WELLSTAR DOUGLAS HOSPITAL
Acute Care Hospital in Douglasville, GA 30134
WELLSTAR DOUGLAS HOSPITAL PROFILE
Wellstar Douglas Hospital is an acute care hospital located in Douglasville, GA 30134 that serves the Douglas county area. This facility is a private non-profit hospital with emergency services.
WELLSTAR DOUGLAS HOSPITAL
8954 Hospital DriveDouglasville, GA 30134
Phone: (770) 949-1500
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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
Multispecialty Surgical Registry: Yes Multispecialty surgical registry
The provider participates in the multispecialty surgical registry. Participants of this registry report one or any combination of three surgical measures elderly surgical outcomes, colectomy outcomes and lower-extremity bypass outcomes.
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.
General Surgery Registry: Yes General Surgery Registry
The provider participates in the general surgery registry. Registries provide hospitals with 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 Wellstar Douglas 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: FairQuiet Rooms: Good
Cleanliness: Average
Pain Management: Good
Discharge Information: Average
Patients Recommend this Hospital: Average
These performance measures at Wellstar Douglas 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: 26 minutes before being seen by a doctor.Discharge Time: 2 hours 28 minutes before being sent home.
Time Before Admission: 5 hours 10 minutes before being admitted to hospital.
Transfer Time: 1 hour 44 minutes admitted before being taken to room.
Broken Bones: 1 hour 10 minutes before receiving pain meds.
We have identified the following individual quality measures where Wellstar Douglas Hospital has better average ratings than other hospitals in Georgia or where the hospital is performing better compared to national averages or benchmarks.
- 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 GA. - Better performance with the effective use of cardiac imaging for preoperative risk assessment Better performance with the effective use of cardiac imaging for preoperative risk assessment
The provider's use of cardiac imaging for preoperative risk assessment is better and more effective compared to the average hospital rate in the state of GA. - Better performance for copd 30-day mortality rate Better performance for copd 30-day mortality rate
Compared to the national average rate the provider has a better performance for copd 30-day mortality rate. - Heart Failure: better performance with evaluation of left ventricular function Heart Failure: better performance with evaluation of left ventricular function
The provider's Heart Failure performance score of 100% for the quality measure evaluation of left ventricular function is better than the 99% average score of Georgia. - Preventive Care: better performance with patients flu immunization Preventive Care: better performance with patients flu immunization
The provider's Preventive Care performance score of 95% for the quality measure patients flu immunization is better than the 92% average score of Georgia. - Emergency Department: better performance with er waiting time Emergency Department: better performance with er waiting time
The provider's Emergency Department performance of 26 minutes for er waiting time is better than the statewide average of 31 minutes in Georgia. - Emergency Department:
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being seen Emergency Department:
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The provider's Emergency Department performance score of 1% for the quality measure left without being seen is better than the 3% average score of Georgia. - Emergency Department: better performance with ct scan Emergency Department: better performance with ct scan
The provider's Emergency Department performance score of 73% for the quality measure ct scan is better than the 59% average score of Georgia. - 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 Georgia. - Pneumonia: better performance with pneumonia patients given antibiotic(s) Pneumonia: better performance with pneumonia patients given antibiotic(s)
The provider's Pneumonia performance score of 99% for the quality measure pneumonia patients given antibiotic(s) is better than the 95% average score of Georgia. - Surgical Care Improvement Project: better performance with beta-blocker prior to admission Surgical Care Improvement Project: better performance with beta-blocker prior to admission
The provider's Surgical Care Improvement Project performance score of 100% for the quality measure beta-blocker prior to admission is better than the 98% average score of Georgia. - Surgical Care Improvement Project: better performance with antibiotic within 1 hour Surgical Care Improvement Project: better performance with antibiotic within 1 hour
The provider's Surgical Care Improvement Project performance score of 100% for the quality measure antibiotic within 1 hour is better than the 99% average score of Georgia. - Surgical Care Improvement Project: better performance with antibiotic discontinued after 24 hours Surgical Care Improvement Project: better performance with antibiotic discontinued after 24 hours
The provider's Surgical Care Improvement Project performance score of 99% for the quality measure antibiotic discontinued after 24 hours is better than the 98% average score of Georgia. - Surgical Care Improvement Project: better performance with catheter removal Surgical Care Improvement Project: better performance with catheter removal
The provider's Surgical Care Improvement Project performance score of 100% for the quality measure catheter removal is better than the 98% average score of Georgia. - Stroke Care: better performance with venous thromboembolism (vte) prophylaxis Stroke Care: better performance with venous thromboembolism (vte) prophylaxis
The provider's Stroke Care performance score of 100% for the quality measure venous thromboembolism (vte) prophylaxis is better than the 97% average score of Georgia. - Stroke Care: better performance with assessed for rehabilitation Stroke Care: better performance with assessed for rehabilitation
The provider's Stroke Care performance score of 100% for the quality measure assessed for rehabilitation is better than the 98% average score of Georgia. - Stroke Care: better performance with discharged on antithrombotic therapy Stroke Care: better performance with discharged on antithrombotic therapy
The provider's Stroke Care performance score of 100% for the quality measure discharged on antithrombotic therapy is better than the 99% average score of Georgia. - 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 Georgia. - Stroke Care: better performance with discharged on statin medication Stroke Care: better performance with discharged on statin medication
The provider's Stroke Care performance score of 99% for the quality measure discharged on statin medication is better than the 96% average score of Georgia. - Stroke Care: better performance with stroke education Stroke Care: better performance with stroke education
The provider's Stroke Care performance score of 100% for the quality measure stroke education is better than the 93% average score of Georgia. - Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with treatment to prevent blood clots Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with treatment to prevent blood clots
The provider's Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment performance score of 99% for the quality measure treatment to prevent blood clots is better than the 92% average score of Georgia. - Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with icu treatment to prevent blood clots Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with icu treatment to prevent blood clots
The provider's Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment performance score of 99% for the quality measure icu treatment to prevent blood clots is better than the 96% average score of Georgia. - Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with anticoagulation
overlap therapy Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with anticoagulation
overlap therapy
The provider's Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment performance score of 98% for the quality measure anticoagulation overlap therapy is better than the 94% average score of Georgia. - 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 97% for the quality measure discharged with blood thinner is better than the 91% average score of Georgia.
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