Heart Failure (December 2008)

Quality Measures	Mease Countryside Hospital	Mease Dunedin Hospital	Morton Plant Hospital	Morton Plant North Bay Hospital	South Florida Baptist Hospital	St. Anthony's Hospital	St. Joseph's Hospital	United States Ave.	Top 10% Ave.	Florida Ave.
Percent of Heart Failure Patients Given Discharge Instructions	75%	73%	69%	62%	88%	71%	83%	71%	97%	76%
Percent of Heart Failure Patients Given an Evaluation of Left Ventricular Systolic (LVS) Function	94%	97%	97%	96%	100%	94%	94%	87%	100%	93%
Percent of Heart Failure Patients Given ACE Inhibitor or ARB for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)	90%	88%	94%	90%	96%	89%	91%	88%	100%	89%
Percent of Heart Failure Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling	100%	100%	100%	100%*	100%	100%	99%	90%	100%	96%

Key
	Top Performance. At or above the U.S. Top 10 percent average.
	Significantly higher than the U.S. average.
	About the same as the U.S. average.
	Significantly lower than the U.S. average. Click on the cell to read our Action Plan.
*	Technical Note. The sample size is too small (less than 25) to apply significance testing.
n/a	No patients met the criteria for inclusion in the measure calculation.