PLATTE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER

Acute Care Hospital in Brighton, CO 80601

PLATTE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER PROFILE

Platte Valley Medical Center is an acute care hospital located in Brighton, CO 80601 that serves the Adams county area. This facility is a private non-profit hospital with emergency services.

PLATTE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER

1600 Prairie Center Parkway
Brighton, CO 80601
Phone: (303) 498-1601
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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.

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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.

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.

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 Platte Valley 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: Good

Quiet Rooms: Good

Cleanliness: Average

Pain Management: Good

Discharge Information: Excellent

Patients Recommend this Hospital: Average

EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT TIMES

These performance measures at Platte Valley 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: 29 minutes before being seen by a doctor.

Discharge Time: 2 hours 37 minutes before being sent home.

Time Before Admission: 3 hours 45 minutes before being admitted to hospital.

Transfer Time: 53 minutes admitted before being taken to room.

Broken Bones: 47 minutes before receiving pain meds.

HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS

We have identified the following individual quality measures where Platte Valley Medical Center has better average ratings than other hospitals in Colorado 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.
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ST ANTHONY NORTH HEALTH CAMPUS14300 Orchard Parkway
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Yes11.83 miCompare
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No15.76 miCompare
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Yes15.82 miCompare
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GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER200 Exempla Circle
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Yes16.88 miCompare
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH1400 Jackson St
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Yes18.09 miCompare
CENTURA HEALTH-PORTER ADVENTIST HOSPITAL2525 S Downing St
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Yes18.19 miCompare
ROSE MEDICAL CENTER4567 E 9th Avenue
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Yes18.29 miCompare
VA EASTERN COLORADO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM1055 Clermont Street
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No18.38 miCompare
PRESBYTERIAN ST LUKES MEDICAL CENTER1719 E 19th Ave
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Yes18.43 miCompare
SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL1375 East 19th Ave
Denver, CO 80218
Yes18.53 miCompare

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