NORTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER
Acute Care Hospital in Salem, MA 01970
NORTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER PROFILE
North Shore Medical Center is an acute care hospital located in Salem, MA 01970 that serves the Essex county area. This facility is a private non-profit hospital with emergency services.
NORTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER
81 Highland AvenueSalem, MA 01970
Phone: (978) 741-1215
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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.
Average
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.
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.
The hospital patient survey at North Shore 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: AverageQuiet Rooms: Poor
Cleanliness: Average
Pain Management: Average
Discharge Information: Average
Patients Recommend this Hospital: Average
These performance measures at North Shore 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: 43 minutes before being seen by a doctor.Discharge Time: 2 hours 38 minutes before being sent home.
Time Before Admission: 6 hours 28 minutes before being admitted to hospital.
Transfer Time: 3 hours 45 minutes admitted before being taken to room.
Broken Bones: 22 minutes before receiving pain meds.
We have identified the following individual quality measures where North Shore Medical Center has better average ratings than other hospitals in Massachusetts or where the hospital is performing better compared to national averages or benchmarks.
- Better mortality rates with average payment for pneumonia care Better mortality rates with average payment for pneumonia care
The provider has better mortality rates and is more efficient with average payments for pneumonia care patients. - Better performance for heart failure 30-day mortality rate Better performance for heart failure 30-day mortality rate
Compared to the national average rate the provider has a better performance for heart failure 30-day mortality rate. - Better performance for pneumonia 30-day mortality rate Better performance for pneumonia 30-day mortality rate
Compared to the national average rate the provider has a better performance for pneumonia 30-day mortality rate. - Preventive Care: better performance with patients flu immunization Preventive Care: better performance with patients flu immunization
The provider's Preventive Care performance score of 97% for the quality measure patients flu immunization is better than the 93% average score of Massachusetts. - Preventive Care: better performance with healthcare workers flu immunization Preventive Care: better performance with healthcare workers flu immunization
The provider's Preventive Care performance score of 92% for the quality measure healthcare workers flu immunization is better than the 88% average score of Massachusetts. - Emergency Department: better performance with discharge time Emergency Department: better performance with discharge time
The provider's Emergency Department performance of 158 minutes for discharge time is better than the statewide average of 166 minutes in Massachusetts. - Pregnancy and Delivery Care: delivery scheduled too early Pregnancy and Delivery Care: delivery scheduled too early
The provider's Pregnancy and Delivery Care performance score of 0% for the quality measure delivery scheduled too early is better than the 2% average score of Massachusetts. - Pneumonia: better performance with pneumonia patients given antibiotic(s) Pneumonia: better performance with pneumonia patients given antibiotic(s)
The provider's Pneumonia performance score of 98% for the quality measure pneumonia patients given antibiotic(s) is better than the 97% average score of Massachusetts. - Stroke Care: better performance with assessed for rehabilitation Stroke Care: better performance with assessed for rehabilitation
The provider's Stroke Care performance score of 100% for the quality measure assessed for rehabilitation is better than the 98% average score of Massachusetts. - Stroke Care: better performance with irregular heartbeat with anticoagulation therapy Stroke Care: better performance with irregular heartbeat with anticoagulation therapy
The provider's Stroke Care performance score of 100% for the quality measure irregular heartbeat with anticoagulation therapy is better than the 98% average score of Massachusetts. - 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 Massachusetts. - Stroke Care: better performance with discharged on statin medication Stroke Care: better performance with discharged on statin medication
The provider's Stroke Care performance score of 99% for the quality measure discharged on statin medication is better than the 98% average score of Massachusetts. - 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 99% for the quality measure anticoagulation overlap therapy is better than the 97% average score of Massachusetts. - Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with intravenous blood thinner Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with intravenous blood thinner
The provider's Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment performance score of 100% for the quality measure intravenous blood thinner is better than the 99% average score of Massachusetts. - Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with incidence of preventable blood clots Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with incidence of preventable blood clots
The provider's Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment performance score of 10% for the quality measure incidence of preventable blood clots is better than the 4% average score of Massachusetts.
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