MERCY HOSPITAL

Acute Care Hospital in Buffalo, NY 14220

MERCY HOSPITAL PROFILE

Mercy Hospital is an acute care hospital located in Buffalo, NY 14220 that serves the Erie county area. This facility is a private non-profit hospital with emergency services.

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.

Cardiac Surgery Registry: Yes Cardiac surgery registry
The provider participates in the cardiac surgery registry. Participation in this registry does not mean that the hospital is specialized or only provides this type of care. Registries provide hospitals with the 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 Mercy 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: Fair

Pain Management: Average

Discharge Information: Average

Patients Recommend this Hospital: Average

EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT TIMES

These performance measures at Mercy 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: 20 minutes before being seen by a doctor.

Discharge Time: 2 hours 8 minutes before being sent home.

Time Before Admission: 6 hours 40 minutes before being admitted to hospital.

Transfer Time: 2 hours 44 minutes admitted before being taken to room.

Broken Bones: 58 minutes before receiving pain meds.

HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS

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

NEARBY HOSPITALS

The following providers were found within a 30 mile range from this location.
Hospital Name Address Emergency Services Distance
KALEIDA HEALTH726 Exchange Street, Suite 522
Buffalo, NY 14210
Yes5.33 miCompare
ERIE COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER462 Grider Street
Buffalo, NY 14215
Yes5.62 miCompare
SISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL2157 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14214
Yes5.89 miCompare
UPSTATE NEW YORK VA HEALTHCARE SYSTEM - WESTERN NY3495 Bailey Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14215
No7.17 miCompare
KENMORE MERCY HOSPITAL2950 Elmwood Avenue
Kenmore, NY 14217
Yes9.62 miCompare
NIAGARA FALLS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER621 Tenth Street
Niagara Falls, NY 14302
Yes20.83 miCompare
MOUNT ST MARY'S HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CENTER5300 Military Road
Lewiston, NY 14092
Yes23.92 miCompare
BERTRAND CHAFFEE HOSPITAL224 East Main Street
Springville, NY 14141
Yes24.62 miCompare

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