SPARKS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Acute Care Hospital in Fort Smith, AR 72902

SPARKS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER PROFILE

Sparks Regional Medical Center is an acute care hospital located in Fort Smith, AR 72902 that serves the Sebastian county area. This facility is a proprietary hospital with emergency services.

SPARKS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

1001 Towson Avenue
Fort Smith, AR 72902
Phone: (479) 441-4000
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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.

Fair

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: Proprietary

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.

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 Sparks Regional 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: Fair

Quiet Rooms: Average

Cleanliness: Fair

Pain Management: Fair

Discharge Information: Fair

Patients Recommend this Hospital: Fair

EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT TIMES

These performance measures at Sparks Regional 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: 24 minutes before being seen by a doctor.

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

Time Before Admission: 4 hours 19 minutes before being admitted to hospital.

Transfer Time: 1 hour 38 minutes admitted before being taken to room.

Broken Bones: 1 hour 14 minutes before receiving pain meds.

HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS

We have identified the following individual quality measures where Sparks Regional Medical Center has better average ratings than other hospitals in Arkansas or where the hospital is performing better compared to national averages or benchmarks.

NEARBY HOSPITALS

The following providers were found within a 60 mile range from this location.
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ST EDWARD MERCY MEDICAL CENTER7301 Rogers Ave
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Yes3.98 miCompare
SPARKS MEDICAL CENTER - VAN BURENEast Main And South 20th Street
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Yes6.25 miCompare
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Yes21.73 miCompare
EASTERN OKLAHOMA MEDICAL CENTER105 Wall Street
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Yes25.33 miCompare
MERCY HOSPITAL BOONEVILLE880 West Main
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Yes31.72 miCompare
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL1401 West Locust
Stilwell, OK 74960
Yes32.49 miCompare
MERCY HOSPITAL TURNER MEMORIAL801 West River Street
Ozark, AR 72949
Yes33.95 miCompare
ST EDWARD HEALTH FACILITIES OF SCOTT COUNTY1341 West Sixth Street
Waldron, AR 72958
Yes37.39 miCompare
NORTH LOGAN MERCY HOSPITAL500 East Academy
Paris, AR 72855
Yes39.57 miCompare
HASKELL COUNTY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL401 Northwest H Street
Stigler, OK 74462
Yes40.63 miCompare
W W HASTINGS INDIAN HOSPITAL100 S Bliss Avenue
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Yes47.57 miCompare
NORTHEASTERN HEALTH SYSTEM1400 East Downing Street
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Yes47.66 miCompare

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