HUGGINS HOSPITAL (WOLFEBORO, NH) Detailed Hospital Profile

Process of Care

Heart Failure

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

This Hospital:	83.0%
State:	99.4%

Pneumonia

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	97.2%

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

Here:	96.0%
New Hampshire:	97.2%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	96.3%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	96.8%

Surgery

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	98.7%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	97.4%

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

Here:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	98.7%

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

Here:	96.0%
State:	97.8%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
State:	98.4%

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
State:	100.0%

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

Here:	98.0%
State:	93.8%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	96.1%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	99.7%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	16.2%
New Hampshire:	14.7%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	14.3%
State:	11.9%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	13.6%
New Hampshire:	12.8%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	24.2%
State:	23.2%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	17.8%
New Hampshire:	17.7%

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	8.500%
New Hampshire:	8.524%

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

Here:	0.053%
New Hampshire:	0.053%

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

This Hospital:	0.018%
State:	0.004%

Outpatients who got cardiac imaging stress tests before low-risk outpatient surgery

This Hospital:	9.200%
State:	5.357%

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

This Hospital:	4.800%
State:	2.723%

User Contributions:

Deborah Cadman

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Does Huggins Hospital offer a primary care clinic to the community? Is there a geriatrician available for the elderly?

Thank you.

HUGGINS HOSPITAL - WOLFEBORO, NH