WATERBURY HOSPITAL

Acute Care Hospital in Waterbury, CT 06721

WATERBURY HOSPITAL PROFILE

Waterbury Hospital is an acute care hospital located in Waterbury, CT 06721 that serves the New Haven county area. This facility is a private non-profit hospital with emergency services.

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.

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.

PATIENT EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

The hospital patient survey at Waterbury Hospital 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: Fair

Cleanliness: Fair

Pain Management: Average

Discharge Information: Good

Patients Recommend this Hospital: Average

EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT TIMES

These performance measures at Waterbury Hospital 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: 57 minutes before being seen by a doctor.

Discharge Time: 3 hours 17 minutes before being sent home.

Time Before Admission: 6 hours 55 minutes before being admitted to hospital.

Transfer Time: 3 hours 15 minutes admitted before being taken to room.

Broken Bones: 1 hour 25 minutes before receiving pain meds.

HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS

We have identified the following individual quality measures where Waterbury Hospital has better average ratings than other hospitals in Connecticut 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.
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SAINT MARYS HOSPITAL56 Franklin St
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Yes1.23 miCompare
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Bristol, CT 06010
Yes10.32 miCompare
MASONIC HOME AND HOSPITAL22 Masonic Ave
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No13.33 miCompare
MIDSTATE MEDICAL CENTER435 Lewis Avenue
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Yes13.42 miCompare
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Yes15.47 miCompare
HOSPITAL OF CENTRAL CONNECTICUT, THE100 Grand Street
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Yes15.79 miCompare
CHARLOTTE HUNGERFORD HOSPITAL540 Litchfield St
Torrington, CT 06790
Yes16.55 miCompare
JOHN DEMPSEY HOSPITAL263 Farmington Ave
Farmington, CT 06032
Yes18.27 miCompare
YALE-NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL20 York St
New Haven, CT 06504
Yes18.72 miCompare
WEST HAVEN VA MEDICAL CENTER950 Campbell Avenue
West Haven, CT 06516
No19.67 miCompare
MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL28 Crescent St
Middletown, CT 06457
Yes21.36 miCompare
DANBURY HOSPITAL24 Hospital Ave
Danbury, CT 06810
Yes22.71 miCompare

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