CHESTATEE REGIONAL HOSPITAL
Acute Care Hospital in Dahlonega, GA 30533
CHESTATEE REGIONAL HOSPITAL PROFILE
Chestatee Regional Hospital is an acute care hospital located in Dahlonega, GA 30533 that serves the Lumpkin county area. This facility is a proprietary hospital with emergency services.
CHESTATEE REGIONAL HOSPITAL
227 Mountain DrDahlonega, GA 30533
Phone: (706) 864-6136
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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.
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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: Proprietary
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.
The hospital patient survey at Chestatee Regional 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: AverageQuiet Rooms: Good
Cleanliness: Fair
Pain Management: Average
Discharge Information: Good
Patients Recommend this Hospital: Fair
These performance measures at Chestatee Regional 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: 27 minutes before being seen by a doctor.Discharge Time: 1 hour 45 minutes before being sent home.
Time Before Admission: 4 hours 13 minutes before being admitted to hospital.
Transfer Time: 1 hour 15 minutes admitted before being taken to room.
Broken Bones: 49 minutes before receiving pain meds.
We have identified the following individual quality measures where Chestatee Regional Hospital has better average ratings than other hospitals in Georgia or where the hospital is performing better compared to national averages or benchmarks.
- Better performance with the effective use of abdomen CT use of contrast material Better performance with the effective use of abdomen CT use of contrast material
The provider's use of abdomen CT use of contrast material is better and more effective compared to the average hospital rate in the state of GA. - Emergency Department: better performance with time before admission Emergency Department: better performance with time before admission
The provider's Emergency Department performance of 253 minutes for time before admission is better than the statewide average of 290 minutes in Georgia. - Emergency Department: better performance with transfer time Emergency Department: better performance with transfer time
The provider's Emergency Department performance of 75 minutes for transfer time is better than the statewide average of 96 minutes in Georgia. - Preventive Care: better performance with patients flu immunization Preventive Care: better performance with patients flu immunization
The provider's Preventive Care performance score of 93% for the quality measure patients flu immunization is better than the 92% average score of Georgia. - Emergency Department: better performance with discharge time Emergency Department: better performance with discharge time
The provider's Emergency Department performance of 105 minutes for discharge time is better than the statewide average of 146 minutes in Georgia. - Emergency Department: better performance with er waiting time Emergency Department: better performance with er waiting time
The provider's Emergency Department performance of 27 minutes for er waiting time is better than the statewide average of 31 minutes in Georgia. - Emergency Department:
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The provider's Emergency Department performance score of 2% for the quality measure left without being seen is better than the 3% average score of Georgia. - Surgical Care Improvement Project: better performance with beta-blocker prior to admission Surgical Care Improvement Project: better performance with beta-blocker prior to admission
The provider's Surgical Care Improvement Project performance score of 100% for the quality measure beta-blocker prior to admission is better than the 98% average score of Georgia.
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