COPPER BASIN MEDICAL CENTER
Critical Access Hospital in Copperhill, TN 37317
COPPER BASIN MEDICAL CENTER PROFILE
Copper Basin Medical Center is a critical access hospital located in Copperhill, TN 37317 that serves the Polk county area. This facility is a non-profit hospital with emergency services.
COPPER BASIN MEDICAL CENTER
Highway 68Copperhill, TN 37317
Phone: (423) 496-5511
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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: 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 - Other
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 Copper Basin Medical Center 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: ExcellentQuiet Rooms: Excellent
Cleanliness: Average
Pain Management: Excellent
Discharge Information: Good
Patients Recommend this Hospital: Good
These performance measures at Copper Basin Medical Center 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: 15 minutes before being seen by a doctor.Discharge Time: Not Available before being sent home.
Time Before Admission: Not Available before being admitted to hospital.
Transfer Time: Not Available admitted before being taken to room.
Broken Bones: Not Available before receiving pain meds.
We have identified the following individual quality measures where Copper Basin Medical Center has better average ratings than other hospitals in Tennessee or where the hospital is performing better compared to national averages or benchmarks.
- Excellent Nurse Communication Rating Excellent Nurse Communication Rating
The provider's patient survey rating score for the quality measure nurse communication is excellent. - Excellent Doctor Communication Rating Excellent Doctor Communication Rating
The provider's patient survey rating score for the quality measure doctor communication is excellent. - Excellent Pain Management Rating Excellent Pain Management Rating
The provider's patient survey rating score for the quality measure pain management is excellent. - Excellent Overall Hospital Rating Excellent Overall Hospital Rating
The provider's patient survey rating score for the quality measure overall hospital is excellent. - Excellent Quiet Rooms Rating Excellent Quiet Rooms Rating
The provider's patient survey rating score for the quality measure quiet rooms is excellent. - 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 TN. - Emergency Department: better performance with er waiting time Emergency Department: better performance with er waiting time
The provider's Emergency Department performance of 15 minutes for er waiting time is better than the statewide average of 23 minutes in Tennessee. - Heart Attack or Chest Pain: better performance with aspirin at arrival Heart Attack or Chest Pain: better performance with aspirin at arrival
The provider's Heart Attack or Chest Pain performance score of 100% for the quality measure aspirin at arrival is better than the 96% average score of Tennessee.
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