Westmoreland Hospital Case

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Westmoreland Hospital answered the following 4 questions posed by Medicare to evaluate the care of hospital patients having a heart attack: Question 1 was What is the average (median) number of minutes before outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack who needed specialized care were transferred to another hospital? Westmoreland hospital answers the question “information not available”. Question 2 What were the average number of minutes to receive an ECG? Westmorland Hospital time of 8 minutes equals the Pennsylvania average number of minutes to receive an ECG, however both Westmoreland Hospital and the Pennsylvania average time is 1 minute slower than the national average number of minutes to receive an ECG. Question 3 What is the average percentage of possible heart attack patients who got drugs to break up blood clots within 30 minutes of arrival? Westmoreland hospital answers the question “information not available”. …show more content…
Westmoreland Hospital, Pennsylvania and the National average have a 95 % rate of patients who receive an Aspirin within 24 hours of arrival to the hospital.
Westmoreland Hospital equals the Pennsylvania average in all heart attack questions except they are 1 minute slower than the national average in minutes to receive and ECG for patients. Two of the questions Westmoreland Hospital answers the question with “information not available” Westmoreland Hospital has a Cardiac Cath lab therefore under normal circumstances Westmoreland Hospital would not send a patient to another facility for treatment of a heart attack, and they would not give a patient a clot busting drugs if they were having a heart attack, the patient would be taken to the Cath Lab for
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