ARMC Quality Report Card

ARMC results from January 2010 – December 2010.
State and national averages from hospitalcompare.hhs.gov 10/11

Clinical Indicators ARMC
Rating
National
Average
SC
Average
Georgia
Average
Heart Attack   
Aspirin given within the 1st 24 hours for patients with heart attacks 98% 99% 99% 98%
Aspirin prescribed to take at home for patients after a heart attack 97% 99% 99% 99%
ACE Inhibitor or ARB for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD) 95% 96% 97% 95%
Smoking cessation advice or counseling 98% 100% 100% 100%
Beta Blocker prescribed to take at home for patients after a heart attack 95% 98% 99% 98%
Patients taken to cath lab for an intervention within the first 90 minutes of arrival for ST elevation myocardial infarctions 94% 91% 95% 91%
Heart Failure
Discharge instructions 95% 90% 90% 87%
Assessment of left ventricular function – How well is the heart muscle functioning? 99% 98% 99% 98%
ACE inhibitor or ARB for left ventricular systolic dysfunction 96% 95% 96% 95%
Smoking cessation advice or counseling 100% 99% 99% 99%
Pneumonia
Pneumococcal Pneumonia vaccine 96% 94% 95% 95%
Blood cultures done before 1st antibiotic dose 97% 96% 97% 96%
Smoking cessation advice or counseling 100% 98% 99% 98%
Patients given an antibiotic within 6 hours after arrival 97% 96% 96% 95%
Patients given the most appropriate initial antibiotic 94% 93% 94% 93%
Influenza vaccine 91% 91% 93% 93%
Surgical Care Improvement Project   
Surgery patients who receive preventive antibiotics within one hour prior to incision 99% 97% 98% 97%
Appropriate antibiotic given 98% 98% 98% 97%
Percent of surgery patients whose antibiotics are stopped within 24 hours after surgery 94% 96% 96% 95%
Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis ordered 93% 95% 96% 94%
Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis given within 24 hours of surgery 89% 93% 94% 92%
Surgery patients who had hair removed using a safe method 100% 100% 100% 100%
Percent of heart surgery patients whose blood sugars were within range the morning after surgery 97% 94% 96% 93% 
Percent of surgery patients taking heart drugs before hospitalization who were on these meds before and after surgery 97% 94% 96% 93% 
Surgery patients whose urinary catheters were removed on the first or second day after surgery  80% 91% 93% 91% 
Outpatient Surgical Prevention   
Patients who received preventive antibiotics within one hour prior to incision 97% 94% 95% 95%
Patients who received an appropriate antibiotic 98% 95% 95% 95%
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