WESTCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL

Acute Care Hospital in Miami, FL 33155

WESTCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL PROFILE

Westchester General Hospital is an acute care hospital located in Miami, FL 33155 that serves the Miami-dade county area. This facility is a proprietary hospital with emergency services.

WESTCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL

2500 Sw 75th Ave
Miami, FL 33155
Phone: (305) 263-9270
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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: Proprietary

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 Westchester General 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: Average

Quiet Rooms: Average

Cleanliness: Good

Pain Management: Good

Discharge Information: Poor

Patients Recommend this Hospital: Fair

EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT TIMES

These performance measures at Westchester General 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: 20 minutes before being seen by a doctor.

Discharge Time: 2 hours 26 minutes before being sent home.

Time Before Admission: 5 hours 42 minutes before being admitted to hospital.

Transfer Time: 2 hours 10 minutes admitted before being taken to room.

Broken Bones: Not Available before receiving pain meds.

HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS

We have identified the following individual quality measures where Westchester General Hospital has better average ratings than other hospitals in Florida or where the hospital is performing better compared to national averages or benchmarks.

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