SANFORD USD MEDICAL CENTER

Acute Care Hospital in Sioux Falls, SD 57117

SANFORD USD MEDICAL CENTER PROFILE

Sanford Usd Medical Center is an acute care hospital located in Sioux Falls, SD 57117 that serves the Minnehaha county area. This facility is a non-profit hospital with emergency services.

SANFORD USD MEDICAL CENTER

1305 W 18th St Post Office Box 5039
Sioux Falls, SD 57117
Phone: (605) 333-1000
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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.

Good

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 - Other

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 Sanford Usd 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: Average

Quiet Rooms: Average

Cleanliness: Average

Pain Management: Good

Discharge Information: Good

Patients Recommend this Hospital: Good

EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT TIMES

These performance measures at Sanford Usd 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: 13 minutes before being seen by a doctor.

Discharge Time: 2 hours 29 minutes before being sent home.

Time Before Admission: 3 hours 32 minutes before being admitted to hospital.

Transfer Time: 0 hours 59 minutes admitted before being taken to room.

Broken Bones: 50 minutes before receiving pain meds.

HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS

We have identified the following individual quality measures where Sanford Usd Medical Center has better average ratings than other hospitals in South Dakota 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
SIOUX FALLS VA MEDICAL CENTER2501 West 22nd Street
Sioux Falls, SD 57117
No0.68 miCompare
AVERA MCKENNAN HOSPITAL & UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER1325 S Cliff Ave Post Office Box 5045
Sioux Falls, SD 57117
Yes1.44 miCompare
SIOUX FALLS SPECIALTY HOSPITAL LLP910 East 20th Street
Sioux Falls, SD 57105
No1.47 miCompare
AVERA HEART HOSPITAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA4500 W 69th St
Sioux Falls, SD 57108
Yes3.61 miCompare
SANFORD CANTON-INWOOD MEDICAL CENTER - CAH440 North Hiawatha Drive
Canton, SD 57013
Yes18.66 miCompare
AVERA DELLS AREA HOSPITAL - CAH909 N Iowa Ave
Dell Rapids, SD 57022
Yes20.24 miCompare

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