WASHINGTON COUNTY HOSPITAL (WASHINGTON, IA) Detailed Hospital Profile

Process of Care

Heart Failure

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

Here:	87.0%
Iowa:	96.9%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	93.0%
Iowa:	97.4%

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

This Hospital:	92.0%
State:	97.8%

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

This Hospital:	75.0%
Iowa:	93.4%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

Here:	64.0%
State:	91.6%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Hospital:	58.0%
State:	94.3%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	16.3%
State:	14.9%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	11.4%
Iowa:	12.0%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	15.9%
Iowa:	12.0%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	19.3%
State:	18.5%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	23.3%
Iowa:	23.7%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

Here:	16.5%
State:	17.9%

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys:: Between 100 and 299
Survey Response Rate: 37%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	2%
Iowa:	3%

Usually

This Hospital:	19%
Iowa:	17%

Always

This Hospital:	79%
Iowa:	80%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	3%
State:	3%

Usually

This Hospital:	9%
State:	13%

Always

This Hospital:	88%
Iowa:	84%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	7%
State:	6%

Usually

Here:	24%
State:	25%

Always

This Hospital:	69%
Iowa:	69%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

Here:	7%
State:	5%

Usually

This Hospital:	25%
Iowa:	24%

Always

This Hospital:	68%
State:	71%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	17%
State:	15%

Usually

Here:	22%
Iowa:	21%

Always

This Hospital:	61%
Iowa:	64%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	7%
State:	6%

Usually

This Hospital:	16%
Iowa:	16%

Always

Here:	77%
State:	78%

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

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	8%
Iowa:	7%

Usually

This Hospital:	27%
State:	30%

Always

This Hospital:	65%
Iowa:	63%

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

Yes

Here:	82%
Iowa:	85%

This Hospital:	18%
Iowa:	15%

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

6 or lower

Here:	4%
Iowa:	6%

7 or 8

Here:	15%
Iowa:	20%

9 or 10

Here:	81%
State:	74%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

This Hospital:	3%
Iowa:	3%

Yes, probably

Here:	23%
Iowa:	22%

Yes, definitely

This Hospital:	74%
State:	75%

Complaint Deficiency

Assist those residents who need total help with eating/drinking, grooming and personal and oral hygiene
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that each resident who enters the nursing home without a catheter is not given a catheter, and receive proper services to prevent urinary tract infections and restore normal bladder function
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
1) Make sure that each resident's drug regimen is free from unnecessary drugs; 2) Each resident's entire drug/medication is managed and monitored to achieve highest well being
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Keep the rate of medication errors (wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong time) to less than 5%
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
An approved automatic sprinkler system connected to the fire alarm system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Proper backup exit lighting
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Properly installed hallway dispensers for alcohol-based hand rub
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Assist those residents who need total help with eating/drinking, grooming and personal and oral hygiene
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Give residents proper treatment to prevent new bed (pressure) sores or heal existing bed sores
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
A two-hour-resistant firewall in common walls
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Record of quarterly fire drills for each shift under varying conditions
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly installed hallway dispensers for alcohol-based hand rub
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	6.100%
State:	8.069%

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

This Hospital:	0.105%
Iowa:	0.138%

Quality Measures

Percent of long-stay residents whose need for help with daily activities has increased

Here:	12.9%
Iowa:	14.5%

Percent of long-stay residents who lose too much weight

Here:	14.3%
State:	6.7%

Percent of long-stay residents who have had a catheter inserted and left in their bladder

Here:	8.0%
State:	4.7%

Percent of long-stay residents with a urinary tract infection

This Hospital:	13.5%
Iowa:	8.4%

Percent of long-stay residents who have depressive symptoms

This Hospital:	6.1%
Iowa:	7.5%

Percent of long-stay residents who were physically restrained

This Hospital:	2.7%
Iowa:	0.9%

Percent of long-stay residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury

Here:	5.4%
State:	3.9%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

Here:	83.3%
State:	98.0%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

Here:	91.9%
Iowa:	97.7%

Percent of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication

This Hospital:	10.8%
Iowa:	21.0%

WASHINGTON COUNTY HOSPITAL - WASHINGTON, IA

Process of Care

Heart Failure

Pneumonia

Outcome of Care

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Complaint Deficiency

Use of Medical Imaging

Quality Measures

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