SISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL - BUFFALO, NY

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SISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL
2157 MAIN STREET
BUFFALO, NY, 14214

Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (716) 862-1000

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Hospital Owner: Voluntary non-profit - Church
Emergency Services: Yes
Type: Rehabilitation Units

Provided Services

Nuclear Medicine Services
Acute Renal Dialysis Services
Alcohol And/Or Drug Services
Anatomical Laboratory Services
Anesthesia Services
Blood Bank Services
Clinical Laboratory Services
Dental Services
Diagnostic Radiology Services
Dietary Services
Emergency Services
Home Health Services
Hospice Services
ICU - Cardiac (Non-Surgical)Services
ICU - Medical/Surgical Services
Inpatient Rehabilitiation (Not Carf Accredited) Services
Inpatient Surgical Services
Long Term Care (Swing-Beds) Services
Neonatal Nursery Services
Obstetric Services
Occupational Therapy Services
Operating Room Services
Organ Transplant Services
Outpatient Services
Outpatient Surgery Unit 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 : 12.33
Registered Professional Nurses : 320.08
Other Salaried Personnel : 820.00
Dieticians : 6.47
Occupational Therapists : 1.00
Physical Therapists : 11.36
Registered Pharmacists : 11.94
Respiratory Therapists : 1.00
Speech Pathologists Or Audiologists : 1.43
Physicians : 29.38
Medical Social Workers : 4.00
Physician Assistants : 7.14

Number Of Beds

Total: 413
Total Certified: 413
Rehabilitation Unit Beds: 15

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

Here:	97.0%
State:	98.3%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

Here:	95.0%
State:	98.5%

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

This Hospital:	93.0%
New York:	95.0%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

This Hospital:	99.0%
New York:	98.3%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
New York:	99.6%

Percent of Patients Given Fibrinolytic Medication Within 30 Minutes Of Arrival

Here:	100.0%
State:	49.5%

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

Here:	14
New York:	12

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

Here:	108
State:	82

Median Time to Fibrinolysis

This Hospital:	23
New York:	31

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

Here:	100.0%
New York:	96.3%

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

This Hospital:	67
State:	55

Heart Failure

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	98.6%

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

Here:	92.0%
State:	94.1%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	77.0%
New York:	89.4%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	97.0%
State:	98.2%

Pneumonia

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

This Hospital:	94.0%
State:	92.8%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
State:	94.6%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	98.0%
New York:	97.7%

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

Here:	91.0%
State:	91.8%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	89.0%
State:	90.4%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	92.0%
New York:	91.8%

Surgery

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

Here:	96.0%
New York:	96.3%

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

This Hospital:	92.0%
New York:	93.9%

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

This Hospital:	95.0%
New York:	96.9%

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

Here:	91.0%
New York:	93.8%

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

This Hospital:	93.0%
State:	95.4%

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:	99.6%

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

This Hospital:	88.0%
State:	89.8%

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

This Hospital:	90.0%
State:	91.9%

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

This Hospital:	91.0%
State:	91.6%

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

Here:	97.0%
New York:	93.2%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	13.2%
State:	15.2%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	11.4%
New York:	10.6%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	11.7%
New York:	11.4%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	19.8%
State:	21.1%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	22.8%
State:	26.1%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	18.3%
New York:	19.6%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Pressure Ulcer Stages III And IV

This Hospital:	0.638%
New York:	0.317%

Falls And Trauma

Here:	0.319%
State:	0.590%

Vascular Catheter-Associated Infection

Here:	0.319%
New York:	0.417%

Catheter-Associated UTI

Here:	1.277%
New York:	0.291%

Manifestations Of Poor Glycemic Control

Here:	0.160%
State:	0.067%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 41%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	6%
New York:	8%

Usually

This Hospital:	21%
State:	21%

Always

This Hospital:	73%
New York:	71%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	7%
New York:	6%

Usually

This Hospital:	20%
State:	18%

Always

This Hospital:	73%
State:	76%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	15%
New York:	16%

Usually

Here:	29%
State:	28%

Always

This Hospital:	56%
State:	56%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

Here:	9%
State:	10%

Usually

This Hospital:	25%
State:	25%

Always

Here:	66%
New York:	65%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	27%
State:	25%

Usually

Here:	18%
New York:	19%

Always

Here:	55%
New York:	56%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	13%
State:	11%

Usually

Here:	26%
New York:	23%

Always

This Hospital:	61%
State:	66%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	15%
State:	18%

Usually

This Hospital:	38%
New York:	34%

Always

Here:	47%
State:	48%

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

Yes

This Hospital:	84%
State:	80%

This Hospital:	16%
State:	20%

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

6 or lower

This Hospital:	9%
State:	12%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	27%
State:	29%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	64%
New York:	59%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	6%
New York:	7%

Yes, probably

This Hospital:	26%
State:	30%

Yes, definitely

This Hospital:	68%
State:	63%

Average Medicare Payment

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w/o CC/MCC: $360

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w MCC: $12,694

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w CC: $7,390

Heart failure and shock w/o CC/MCC: $299

Heart failure and shock w MCC: $2,215

Heart failure and shock w CC: $417

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w/o CC/MCC: $301

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w MCC: $540

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w CC: $404

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy w MCC: $4,311

Diabetes w MCC: $8,221

Chest Pain: $220

Major cardiovasc procedures w MCC or thoracic aortic aneurysm repair: $30,683

Cardiac defibrillator implant w/o cardiac cath w/o MCC: $2,070

Cardiac defibrillator implant w/o cardiac cath w MCC: $64,611

Extracranial procedures w/o CC/MCC: $415

Extracranial procedures w CC: $643

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w/o CC/MCC: $831

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w CC: $1,073

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w/o CC/MCC: $6,816

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $8,006

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w CC: $684

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w/o CC/MCC: $5,838

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w MCC: $15,647

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w CC: $4,530

Major small and large bowel procedures w/o CC/MCC: $10,623

Major small and large bowel procedures w CC: $1,060

Major small and large bowel procedures w MCC: $2,141

Stomach, esophageal duodenal proc w/o CC/MCC: $4,951

Cervical spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $12,532

Cervical spinal fusion w MCC: $26,681

Cervical spinal fusion w CC: $1,081

Spinal fusion except cervical w/o MCC: $21,797

Spinal fusion except cervical w MCC: $2,469

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $389

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w CC/MCC or disc device/neurostim: $713

Major shoulder or elbow joint procedures w/o CC/MCC: $3,600

Major shoulder or elbow joint procedures w CC/MCC: $5,976

Bilateral or multiple major joint procs of lower extremity w/o MCC: $1,303

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w/o MCC: $832

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w MCC: $1,363

Revision of hip or knee replacement w/o CC/MCC: $1,015

Revision of hip or knee replacement w CC: $1,155

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w/o CC/MCC: $5,024

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w CC: $7,227

Other musculoskelet sys and conn tiss O.R. proc w MCC: $1,271

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w/o CC/MCC: $8,669

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w MCC: $1,358

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w CC: $6,064

Revision of hip or knee replacement w MCC: $26,129

Kidney and ureter procedures for non-neoplasm w MCC: $11,354

Transurethral procedures w MCC: $7,787

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w/o CC/MCC: $4,557

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w MCC: $1,148

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w CC: $895

Transurethral prostatectomy w/o CC/MCC: $262

Transurethral prostatectomy w CC/MCC: $3,893

Female reproductive system reconstructive procedures: $338

Uterine and adnexa proc for non-malignancy w/o CC/MCC: $5,519

Use of Medical Imaging

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

Here:	18.200%
New York:	27.056%

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

Here:	8.100%
State:	9.830%

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

This Hospital:	0.051%
State:	0.153%

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

Here:	0.043%
State:	0.034%

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