VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM - JAMAICA PLAIN - JAMAICA PLAIN, MA

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Addresss:
150 S. HUNTINGTON AVENUE
JAMAICA PLAIN, MA, 02130
Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (617) 232-9500

Hospital Type: ACUTE CARE - VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
Hospital Owner: Government Federal
Emergency Services: Yes

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Number Of Beds
Total: 920
Total Certified: 920

Process of Care

Heart Failure

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

100.0%
Massachusetts:

99.4%
Percent of Patients Given ACE Inhibitor or ARB for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)
Here:

95.0%
State:

95.9%
Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions
Here:

100.0%
State:

94.2%
Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling
This Hospital:

100.0%
Massachusetts:

98.7%

Pneumonia

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

90.0%
Massachusetts:

96.6%
Percent of Patients Whose Initial ER Blood Culture Was Performed Prior To Administration Of First Dose Of Antibiotics
Here:

96.0%
State:

96.6%
Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling
Here:

100.0%
State:

97.7%
Percent of Patients Given the Most Appropriate Initial Antibiotic(s)
This Hospital:

71.0%
Massachusetts:

96.0%
Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination
This Hospital:

93.0%
State:

95.1%
Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination
This Hospital:

99.0%
Massachusetts:

96.2%

Surgery

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

98.0%
State:

98.3%
Percent of Surgery Patients whose preventive antibiotics were stopped at the right time (within 24 hours after surgery)
Here:

100.0%
State:

97.5%
Percent of Surgery Patients who were given the right kind of antibiotic to help prevent infection
Here:

99.0%
Massachusetts:

98.8%
Percent of Surgery Patients who got treatment at right time (within 24 hours before or after surgery) to help prevent blood clot
This Hospital:

100.0%
State:

97.8%
Percent of Surgery Patients whose doctors ordered treatments to prevent blood clots after certain types of surgeries
This Hospital:

100.0%
Massachusetts:

98.3%
Percent of all Heart Surgery Patients whose blood sugar is kept under good control in the days right after surgery
This Hospital:

98.0%
State:

96.4%
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%
Massachusetts:

99.9%
Percent of Surgery Patients whose urinary catheters were removed on the first or second day after surgery
Here:

99.0%
Massachusetts:

92.9%
Surgery patients who were taking heart drugs called beta blockers before coming to the hospital, who were kept on them
This Hospital:

100.0%
State:

97.3%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack
Here:

14.4%
State:

14.3%
30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure
Here:

9.4%
Massachusetts:

10.4%
30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia
This Hospital:

9.4%
Massachusetts:

10.9%
30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack
This Hospital:

20.4%
State:

20.6%
30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure
This Hospital:

26.1%
Massachusetts:

25.3%
30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia
This Hospital:

20.5%
State:

19.2%

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