TRIDENT MEDICAL CENTER - CHARLESTON, SC

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TRIDENT MEDICAL CENTER
9330 MEDICAL PLAZA DR
CHARLESTON, SC, 29406

Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (843) 797-8800

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Hospital Owner: Proprietary
Emergency Services: Yes
Type: Psychiatric Units

Provided Services

Nuclear Medicine Services
Acute Renal Dialysis Services
Ambulance (Owned) Services
Anatomical Laboratory Services
Anesthesia Services
Audiology Services
Blood Bank Services
CT Scanner Services
Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Services
Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Services
Certified Trauma Center Services
Chemotherapy Services
Dedicated Emergency Department Services
Diagnostic Radiology Services
Dietary Services
Emergency Services
Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripter Services
Gerontological Specialty Services
ICU - Cardiac (Non-Surgical)Services
ICU - Medical/Surgical Services
ICU - Surgical Services
Inpatient Surgical Services
Long Term Care (Swing-Beds) Services
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Mri) Services
Neonatal Nursery Services
Neurosurgical Services
Obstetric Services
Occupational Therapy Services
Operating Room Services
Opthalmic Surgery Services
Orthopedic Surgery Services
Outpatient Services
Outpatient Surgery Unit Services
Pediatric Services
Pharmacy Services
Physical Therapy Services
Postoperative Recovery Room Services
Reconstructive Surgery Services
Respiratory Care Services
Social Services
Speech Pathology Services
Therapeutic Radiology Services

Employment Full-Time Equivalent

Licensed Practical Or Vocational Nurses : 35.00
Registered Professional Nurses : 546.00
Other Salaried Personnel : 760.00
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA) : 16.00
Dieticians : 7.00
Occupational Therapists : 8.00
Physical Therapists : 17.00
Registered Pharmacists : 24.00
Respiratory Therapists : 31.00
Speech Pathologists Or Audiologists : 4.00
Physicians : 2.00
Medical Social Workers : 4.00
Medical Laboratory Technologists : 37.00
Nuclear Medicine Technicians : 3.00
Diagnostic Radiology Technicians : 63.00
Residents (Physicians) : 35.00

Number Of Beds

Total: 351
Total Certified: 345
Psychiatric Unit Beds: 20

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

Here:	8%
South Carolina:	5%

Usually

This Hospital:	18%
State:	17%

Always

This Hospital:	74%
State:	78%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	4%
State:	4%

Usually

This Hospital:	14%
South Carolina:	13%

Always

This Hospital:	82%
South Carolina:	83%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

Here:	14%
South Carolina:	11%

Usually

Here:	26%
State:	24%

Always

This Hospital:	60%
State:	65%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	10%
State:	8%

Usually

Here:	23%
State:	22%

Always

Here:	67%
State:	70%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	24%
State:	22%

Usually

This Hospital:	16%
State:	16%

Always

Here:	60%
State:	62%

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

Sometimes or never

Here:	14%
South Carolina:	10%

Usually

Here:	20%
South Carolina:	19%

Always

This Hospital:	66%
South Carolina:	71%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	12%
South Carolina:	8%

Usually

This Hospital:	28%
State:	26%

Always

This Hospital:	60%
South Carolina:	66%

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

Yes

This Hospital:	83%
State:	83%

Here:	17%
South Carolina:	17%

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

6 or lower

This Hospital:	11%
South Carolina:	9%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	25%
South Carolina:	22%

9 or 10

This Hospital:	64%
South Carolina:	69%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

Here:	8%
South Carolina:	6%

Yes, probably

Here:	27%
State:	25%

Yes, definitely

This Hospital:	65%
South Carolina:	69%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

Here:	100.0%
State:	98.5%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

Here:	99.0%
South Carolina:	98.9%

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

Here:	100.0%
South Carolina:	96.8%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

Here:	100.0%
State:	99.1%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
South Carolina:	99.8%

Percent of Patients Given PCI Within 90 Minutes Of Arrival

Here:	98.0%
South Carolina:	94.2%

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

This Hospital:	6
South Carolina:	9

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

This Hospital:	95.0%
South Carolina:	95.6%

Heart Failure

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
South Carolina:	98.8%

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

Here:	99.0%
State:	95.6%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

This Hospital:	97.0%
South Carolina:	89.2%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
South Carolina:	99.2%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	98.0%
South Carolina:	95.8%

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

This Hospital:	99.0%
State:	96.3%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
South Carolina:	98.6%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
State:	93.2%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

This Hospital:	99.0%
South Carolina:	93.6%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

Here:	100.0%
South Carolina:	95.5%

Children's Asthma

Percent of Children Who Received Reliever Medication While Hospitalized for Asthma

This Hospital:	100.0%
South Carolina:	100.0%

Percent of Children Who Received Systemic Corticosteroid Medication While Hospitalized for Asthma

Here:	100.0%
State:	98.6%

Percent of Children and their Caregivers Who Received a Home Management Plan of Care Document While Hospitalized for Asthma

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	86.1%

Surgery

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	97.0%

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

This Hospital:	97.0%
South Carolina:	94.9%

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

Here:	98.0%
South Carolina:	97.8%

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

This Hospital:	92.0%
South Carolina:	94.1%

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

Here:	94.0%
State:	95.1%

Percent of all Heart Surgery Patients whose blood sugar is kept under good control in the days right after surgery

Here:	99.0%
South Carolina:	95.8%

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:	99.3%

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

This Hospital:	79.0%
South Carolina:	93.2%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
South Carolina:	94.1%

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

Here:	98.0%
State:	93.6%

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
State:	95.0%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	15.6%
South Carolina:	16.2%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	13.3%
South Carolina:	11.3%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	10.5%
State:	12.0%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	18.0%
State:	19.0%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	24.2%
State:	23.8%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	19.5%
State:	18.2%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Pressure Ulcer Stages III And IV

This Hospital:	0.443%
South Carolina:	0.138%

Falls And Trauma

This Hospital:	0.665%
State:	0.606%

Vascular Catheter-Associated Infection

This Hospital:	1.108%
State:	0.369%

Catheter-Associated UTI

Here:	0.295%
State:	0.295%

Average Medicare Payment

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w/o CC/MCC: $5,177

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w MCC: $11,552

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w CC: $7,271

Heart failure and shock w/o CC/MCC: $4,298

Heart failure and shock w MCC: $8,692

Heart failure and shock w CC: $5,994

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w/o CC/MCC: $4,318

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w MCC: $7,757

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w CC: $5,809

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy w MCC: $8,529

Diabetes w MCC: $8,094

Chest Pain: $3,164

Cardiac valve and oth maj cardiothoracic proc w/o card cath w/o CC/MCC: $26,116

Cardiac valve and oth maj cardiothoracic proc w/o card cath w MCC: $47,822

Cardiac valve and oth maj cardiothoracic proc w/o card cath w CC: $31,432

Major cardiovasc procedures w MCC or thoracic aortic aneurysm repair: $30,207

Cardiac defibrillator implant w/o cardiac cath w/o MCC: $29,743

Cardiac defibrillator implant w/o cardiac cath w MCC: $39,956

Cardiac defib implant w cardiac cath w/o AMI/HF/shock w/o MCC: $35,134

Cardiac defib implant w cardiac cath w/o AMI/HF/shock w MCC: $47,341

Extracranial procedures w/o CC/MCC: $5,956

Extracranial procedures w CC: $9,242

Coronary bypass w/o cardiac cath w/o MCC: $21,399

Coronary bypass w/o cardiac cath w MCC: $33,673

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w/o CC/MCC: $11,942

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w CC: $15,411

Perc cardiovasc proc w drug-eluting stent w/o MCC: $11,387

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w/o CC/MCC: $6,706

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $14,743

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w CC: $9,827

Cholecystectomy except by laparoscope w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $21,252

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w/o CC/MCC: $5,744

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w MCC: $14,799

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w CC: $8,346

Major small and large bowel procedures w/o CC/MCC: $9,659

Major small and large bowel procedures w CC: $15,234

Major small and large bowel procedures w MCC: $30,758

Stomach, esophageal duodenal proc w/o CC/MCC: $8,605

Cervical spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $11,394

Cervical spinal fusion w MCC: $730

Cervical spinal fusion w CC: $15,615

Spinal fusion except cervical w/o MCC: $21,198

Spinal fusion except cervical w MCC: $29,298

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w/o CC/MCC: $5,586

Back and neck proc exc spinal fusion w CC/MCC or disc device/neurostim: $10,241

Major shoulder or elbow joint procedures w/o CC/MCC: $6,634

Major shoulder or elbow joint procedures w CC/MCC: $10,219

Bilateral or multiple major joint procs of lower extremity w/o MCC: $18,716

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w/o MCC: $11,952

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w MCC: $17,032

Revision of hip or knee replacement w/o CC/MCC: $14,585

Revision of hip or knee replacement w CC: $18,235

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w/o CC/MCC: $8,776

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w MCC: $19,464

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w CC: $12,636

Other musculoskelet sys and conn tiss O.R. proc w MCC: $18,258

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w/o CC/MCC: $8,152

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w MCC: $542

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w CC: $11,088

Revision of hip or knee replacement w MCC: $606

Kidney and ureter procedures for non-neoplasm w MCC: $29,347

Transurethral procedures w MCC: $13,329

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w/o CC/MCC: $7,793

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w MCC: $16,493

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w CC: $12,851

Transurethral prostatectomy w/o CC/MCC: $3,765

Transurethral prostatectomy w CC/MCC: $6,657

Female reproductive system reconstructive procedures: $4,859

Uterine and adnexa proc for non-malignancy w/o CC/MCC: $5,023

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	35.100%
State:	34.323%

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

Here:	8.400%
South Carolina:	8.362%

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

Here:	0.102%
State:	0.159%

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

This Hospital:	0.084%
South Carolina:	0.030%

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