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Heart Attack (Sept. 2007)

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.
Heart Attack Patients Given ACE (angiotensin converting enzyme) Inhibitor or ARB (angiotensin receptor blocker) for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD) 88%*
  
100%*
95%
  
100%*
100%*
89%*
  
91%
  
83%
  
100%
  
85%
  
Heart Attack Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival 97%
  
97%
  
97%
  
93%
  
100%
  
93%
  
98%
  
93%
  
100%
  
94%
  
Heart Attack Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge 90%
  
83%
  
98%
  
85%*
  
100%*
91%
  
96%
  
90%
  
100%
  
89%
  
Heart Attack Patients Given Beta Blocker at Arrival 92%
  
96%
  
94%
  
88%*
  
100%
96%
  
99%
  
87%
  
100%
  
89%
  
Heart Attack Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge 98%
  
98%
  
98%
  
79%
  
100%*
90%
  
95%
  
90%
  
100%
  
93%
  
Heart Attack Patients Given Fibrinolytic Medication Within 30 Minutes Of Arrival N/A
  
N/A
  
N/A
  
33%*
  
N/A
  
N/A
  
N/A
  
34%
  
100%
  
33%
  
Heart Attack Patients Given PCI Within 90 Minutes Of Arrival N/A
  
N/A
  
47%*
  
N/A
  
N/A
  
67%*
  
74%
  
55%
  
88%
  
55%
  
Heart Attack Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling 100%*
100%*
100%
100%*
100%*
100%
100%
89%
  
100%
  
94%
  

The rates displayed in this table are from data reported to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for discharges January 2006 through December 2006.

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 Improvement Plan.
* Technical Note. The sample size is too small (N<25) to apply significance testing.

N/A

No patients met the criteria for inclusion in the measure calculation.



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