CAPITAL HEALTH SYSTEM-MERCER CAMPUS - TRENTON, NJ

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CAPITAL HEALTH SYSTEM-MERCER CAMPUS
446 BELLEVUE AVE
TRENTON, NJ, 8618

Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (609) 394-4000

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

Provided Services

Nuclear Medicine Services
Acute Renal Dialysis Services
Anatomical Laboratory Services
Anesthesia Services
Blood Bank Services
Clinical Laboratory Services
Dental 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
Optometric 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 : 4962.00
Registered Professional Nurses : 2881.84
Other Salaried Personnel : 1021.00
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA) : 8.90
Occupational Therapists : 0.50
Physical Therapists : 2.60
Registered Pharmacists : 8.94
Respiratory Therapists : 13.79
Speech Pathologists Or Audiologists : 4.24
Physicians : 21.83
Medical Social Workers : 5.69

Number Of Beds

Total: 344
Total Certified: 344

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 26%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	6%
New Jersey:	7%

Usually

Here:	17%
New Jersey:	20%

Always

Here:	77%
State:	73%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	5%
New Jersey:	6%

Usually

Here:	13%
State:	17%

Always

This Hospital:	82%
New Jersey:	77%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	18%
New Jersey:	15%

Usually

This Hospital:	26%
State:	28%

Always

This Hospital:	56%
State:	57%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

Here:	9%
New Jersey:	9%

Usually

Here:	25%
New Jersey:	24%

Always

This Hospital:	66%
New Jersey:	67%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	22%
New Jersey:	26%

Usually

Here:	17%
New Jersey:	18%

Always

This Hospital:	61%
New Jersey:	56%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	9%
State:	11%

Usually

Here:	20%
State:	22%

Always

Here:	71%
State:	67%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	11%
State:	17%

Usually

This Hospital:	28%
New Jersey:	32%

Always

Here:	61%
New Jersey:	51%

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

Yes

This Hospital:	77%
New Jersey:	78%

This Hospital:	23%
State:	22%

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

6 or lower

Here:	10%
New Jersey:	12%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	27%
New Jersey:	27%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	63%
New Jersey:	61%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

This Hospital:	5%
State:	7%

Yes, probably

Here:	30%
State:	28%

Yes, definitely

Here:	65%
State:	65%

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	30.800%
New Jersey:	26.983%

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

Here:	5.900%
State:	10.654%

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

This Hospital:	0.108%
State:	0.129%

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

This Hospital:	0.044%
New Jersey:	0.026%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Pressure Ulcer Stages III And IV

This Hospital:	0.225%
New Jersey:	0.213%

Falls And Trauma

Here:	0.225%
State:	0.506%

Vascular Catheter-Associated Infection

This Hospital:	2.703%
State:	0.642%

Average Medicare Payment

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w/o CC/MCC: $6,309

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w MCC: $14,046

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w CC: $8,866

Heart failure and shock w/o CC/MCC: $5,241

Heart failure and shock w MCC: $10,599

Heart failure and shock w CC: $7,309

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w/o CC/MCC: $5,266

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w MCC: $9,459

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w CC: $7,083

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy w MCC: $10,400

Diabetes w MCC: $9,858

Chest Pain: $3,858

Major cardiovasc procedures w MCC or thoracic aortic aneurysm repair: $36,834

Extracranial procedures w/o CC/MCC: $7,263

Extracranial procedures w CC: $11,446

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w/o CC/MCC: $14,532

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w CC: $18,792

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w/o CC/MCC: $8,167

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $17,978

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w CC: $11,983

Cholecystectomy except by laparoscope w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $25,915

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w/o CC/MCC: $7,004

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w CC: $10,163

Major small and large bowel procedures w/o CC/MCC: $11,777

Major small and large bowel procedures w CC: $17,904

Major small and large bowel procedures w MCC: $37,506

Stomach, esophageal duodenal proc w/o CC/MCC: $3,364

Cervical spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $13,894

Cervical spinal fusion w CC: $117,917

Spinal fusion except cervical w/o MCC: $18,050

Spinal fusion except cervical w MCC: $427

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $6,802

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w CC/MCC or disc device/neurostim: $12,487

Bilateral or multiple major joint procs of lower extremity w/o MCC: $22,822

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w/o MCC: $14,574

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w MCC: $23,884

Revision of hip or knee replacement w/o CC/MCC: $17,785

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w CC: $14,906

Other musculoskelet sys and conn tiss O.R. proc w MCC: $195

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w MCC: $23,783

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w CC: $133

Kidney and ureter procedures for non-neoplasm w MCC: $41,156

Bilateral or multiple major joint procs of lower extremity w MCC: $325

Transurethral procedures w MCC: $16,207

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w/o CC/MCC: $9,476

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w MCC: $20,111

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w CC: $15,662

Transurethral prostatectomy w/o CC/MCC: $4,591

Transurethral prostatectomy w CC/MCC: $8,118

Female reproductive system reconstructive procedures: $5,925

Uterine and adnexa proc for non-malignancy w/o CC/MCC: $6,125

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

Here:	97.0%
State:	99.0%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

Here:	98.0%
New Jersey:	99.0%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	97.8%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

This Hospital:	100.0%
New Jersey:	99.0%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
State:	99.9%

Percent of Patients Given PCI Within 90 Minutes Of Arrival

Here:	79.0%
State:	87.1%

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

This Hospital:	2
New Jersey:	9

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	96.9%

Heart Failure

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

Here:	95.0%
State:	99.3%

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

This Hospital:	90.0%
State:	96.5%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

This Hospital:	95.0%
State:	92.8%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
State:	99.7%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	98.0%
New Jersey:	96.4%

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

This Hospital:	94.0%
New Jersey:	96.8%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
New Jersey:	99.4%

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

Here:	93.0%
State:	93.9%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	96.0%
New Jersey:	93.7%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Hospital:	91.0%
State:	95.5%

Surgery

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

Here:	99.0%
State:	97.9%

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

Here:	93.0%
New Jersey:	95.7%

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

Here:	96.0%
New Jersey:	97.3%

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

This Hospital:	81.0%
New Jersey:	93.6%

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

This Hospital:	84.0%
State:	95.1%

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 Jersey:	99.6%

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

Here:	76.0%
State:	92.9%

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

Here:	95.0%
State:	94.8%

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

Here:	85.0%
New Jersey:	92.9%

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

Here:	95.0%
State:	94.4%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	17.9%
State:	15.5%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	9.6%
State:	10.3%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	10.3%
State:	10.9%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	20.5%
New Jersey:	20.9%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	24.7%
State:	26.4%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	19.3%
State:	19.5%

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