CHARLOTTE HUNGERFORD HOSPITAL

Acute Care Hospital in Torrington, CT 06790

CHARLOTTE HUNGERFORD HOSPITAL PROFILE

Charlotte Hungerford Hospital is an acute care hospital located in Torrington, CT 06790 that serves the Litchfield county area. This facility is a private non-profit hospital with emergency services.

CHARLOTTE HUNGERFORD HOSPITAL

540 Litchfield St
Torrington, CT 06790
Phone: (860) 496-6666
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Patient Survey Summary Rating Summary Star Rating
The summary star rating combines data from different aspects of the patient’s experience of care to make hospital comparison easier.

Average

ABOUT THIS PROVIDER

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals What's an acute care hospital?
An acute care hospital provides inpatient medical care, services related for surgery and medical services for short-term illnesses, acute medical conditions or injuries.

Hospital Owner: Voluntary Non-profit - Private

Electronic Lab Results: Yes Able to receive lab results electronically
The provider has the ability of receiving laboratory results through a certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) system as discrete searchable data.

Outpatient Safe Surgery Checklist: Yes Safe surgery checklist use (outpatient)
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 outpatient surgical 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.

PATIENT EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

The hospital patient survey at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital 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: Fair

Quiet Rooms: Poor

Cleanliness: Average

Pain Management: Good

Discharge Information: Good

Patients Recommend this Hospital: Fair

EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT TIMES

These performance measures at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital 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: 19 minutes before being seen by a doctor.

Discharge Time: 1 hour 37 minutes before being sent home.

Time Before Admission: 6 hours 30 minutes before being admitted to hospital.

Transfer Time: 3 hours 37 minutes admitted before being taken to room.

Broken Bones: 38 minutes before receiving pain meds.

HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS

We have identified the following individual quality measures where Charlotte Hungerford Hospital has better average ratings than other hospitals in Connecticut or where the hospital is performing better compared to national averages or benchmarks.

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