MERITER HOSPITAL

Acute Care Hospital in Madison, WI 53715

MERITER HOSPITAL PROFILE

Meriter Hospital is an acute care hospital located in Madison, WI 53715 that serves the Dane 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

Multispecialty Surgical Registry: Yes Multispecialty surgical registry
The provider participates in the multispecialty surgical registry. Participants of this registry report one or any combination of three surgical measures elderly surgical outcomes, colectomy outcomes and lower-extremity bypass outcomes.

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.

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 Meriter 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: Good

Quiet Rooms: Average

Cleanliness: Good

Pain Management: Good

Discharge Information: Good

Patients Recommend this Hospital: Good

EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT TIMES

These performance measures at Meriter 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: 9 minutes before being seen by a doctor.

Discharge Time: 1 hour 41 minutes before being sent home.

Time Before Admission: 3 hours 2 minutes before being admitted to hospital.

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

Broken Bones: 26 minutes before receiving pain meds.

HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS

We have identified the following individual quality measures where Meriter Hospital has better average ratings than other hospitals in Wisconsin 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
ST MARYS HOSPITAL700 South Park St
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Yes0.43 miCompare
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Madison, WI 53705
No1.6 miCompare
UNIVERSITY OF WI HOSPITALS & CLINICS AUTHORITY600 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53792
Yes1.7 miCompare
STOUGHTON HOSPITAL900 Ridge St
Stoughton, WI 53589
Yes13.93 miCompare
SAUK PRAIRIE HOSPITAL260 26th Street
Prairie Du Sac, WI 53578
Yes23.4 miCompare
EDGERTON HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SERVICES11101 N Sherman Road
Edgerton, WI 53534
Yes24.15 miCompare
COLUMBUS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL1515 Park Ave
Columbus, WI 53925
Yes25.65 miCompare

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