Sun City Anthem
Resident Shares Valley Hospital Ratings
As many of you know, we enjoy letters from
our readers, and when a subject comes up we feel many of our senior residents
may have benefit, we love to share it with you.
...and one of those topics... the subject
of Hospital safety...
...is paramount in the lives of all of us
as we get "trudge" though "being of a certain age".
We received a letter covering a fascinating
study from a valued reader, Shep Rose, a former federal judge, whose friendship I've valued for
years, along with that of his wife, Jenny.
According to
Shep....
Kim Wagner, on Channel
3 “Wake Up with the Wagners” indicated that the
morning’s 4AM-7AM “Wake Up with the Wagners” would give the safety ratings of 15 Clark County
hospitals.
...so he recorded it.
Kim Wagner had the Consumer Report hospital safety
expert identify only two (out of
fifteen) Clark County
hospitals....
St.Rose
(Sienna)
and
Centennial
Hills
....as leading the
list, with hospital safety ratings of 57 and 56
respectively.
Highest hospital safety rating,nationwide...78..a
hospital in Maine.
The TV segment did rank
UMC (University Medical Center,Las Vegas) the
lowest...hospital safety ranking...30.
On the TV segment, Kim Wagner referred the
listener to WAKEUP@MYNEW3.com for “detailed information”, but his attempt to find any
mention of Nevada Hospital Ratings by ConsumerReports.org was not successful.
However, since Sun City Anthem seniors
are interested in “DETAILS” of hospital safety ratings, particularly ADVERSE
EVENTS-SURGERY...a frequent topic of conversation here...
...as a subscriber to CONSUMERREPORTS.ORG, he had no difficulty in navigating the
website to ...
HOSPITAL SAFETY
RATINGS
States Shep, "On the map of the USA, place the
mouse pointing arrow on “Nevada” then narrow the search to “CLARK
COUNTY”
(Do not check off cities..Henderson..Las
Vegas,etc.)"
The are 22 Clark County hospitals
with ConsumerReports.org safety ratings.
INCIDENTALLY, in Nevada, two Reno hospitals score
higher than any Clark County hospital!
There are more detailed hospital safety reports
for each hospital in the nation, including those here.
There are four hospital
safety areas studied.
These
include..
.
.
Bloodstream
Infections
Avoiding
Re-admission
Drug
Information
...and...the topic of frequent
conversations here:
Surgery--Adverse
Events
Not many of the 22 Clark County
hospitals did well in the study...and only one hospital got a "BEST" rating in
one category !
"Best" is a red bull’eye.
"Best" is a red bull’eye.
“Next
Best” is circle half red and half white.
"Worst" is
a black circle.
For a hospital with a “best” or “next best”
rating on SURGERY--ADVERSE EVENTS...Shep 's advise is
simply...
...LEAVE TOWN
!!
All 22 Clark County hospitals
except St.Rose-Sienna... got a black circle “WORST” for “DRUG INFORMATION”
.
St.Rose-Sienna got a black
half circle “Next Worst”.
He wasn't sure what “Drug Information” covers
!
However, for “Avoiding
Re-admissions” two Clark County hospitals get a red half circle ("Next Best"); namely, St.Rose-Sienna and Boulder City
Hospital, which is not yet rated on anything else.
Curiously, 2nd ranked Centennial Hills Hospital , in the category of “Avoiding Re-admissions” gets a black half circle, along
with Desert Springs Hospital, Spring Valley Hospital, Valley
Hospital, Mountain View Hospital, and University Medical Center...
...while Sunrise Hospital gets a black circle...”WORST”.
In the area of “Bloodstream
Infections” 2nd ranked Centennial Hills
Hospital gets a red bulls’ eye...”Best”
...a red half circle (“Next
Best”) goes to St.Rose de Lima, Desert Springs, St.Rose San
Martin, Summerlin Hospital , and Sunrise Hospital.
There are also several Clark County hospitals not
yet rated.
Veterans Affairs Southern Nevada, Health South,
Mesa View, Progressive,Spring Mountain , as well as Boulder City Hospital,
rated only in” Avoiding
Re-Admissions”.
We. at Anthem Opinions, once again, thank Shep
Rose for passing his findings on to us and we hope all of you found it as informative as we
did.
Dick
Arendt
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