INTERFAITH MEDICAL CENTER
Acute Care Hospital in Brooklyn, NY 11213
INTERFAITH MEDICAL CENTER PROFILE
Interfaith Medical Center is an acute care hospital located in Brooklyn, NY 11213 that serves the Kings county area. This facility is a private non-profit hospital with emergency services.
INTERFAITH MEDICAL CENTER
1545 Atlantic AvenueBrooklyn, NY 11213
Phone: (718) 613-4000
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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.
Fair
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.
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 Interfaith 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: FairQuiet Rooms: Fair
Cleanliness: Average
Pain Management: Fair
Discharge Information: Poor
Patients Recommend this Hospital: Poor
These performance measures at Interfaith 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: 57 minutes before being seen by a doctor.Discharge Time: 3 hours 1 minute before being sent home.
Time Before Admission: 6 hours 50 minutes before being admitted to hospital.
Transfer Time: 4 hours 37 minutes admitted before being taken to room.
Broken Bones: 1 hour 51 minutes before receiving pain meds.
We have identified the following individual quality measures where Interfaith Medical Center has better average ratings than other hospitals in New York or where the hospital is performing better compared to national averages or benchmarks.
- Better performance for intestinal infections Better performance for intestinal infections
The provider has a better than the national benchmark performance for intestinal infections - Surgical Care Improvement Project: better performance with antibiotic within 1 hour Surgical Care Improvement Project: better performance with antibiotic within 1 hour
The provider's Surgical Care Improvement Project performance score of 100% for the quality measure antibiotic within 1 hour is better than the 99% average score of New York. - Stroke Care: better performance with venous thromboembolism (vte) prophylaxis Stroke Care: better performance with venous thromboembolism (vte) prophylaxis
The provider's Stroke Care performance score of 98% for the quality measure venous thromboembolism (vte) prophylaxis is better than the 97% average score of New York. - Stroke Care: better performance with discharged on antithrombotic therapy Stroke Care: better performance with discharged on antithrombotic therapy
The provider's Stroke Care performance score of 100% for the quality measure discharged on antithrombotic therapy is better than the 99% average score of New York. - Stroke Care: better performance with antithrombotic medication by day two Stroke Care: better performance with antithrombotic medication by day two
The provider's Stroke Care performance score of 100% for the quality measure antithrombotic medication by day two is better than the 99% average score of New York. - Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with anticoagulation
overlap therapy Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with anticoagulation
overlap therapy
The provider's Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment performance score of 100% for the quality measure anticoagulation overlap therapy is better than the 94% average score of New York.
NEARBY HOSPITALS
| Hospital Name | Address | Emergency Services | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KINGSBROOK JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER | 585 Schenectady Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11203 | Yes | 1.32 mi | Compare |
| WOODHULL MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CENTER | 760 Broadway Brooklyn, NY 11206 | Yes | 1.49 mi | Compare |
| KINGS COUNTY HOSPITAL CENTER | 451 Clarkson Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11203 | Yes | 1.56 mi | Compare |
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BROOKLYN ( DOWNSTATE ) | 445 Lenox Road Brooklyn, NY 11203 | Yes | 1.64 mi | Compare |
| BROOKDALE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | 1 Brookdale Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11212 | Yes | 2.06 mi | Compare |
| WYCKOFF HEIGHTS MEDICAL CENTER | 374 Stockholm Street Brooklyn, NY 11237 | Yes | 2.08 mi | Compare |
| NEW YORK METHODIST HOSPITAL | 506 Sixth Street Brooklyn, NY 11215 | Yes | 2.27 mi | Compare |
| BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER AT DOWNTOWN CAMPUS | 121 Dekalb Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11201 | Yes | 2.29 mi | Compare |
| MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER | 4802 Tenth Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11219 | Yes | 4.17 mi | Compare |
| BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER | First Avenue At 16th Street New York, NY 10003 | Yes | 4.45 mi | Compare |
| N Y EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY | 310 East 14th Street New York, NY 10003 | No | 4.45 mi | Compare |
| NEW YORK COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF BROOKLYN, INC. | 2525 Kings Highway Brooklyn, NY 11229 | Yes | 4.48 mi | Compare |
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