WEEKS MEDICAL CENTER (LANCASTER, NH) Detailed Hospital Profile

Use of Medical Imaging

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

This Hospital:	52.400%
New Hampshire:	33.103%

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

Here:	1.100%
State:	8.524%

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

Here:	0.590%
New Hampshire:	0.053%

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

Here:	0.104%
New Hampshire:	0.004%

Outpatients who got cardiac imaging stress tests before low-risk outpatient surgery

Here:	7.800%
New Hampshire:	5.357%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

This Hospital:	91.0%
New Hampshire:	99.9%

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

Here:	4
New Hampshire:	7

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

This Hospital:	96.0%
State:	97.2%

Heart Failure

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	99.4%

Pneumonia

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

Here:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	97.2%

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

Here:	100.0%
State:	97.2%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	96.3%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	96.8%

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:	98.7%

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

Here:	95.0%
New Hampshire:	97.4%

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

Here:	95.0%
State:	98.7%

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%
New Hampshire:	98.4%

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

Here:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	100.0%

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

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	93.8%

Patients having surgery who were actively warmed in the operating room or whose body temperature was near normal

This Hospital:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	99.7%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	16.8%
New Hampshire:	14.7%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	11.7%
New Hampshire:	11.9%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	14.2%
State:	12.8%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	25.6%
State:	23.2%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	20.0%
New Hampshire:	17.7%

WEEKS MEDICAL CENTER - LANCASTER, NH