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| Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital |
Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital Comments on Stroke:
Rural hospitals do not have the same volume of patients as hospitals in larger communities, so it is difficult to make meaningful comparisons between the two. Patients requiring a higher level of care are transferred to a larger facility, further decreasing the volume for comparison for these indicators.
- The population of Lincoln County contains a higher percentage than most counties in Oregon of people 65 and older. These people are more likely to suffer from cardiac & vascular problems as well as cancer, diabetes and other chronic diseases.
- People in the last stages of their illness often request comfort care in the local hospital setting. This supports patients and their families in death with dignity.
- Quality initiatives and performance improvement projects are ongoing in our facilities. At any given time there are typically over 100 initiatives underway. Some of these include:
- National Patient Safety Goals – We support these with specific action plans and by auditing our progress.
- Core Measures – We participate in this national voluntary public reporting project. We track and report certain measures for patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI or heart attack); Heart Failure; Pneumonia, and prevention of surgical infections.
- Cardiac Performance Improvement Project – this collaborative project includes ambulance staff, hospital staff and physicians, and cardiovascular staff and physicians at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center (GSRMC). The team has evaluated transfer times from the coast to the cardiac center at GSRMC. Multiple actions were taken to reduce transfer times by 20%. The team is now focused on educational outreach to teach people to seek care much more quickly so heart muscle can be saved.
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