Pneumonia (December 2007)

Unless otherwise noted, the rates displayed in this table are from data reported to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for discharges April 2006 through March 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.
Pneumonia Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination**	85%	82%	83%	74%	86%	78%	61%	75%	98%	76%
Pneumonia Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination	83%	75%	80%	72%	88%	73%	68%	73%	95%	75%
Pneumonia Patients Given Initial Antibiotic(s) within 4 Hours After Arrival	79%	92%	71%	86%	89%	82%	76%	81%	94%	77%
Pneumonia Patients Given Oxygenation Assessment	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	99%	100%	99%
Pneumonia Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling	100%	100%	96%	97%	98%	99%	98%	83%	100%	92%
Pneumonia Patients Given the Most Appropriate Initial Antibiotic(s)	88%	89%	91%	82%	83%	93%	89%	85%	95%	85%
Pneumonia Patients Whose Initial Emergency Room Blood Culture Was Performed Prior To The Administration Of The First Hospital Dose Of Antibiotics	94%	94%	91%	91%	93%	93%	69%	90%	100%	88%

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.