HILL COUNTRY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC

Acute Care Hospital in Fredericksburg, TX 78624

HILL COUNTRY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC PROFILE

Hill Country Memorial Hospital Inc is an acute care hospital located in Fredericksburg, TX 78624 that serves the Gillespie county area. This facility is a private non-profit hospital with emergency services.

HILL COUNTRY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC

1020 South State Highway 16
Fredericksburg, TX 78624
Phone: (830) 997-4353
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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.

Excellent

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.

Electronically Track Patients Visits: Yes Able to track patients’ lab results, tests, and referrals electronically between visits
The provider is capable of tracking lab tests, diagnostic studies, or patient referrals through a certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) system.

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.

General Surgery Registry: Yes General Surgery Registry
The provider participates in the general surgery registry. Registries provide hospitals with information necessary to help them improve the care they provide.

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.

PATIENT EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

The hospital patient survey at Hill Country Memorial 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: Excellent

Quiet Rooms: Excellent

Cleanliness: Excellent

Pain Management: Excellent

Discharge Information: Excellent

Patients Recommend this Hospital: Excellent

EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT TIMES

These performance measures at Hill Country Memorial 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: 29 minutes before being seen by a doctor.

Discharge Time: 2 hours 19 minutes before being sent home.

Time Before Admission: 3 hours 38 minutes before being admitted to hospital.

Transfer Time: 1 hour 5 minutes admitted before being taken to room.

Broken Bones: 1 hour 12 minutes before receiving pain meds.

HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS

We have identified the following individual quality measures where Hill Country Memorial Hospital Inc has better average ratings than other hospitals in Texas or where the hospital is performing better compared to national averages or benchmarks.

NEARBY HOSPITALS

The following providers were found within a 60 mile range from this location.
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PETERSON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER551 Hill Country Drive
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Yes22.21 miCompare
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BAPTIST EMERGENCY HOSPITAL16088 San Pedro
San Antonio, TX 78232
Yes52.51 miCompare

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