SACRED HEART HOSPITAL - ALLENTOWN, PA

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SACRED HEART HOSPITAL
421 CHEW STREET
ALLENTOWN, PA, 18102

Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (610) 776-4900

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
Audiology Services
Blood Bank Services
CT Scanner Services
Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Services
Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Services
Chemotherapy Services
Clinical Laboratory Services
Dedicated Emergency Department Services
Dental Services
Diagnostic Radiology Services
Dietary Services
Emergency Psychiatric Services
Emergency Services
Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripter Services
Geriatric Psychiatric Services
Gerontological Specialty Services
Home Health Services
Hospice Services
ICU - Cardiac (Non-Surgical)Services
ICU - Medical/Surgical Services
ICU - Neonatal Services
ICU - Surgical Services
Inpatient Surgical Services
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Mri) Services
Neonatal Nursery Services
Neurosurgical Services
Obstetric Services
Occupational Therapy Services
Operating Room Services
Opthalmic Surgery Services
Organ Transplant Services
Orthopedic Surgery Services
Outpatient Rehabilitation Services
Outpatient Services
Outpatient Surgery Unit Services
Pediatric Services
Pharmacy Services
Physical Therapy Services
Postoperative Recovery Room Services
Psychiatric Services
Reconstructive Surgery Services
Respiratory Care Services
Social Services
Speech Pathology Services
Therapeutic Radiology Services

Employment Full-Time Equivalent

Licensed Practical Or Vocational Nurses : 17.00
Registered Professional Nurses : 351.00
Other Salaried Personnel : 132.00
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA) : 10.00
Occupational Therapists : 3.00
Physical Therapists : 8.00
Registered Pharmacists : 8.00
Respiratory Therapists : 14.00
Speech Pathologists Or Audiologists : 1.00
Physicians : 7.00
Medical Social Workers : 12.00
Medical Laboratory Technologists : 15.00
Nuclear Medicine Technicians : 3.00
Physician Assistants : 1.00
Diagnostic Radiology Technicians : 18.00
Nurse Practitioners: 4.00
Residents (Physicians) : 20.00

Number Of Beds

Total: 226
Total Certified: 187
Psychiatric Unit Beds: 28

Use of Medical Imaging

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

Here:	34.600%
Pennsylvania:	32.404%

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

This Hospital:	23.400%
Pennsylvania:	8.265%

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

Here:	0.182%
Pennsylvania:	0.206%

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

Here:	0.029%
Pennsylvania:	0.026%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 30%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	7%
Pennsylvania:	5%

Usually

Here:	22%
Pennsylvania:	19%

Always

This Hospital:	71%
Pennsylvania:	76%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	6%
State:	5%

Usually

Here:	19%
State:	16%

Always

This Hospital:	75%
Pennsylvania:	79%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	14%
Pennsylvania:	11%

Usually

This Hospital:	31%
Pennsylvania:	26%

Always

Here:	55%
Pennsylvania:	63%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	8%
Pennsylvania:	7%

Usually

Here:	30%
State:	24%

Always

Here:	62%
Pennsylvania:	69%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	27%
Pennsylvania:	22%

Usually

Here:	19%
State:	19%

Always

Here:	54%
Pennsylvania:	59%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	8%
State:	9%

Usually

Here:	25%
State:	21%

Always

This Hospital:	67%
Pennsylvania:	70%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	9%
State:	15%

Usually

This Hospital:	33%
State:	35%

Always

Here:	58%
State:	50%

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

Yes

Here:	82%
State:	82%

This Hospital:	18%
State:	18%

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

6 or lower

Here:	15%
Pennsylvania:	10%

7 or 8

Here:	26%
Pennsylvania:	25%

9 or 10

Here:	59%
State:	65%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

This Hospital:	11%
Pennsylvania:	5%

Yes, probably

Here:	31%
Pennsylvania:	28%

Yes, definitely

This Hospital:	58%
State:	67%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Falls And Trauma

Here:	0.888%
Pennsylvania:	0.581%

Vascular Catheter-Associated Infection

Here:	0.296%
Pennsylvania:	0.318%

Catheter-Associated UTI

Here:	0.296%
Pennsylvania:	0.346%

Average Medicare Payment

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w/o CC/MCC: $5,596

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w MCC: $12,487

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w CC: $6,953

Heart failure and shock w/o CC/MCC: $4,646

Heart failure and shock w MCC: $9,396

Heart failure and shock w CC: $6,480

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w/o CC/MCC: $4,668

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w MCC: $8,385

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w CC: $6,213

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy w MCC: $8,879

Diabetes w MCC: $8,764

Chest Pain: $3,420

Major cardiovasc procedures w MCC or thoracic aortic aneurysm repair: $33,110

Extracranial procedures w/o CC/MCC: $6,439

Extracranial procedures w CC: $10,024

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w/o CC/MCC: $12,909

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w CC: $8,821

Perc cardiovasc proc w drug-eluting stent w/o MCC: $6,497

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w/o CC/MCC: $403

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w CC: $11,184

Cholecystectomy except by laparoscope w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $23,050

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w/o CC/MCC: $6,209

Major small and large bowel procedures w/o CC/MCC: $10,441

Major small and large bowel procedures w CC: $16,468

Major small and large bowel procedures w MCC: $25,976

Stomach, esophageal duodenal proc w/o CC/MCC: $9,351

Cervical spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $12,318

Cervical spinal fusion w CC: $16,786

Spinal fusion except cervical w/o MCC: $22,990

Spinal fusion except cervical w MCC: $38,473

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $6,038

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w CC/MCC or disc device/neurostim: $11,107

Major shoulder or elbow joint procedures w/o CC/MCC: $7,195

Major shoulder or elbow joint procedures w CC/MCC: $615

Bilateral or multiple major joint procs of lower extremity w/o MCC: $20,265

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w/o MCC: $12,921

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w MCC: $21,356

Revision of hip or knee replacement w/o CC/MCC: $15,793

Revision of hip or knee replacement w CC: $16,135

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w CC: $13,756

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w/o CC/MCC: $8,858

Revision of hip or knee replacement w MCC: $27,748

Kidney and ureter procedures for non-neoplasm w MCC: $21,463

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w/o CC/MCC: $8,452

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w MCC: $17,829

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w CC: $13,938

Transurethral prostatectomy w/o CC/MCC: $21,380

Female reproductive system reconstructive procedures: $5,253

Uterine and adnexa proc for non-malignancy w/o CC/MCC: $5,430

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

Here:	97.0%
Pennsylvania:	98.6%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

Here:	100.0%
State:	98.9%

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

This Hospital:	50.0%
Pennsylvania:	95.3%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	98.7%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
Pennsylvania:	99.6%

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

Here:	9
Pennsylvania:	56

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

Here:	67
Pennsylvania:	71

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	95.3%

Heart Failure

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

Here:	95.0%
Pennsylvania:	98.6%

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

Here:	96.0%
State:	94.8%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	90.0%
State:	90.2%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	93.0%
State:	98.3%

Pneumonia

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

This Hospital:	95.0%
Pennsylvania:	95.7%

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

Here:	96.0%
State:	95.8%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	96.0%
State:	97.8%

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

This Hospital:	80.0%
Pennsylvania:	93.2%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	80.0%
Pennsylvania:	92.4%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Hospital:	78.0%
State:	94.7%

Surgery

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

This Hospital:	93.0%
Pennsylvania:	97.4%

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

This Hospital:	82.0%
State:	95.3%

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

This Hospital:	94.0%
Pennsylvania:	97.5%

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

Here:	85.0%
State:	95.5%

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

This Hospital:	91.0%
State:	96.6%

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

Here:	99.0%
State:	99.7%

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

This Hospital:	84.0%
State:	94.6%

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

This Hospital:	87.0%
Pennsylvania:	93.6%

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

This Hospital:	91.0%
Pennsylvania:	91.6%

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

Here:	88.0%
Pennsylvania:	93.2%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	14.5%
Pennsylvania:	15.4%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	9.1%
State:	10.5%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	8.5%
Pennsylvania:	11.0%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	19.7%
State:	19.9%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	24.6%
Pennsylvania:	24.8%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	18.1%
State:	18.4%

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