NORTHERN NEVADA MEDICAL CENTER - SPARKS, NV

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NORTHERN NEVADA MEDICAL CENTER
2375 PRATER WAY
SPARKS, NV, 89434

Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (775) 331-7000

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Hospital Owner: Proprietary
Emergency Services: Yes
Type: Rehabilitation Units

Provided Services

Nuclear Medicine Services
Anatomical Laboratory Services
Blood Bank Services
Clinical Laboratory Services
Diagnostic Radiology Services
Dietary Services
Emergency Services
ICU - Cardiac (Non-Surgical)Services
ICU - Medical/Surgical Services
Occupational Therapy Services
Operating Room Services
Pediatric Services
Pharmacy Services
Physical Therapy Services
Postoperative Recovery Room Services
Respiratory Care Services
Social Services
Speech Pathology Services

Employment Full-Time Equivalent

Licensed Practical Or Vocational Nurses : 9.00
Registered Professional Nurses : 110.00
Other Salaried Personnel : 106.00
Registered Pharmacists : 4.50
Respiratory Therapists : 0.25
Medical Social Workers : 1.50

Number Of Beds

Total: 140
Total Certified: 140
Psychiatric Unit Beds: 14
Rehabilitation Unit Beds: 14

Use of Medical Imaging

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

Here:	43.300%
Nevada:	33.772%

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

This Hospital:	8.200%
State:	8.410%

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

Here:	0.077%
State:	0.171%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 31%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	11%
State:	9%

Usually

This Hospital:	23%
Nevada:	22%

Always

Here:	66%
Nevada:	69%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	6%
Nevada:	8%

Usually

This Hospital:	18%
State:	19%

Always

This Hospital:	76%
State:	73%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	16%
Nevada:	16%

Usually

This Hospital:	31%
State:	27%

Always

Here:	53%
Nevada:	57%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

Here:	11%
State:	9%

Usually

Here:	24%
State:	25%

Always

This Hospital:	65%
State:	66%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	32%
State:	26%

Usually

Here:	19%
Nevada:	19%

Always

This Hospital:	49%
State:	55%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	12%
State:	13%

Usually

This Hospital:	21%
State:	21%

Always

Here:	67%
State:	66%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	14%
State:	14%

Usually

Here:	33%
State:	31%

Always

This Hospital:	53%
State:	55%

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

Yes

Here:	83%
Nevada:	81%

Here:	17%
State:	19%

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

6 or lower

Here:	13%
State:	12%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	24%
State:	25%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	63%
Nevada:	63%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	9%
Nevada:	8%

Yes, probably

This Hospital:	23%
State:	26%

Yes, definitely

Here:	68%
State:	66%

Average Medicare Payment

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w/o CC/MCC: $3,830

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w MCC: $11,109

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w CC: $6,992

Heart failure and shock w/o CC/MCC: $4,134

Heart failure and shock w MCC: $8,359

Heart failure and shock w CC: $5,765

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w/o CC/MCC: $4,153

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w MCC: $7,460

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w CC: $5,586

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy w MCC: $8,203

Diabetes w MCC: $6,919

Chest Pain: $3,042

Major cardiovasc procedures w MCC or thoracic aortic aneurysm repair: $29,051

Cardiac defib implant w cardiac cath w/o AMI/HF/shock w/o MCC: $33,782

Extracranial procedures w/o CC/MCC: $5,728

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w CC: $14,821

Perc cardiovasc proc w drug-eluting stent w/o MCC: $10,951

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w/o CC/MCC: $6,449

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $14,179

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w CC: $9,451

Cholecystectomy except by laparoscope w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $20,439

Major small and large bowel procedures w/o CC/MCC: $9,110

Major small and large bowel procedures w CC: $14,650

Major small and large bowel procedures w MCC: $29,580

Cervical spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $10,958

Cervical spinal fusion w CC: $14,934

Spinal fusion except cervical w/o MCC: $20,386

Spinal fusion except cervical w MCC: $34,115

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $5,372

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w CC/MCC or disc device/neurostim: $9,849

Major shoulder or elbow joint procedures w CC/MCC: $9,828

Bilateral or multiple major joint procs of lower extremity w/o MCC: $17,999

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w/o MCC: $11,495

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w MCC: $17,609

Revision of hip or knee replacement w/o CC/MCC: $14,027

Revision of hip or knee replacement w CC: $17,536

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w/o CC/MCC: $8,440

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w MCC: $16,765

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w CC: $12,152

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w/o CC/MCC: $7,881

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w MCC: $15,861

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w CC: $12,359

Transurethral prostatectomy w/o CC/MCC: $3,621

Transurethral prostatectomy w CC/MCC: $6,403

Uterine and adnexa proc for non-malignancy w/o CC/MCC: $4,830

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

Here:	93.0%
Nevada:	99.2%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

This Hospital:	85.0%
Nevada:	98.9%

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

Here:	67.0%
Nevada:	95.8%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

Here:	92.0%
Nevada:	98.0%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
Nevada:	99.6%

Percent of Patients Given PCI Within 90 Minutes Of Arrival

Here:	67.0%
Nevada:	89.9%

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

This Hospital:	8
Nevada:	120

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
Nevada:	96.2%

Heart Failure

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

Here:	96.0%
Nevada:	99.2%

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

This Hospital:	93.0%
Nevada:	96.6%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

This Hospital:	80.0%
Nevada:	88.4%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
Nevada:	99.9%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	91.0%
State:	94.6%

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

This Hospital:	82.0%
Nevada:	93.7%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
Nevada:	99.2%

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

This Hospital:	93.0%
State:	92.9%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	80.0%
State:	94.1%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Hospital:	77.0%
Nevada:	94.7%

Surgery

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

This Hospital:	92.0%
State:	96.9%

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

This Hospital:	71.0%
State:	94.0%

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

This Hospital:	97.0%
Nevada:	97.9%

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

This Hospital:	80.0%
State:	91.2%

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

This Hospital:	80.0%
State:	93.2%

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

Here:	98.0%
Nevada:	99.6%

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

Here:	82.0%
State:	87.0%

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

This Hospital:	86.0%
Nevada:	91.0%

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

This Hospital:	86.0%
State:	94.9%

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

This Hospital:	98.0%
State:	95.5%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	16.2%
Nevada:	16.3%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	11.8%
Nevada:	11.8%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	12.2%
Nevada:	12.5%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	19.9%
State:	19.6%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	27.6%
Nevada:	25.0%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	17.6%
Nevada:	18.4%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Falls And Trauma

This Hospital:	1.898%
Nevada:	0.685%

Vascular Catheter-Associated Infection

This Hospital:	0.475%
Nevada:	0.659%

Catheter-Associated UTI

Here:	0.475%
Nevada:	0.137%

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