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Pneumonia (August 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 Pneumonia Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination 85%
  
82%
  
83%
  
74%
  
86%
  
78%
  
61%
  
75%
  
98%
  
76%
  
Percent of Pneumonia Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination 88%
  
81%
  
84%
  
80%
  
87%
  
78%
  
73%
  
77%
  
96%
  
79%
  
Percent of Pneumonia Patients Given Initial Antibiotic(s) within 6 Hours After Arrival 94%
  
98%
  
95%
  
93%
  
97%
  
93%
  
85%
  
93%
  
100%
  
91%
  
Percent of Pneumonia Patients Given Oxygenation Assessment 100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
99%
  
100%
  
100%
  
Percent of Pneumonia Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling 99%
  
100%
98%
  
100%
98%
  
98%
  
99%
  
85%
  
100%
  
93%
  
Percent of Pneumonia Patients Given the Most Appropriate Initial Antibiotic(s) 90%
  
91%
  
91%
  
87%
  
81%
  
93%
  
93%
  
87%
  
97%
  
87%
  
Percent of Pneumonia Patients Whose Initial Emergency Room Blood Culture Was Performed Prior To The Administration Of The First Hospital Dose Of Antibiotics 94%
  
93%
  
91%
  
91%
  
97%
  
91%
  
71%
  
90%
  
100%
  
88%
  

The rates displayed in this table are from data reported to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for discharges October 2006 to September 2007.

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 (less than 25) to apply significance testing.

n/a

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



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