NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL CHEROKEE - CANTON, GA

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NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL CHEROKEE
201 HOSPITAL ROAD
CANTON, GA, 30114

Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (770) 720-5298

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

Provided Services

Nuclear Medicine 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
Neonatal Nursery Services
Obstetric Services
Occupational Therapy Services
Operating Room Services
Outpatient Services
Pediatric Services
Pharmacy Services
Physical Therapy Services
Postoperative Recovery Room Services
Respiratory Care Services
Social Services

Employment Full-Time Equivalent

Licensed Practical Or Vocational Nurses : 14.50
Registered Professional Nurses : 41.50
Other Salaried Personnel : 148.50
Dieticians : 1.00
Registered Pharmacists : 3.00
Respiratory Therapists : 9.50
Medical Social Workers : 1.00

Number Of Beds

Total: 84
Total Certified: 84

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 28%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	5%
State:	6%

Usually

This Hospital:	22%
State:	18%

Always

This Hospital:	73%
State:	76%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	6%
Georgia:	4%

Usually

Here:	17%
Georgia:	14%

Always

This Hospital:	77%
Georgia:	82%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	13%
Georgia:	13%

Usually

This Hospital:	25%
State:	24%

Always

This Hospital:	62%
Georgia:	63%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	8%
Georgia:	8%

Usually

Here:	26%
Georgia:	22%

Always

This Hospital:	66%
State:	70%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	23%
Georgia:	23%

Usually

This Hospital:	18%
State:	17%

Always

Here:	59%
Georgia:	60%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	9%
State:	10%

Usually

Here:	20%
Georgia:	20%

Always

This Hospital:	71%
Georgia:	70%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	11%
Georgia:	9%

Usually

This Hospital:	33%
State:	27%

Always

This Hospital:	56%
State:	64%

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

Yes

This Hospital:	83%
Georgia:	80%

Here:	17%
State:	20%

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

6 or lower

Here:	10%
State:	9%

7 or 8

Here:	28%
Georgia:	24%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	62%
Georgia:	67%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

This Hospital:	6%
State:	6%

Yes, probably

Here:	26%
State:	25%

Yes, definitely

This Hospital:	68%
Georgia:	69%

Use of Medical Imaging

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

Here:	35.900%
State:	31.798%

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

This Hospital:	12.700%
Georgia:	8.697%

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

This Hospital:	0.094%
State:	0.178%

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

This Hospital:	0.045%
State:	0.069%

Average Medicare Payment

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w/o CC/MCC: $4,004

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w MCC: $10,013

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w CC: $7,310

Heart failure and shock w/o CC/MCC: $4,252

Heart failure and shock w MCC: $8,740

Heart failure and shock w CC: $6,027

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w/o CC/MCC: $4,342

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w MCC: $7,799

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w CC: $5,840

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy w MCC: $8,576

Diabetes w MCC: $5,425

Chest Pain: $3,181

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w/o CC/MCC: $12,007

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w CC: $15,495

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w/o CC/MCC: $6,742

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $15,026

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w CC: $9,881

Cholecystectomy except by laparoscope w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $20,597

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w/o CC/MCC: $5,775

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w MCC: $14,880

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w CC: $8,392

Major small and large bowel procedures w/o CC/MCC: $9,844

Major small and large bowel procedures w CC: $15,317

Major small and large bowel procedures w MCC: $31,137

Cervical spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $11,457

Cervical spinal fusion w CC: $10,819

Spinal fusion except cervical w/o MCC: $21,604

Spinal fusion except cervical w MCC: $35,667

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $5,616

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w CC/MCC or disc device/neurostim: $34,230

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w/o MCC: $12,018

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w MCC: $19,694

Revision of hip or knee replacement w/o CC/MCC: $14,865

Revision of hip or knee replacement w CC: $18,334

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w/o CC/MCC: $8,824

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w/o CC/MCC: $8,296

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w MCC: $84,900

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w CC: $11,149

Kidney and ureter procedures for non-neoplasm w MCC: $19,963

Transurethral procedures w MCC: $13,401

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w/o CC/MCC: $7,890

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w MCC: $16,583

Transurethral prostatectomy w/o CC/MCC: $3,786

Transurethral prostatectomy w CC/MCC: $6,694

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

Here:	95.0%
State:	98.1%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

This Hospital:	95.0%
State:	98.3%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	94.7%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

Here:	86.0%
Georgia:	98.2%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
Georgia:	99.7%

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

Here:	2
Georgia:	12

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

This Hospital:	60
Georgia:	82

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	95.2%

Heart Failure

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
State:	97.5%

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

This Hospital:	94.0%
State:	93.4%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	90.0%
State:	86.3%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
State:	98.9%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	98.0%
Georgia:	94.9%

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

This Hospital:	98.0%
Georgia:	95.9%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
Georgia:	97.6%

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

Here:	97.0%
Georgia:	91.6%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	95.0%
Georgia:	92.4%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	98.0%
Georgia:	94.3%

Surgery

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
Georgia:	96.5%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
Georgia:	93.6%

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

Here:	97.0%
State:	97.2%

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%
State:	90.1%

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

Here:	99.0%
Georgia:	93.0%

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%
Georgia:	99.6%

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

Here:	90.0%
State:	89.5%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	91.2%

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

This Hospital:	97.0%
State:	93.8%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
Georgia:	94.2%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	17.8%
State:	16.0%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	12.9%
State:	11.3%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	13.1%
Georgia:	12.1%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	18.4%
State:	19.5%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	23.0%
State:	23.9%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	18.9%
State:	18.3%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Pressure Ulcer Stages III And IV

Here:	0.356%
Georgia:	0.118%

Falls And Trauma

This Hospital:	0.711%
Georgia:	0.635%

Vascular Catheter-Associated Infection

This Hospital:	0.356%
State:	0.368%

Catheter-Associated UTI

This Hospital:	0.356%
State:	0.337%

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