LONG BEACH MEDICAL CENTER - LONG BEACH, NY

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LONG BEACH MEDICAL CENTER
455 EAST BAY DRIVE
LONG BEACH, NY, 11561

Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (516) 897-1000

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Hospital Owner: Voluntary non-profit - Private
Emergency Services: Yes
Type: Rehabilitation Units

Dialysis Facility located within this hospital: LONG BEACH MEDICAL CENTER

Provided Services

Nuclear Medicine Services
Acute Renal Dialysis Services
Alcohol And/Or Drug Services
Anatomical Laboratory Services
Anesthesia Services
Blood Bank Services
Clinical Laboratory Services
Dental Services
Diagnostic Radiology Services
Dietary Services
Emergency Services
Home Health Services
ICU - Cardiac (Non-Surgical)Services
ICU - Medical/Surgical Services
Inpatient Rehabilitiation (Not Carf Accredited) Services
Inpatient Surgical Services
Long Term Care (Swing-Beds) 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

Employment Full-Time Equivalent

Licensed Practical Or Vocational Nurses : 7.20
Registered Professional Nurses : 239.60
Other Salaried Personnel : 506.20
Dieticians : 3.80
Occupational Therapists : 5.00
Physical Therapists : 9.40
Registered Pharmacists : 5.00
Respiratory Therapists : 9.80
Speech Pathologists Or Audiologists : 2.00
Physicians : 4.40
Medical Social Workers : 14.60
Physician Assistants : 1.00
Residents (Physicians) : 22.00

Number Of Beds

Total: 203
Total Certified: 203
Psychiatric Unit Beds: 24
Rehabilitation Unit Beds: 15

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 14%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	12%
New York:	8%

Usually

Here:	27%
New York:	21%

Always

Here:	61%
State:	71%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	9%
New York:	6%

Usually

Here:	20%
State:	18%

Always

Here:	71%
State:	76%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	23%
New York:	16%

Usually

Here:	29%
State:	28%

Always

This Hospital:	48%
New York:	56%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	13%
New York:	10%

Usually

This Hospital:	27%
New York:	25%

Always

Here:	60%
State:	65%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	34%
New York:	25%

Usually

Here:	17%
State:	19%

Always

Here:	49%
New York:	56%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	14%
New York:	11%

Usually

This Hospital:	25%
New York:	23%

Always

Here:	61%
State:	66%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	21%
New York:	18%

Usually

This Hospital:	37%
State:	34%

Always

Here:	42%
State:	48%

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

Yes

This Hospital:	73%
State:	80%

This Hospital:	27%
New York:	20%

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

6 or lower

This Hospital:	24%
State:	12%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	35%
New York:	29%

9 or 10

Here:	41%
State:	59%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	16%
New York:	7%

Yes, probably

This Hospital:	39%
State:	30%

Yes, definitely

Here:	45%
New York:	63%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

Here:	100.0%
New York:	98.3%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	98.5%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
New York:	95.0%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

This Hospital:	80.0%
New York:	98.3%

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

This Hospital:	10
New York:	12

Average number of minutes before outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack were transferred to another hospital

This Hospital:	99
New York:	82

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

Here:	98.0%
New York:	96.3%

Heart Failure

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

Here:	95.0%
State:	98.6%

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

This Hospital:	90.0%
State:	94.1%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	89.0%
New York:	89.4%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
New York:	98.2%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	99.0%
State:	92.8%

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

Here:	95.0%
State:	94.6%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	88.0%
New York:	97.7%

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

Here:	91.0%
State:	91.8%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

Here:	95.0%
New York:	90.4%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	93.0%
State:	91.8%

Surgery

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	96.3%

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

Here:	85.0%
State:	93.9%

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

Here:	82.0%
State:	96.9%

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

Here:	90.0%
State:	93.8%

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

This Hospital:	97.0%
New York:	95.4%

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

Here:	100.0%
New York:	99.6%

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

Here:	86.0%
State:	89.8%

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

Here:	94.0%
New York:	91.9%

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

Here:	95.0%
State:	91.6%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
New York:	93.2%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	18.0%
State:	15.2%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	12.2%
State:	10.6%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	13.1%
New York:	11.4%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	19.4%
State:	21.1%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	29.0%
State:	26.1%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	20.9%
New York:	19.6%

Use of Medical Imaging

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

Here:	26.700%
State:	27.056%

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

This Hospital:	66.700%
State:	9.830%

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

This Hospital:	0.592%
New York:	0.153%

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

Here:	0.005%
New York:	0.034%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Pressure Ulcer Stages III And IV

This Hospital:	0.843%
New York:	0.317%

Falls And Trauma

This Hospital:	0.562%
New York:	0.590%

Vascular Catheter-Associated Infection

This Hospital:	0.281%
New York:	0.417%

Average Medicare Payment

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w/o CC/MCC: $6,815

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w MCC: $15,208

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w CC: $9,572

Heart failure and shock w/o CC/MCC: $5,659

Heart failure and shock w MCC: $11,443

Heart failure and shock w CC: $7,891

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w/o CC/MCC: $5,685

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w MCC: $10,212

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w CC: $7,647

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy w MCC: $11,229

Diabetes w MCC: $10,103

Chest Pain: $4,165

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w CC: $20,289

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w/o CC/MCC: $8,828

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $19,409

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w CC: $13,033

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w MCC: $19,483

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w CC: $10,988

Major small and large bowel procedures w CC: $20,055

Major small and large bowel procedures w MCC: $40,493

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w/o MCC: $15,735

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w MCC: $18,685

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w CC: $16,919

Transurethral prostatectomy w/o CC/MCC: $521

Transurethral prostatectomy w CC/MCC: $8,765

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