NEW YORK WESTCHESTER SQUARE MEDICAL CENTER - BRONX, NY

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NEW YORK WESTCHESTER SQUARE MEDICAL CENTER
2475 ST RAYMOND AVENUE
BRONX, NY, 10461

Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (718) 430-7300

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
Diagnostic Radiology Services
Dietary Services
Emergency Services
ICU - Cardiac (Non-Surgical)Services
ICU - Medical/Surgical Services
Inpatient Surgical Services
Operating Room Services
Organ Bank Services
Organ Transplant Services
Outpatient Services
Outpatient Surgery Unit Services
Pharmacy Services
Physical Therapy Services
Postoperative Recovery Room Services
Respiratory Care Services
Social Services
Therapeutic Radiology Services

Employment Full-Time Equivalent

Licensed Practical Or Vocational Nurses : 8.25
Registered Professional Nurses : 220.75
Other Salaried Personnel : 397.25
Dieticians : 1.00
Physical Therapists : 6.00
Registered Pharmacists : 8.25
Respiratory Therapists : 14.75
Physicians : 2.00
Medical Social Workers : 5.00

Number Of Beds

Total: 205
Total Certified: 205

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	98.3%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

This Hospital:	100.0%
New York:	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

Here:	95.0%
New York:	98.3%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
State:	99.6%

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

Here:	13
New York:	12

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

This Hospital:	353
New York:	82

Median Time to Fibrinolysis

This Hospital:	33
State:	31

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	96.3%

Outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack who got drugs to break up blood clots within 30 minutes of arrival

This Hospital:	40
State:	55

Heart Failure

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
New York:	98.6%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	94.1%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

This Hospital:	80.0%
State:	89.4%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	98.2%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	99.0%
New York:	92.8%

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

Here:	98.0%
New York:	94.6%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
State:	97.7%

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

Here:	93.0%
State:	91.8%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	96.0%
New York:	90.4%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	95.0%
New York:	91.8%

Surgery

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

Here:	98.0%
State:	96.3%

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

This Hospital:	90.0%
State:	93.9%

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

Here:	98.0%
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

This Hospital:	98.0%
New York:	93.8%

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	99.6%

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

This Hospital:	65.0%
State:	89.8%

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

Here:	98.0%
New York:	91.9%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
New York:	91.6%

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

Here:	96.0%
State:	93.2%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	16.0%
State:	15.2%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	10.4%
State:	10.6%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	12.5%
State:	11.4%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	20.6%
New York:	21.1%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	28.2%
State:	26.1%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	21.9%
New York:	19.6%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys: Between 100 and 299
Survey Response Rate: 20%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	16%
New York:	8%

Usually

Here:	16%
New York:	21%

Always

Here:	68%
New York:	71%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	8%
New York:	6%

Usually

This Hospital:	18%
State:	18%

Always

Here:	74%
New York:	76%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	21%
New York:	16%

Usually

This Hospital:	20%
New York:	28%

Always

Here:	59%
State:	56%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	11%
State:	10%

Usually

Here:	23%
State:	25%

Always

Here:	66%
New York:	65%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	47%
New York:	25%

Usually

Here:	14%
New York:	19%

Always

Here:	39%
State:	56%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	11%
State:	11%

Usually

This Hospital:	15%
State:	23%

Always

Here:	74%
New York:	66%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	11%
New York:	18%

Usually

This Hospital:	28%
State:	34%

Always

Here:	61%
State:	48%

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

Yes

Here:	74%
State:	80%

Here:	26%
New York:	20%

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

6 or lower

This Hospital:	20%
State:	12%

7 or 8

Here:	30%
New York:	29%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	50%
State:	59%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	13%
New York:	7%

Yes, probably

This Hospital:	23%
New York:	30%

Yes, definitely

This Hospital:	64%
State:	63%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Pressure Ulcer Stages III And IV

This Hospital:	0.612%
New York:	0.317%

Falls And Trauma

Here:	0.408%
State:	0.590%

Vascular Catheter-Associated Infection

This Hospital:	0.816%
New York:	0.417%

Catheter-Associated UTI

Here:	0.204%
State:	0.291%

Manifestations Of Poor Glycemic Control

Here:	0.408%
State:	0.067%

Average Medicare Payment

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w/o CC/MCC: $6,529

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w MCC: $14,569

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w CC: $9,170

Heart failure and shock w/o CC/MCC: $5,421

Heart failure and shock w MCC: $10,963

Heart failure and shock w CC: $7,560

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w/o CC/MCC: $5,447

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w MCC: $9,784

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w CC: $7,326

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy w MCC: $10,757

Diabetes w MCC: $10,209

Chest Pain: $3,990

Major cardiovasc procedures w MCC or thoracic aortic aneurysm repair: $38,099

Extracranial procedures w/o CC/MCC: $7,512

Extracranial procedures w CC: $11,657

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w/o CC/MCC: $15,061

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w CC: $19,437

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w/o CC/MCC: $8,458

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $18,595

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w CC: $12,394

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w/o CC/MCC: $7,244

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w MCC: $18,665

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w CC: $10,527

Major small and large bowel procedures w/o CC/MCC: $12,182

Major small and large bowel procedures w CC: $19,214

Major small and large bowel procedures w MCC: $38,793

Spinal fusion except cervical w/o MCC: $26,979

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w/o MCC: $15,075

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w MCC: $24,704

Revision of hip or knee replacement w/o CC/MCC: $18,396

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w CC: $15,938

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w/o CC/MCC: $10,335

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w MCC: $24,839

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w CC: $13,985

Transurethral procedures w MCC: $16,811

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w/o CC/MCC: $9,829

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w MCC: $20,802

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w CC: $16,209

Transurethral prostatectomy w/o CC/MCC: $4,792

Transurethral prostatectomy w CC/MCC: $8,397

Uterine and adnexa proc for non-malignancy w/o CC/MCC: $6,335

Use of Medical Imaging

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

Here:	50.900%
New York:	9.830%

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