Surgical Care Improvement (September 2009)

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 all heart surgery patients whose blood sugar (blood glucose) is kept under good control in the days right after surgery	n/a	n/a	99%	n/a	n/a	100%*	95%	87%	100%	85%
Percent of patients who got treatment at the right time (within 24 hours before or after their surgery) to help prevent blood clots after certain types of surgery	84%	87%	88%	82%	78%	82%	80%	84%	98%	85%
Percent of surgery patients needing hair removed from the surgical area before surgery, who had hair removed using a safer method (electric clippers or hair removal cream – not a razor)	96%	94%	98%	98%	100%	99%	99%	96%	100%	97%
Percent of surgery patients who were given an antibiotic at the right time (within one hour before surgery) to help prevent infection	90%	92%	95%	90%	81%	93%	96%	89%	99%	93%
Percent of surgery patients who were given the right kind of antibiotic to help prevent infection	92%	96%	95%	91%	84%	93%	95%	94%	100%	94%
Percent of surgery patients whose doctors ordered treatments to prevent blood clots after certain types of surgeries	85%	91%	90%	84%	78%	83%	83%	87%	99%	89%
Percent of surgery patients whose preventive antibiotics were stopped at the right time (within 24 hours after surgery)	94%	92%	97%	88%	93%	95%	93%	87%	98%	87%

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.