RUTHERFORD HOSPITAL INC - RUTHERFORDTON, NC

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RUTHERFORD HOSPITAL INC
288 SOUTH RIDGECREST AVE
RUTHERFORDTON, NC, 28139

Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (828) 286-5000

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

Provided Services

Nuclear Medicine Services
Anatomical Laboratory Services
Anesthesia Services
Blood Bank Services
Clinical Laboratory Services
Diagnostic Radiology Services
Dietary Services
Emergency Services
ICU - Medical/Surgical Services
Inpatient Rehabilitiation (Not Carf Accredited) Services
Inpatient Surgical 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 : 19.25
Registered Professional Nurses : 128.50
Other Salaried Personnel : 349.50
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA) : 5.00
Dieticians : 2.00
Occupational Therapists : 2.00
Physical Therapists : 3.25
Registered Pharmacists : 4.25
Respiratory Therapists : 9.50
Speech Pathologists Or Audiologists : 1.00
Physicians : 3.00
Medical Social Workers : 1.50
Physician Assistants : 1.00

Number Of Beds

Total: 143
Total Certified: 143
Psychiatric 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.

This Hospital:	29.400%
State:	30.827%

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

This Hospital:	9.500%
North Carolina:	8.078%

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

Here:	0.039%
North Carolina:	0.120%

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

This Hospital:	0.002%
North Carolina:	0.037%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Pressure Ulcer Stages III And IV

This Hospital:	0.208%
State:	0.117%

Falls And Trauma

Here:	0.624%
North Carolina:	0.550%

Vascular Catheter-Associated Infection

This Hospital:	0.208%
State:	0.360%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 29%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	4%
State:	5%

Usually

This Hospital:	16%
North Carolina:	16%

Always

This Hospital:	80%
State:	79%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	3%
State:	4%

Usually

This Hospital:	11%
North Carolina:	13%

Always

This Hospital:	86%
North Carolina:	83%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	7%
North Carolina:	10%

Usually

This Hospital:	20%
North Carolina:	23%

Always

This Hospital:	73%
State:	67%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

Here:	7%
North Carolina:	7%

Usually

Here:	24%
State:	22%

Always

This Hospital:	69%
State:	71%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	18%
North Carolina:	20%

Usually

Here:	18%
State:	17%

Always

This Hospital:	64%
State:	63%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	6%
State:	10%

Usually

Here:	17%
State:	20%

Always

This Hospital:	77%
State:	70%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	7%
State:	9%

Usually

Here:	28%
State:	29%

Always

Here:	65%
North Carolina:	62%

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

Yes

This Hospital:	82%
North Carolina:	83%

This Hospital:	18%
North Carolina:	17%

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

6 or lower

Here:	8%
North Carolina:	8%

7 or 8

Here:	22%
State:	23%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	70%
State:	69%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

This Hospital:	2%
North Carolina:	5%

Yes, probably

Here:	30%
State:	24%

Yes, definitely

This Hospital:	68%
State:	71%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

This Hospital:	97.0%
North Carolina:	98.8%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

This Hospital:	100.0%
North Carolina:	98.7%

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

Here:	100.0%
North Carolina:	97.0%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	98.7%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	99.9%

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

Here:	12
State:	9

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

Here:	73
State:	60

Median Time to Fibrinolysis

This Hospital:	34
North Carolina:	32

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

This Hospital:	95.0%
North Carolina:	95.1%

Outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack who got drugs to break up blood clots within 30 minutes of arrival

This Hospital:	15
North Carolina:	53

Heart Failure

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
North Carolina:	98.7%

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

This Hospital:	89.0%
North Carolina:	94.8%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

This Hospital:	90.0%
North Carolina:	88.9%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
State:	99.3%

Pneumonia

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

This Hospital:	93.0%
State:	95.3%

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

This Hospital:	94.0%
State:	96.1%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
North Carolina:	98.8%

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

Here:	81.0%
State:	91.7%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	86.0%
North Carolina:	92.6%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	91.0%
State:	94.8%

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%
North Carolina:	97.7%

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

Here:	96.0%
State:	96.0%

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

This Hospital:	98.0%
State:	98.2%

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

Here:	95.0%
North Carolina:	93.0%

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

Here:	98.0%
North Carolina:	94.8%

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:	99.7%

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

Here:	79.0%
State:	91.0%

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

Here:	96.0%
North Carolina:	93.8%

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

Here:	90.0%
North Carolina:	94.3%

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

This Hospital:	92.0%
North Carolina:	94.7%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	17.9%
North Carolina:	15.8%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	13.9%
North Carolina:	11.1%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	11.7%
North Carolina:	12.2%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	21.1%
North Carolina:	19.6%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	26.2%
North Carolina:	24.3%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	19.3%
State:	18.7%

Average Medicare Payment

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w/o CC/MCC: $4,124

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w MCC: $10,289

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w CC: $5,785

Heart failure and shock w/o CC/MCC: $4,441

Heart failure and shock w MCC: $8,981

Heart failure and shock w CC: $6,193

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w/o CC/MCC: $4,462

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w MCC: $8,015

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w CC: $6,002

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy w MCC: $8,813

Diabetes w MCC: $8,363

Chest Pain: $3,269

Extracranial procedures w/o CC/MCC: $6,161

Extracranial procedures w CC: $9,549

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w/o CC/MCC: $12,338

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w CC: $15,923

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w/o CC/MCC: $6,929

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $15,233

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w CC: $10,154

Cholecystectomy except by laparoscope w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $21,959

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w/o CC/MCC: $5,935

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w MCC: $28,822

Major small and large bowel procedures w/o CC/MCC: $9,990

Major small and large bowel procedures w CC: $15,740

Major small and large bowel procedures w MCC: $31,780

Stomach, esophageal duodenal proc w/o CC/MCC: $8,937

Cervical spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $11,773

Spinal fusion except cervical w/o MCC: $21,902

Spinal fusion except cervical w MCC: $36,652

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $5,772

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w/o MCC: $12,349

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w MCC: $17,452

Revision of hip or knee replacement w/o CC/MCC: $15,070

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w/o CC/MCC: $9,068

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w MCC: $19,186

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w CC: $13,056

Kidney and ureter procedures for non-neoplasm w MCC: $1,024

Transurethral procedures w MCC: $26,219

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w MCC: $17,041

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w CC: $13,278

Transurethral prostatectomy w/o CC/MCC: $3,891

Transurethral prostatectomy w CC/MCC: $3,974

Female reproductive system reconstructive procedures: $5,031

Uterine and adnexa proc for non-malignancy w/o CC/MCC: $5,190

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