WESTERLY HOSPITAL
Acute Care Hospital in Westerly, RI 02891
WESTERLY HOSPITAL PROFILE
Westerly Hospital is an acute care hospital located in Westerly, RI 02891 that serves the Washington county area. This facility is a private non-profit hospital with emergency services.
WESTERLY HOSPITAL
25 Wells StreetWesterly, RI 02891
Phone: (401) 596-6000
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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.
The hospital patient survey at Westerly 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: AverageQuiet Rooms: Fair
Cleanliness: Good
Pain Management: Good
Discharge Information: Fair
Patients Recommend this Hospital: Average
These performance measures at Westerly 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 9 minutes before being sent home.
Time Before Admission: 5 hours 12 minutes before being admitted to hospital.
Transfer Time: 1 hour 7 minutes admitted before being taken to room.
Broken Bones: 46 minutes before receiving pain meds.
We have identified the following individual quality measures where Westerly Hospital has better average ratings than other hospitals in Rhode Island or where the hospital is performing better compared to national averages or benchmarks.
- Better performance with the effective use of simultaneous use of brain CT and sinus CT Better performance with the effective use of simultaneous use of brain CT and sinus CT
The provider's use of simultaneous use of brain CT and sinus CT is better and more effective compared to the average hospital rate in the state of RI. - Emergency Department: better performance with time before admission Emergency Department: better performance with time before admission
The provider's Emergency Department performance of 312 minutes for time before admission is better than the statewide average of 319 minutes in Rhode Island. - Emergency Department: better performance with transfer time Emergency Department: better performance with transfer time
The provider's Emergency Department performance of 67 minutes for transfer time is better than the statewide average of 116 minutes in Rhode Island. - Preventive Care: better performance with patients flu immunization Preventive Care: better performance with patients flu immunization
The provider's Preventive Care performance score of 96% for the quality measure patients flu immunization is better than the 91% average score of Rhode Island. - Emergency Department: better performance with discharge time Emergency Department: better performance with discharge time
The provider's Emergency Department performance of 129 minutes for discharge time is better than the statewide average of 146 minutes in Rhode Island. - 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 2% average score of Rhode Island. - Heart Attack or Chest Pain: better performance with transfer time for acute coronary
intervention Heart Attack or Chest Pain: better performance with transfer time for acute coronary
intervention
The provider's Heart Attack or Chest Pain performance of 42 minutes for transfer time for acute coronary intervention is better than the statewide average of 59 minutes in Rhode Island. - Heart Attack or Chest Pain: better performance with aspirin at arrival Heart Attack or Chest Pain: better performance with aspirin at arrival
The provider's Heart Attack or Chest Pain performance score of 100% for the quality measure aspirin at arrival is better than the 96% average score of Rhode Island. - 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 8 minutes for time to ecg is better than the statewide average of 9 minutes in Rhode Island. - 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 99% for the quality measure antibiotic within 1 hour is better than the 98% average score of Rhode Island. - 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 97% for the quality measure anticoagulation overlap therapy is better than the 95% average score of Rhode Island. - 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 84% for the quality measure discharged with blood thinner is better than the 68% average score of Rhode Island.
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