SCHUYLKILL MEDICAL CENTER - SOUTH JACKSON STREET (POTTSVILLE, PA) Detailed Hospital Profile

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 35%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	4%
Pennsylvania:	5%

Usually

This Hospital:	18%
Pennsylvania:	18%

Always

This Hospital:	78%
State:	77%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	6%
State:	5%

Usually

Here:	14%
State:	16%

Always

This Hospital:	80%
Pennsylvania:	79%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	9%
Pennsylvania:	10%

Usually

This Hospital:	22%
State:	26%

Always

This Hospital:	69%
Pennsylvania:	64%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	8%
Pennsylvania:	7%

Usually

This Hospital:	23%
State:	24%

Always

Here:	69%
State:	69%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	21%
State:	21%

Usually

This Hospital:	17%
State:	19%

Always

Here:	62%
Pennsylvania:	60%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	9%
State:	9%

Usually

This Hospital:	18%
Pennsylvania:	20%

Always

Here:	73%
State:	71%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	14%
Pennsylvania:	14%

Usually

Here:	37%
Pennsylvania:	34%

Always

Here:	49%
State:	52%

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

Yes

Here:	76%
Pennsylvania:	83%

Here:	24%
State:	17%

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

6 or lower

This Hospital:	13%
Pennsylvania:	10%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	29%
Pennsylvania:	24%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	58%
Pennsylvania:	66%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

This Hospital:	8%
Pennsylvania:	5%

Yes, probably

This Hospital:	36%
State:	28%

Yes, definitely

Here:	56%
Pennsylvania:	67%

Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) - Medicare Provider Charge Data

Acute Myocardial Infarction, Discharged Alive with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$12,143
State:	$35,398

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,272
Pennsylvania:	$7,813

Number of discharges: 17

This Hospital:	0.91%
State:	0.64%

Acute Myocardial Infarction, Discharged Alive with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$16,055
State:	$49,161

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$10,109
Pennsylvania:	$11,984

Number of discharges: 33

Here:	1.76%
Pennsylvania:	1.10%

Acute Myocardial Infarction, Discharged Alive without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$7,977
Pennsylvania:	$24,778

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,686
State:	$5,248

Number of discharges: 13

This Hospital:	0.69%
State:	0.33%

Atherosclerosis without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$6,838
Pennsylvania:	$18,959

Average Total Payments

Here:	$3,519
Pennsylvania:	$3,975

Number of discharges: 22

This Hospital:	1.17%
State:	0.35%

Bronchitis and Asthma with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$8,859
State:	$29,111

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$5,243
State:	$5,893

Number of discharges: 11

This Hospital:	0.59%
Pennsylvania:	0.63%

Bronchitis and Asthma without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$7,980
Pennsylvania:	$22,200

Average Total Payments

Here:	$3,746
Pennsylvania:	$4,119

Number of discharges: 11

This Hospital:	0.59%
Pennsylvania:	0.30%

Cardiac Arrhythmia and Conduction Disorders with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$9,928
Pennsylvania:	$24,639

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,173
Pennsylvania:	$5,656

Number of discharges: 34

This Hospital:	1.81%
State:	1.67%

Cardiac Arrhythmia and Conduction Disorders with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$12,256
Pennsylvania:	$36,008

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$7,374
State:	$8,468

Number of discharges: 15

Here:	0.80%
Pennsylvania:	1.01%

Cardiac Arrhythmia and Conduction Disorders without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$10,380
State:	$17,588

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,123
Pennsylvania:	$3,835

Number of discharges: 36

Here:	1.92%
State:	1.86%

Cellulitis without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$8,191
State:	$21,833

Average Total Payments

Here:	$8,721
Pennsylvania:	$5,569

Number of discharges: 33

Here:	1.76%
Pennsylvania:	2.29%

Chest Pain

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$6,353
State:	$21,791

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$3,262
State:	$3,879

Number of discharges: 27

Here:	1.44%
Pennsylvania:	1.55%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$12,782
State:	$29,850

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$5,841
Pennsylvania:	$6,479

Number of discharges: 30

This Hospital:	1.60%
State:	2.15%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$15,012
State:	$35,841

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$7,819
State:	$7,862

Number of discharges: 41

This Hospital:	2.18%
State:	1.99%

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$10,126
State:	$21,975

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,718
State:	$4,841

Number of discharges: 37

This Hospital:	1.97%
Pennsylvania:	1.72%

Cranial and Peripheral Nerve Disorders without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$13,359
State:	$39,486

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,299
State:	$6,703

Number of discharges: 11

This Hospital:	0.59%
Pennsylvania:	0.35%

Degenerative Nervous System Disorders without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$15,563
State:	$29,684

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,743
State:	$6,655

Number of discharges: 18

This Hospital:	0.96%
Pennsylvania:	0.53%

Diabetes with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$10,771
Pennsylvania:	$27,059

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,127
Pennsylvania:	$5,943

Number of discharges: 17

Here:	0.91%
Pennsylvania:	0.68%

Dysequilibrium

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$7,762
Pennsylvania:	$22,784

Average Total Payments

Here:	$3,876
State:	$4,395

Number of discharges: 17

Here:	0.91%
State:	0.46%

Esophagitis, Gastroent and Miscellaneous Digestive Disorders without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$8,959
State:	$24,456

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,453
Pennsylvania:	$4,986

Number of discharges: 84

Here:	4.47%
State:	3.72%

Fx, Sprn, Strn and Disl Except Femur, Hip, Pelvis and Thigh without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$7,568
Pennsylvania:	$22,815

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,815
State:	$4,922

Number of discharges: 20

This Hospital:	1.06%
Pennsylvania:	0.41%

G.I. Hemorrhage with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$14,088
Pennsylvania:	$29,883

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,256
Pennsylvania:	$6,883

Number of discharges: 38

Here:	2.02%
State:	2.08%

G.I. Hemorrhage without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$10,087
State:	$23,995

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,248
State:	$4,905

Number of discharges: 19

Here:	1.01%
Pennsylvania:	0.51%

G.I. Obstruction with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$12,437
State:	$28,572

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,024
Pennsylvania:	$6,337

Number of discharges: 29

Here:	1.54%
Pennsylvania:	0.71%

G.I. Obstruction without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$9,149
Pennsylvania:	$21,101

Average Total Payments

Here:	$3,926
State:	$4,441

Number of discharges: 11

This Hospital:	0.59%
Pennsylvania:	0.45%

Heart Failure and Shock with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$12,853
Pennsylvania:	$29,163

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,330
Pennsylvania:	$6,918

Number of discharges: 64

This Hospital:	3.41%
Pennsylvania:	3.75%

Heart Failure and Shock with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$15,206
Pennsylvania:	$40,714

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$8,830
Pennsylvania:	$9,817

Number of discharges: 38

This Hospital:	2.02%
State:	2.71%

Heart Failure and Shock without Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$8,671
Pennsylvania:	$20,243

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,249
Pennsylvania:	$4,587

Number of discharges: 46

Here:	2.45%
Pennsylvania:	1.61%

Hip and Femur Procedures Except Major Joint with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$27,236
State:	$51,161

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$11,382
State:	$12,050

Number of discharges: 15

This Hospital:	0.80%
State:	1.07%

Intracranial Hemorrhage or Cerebral Infarction with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$18,337
State:	$36,649

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$7,122
Pennsylvania:	$7,863

Number of discharges: 25

Here:	1.33%
Pennsylvania:	1.56%

Intracranial Hemorrhage or Cerebral Infarction without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$12,552
State:	$28,288

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,876
Pennsylvania:	$5,649

Number of discharges: 19

This Hospital:	1.01%
Pennsylvania:	0.85%

Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$10,514
State:	$33,452

Average Total Payments

Here:	$7,027
Pennsylvania:	$7,881

Number of discharges: 15

Here:	0.80%
Pennsylvania:	1.01%

Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$8,285
State:	$23,346

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,776
State:	$5,274

Number of discharges: 79

Here:	4.21%
Pennsylvania:	2.94%

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy without C.D.E. with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$27,877
Pennsylvania:	$51,901

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$10,411
State:	$11,459

Number of discharges: 11

Here:	0.59%
Pennsylvania:	0.17%

Major Joint Replacement or Reattachment of Lower Extremity without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$33,163
Pennsylvania:	$51,015

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$13,066
State:	$13,679

Number of discharges: 41

Here:	2.18%
Pennsylvania:	5.31%

Medical Back Problems without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$9,945
State:	$26,794

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$5,022
Pennsylvania:	$5,619

Number of discharges: 38

This Hospital:	2.02%
Pennsylvania:	1.15%

Misc Disorders of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids or Electrolytes with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$18,644
State:	$37,349

Average Total Payments

Here:	$7,215
State:	$8,157

Number of discharges: 15

Here:	0.80%
Pennsylvania:	0.66%

Misc Disorders of Nutrition, Metabolism, Fluids or Electrolytes without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$9,345
State:	$21,864

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,279
Pennsylvania:	$4,771

Number of discharges: 54

This Hospital:	2.88%
Pennsylvania:	2.03%

Other Digestive System Diagnoses with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$11,283
State:	$29,869

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,032
State:	$6,973

Number of discharges: 12

This Hospital:	0.64%
State:	0.66%

Other Kidney and Urinary Tract Diagnoses with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$13,477
Pennsylvania:	$37,095

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,103
State:	$8,048

Number of discharges: 12

Here:	0.64%
State:	0.39%

Peripheral Vascular Disorders with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$12,874
Pennsylvania:	$28,031

Average Total Payments

Here:	$5,802
State:	$6,643

Number of discharges: 21

This Hospital:	1.12%
State:	0.65%

Peripheral Vascular Disorders without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$8,254
State:	$20,578

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$3,887
State:	$4,582

Number of discharges: 13

This Hospital:	0.69%
State:	0.27%

Permanent Cardiac Pacemaker Implant without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$22,125
Pennsylvania:	$60,306

Average Total Payments

Here:	$12,117
State:	$13,393

Number of discharges: 13

This Hospital:	0.69%
State:	0.45%

Poisoning and Toxic Effects of Drugs without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$7,996
Pennsylvania:	$22,998

Average Total Payments

Here:	$3,879
Pennsylvania:	$4,685

Number of discharges: 12

Here:	0.64%
Pennsylvania:	0.37%

Psychoses

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$15,585
State:	$19,685

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,381
Pennsylvania:	$6,362

Number of discharges: 203

Here:	10.81%
Pennsylvania:	0.98%

Pulmonary Edema and Respiratory Failure

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$19,558
Pennsylvania:	$34,570

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$8,625
State:	$11,356

Number of discharges: 36

Here:	1.92%
State:	1.07%

Pulmonary Embolism without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$10,894
State:	$32,887

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,317
Pennsylvania:	$7,414

Number of discharges: 14

Here:	0.75%
Pennsylvania:	0.46%

Red Blood Cell Disorders without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$11,006
Pennsylvania:	$26,165

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,859
State:	$5,568

Number of discharges: 22

This Hospital:	1.17%
State:	1.18%

Renal Failure with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$11,949
Pennsylvania:	$29,333

Average Total Payments

Here:	$6,321
State:	$7,034

Number of discharges: 45

Here:	2.40%
Pennsylvania:	2.33%

Renal Failure with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$21,972
State:	$43,566

Average Total Payments

Here:	$9,612
Pennsylvania:	$11,198

Number of discharges: 13

Here:	0.69%
Pennsylvania:	1.49%

Respiratory Infections and Inflammations with Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$17,509
Pennsylvania:	$43,448

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$8,875
Pennsylvania:	$9,800

Number of discharges: 20

This Hospital:	1.06%
Pennsylvania:	0.82%

Respiratory Infections and Inflammations with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$25,734
Pennsylvania:	$54,086

Average Total Payments

Here:	$12,262
Pennsylvania:	$12,976

Number of discharges: 23

Here:	1.22%
Pennsylvania:	0.97%

Respiratory System Diagnosis with Ventilator Support <96 Hours

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$18,307
Pennsylvania:	$74,959

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$12,669
State:	$16,074

Number of discharges: 11

Here:	0.59%
State:	0.96%

Seizures without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$11,357
Pennsylvania:	$28,738

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$5,306
Pennsylvania:	$5,717

Number of discharges: 13

Here:	0.69%
State:	0.75%

Septicemia or Severe Sepsis without Mechanical Ventilation 96+ Hours with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$21,320
State:	$50,114

Average Total Payments

Here:	$11,650
Pennsylvania:	$12,705

Number of discharges: 42

Here:	2.24%
State:	3.92%

Septicemia or Severe Sepsis without Mechanical Ventilation 96+ Hours without Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$11,407
Pennsylvania:	$28,351

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,917
State:	$7,480

Number of discharges: 26

This Hospital:	1.38%
Pennsylvania:	1.62%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$10,918
State:	$29,567

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$6,081
State:	$6,703

Number of discharges: 74

Here:	3.94%
Pennsylvania:	2.73%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with Major Complications

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$17,838
State:	$41,229

Average Total Payments

Here:	$8,874
State:	$9,510

Number of discharges: 60

Here:	3.19%
Pennsylvania:	1.78%

Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy without Complications

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$7,277
State:	$21,186

Average Total Payments

Here:	$4,648
State:	$4,668

Number of discharges: 30

This Hospital:	1.60%
Pennsylvania:	1.11%

Syncope and Collapse

Average Covered Charges

This Hospital:	$7,718
State:	$23,856

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,366
State:	$4,892

Number of discharges: 35

Here:	1.86%
Pennsylvania:	2.49%

Transient Ischemia

Average Covered Charges

Here:	$8,954
State:	$24,723

Average Total Payments

This Hospital:	$4,568
Pennsylvania:	$4,885

Number of discharges: 44

This Hospital:	2.34%
Pennsylvania:	1.38%

Complaint Deficiency

Develop policies that prevent mistreatment, neglect, or abuse of residents or theft of resident property
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide necessary care and services to maintain the highest well being of each resident
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Keep accurate, complete and organized clinical records on each resident that meet professional standards
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Make sure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Develop policies and procedures for influenza and pneumococcal immunizations
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Dispose of garbage and refuse properly
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Safely provide drugs and other similar products available, which are needed every day and in emergencies, by a licensed pharmacist
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Objects Accidentally Left in the Body After Surgery

This Hospital:	0.170%
Pennsylvania:	0.127%

Falls and injuries

This Hospital:	0.339%
State:	0.708%

Infection from a Urinary Catheter

Here:	0.509%
Pennsylvania:	0.504%

Severe pressure sores (bed sores)

This Hospital:	0.339%
State:	0.316%

Quality Measures

Percent of short-stay residents who self-report moderate to severe pain

This Hospital:	50.0%
State:	21.2%

Percent of short-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

Here:	100.0%
State:	85.6%

Percent of short-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

Here:	100.0%
Pennsylvania:	84.4%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

This Hospital:	95.0%
State:	99.4%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

This Hospital:	92.0%
State:	99.5%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

This Hospital:	93.0%
State:	99.2%

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

Here:	13
Pennsylvania:	9

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

Here:	61
Pennsylvania:	72

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

Here:	93.0%
State:	96.6%

Patients Given a Prescription for a Statin at Discharge

Here:	61.0%
Pennsylvania:	97.3%

Heart Failure

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
Pennsylvania:	99.3%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
Pennsylvania:	96.5%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	93.0%
Pennsylvania:	93.4%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
Pennsylvania:	99.4%

Pneumonia

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

This Hospital:	95.0%
State:	96.6%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
State:	97.4%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
Pennsylvania:	98.9%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
Pennsylvania:	95.7%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

Here:	91.0%
State:	94.1%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	97.0%
Pennsylvania:	96.6%

Surgery

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
Pennsylvania:	98.6%

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

This Hospital:	85.0%
Pennsylvania:	97.5%

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

Here:	97.0%
Pennsylvania:	98.5%

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

Here:	99.0%
State:	98.0%

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

Here:	99.0%
Pennsylvania:	98.6%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	99.9%

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

This Hospital:	82.0%
Pennsylvania:	95.6%

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

Here:	100.0%
Pennsylvania:	96.9%

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

This Hospital:	90.0%
Pennsylvania:	95.6%

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

Here:	91.0%
Pennsylvania:	95.7%

Patients having surgery who were actively warmed in the operating room or whose body temperature was near normal

Here:	100.0%
Pennsylvania:	99.8%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	17.7%
Pennsylvania:	14.8%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	10.8%
State:	10.9%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	12.2%
Pennsylvania:	11.8%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	18.4%
State:	19.2%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	25.9%
State:	24.8%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	18.6%
Pennsylvania:	18.6%

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	39.400%
Pennsylvania:	36.295%

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

This Hospital:	4.700%
State:	8.255%

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

Here:	0.052%
Pennsylvania:	0.151%

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

This Hospital:	0.017%
Pennsylvania:	0.023%

Outpatients who got cardiac imaging stress tests before low-risk outpatient surgery

Here:	2.000%
Pennsylvania:	5.987%

Outpatients with brain CT scans who got a sinus CT scan at the same time

Here:	7.600%
State:	3.106%

SCHUYLKILL MEDICAL CENTER - SOUTH JACKSON STREET - POTTSVILLE, PA

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) - Medicare Provider Charge Data

Complaint Deficiency

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Quality Measures

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Surgery

Outcome of Care

Use of Medical Imaging

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