NORTH OAKS MEDICAL CENTER - HAMMOND, LA

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NORTH OAKS MEDICAL CENTER
15790 PAUL VEGA MD DRIVE
HAMMOND, LA, 70403

Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (985) 345-2700

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Hospital Owner: Government - Hospital District or Authority
Emergency Services: Yes
Type: Psychiatric Units

Provided Services

Nuclear Medicine Services
Acute Renal Dialysis Services
Anatomical Laboratory Services
Anesthesia Services
Blood Bank Services
Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Services
Clinical Laboratory Services
Diagnostic Radiology Services
Dietary Services
Emergency Services
Home Health Services
Hospice 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
Organ Transplant 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 : 40.75
Registered Professional Nurses : 290.00
Other Salaried Personnel : 937.75
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA) : 13.00
Dieticians : 6.50
Occupational Therapists : 12.00
Physical Therapists : 18.00
Registered Pharmacists : 6.25
Respiratory Therapists : 14.75
Speech Pathologists Or Audiologists : 4.75
Physicians : 23.25
Medical Social Workers : 11.00

Number Of Beds

Total: 269
Total Certified: 269
Psychiatric Unit Beds: 18

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	38.800%
Louisiana:	36.263%

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

Here:	6.800%
Louisiana:	8.127%

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

This Hospital:	0.126%
State:	0.349%

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

This Hospital:	0.006%
State:	0.082%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 24%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	4%
State:	5%

Usually

This Hospital:	13%
State:	14%

Always

Here:	83%
State:	81%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	4%
Louisiana:	3%

Usually

This Hospital:	14%
Louisiana:	11%

Always

This Hospital:	82%
Louisiana:	86%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	8%
Louisiana:	11%

Usually

Here:	24%
State:	19%

Always

Here:	68%
State:	70%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

Here:	7%
Louisiana:	7%

Usually

Here:	19%
State:	19%

Always

Here:	74%
State:	74%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	20%
State:	19%

Usually

This Hospital:	13%
Louisiana:	15%

Always

This Hospital:	67%
Louisiana:	66%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	6%
State:	10%

Usually

This Hospital:	16%
State:	17%

Always

Here:	78%
Louisiana:	73%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	8%
State:	7%

Usually

Here:	29%
State:	22%

Always

Here:	63%
State:	71%

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

Yes

This Hospital:	85%
State:	81%

This Hospital:	15%
Louisiana:	19%

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

6 or lower

This Hospital:	9%
Louisiana:	8%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	24%
State:	19%

9 or 10

Here:	67%
Louisiana:	73%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

This Hospital:	5%
State:	5%

Yes, probably

This Hospital:	26%
State:	21%

Yes, definitely

Here:	69%
State:	74%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

This Hospital:	99.0%
Louisiana:	98.2%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

Here:	99.0%
State:	97.7%

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

This Hospital:	91.0%
State:	95.4%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

Here:	100.0%
State:	97.8%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	98.0%
State:	99.4%

Percent of Patients Given PCI Within 90 Minutes Of Arrival

This Hospital:	78.0%
State:	80.9%

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

This Hospital:	13
Louisiana:	14

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
Louisiana:	92.8%

Heart Failure

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

Here:	99.0%
State:	96.4%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
State:	93.8%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

This Hospital:	96.0%
State:	85.7%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	97.0%
Louisiana:	97.7%

Pneumonia

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

This Hospital:	94.0%
Louisiana:	93.7%

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

This Hospital:	93.0%
Louisiana:	95.3%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	99.0%
State:	96.6%

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

This Hospital:	88.0%
State:	89.2%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	77.0%
State:	87.9%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	92.0%
State:	90.4%

Surgery

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

Here:	97.0%
Louisiana:	96.8%

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

Here:	92.0%
Louisiana:	91.7%

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

Here:	99.0%
State:	96.4%

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

This Hospital:	89.0%
State:	90.3%

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

Here:	88.0%
Louisiana:	92.4%

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

Here:	60.0%
Louisiana:	89.1%

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%
State:	99.2%

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

Here:	76.0%
Louisiana:	87.3%

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

This Hospital:	93.0%
Louisiana:	92.2%

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

This Hospital:	86.0%
Louisiana:	90.0%

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

This Hospital:	94.0%
State:	91.1%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	16.4%
Louisiana:	16.4%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	11.3%
State:	11.3%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	10.3%
Louisiana:	11.6%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	21.4%
Louisiana:	19.9%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	29.5%
Louisiana:	25.2%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	18.2%
State:	18.3%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Pressure Ulcer Stages III And IV

Here:	0.338%
Louisiana:	0.166%

Vascular Catheter-Associated Infection

Here:	0.113%
State:	0.345%

Catheter-Associated UTI

Here:	0.113%
Louisiana:	0.194%

Average Medicare Payment

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w/o CC/MCC: $5,551

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w MCC: $12,385

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w CC: $7,795

Heart failure and shock w/o CC/MCC: $4,608

Heart failure and shock w MCC: $9,320

Heart failure and shock w CC: $6,427

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w/o CC/MCC: $4,630

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w MCC: $8,317

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w CC: $6,228

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy w MCC: $9,145

Diabetes w MCC: $8,678

Chest Pain: $3,392

Cardiac valve and oth maj cardiothoracic proc w/o card cath w/o CC/MCC: $28,882

Cardiac valve and oth maj cardiothoracic proc w/o card cath w MCC: $48,650

Major cardiovasc procedures w MCC or thoracic aortic aneurysm repair: $32,387

Cardiac defibrillator implant w/o cardiac cath w/o MCC: $31,889

Cardiac defibrillator implant w/o cardiac cath w MCC: $42,981

Cardiac defib implant w cardiac cath w/o AMI/HF/shock w/o MCC: $66,137

Cardiac defib implant w cardiac cath w/o AMI/HF/shock w MCC: $50,155

Extracranial procedures w/o CC/MCC: $6,386

Extracranial procedures w CC: $9,909

Coronary bypass w/o cardiac cath w/o MCC: $22,943

Coronary bypass w/o cardiac cath w MCC: $18,633

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w/o CC/MCC: $12,825

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w CC: $16,523

Perc cardiovasc proc w drug-eluting stent w/o MCC: $12,208

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w/o CC/MCC: $7,190

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $15,917

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w CC: $10,536

Cholecystectomy except by laparoscope w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $22,786

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w/o CC/MCC: $6,158

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w MCC: $15,894

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w CC: $8,978

Major small and large bowel procedures w/o CC/MCC: $10,356

Major small and large bowel procedures w CC: $16,333

Major small and large bowel procedures w MCC: $33,087

Stomach, esophageal duodenal proc w/o CC/MCC: $9,354

Cervical spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $12,217

Cervical spinal fusion w MCC: $61,703

Cervical spinal fusion w CC: $16,649

Spinal fusion except cervical w/o MCC: $22,727

Spinal fusion except cervical w MCC: $38,033

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $6,009

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w CC/MCC or disc device/neurostim: $10,980

Major shoulder or elbow joint procedures w/o CC/MCC: $7,112

Bilateral or multiple major joint procs of lower extremity w/o MCC: $20,100

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w/o MCC: $12,815

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w MCC: $21,000

Revision of hip or knee replacement w/o CC/MCC: $15,772

Revision of hip or knee replacement w CC: $13,453

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w/o CC/MCC: $9,410

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w MCC: $18,949

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w CC: $13,548

Other musculoskelet sys and conn tiss O.R. proc w MCC: $19,640

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w/o CC/MCC: $8,786

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w MCC: $20,924

Revision of hip or knee replacement w MCC: $28,404

Kidney and ureter procedures for non-neoplasm w MCC: $14,653

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w/o CC/MCC: $8,157

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w MCC: $17,927

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w CC: $13,779

Transurethral prostatectomy w/o CC/MCC: $4,037

Transurethral prostatectomy w CC/MCC: $7,138

Female reproductive system reconstructive procedures: $5,227

Uterine and adnexa proc for non-malignancy w/o CC/MCC: $5,394

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