RUSSELL HOSPITAL - ALEXANDER CITY, AL

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RUSSELL HOSPITAL
3316 HIGHWAY 280
ALEXANDER CITY, AL, 35010

Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (256) 329-7100

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
Hospice Services
ICU - Medical/Surgical Services
Inpatient Surgical Services
Neonatal Nursery Services
Obstetric Services
Operating Room Services
Outpatient Services
Outpatient Surgery Unit Services
Pediatric Services
Pharmacy Services
Physical Therapy Services
Postoperative Recovery Room Services
Respiratory Care Services
Social Services
Speech Pathology Services
Therapeutic Radiology Services

Employment Full-Time Equivalent

Licensed Practical Or Vocational Nurses : 18.00
Registered Professional Nurses : 112.00
Other Salaried Personnel : 422.00
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA) : 5.00
Dieticians : 1.00
Physical Therapists : 4.00
Registered Pharmacists : 4.00
Physicians : 3.00
Medical Social Workers : 2.00

Number Of Beds

Total: 81
Total Certified: 81

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	30.600%
Alabama:	36.050%

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

Here:	15.400%
Alabama:	9.208%

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

This Hospital:	0.269%
Alabama:	0.281%

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

This Hospital:	0.208%
State:	0.055%

Average Medicare Payment

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w/o CC/MCC: $3,871

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w MCC: $11,230

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w CC: $7,033

Heart failure and shock w/o CC/MCC: $4,179

Heart failure and shock w MCC: $8,450

Heart failure and shock w CC: $5,827

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w/o CC/MCC: $4,198

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w MCC: $7,541

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w CC: $5,647

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy w MCC: $8,292

Diabetes w MCC: $7,869

Chest Pain: $3,076

Major cardiovasc procedures w MCC or thoracic aortic aneurysm repair: $29,367

Cardiac defibrillator implant w/o cardiac cath w/o MCC: $36,215

Cardiac defibrillator implant w/o cardiac cath w MCC: $52,130

Extracranial procedures w/o CC/MCC: $5,790

Extracranial procedures w CC: $8,963

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w/o CC/MCC: $10,554

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w CC: $10,851

Perc cardiovasc proc w drug-eluting stent w/o MCC: $11,070

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w/o CC/MCC: $6,519

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $14,262

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w CC: $9,554

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w/o CC/MCC: $5,348

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w MCC: $14,387

Major small and large bowel procedures w/o CC/MCC: $9,390

Major small and large bowel procedures w CC: $14,810

Major small and large bowel procedures w MCC: $28,033

Stomach, esophageal duodenal proc w/o CC/MCC: $8,409

Cervical spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $11,077

Cervical spinal fusion w CC: $15,022

Spinal fusion except cervical w/o MCC: $20,608

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $5,430

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w CC/MCC or disc device/neurostim: $9,956

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w/o MCC: $11,620

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w MCC: $19,042

Revision of hip or knee replacement w/o CC/MCC: $14,180

Transurethral prostatectomy w/o CC/MCC: $3,661

Uterine and adnexa proc for non-malignancy w/o CC/MCC: $4,883

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

Here:	6%
State:	6%

Usually

This Hospital:	13%
Alabama:	15%

Always

This Hospital:	81%
State:	79%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	3%
Alabama:	3%

Usually

Here:	13%
State:	11%

Always

Here:	84%
State:	86%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	7%
Alabama:	11%

Usually

This Hospital:	21%
State:	23%

Always

Here:	72%
Alabama:	66%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	6%
State:	8%

Usually

This Hospital:	20%
Alabama:	20%

Always

This Hospital:	74%
State:	72%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	16%
Alabama:	21%

Usually

This Hospital:	19%
State:	16%

Always

Here:	65%
State:	63%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	7%
State:	11%

Usually

Here:	19%
State:	20%

Always

This Hospital:	74%
Alabama:	69%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	2%
Alabama:	7%

Usually

Here:	26%
State:	23%

Always

This Hospital:	72%
Alabama:	70%

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

Yes

This Hospital:	84%
Alabama:	80%

Here:	16%
State:	20%

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

6 or lower

Here:	6%
Alabama:	8%

7 or 8

Here:	20%
State:	23%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	74%
Alabama:	69%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	5%
State:	5%

Yes, probably

Here:	22%
Alabama:	25%

Yes, definitely

Here:	73%
State:	70%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

Here:	97.0%
Alabama:	97.6%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

This Hospital:	98.0%
State:	98.2%

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

Here:	91.0%
Alabama:	97.7%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

This Hospital:	98.0%
State:	98.4%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
Alabama:	99.8%

Percent of Patients Given Fibrinolytic Medication Within 30 Minutes Of Arrival

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	54.2%

Percent of Patients Given PCI Within 90 Minutes Of Arrival

Here:	27.0%
Alabama:	90.0%

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

This Hospital:	8
State:	10

Median Time to Fibrinolysis

This Hospital:	170
State:	33

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
Alabama:	94.7%

Heart Failure

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	96.9%

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

Here:	95.0%
Alabama:	95.4%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

This Hospital:	94.0%
Alabama:	87.7%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	98.3%

Pneumonia

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
Alabama:	95.0%

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

Here:	100.0%
Alabama:	96.2%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
State:	98.4%

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

Here:	89.0%
Alabama:	89.9%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	92.0%
State:	91.8%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	100.0%
State:	93.3%

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:	97.2%

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

Here:	92.0%
State:	94.9%

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

Here:	95.0%
State:	97.6%

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

This Hospital:	88.0%
Alabama:	92.4%

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

Here:	88.0%
State:	94.3%

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

Here:	100.0%
Alabama:	99.7%

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

Here:	97.0%
State:	90.9%

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

This Hospital:	97.0%
State:	92.2%

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

This Hospital:	95.0%
State:	94.0%

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

Here:	94.0%
State:	96.2%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	20.1%
Alabama:	16.5%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	11.3%
State:	10.8%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	12.9%
Alabama:	11.1%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	19.2%
Alabama:	20.1%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	22.6%
State:	24.7%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	17.0%
Alabama:	18.4%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Falls And Trauma

This Hospital:	0.718%
Alabama:	0.595%

Catheter-Associated UTI

This Hospital:	0.359%
State:	0.327%

Manifestations Of Poor Glycemic Control

This Hospital:	0.359%
State:	0.039%

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