:	18%
State:	23%

Yes, definitely

Here:	79%
State:	72%

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	41.900%
State:	37.857%

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

Here:	6.000%
Texas:	8.275%

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

This Hospital:	0.536%
State:	0.250%

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

Here:	0.234%
Texas:	0.110%

Outpatients with brain CT scans who got a sinus CT scan at the same time

Here:	7.900%
Texas:	2.420%

GRACE MEDICAL CENTER - LUBBOCK, TX

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

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Surgery

Outcome of Care

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Use of Medical Imaging

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