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Heart Failure (June 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 Failure Patients Given ACE Inhibitor or ARB for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD) 91%
  
87%
  
90%
  
89%
  
94%
  
89%
  
91%
  
82%
  
100%
  
82%
  
Heart Failure Patients Given an Evaluation of Left Ventricular Systolic (LVS) Function 93%
  
91%
  
93%
  
91%
  
99%
87%
  
95%
  
83%
  
99%
  
90%
  
Heart Failure Patients Given Discharge Instructions 68%
  
70%
  
67%
  
53%
  
71%
  
83%
  
62%
  
61%
  
93%
  
61%
  
Heart Failure Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling 98%
  
100%
100%
93%
  
100%
100%
100%
82%
  
100%
  
91%
  

The rates displayed in this table are from data reported to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for discharges October 2005 to September 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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