PHCQA Report of Hospital Quality

Fulton County Medical Center
NOTE: This is a Critical Access Hospital
Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) are rural hospitals that provide essential services to their communities. These hospitals are designed by Medicare to receive cost-based reimbursement which is intended to improve their financial performance and thereby prevent hospital closures. Use caution when comparing these hospitals to larger institutions as they tend to have a smaller sample sizes and different reporting requirements.
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Appropriate Care
Appropriate Care Measures Indicates how often patients received all recommended treatments for their clinical condition.
The column highlighted in yellow is the benchmark to which the hospital is compared. Click other column headers to change the comparison.
Fulton County Medical Center | PA Rate | PA Top 25% | PA Top 10% | |
Overall Appropriate Care
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
Heart Attack Care
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
Heart Failure Care
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88% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Pneumonia Care
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100% | 97% | 100% | 100% |
Surgical Care
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
Preventive Care
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
Stroke Care
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
Venous Thromboembolism Care
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available |
Healthcare-Associated Infections
Outcome Measures Measures hospital results in specific areas.
Heart Attack
Process Measures Measures how often hospitals are performing recommended tasks.
The column highlighted in yellow is the benchmark to which the Hospital is compared. Click other column headers to change the comparison.
Fulton County Medical Center | PA Rate | US Rate | Top 10% Nationally | |
Aspirin on Arrival
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100% | 99% | 99% | 100% |
Aspirin Prescribed at Discharge
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
ACEI or ARB for LVSD
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
Beta Blocker Prescribed at Discharge
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100% | 99% | 99% | 100% |
PCI within 90 Minutes
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
Statin Prescribed at Discharge
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available |
Outcome Measures Measures hospital results in specific areas.
Fulton County Medical Center | PA Average | |||
30-Day Death Rate for Heart Attack Patients
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
30-Day All-Cause Readmission Rate for Heart Attack Patients
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
CABG Death Rate
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available |
Heart Failure
Process Measures Measures how often hospitals are performing recommended tasks.
The column highlighted in yellow is the benchmark to which the Hospital is compared. Click other column headers to change the comparison.
Fulton County Medical Center | PA Rate | US Rate | Top 10% Nationally | |
Discharge Instructions
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92% | 83% | 92% | 100% |
ACEI or ARB for LVSD
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available |
Outcome Measures Measures hospital results in specific areas.
Fulton County Medical Center | PA Average | |||
30-Day Death Rate for Heart Failure Patients
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12.5 % | 11.4 % | No different than U.S. National Rate | |
30-Day All-Cause Readmission Rate for Heart Failure Patients
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21.0 % | 21.1 % | No different than U.S. National Rate |
Pneumonia
Process Measures Measures how often hospitals are performing recommended tasks.
The column highlighted in yellow is the benchmark to which the Hospital is compared. Click other column headers to change the comparison.
Fulton County Medical Center | PA Rate | US Rate | Top 10% Nationally | |
Pneumococcal Vaccination
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88% | 97% | 96% | 100% |
Blood Culture within First 24 hours (ICU)
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
Blood Culture prior to First Antibiotic
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100% | 98% | 98% | 100% |
Initial Antibiotic within 6 Hours
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81% | 97% | 96% | 100% |
Initial Antibiotic Selection
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100% | 97% | 96% | 100% |
Initial Antibiotic Selection for ICU Patients
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
Initial Antibiotic Selection for Non-ICU Patients
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
Influenza Vaccination
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67% | 95% | 94% | 100% |
Outcome Measures Measures hospital results in specific areas.
Fulton County Medical Center | PA Average | |||
30-Day Death Rate for Pneumonia Patients
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13.3 % | 15.6 % | No different than U.S. National Rate | |
30-Day All-Cause Readmission Rate for Pneumonia Patients
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16.5 % | 16.5 % | No different than U.S. National Rate |
Surgical Care and Infection Prevention
Process Measures Measures how often hospitals are performing recommended tasks.
The column highlighted in yellow is the benchmark to which the Hospital is compared. Click other column headers to change the comparison.
Fulton County Medical Center | PA Rate | US Rate | Top 10% Nationally | |
Beta Blocker during the Perioperative Period
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
Prophylactic Antibiotic within 1 hour of incision
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
Appropriate Antibiotic
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
Prophylactic Antibiotic Discontinued within 24 hours
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
Cardiac Surgery Patients with Controlled 6 A.M. Postoperative Blood Glucose
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
Urinary Catheter Removal within Two Days of Surgery
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
Surgery Patients with Perioperative Temperature Management
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
VTE Ordered prior to Surgery
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
VTE Received within 24 Hours of Surgery
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available |
Consumer Assessment
Patient Experience Measures Measures various aspects of patients’ experiences during their hospital stay.
The column highlighted in yellow is the benchmark to which the hospital is compared. Click other column headers to change the comparison.
Fulton County Medical Center | PA Avg | US Avg | Top 10% Nationally | |
Doctor Communication
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86% | 81% | 82% | 89% |
Nurse Communication
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86% | 81% | 80% | 87% |
Responsiveness of Hospital Staff
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80% | 68% | 70% | 82% |
Pain Well Controlled
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78% | 71% | 71% | 78% |
Medicine Explained by Staff
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68% | 64% | 66% | 74% |
Room and Bathroom Kept Clean
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84% | 74% | 75% | 85% |
Room Quiet at Night
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57% | 55% | 62% | 75% |
Provided Discharge Information
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88% | 88% | 87% | 92% |
Care Transition
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62% | 52% | 53% | 61% |
Hospital Rating
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80% | 71% | 73% | 84% |
Hospital Recommendation
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72% | 70% | 72% | 84% |
Prevention
Process Measures Measures how often hospitals are performing recommended tasks.
The column highlighted in yellow is the benchmark to which the Hospital is compared. Click other column headers to change the comparison.
Fulton County Medical Center | PA Rate | US Rate | Top 10% Nationally | |
Pnuemococcal Immunization
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
Influenza Immunization
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100% | 94% | 93% | 100% |
Flu Vaccine for Health Care Workers
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available |
Emergency Department
System Measures Measures reflect the way in which whole "systems" of care (hospitals, doctor offices, nursing homes, etc.) work. As a result, these measures may or may not be specifically indicative of Hospital quality.
Emergency Department (ED) Measures Display how timely and effective the care in a hospital's emergency department is delivered. Measures which show ED timeliness of care are displayed as an average in minutes, and thus may not reflect daily fluctuations of ED care. For these measures, a lower score in better. Please note that all ED measures are based on a limited sample each quarter and do not reflect the median score of all ED patients.
Fulton County Medical Center | PA Average | US Average | ||
Time from Emergency Department (ED) Arrival to ED Departure for Admitted Patients
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
Time from Admit Decision to Departure Time from the Emergency Department (ED) for Admitted Patients
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Critical Access Hospital — No data available | |||
Median Time From ED Arrival to ED Departure for Discharged ED Patients
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107 Minutes | 143 Minutes | 140 Minutes | |
Door to Diagnostic Evaluation by a Qualified Medical Professional
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11 Minutes | 21 Minutes | 20 Minutes | |
ED-Median Time to Pain Management for Long Bone Fracture
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48 Minutes | 54 Minutes | 48 Minutes | |
ED-Patient Left Without Being Seen
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0% | 2% | 2% |
*These PA and US rates are case-weighted averages, which are calculated by dividing the total number of patients/cases that meet the received the recommended care according to the measure’s criteria by the total number of patients/cases that are eligible to be counted based on the measure’s inclusion criteria for all facilities included in the specified Hospital population.
**The Hospital quality measures reported on this website come from a variety of sources using several data collection processes and update schedules. While the PHCQA website contains the most recent publicly available information, the time periods represented by these data range from 6 to 24 months old. Caution should be used when drawing conclusions from these data as a Hospital’s performance may have changed significantly since the data was collected and reported. The PHCQA recommends you contact the Hospital directly to obtain the most recent performance data.