ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER
Acute Care Hospital in Houston, TX 77002
ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER PROFILE
St Joseph Medical Center is an acute care hospital located in Houston, TX 77002 that serves the Harris county area. This facility is a physician owned hospital with emergency services.
ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER
1401 St. Joseph ParkwayHouston, TX 77002
Phone: (713) 757-1000
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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.
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: Physician
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.
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 St Joseph 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: Average
Cleanliness: Poor
Pain Management: Fair
Discharge Information: Fair
Patients Recommend this Hospital: Fair
These performance measures at St Joseph 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: 49 minutes before being seen by a doctor.Discharge Time: 3 hours 24 minutes before being sent home.
Time Before Admission: 5 hours 34 minutes before being admitted to hospital.
Transfer Time: 2 hours 24 minutes admitted before being taken to room.
Broken Bones: 1 hour 20 minutes before receiving pain meds.
We have identified the following individual quality measures where St Joseph Medical Center has better average ratings than other hospitals in Texas or where the hospital is performing better compared to national averages or benchmarks.
- Better performance for intestinal infections Better performance for intestinal infections
The provider has a better than the national benchmark performance for intestinal infections - Better performance with the effective use of abdomen CT use of contrast material Better performance with the effective use of abdomen CT use of contrast material
The provider's use of abdomen CT use of contrast material is better and more effective compared to the average hospital rate in the state of TX. - Better performance with the effective use of thorax CT use of contrast material Better performance with the effective use of thorax CT use of contrast material
The provider's use of thorax CT use of contrast material is better and more effective compared to the average hospital rate in the state of TX. - Heart Attack or Chest Pain: better performance with aspirin at arrival Heart Attack or Chest Pain: better performance with aspirin at arrival
The provider's Heart Attack or Chest Pain performance score of 100% for the quality measure aspirin at arrival is better than the 95% average score of Texas. - Heart Attack or Chest Pain: better performance with time to ecg Heart Attack or Chest Pain: better performance with time to ecg
The provider's Heart Attack or Chest Pain performance of 6 minutes for time to ecg is better than the statewide average of 8 minutes in Texas. - 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 98% average score of Texas. - Stroke Care: better performance with stroke education Stroke Care: better performance with stroke education
The provider's Stroke Care performance score of 99% for the quality measure stroke education is better than the 96% average score of Texas. - Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with anticoagulation
overlap therapy Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with anticoagulation
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The provider's Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment performance score of 99% for the quality measure anticoagulation overlap therapy is better than the 95% average score of Texas. - 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 Texas. - Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with discharged with blood thinner Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with discharged with blood thinner
The provider's Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment performance score of 100% for the quality measure discharged with blood thinner is better than the 93% average score of Texas. - 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 12% for the quality measure incidence of preventable blood clots is better than the 4% average score of Texas.
NEARBY HOSPITALS
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HOUSTON HOSPITAL FOR SPECIALIZED SURGERY | 5445 Labranch Street Houston, TX 77004 | No | 1.98 mi | Compare |
PARK PLAZA HOSPITAL | 1313 Hermann Dr Houston, TX 77004 | Yes | 2.18 mi | Compare |
MEMORIAL HERMANN TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER | 6411 Fannin Houston, TX 77030 | Yes | 3.01 mi | Compare |
METHODIST HOSPITAL,THE | 6565 Fannin Houston, TX 77030 | Yes | 3.33 mi | Compare |
CHI ST LUKE'S HEALTH BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE ME | 6720 Bertner Houston, TX 77030 | Yes | 3.46 mi | Compare |
HOUSTON VA MEDICAL CENTER | 2002 Holcombe Blvd. Houston, TX 77030 | No | 3.61 mi | Compare |
TEXAS ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL | 7401 South Main Street Houston, TX 77030 | Yes | 4.21 mi | Compare |
WOMANS HOSPITAL OF TEXAS,THE | 7600 Fannin Houston, TX 77054 | Yes | 4.38 mi | Compare |
MEMORIAL HERMANN HOSPITAL SYSTEM | 1635 North Loop West Houston, TX 77008 | Yes | 5.83 mi | Compare |
HOUSTON ORTHOPEDIC AND SPINE HOSPITAL | 5410 West Loop South Bellaire, TX 77401 | Yes | 5.96 mi | Compare |
DOCTORS HOSPITAL TIDWELL | 510 W Tidwell Houston, TX 77091 | Yes | 7.31 mi | Compare |
HARRIS HEALTH SYSTEM | 2525 Holly Hall Houston, TX 77054 | Yes | 8.53 mi | Compare |
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