NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL - MOUNT KISCO, NY

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NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL
400 EAST MAIN STREET
MOUNT KISCO, NY, 10549

Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (914) 666-1200

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

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
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
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 : 41.00
Registered Professional Nurses : 325.25
Other Salaried Personnel : 564.25
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA) : 564.25
Dieticians : 5.75
Physical Therapists : 7.25
Registered Pharmacists : 13.25
Respiratory Therapists : 11.75
Physicians : 9.50
Medical Social Workers : 9.00
Residents (Physicians) : 41.00

Number Of Beds

Total: 259
Total Certified: 259
Psychiatric Unit Beds: 15

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 41%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	3%
State:	8%

Usually

Here:	15%
State:	21%

Always

Here:	82%
State:	71%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	4%
State:	6%

Usually

This Hospital:	13%
State:	18%

Always

This Hospital:	83%
New York:	76%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	9%
State:	16%

Usually

Here:	25%
State:	28%

Always

Here:	66%
State:	56%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

Here:	6%
New York:	10%

Usually

This Hospital:	19%
State:	25%

Always

This Hospital:	75%
New York:	65%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	20%
State:	25%

Usually

Here:	17%
State:	19%

Always

Here:	63%
New York:	56%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	10%
New York:	11%

Usually

Here:	20%
New York:	23%

Always

This Hospital:	70%
New York:	66%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	11%
State:	18%

Usually

Here:	32%
State:	34%

Always

Here:	57%
New York:	48%

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

Yes

This Hospital:	78%
New York:	80%

This Hospital:	22%
New York:	20%

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

6 or lower

This Hospital:	5%
State:	12%

7 or 8

Here:	21%
New York:	29%

9 or 10

Here:	74%
New York:	59%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

This Hospital:	3%
State:	7%

Yes, probably

This Hospital:	16%
New York:	30%

Yes, definitely

Here:	81%
State:	63%

Average Medicare Payment

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w/o CC/MCC: $5,841

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w MCC: $11,236

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w CC: $8,203

Heart failure and shock w/o CC/MCC: $4,850

Heart failure and shock w MCC: $9,807

Heart failure and shock w CC: $6,763

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w/o CC/MCC: $4,872

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w MCC: $8,752

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w CC: $6,554

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy w MCC: $9,623

Diabetes w MCC: $9,132

Chest Pain: $3,569

Extracranial procedures w/o CC/MCC: $6,720

Extracranial procedures w CC: $10,428

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w/o CC/MCC: $13,473

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w CC: $17,388

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w/o CC/MCC: $7,566

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $16,634

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w CC: $11,088

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w/o CC/MCC: $6,480

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w MCC: $16,697

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w CC: $9,417

Major small and large bowel procedures w/o CC/MCC: $10,897

Major small and large bowel procedures w CC: $17,188

Major small and large bowel procedures w MCC: $34,703

Stomach, esophageal duodenal proc w/o CC/MCC: $9,760

Cervical spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $12,856

Cervical spinal fusion w MCC: $29,636

Cervical spinal fusion w CC: $17,520

Spinal fusion except cervical w/o MCC: $23,917

Spinal fusion except cervical w MCC: $40,024

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $6,302

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w CC/MCC or disc device/neurostim: $11,554

Bilateral or multiple major joint procs of lower extremity w/o MCC: $21,117

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w/o MCC: $13,486

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w MCC: $22,099

Revision of hip or knee replacement w/o CC/MCC: $16,456

Revision of hip or knee replacement w CC: $17,145

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w/o CC/MCC: $9,902

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w MCC: $22,019

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w CC: $14,257

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w/o CC/MCC: $9,246

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w MCC: $22,019

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w CC: $12,511

Kidney and ureter procedures for non-neoplasm w MCC: $22,400

Transurethral procedures w MCC: $15,036

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w/o CC/MCC: $8,793

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w MCC: $18,608

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w CC: $14,500

Transurethral prostatectomy w/o CC/MCC: $4,248

Transurethral prostatectomy w CC/MCC: $7,511

Female reproductive system reconstructive procedures: $5,482

Uterine and adnexa proc for non-malignancy w/o CC/MCC: $5,667

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	30.200%
New York:	27.056%

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

This Hospital:	28.600%
State:	9.830%

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

This Hospital:	0.105%
State:	0.153%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Pressure Ulcer Stages III And IV

Here:	0.164%
New York:	0.317%

Falls And Trauma

This Hospital:	0.164%
State:	0.590%

Vascular Catheter-Associated Infection

Here:	0.164%
State:	0.417%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	98.5%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	95.0%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

Here:	100.0%
New York:	98.3%

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

This Hospital:	5
State:	12

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

This Hospital:	72
State:	82

Median Time to Fibrinolysis

Here:	25
State:	31

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

Here:	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:	100
State:	55

Heart Failure

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	98.6%

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

Here:	98.0%
New York:	94.1%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	95.0%
State:	89.4%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	92.0%
New York:	98.2%

Pneumonia

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
New York:	92.8%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
State:	94.6%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	95.0%
State:	97.7%

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

This Hospital:	94.0%
State:	91.8%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

Here:	93.0%
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

This Hospital:	97.0%
New York:	96.3%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
New York:	93.9%

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

This Hospital:	97.0%
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:	94.0%
New York:	93.8%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
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:	97.0%
New York:	89.8%

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

This Hospital:	94.0%
State:	91.9%

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

Here:	97.0%
State:	91.6%

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

Here:	97.0%
State:	93.2%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	14.3%
State:	15.2%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	10.0%
New York:	10.6%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	10.8%
State:	11.4%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	20.5%
New York:	21.1%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	25.7%
New York:	26.1%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	19.4%
New York:	19.6%

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