ARMC Quality Report Card
| Clinical Indicators | ARMC
Rating | National
Average | SC
Average | Georgia
Average |
| Heart Attack Care |
|
Aspirin given within the 1st 24 hours for patients with heart attacks
|
100% |
94% |
96% |
90% |
| Aspirin prescribed to take at home for patients after a heart attack |
98% |
93% |
93% |
89% |
| ACE Inhibitor or ARB for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD) |
94% |
91% |
97% |
93% |
| Smoking cessation advice or counseling |
100% |
96% |
99% |
96% |
| Beta Blocker prescribed to take at home for patients after a heart attack |
100% |
94% |
94% |
91% |
| Patients taken to cath lab for an intervention within the first 90 minutes of arrival for ST elevation myocardial infarctions |
81% |
79% |
90% |
76% |
| Heart Failure |
| Discharge instructions |
85% |
77% |
81% |
78% |
| Assessment of left ventricular function – How well is the heart muscle functioning |
99% |
90% |
96% |
90% |
| ACE inhibitor or ARB for left ventricular systolic dysfunction |
95% |
89% |
93% |
88% |
| Smoking cessation advice or counseling |
100% |
92% |
95% |
93% |
| Pneumonia |
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| Pneumococcal Pneumonia vaccine |
100% |
85% |
91% |
83% |
| Blood cultures done before 1st antibiotic dose |
96% |
92% |
93% |
92% |
| Smoking cessation advice or counseling |
100% |
90% |
95% |
93% |
| Percent of patients given an antibiotic within 6 hours after arrival |
99% |
93% |
95% |
92% |
| Percent of patients given the most appropriate initial antibiotic |
95% |
88% |
89% |
88% |
| Influenza vaccine |
94% |
85% |
91% |
84% |
| Surgical Prevention |
| Percent of surgery patients who receive preventive antibiotics within one hour prior to incision |
98% |
90% |
93% |
88% |
| Appropriate antibiotic given |
97% |
94% |
93% |
94% |
| Percent of surgery patients whose antibiotics are stopped within 24 hours after surgery |
92% |
89% |
91% |
87% |
| Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis ordered |
92% |
87% |
89% |
87% |
| Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis given within 24 hours of surgery |
88% |
85% |
88% |
85% |
| Percent of surgery patients who had hair removed using a safer method |
100% |
97% |
98% |
99% |
| Percent of heart surgery patients whose blood sugars were within range the morning after surgery |
92% |
87% |
87% |
88%
|
| Percent of surgery patients taking heart drugs before hospitalization who were on these meds before and after surgery |
82% |
87% |
88% |
83%
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