BLUE RIDGE REGIONAL HOSPITAL, INC
Critical Access Hospital in Spruce Pine, NC 28777
BLUE RIDGE REGIONAL HOSPITAL, INC PROFILE
Blue Ridge Regional Hospital, Inc is a critical access hospital located in Spruce Pine, NC 28777 that serves the Mitchell county area. This facility is a private non-profit hospital with emergency services.
BLUE RIDGE REGIONAL HOSPITAL, INC
125 Hospital DrSpruce Pine, NC 28777
Phone: (828) 765-4201
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ABOUT THIS PROVIDER
Hospital Type: Critical Access Hospitals What's a critical access hospital?A critical access hospital is a small facility that provides outpatient and inpatient services on a limited basis, usually to people in rural areas.
Hospital Owner: Voluntary Non-profit - Private
Nursing Care Registry: Yes Nursing care registry
The provider participates in the nursing care registry. This registry collects and analyzes information on nursing care topics, conditions, or procedures.
Inpatient Safe Surgery Checklist: Yes Safe surgery checklist use (inpatient)
This hospital follows a safe surgery checklist based on accepted standards of practice. Safe surgery checklists include three critical perioperative periods: 1) The period before the administration of anesthesia; 2) The period before surgical skin incision; and 3) The period of closure of incision and before the patient leaving the operating room for inpatient surgical procedures.
Emergency Services: Yes Emergency Department
This hospital provides emergency services which might include acute medical care or trauma care.
The hospital patient survey at Blue Ridge Regional Hospital, Inc is administered to a random sample of adult inpatients after discharge. The following are the results of some the survey’s five-star quality ratings.
Doctor Communication: Not AvailableQuiet Rooms: Not Available
Cleanliness: Not Available
Pain Management: Not Available
Discharge Information: Not Available
Patients Recommend this Hospital: Not Available
These performance measures at Blue Ridge Regional Hospital, Inc show how rapidly emergency departments give recommended treatments known to get the best results for patients with certain common conditions. This information could help patients compare which hospitals provide the right care at the right time.
ER Wait Time: 35 minutes before being seen by a doctor.Discharge Time: 2 hours 47 minutes before being sent home.
Time Before Admission: 4 hours 36 minutes before being admitted to hospital.
Transfer Time: 1 hour 26 minutes admitted before being taken to room.
Broken Bones: 1 hour 37 minutes before receiving pain meds.
We have identified the following individual quality measures where Blue Ridge Regional Hospital, Inc has better average ratings than other hospitals in North Carolina or where the hospital is performing better compared to national averages or benchmarks.
- Emergency Department: better performance with time before admission Emergency Department: better performance with time before admission
The provider's Emergency Department performance of 276 minutes for time before admission is better than the statewide average of 288 minutes in North Carolina. - Emergency Department: better performance with transfer time Emergency Department: better performance with transfer time
The provider's Emergency Department performance of 86 minutes for transfer time is better than the statewide average of 95 minutes in North Carolina. - Heart Attack or Chest Pain: better performance with time to ecg Heart Attack or Chest Pain: better performance with time to ecg
The provider's Heart Attack or Chest Pain performance of 4 minutes for time to ecg is better than the statewide average of 8 minutes in North Carolina.
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