NHA - Northern Nevada Medical Center
Northern Nevada Medical Center
2375 Prater WayType:Acute Care Hospitals
Sparks, NV 89434Owner:Proprietary
Washoe CountyRegion:North
775-331-7000
http://www.nnmc.com
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Condition Description Provider State
Average		 National
Average		 Top
10%
 
AHRQ Quality Iatrogenic Pneumothorax
1
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
AHRQ Quality Post Operative Hemorrhage or Hematoma
1
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
AHRQ Quality Death Among Surgical Inpatients with Serious Treatable Complications
1
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
AHRQ Quality Post Operative Respiratory Failure
1
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
AHRQ Quality Post Operative Pulmonary Embolus (PE) or Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
1
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
AHRQ Quality Accidental Puncture or Laceration
2.521
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
AHRQ Quality OB Trauma - Vaginal Delivery With Instrument
  2
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
AHRQ Quality OB Trauma - Vaginal Delivery Without Instrument
  2
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
 
Children's Asthma Percent of Children Who Received Reliever Medication While Hospitalized for Asthma
  2
n/a 
100% 
n/a
Children's Asthma Percent of Children and their Caregivers Who Received a Home Management Plan of Care Document While Hospitalized for Asthma
  2
n/a 
86% 
n/a
Children's Asthma Percent of Children Who Received Systemic Corticosteroid Medication (oral and IV Medication That Reduces Inflammation and Controls Symptoms) While Hospitalized for Asthma
  2
n/a 
100% 
n/a
 
Heart Attack Outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack who got aspirin within 24 hours of arrival
1
98% 
97% 
100%
Heart Attack Outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack who got drugs to break up blood clots within 30 minutes of arrival
  2
50% 
59% 
100%
Heart Attack Heart Attack Patients Given a Prescription for a Statin at Discharge
91%
98% 
98% 
100%
Heart Attack Percent of Heart Attack Patients Given Fibrinolytic Medication Within 30 Minutes Of Arrival
  2
43% 
60% 
100%
Heart Attack Percent of Heart Attack Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge
96%
99% 
99% 
100%
Heart Attack Percent of Heart Attack Patients Given Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI) Within 90 Minutes Of Arrival
1
95% 
95% 
100%
Heart Attack Average number of minutes before outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack who needed specialized care were transferred to another hospital
  2
167 
59 
38
Heart Attack Average number of minutes before outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack got an ECG
1
10 
7 
3
Heart Attack Hospital 30-Day Death (Mortality) Rates from Heart Attack
n/a 
15.5% 
n/a
Heart Attack Hospital 30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack
n/a 
19.7% 
n/a
 
Heart Failure Percent of Heart Failure Patients Given Discharge Instructions
89%
90% 
93% 
100%
Heart Failure Percent of Heart Failure Patients Given an Evaluation of Left Ventricular Systolic (LVS) Function
98%
99% 
99% 
100%
Heart Failure Percent of Heart Failure Patients Given ACE Inhibitor or ARB for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)
96% 1
98% 
96% 
100%
Heart Failure Hospital 30-Day Death (Mortality) Rates from Heart Failure
n/a 
11.6% 
n/a
Heart Failure Hospital 30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure
n/a 
24.7% 
n/a
 
Pneumonia Hospital 30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia
n/a 
18.5% 
n/a
Pneumonia Hospital 30-Day Death (Mortality) Rates from Pneumonia
n/a 
12.0% 
n/a
Pneumonia Percent of Pneumonia Patients Given the Most Appropriate Initial Antibiotic(s)
100%
96% 
95% 
100%
Pneumonia Percent of Pneumonia Patients Whose Initial Emergency Room Blood Culture Was Performed Prior To The Administration Of The First Hospital Dose Of Antibiotics
99%
97% 
97% 
100%
 
Sentinel Events - Care Management Labor or Delivery
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Care Management Hypoglycemia
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Care Management Neonate Hyperbilirubinemia
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Care Management Pressure Ulcer (Stage 3 or 4)
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Care Management Spinal Manipulation
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Care Management Medication Error
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Care Management Wrong Sperm or Egg
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Care Management Transfusion Error
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
 
Sentinel Events - Criminal Abduction
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Criminal Physical Assault
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Criminal Sexual Assault
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Criminal Impersonation of Healthcare Provider
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
 
Sentinel Events - Environmental Fall
0.11 2
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Environmental Restraint
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Environmental Burn
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Environmental Wrong or Contaminated Gas
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Environmental Electric Shock
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
 
Sentinel Events - HAI Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI)
0.05 1
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - HAI Surgical Site Infection (SSI)
0.21 4
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - HAI Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI)
0.11 2
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - HAI Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP)
0.05 1
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
 
Sentinel Events - Other HAI-Other
0.16 3
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Other Other-Specify
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
 
Sentinel Events - Patient Protection Suicide
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Patient Protection Elopement
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Patient Protection Infant Discharge to Wrong Person
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
 
Sentinel Events - Product or Device Air Embolism
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Product or Device Device Failure
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Product or Device Contaminated Drug, Device, or Biologics
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
 
Sentinel Events - Surgical Surgery on the Wrong Body Part
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Surgical Surgery on Wrong Patient
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Surgical Wrong Surgical Procedure
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Surgical Retained Foreign Object
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
Sentinel Events - Surgical Intra- or Post-Operative Death
0.00 0
n/a 
n/a 
n/a
 
Surgical Care Percent of Surgery Patients Who Were Given the Right Kind of Antibiotic to Help Prevent Infection
99%
99% 
99% 
100%
Surgical Care Patients Having Surgery Who Were Actively Warmed in the Operating Room or Whose Body Temperature was Near Normal by the End of Surgery
100%
100% 
100% 
100%
Surgical Care Percent of Surgery Patients Whose Doctors Ordered Treatments to Prevent Blood Clots After Certain Types of Surgeries
99%
99% 
98% 
100%
Surgical Care Percent of Patients Who Got Treatment at the Right Time (Within 24 Hours Before or After Their Surgery) to Help Prevent Blood Clots After Certain Types of Surgery
96%
98% 
97% 
100%
Surgical Care Percent of surgery patients who were taking beta blockers before coming to the hospital, who were kept on the beta blockers during the period just before and after their surgery
97%
97% 
97% 
100%
Surgical Care Outpatients having surgery who got an antibiotic at the right time - within one hour before surgery
93%
98% 
97% 
100%
Surgical Care Outpatients having surgery who got the right kind of antibiotic
100%
97% 
97% 
100%
Surgical Care Surgery Patients Whose Urinary Catheters Were Removed On the First or Second Day After Surgery
98%
96% 
95% 
100%
Surgical Care Percent of all Heart Surgery Patients Whose Blood Sugar (Blood Glucose) is Kept Under Good Control in the Days Right After Surgery
  2
96% 
96% 
100%
Surgical Care Percent of Surgery Patients Who Were Given an Antibiotic at the Right Time (Within One Hour Before Surgery) to Help Prevent Infection
97%
99% 
98% 
100%
Surgical Care Percent of Surgery Patients Whose Preventive Antibiotics Were Stopped at the Right Time (Within 24 Hours After Surgery)
98%
98% 
97% 
100%
Patient Satisfaction
 
How do patients rate the hospital overall? Provider State
Average		 National
Average
9 or 10 (high)
68%
64% 
70% 
7 or 8 (medium)
24%
25% 
22% 
6 or lower (low)
8%
11% 
8% 
 
Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family? Provider State
Average		 National
Average
Yes, definitely
75%
67% 
71% 
Yes, probably
19%
25% 
24% 
No, would not recommend
6%
8% 
5% 
 
How often did nurses communicate well with patients? Provider State
Average		 National
Average
Always
74%
71% 
78% 
Usually
19%
21% 
17% 
Sometimes or Never
7%
8% 
5% 
 
How often did doctors communicate well with patients? Provider State
Average		 National
Average
Always
79%
74% 
81% 
Usually
15%
18% 
15% 
Sometimes or Never
6%
8% 
4% 
 
How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff? Provider State
Average		 National
Average
Always
65%
59% 
67% 
Usually
25%
27% 
23% 
Sometimes or Never
10%
14% 
10% 
 
How often was patients' pain well controlled? Provider State
Average		 National
Average
Always
71%
67% 
71% 
Usually
21%
24% 
22% 
Sometimes or Never
8%
9% 
7% 
 
How often did staff explain about medicines before giving them to patients? Provider State
Average		 National
Average
Always
63%
58% 
63% 
Usually
18%
18% 
18% 
Sometimes or Never
19%
24% 
19% 
 
How often were the patients' rooms and bathrooms kept clean? Provider State
Average		 National
Average
Always
68%
67% 
73% 
Usually
19%
20% 
18% 
Sometimes or Never
13%
13% 
9% 
 
How often was the area around patients' rooms kept quiet at night? Provider State
Average		 National
Average
Always
57%
55% 
60% 
Usually
29%
31% 
30% 
Sometimes or Never
14%
14% 
10% 
 
Were patients given information about what to do during their recovery at home? Provider State
Average		 National
Average
Yes
86%
83% 
84% 
No
14%
17% 
16%