WALKER BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER

Acute Care Hospital in Jasper, AL 35502

WALKER BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER PROFILE

Walker Baptist Medical Center is an acute care hospital located in Jasper, AL 35502 that serves the Walker county area. This facility is a private non-profit hospital with emergency services.

WALKER BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER

3400 Highway 78 East
Jasper, AL 35502
Phone: (205) 387-4000
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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.

Average

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.

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.

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 Walker Baptist 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: Good

Cleanliness: Fair

Pain Management: Average

Discharge Information: Average

Patients Recommend this Hospital: Fair

EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT TIMES

These performance measures at Walker Baptist 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: 19 minutes before being seen by a doctor.

Discharge Time: 2 hours 6 minutes before being sent home.

Time Before Admission: 4 hours 27 minutes before being admitted to hospital.

Transfer Time: 1 hour 20 minutes admitted before being taken to room.

Broken Bones: 46 minutes before receiving pain meds.

HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS

We have identified the following individual quality measures where Walker Baptist Medical Center has better average ratings than other hospitals in Alabama 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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BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER-PRINCETON701 Princeton Avenue Southwest
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Yes32.67 miCompare
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No34.21 miCompare
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Yes34.24 miCompare
NORTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER1530 U S Highway 43
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Yes34.36 miCompare
ST VINCENT'S BIRMINGHAM810 St Vincent's Drive
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Yes34.62 miCompare
CULLMAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER1912 Alabama Highway 157
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Yes34.86 miCompare
FAYETTE MEDICAL CENTER1653 Temple Avenue North
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Yes35.12 miCompare
MEDICAL WEST, AN AFFILIATE OF UAB HEALTH SYSTEM995 9th Avenue Southwest
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Yes35.29 miCompare
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTER800 Montclair Rd
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Yes36.1 miCompare
ST VINCENT'S EAST50 Medical Park East Drive
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Yes36.87 miCompare

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