UPSON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Acute Care Hospital in Thomaston, GA 30286

UPSON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER PROFILE

Upson Regional Medical Center is an acute care hospital located in Thomaston, GA 30286 that serves the Upson county area. This facility is a non-profit hospital with emergency services.

UPSON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

801 W Gordon Street
Thomaston, GA 30286
Phone: (706) 647-8111
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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 - Other

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 Upson 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: Excellent

Quiet Rooms: Good

Cleanliness: Excellent

Pain Management: Good

Discharge Information: Average

Patients Recommend this Hospital: Average

EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT TIMES

These performance measures at Upson 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: 28 minutes before being seen by a doctor.

Discharge Time: 2 hours 15 minutes before being sent home.

Time Before Admission: 4 hours 14 minutes before being admitted to hospital.

Transfer Time: 1 hour 10 minutes admitted before being taken to room.

Broken Bones: 1 hour 11 minutes before receiving pain meds.

HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS

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

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