DCH Regional Medical Center is a Government - Hospital District or Authority, Medicare Certified Acute Care Hospital with 787 beds, located in TUSCALOOSA, AL. It has been given a rating of 2 stars based on summary of quality measures. These measures reflect common conditions that hospitals usually treat. Hospitals may perform other services or procedures that are not reflected in these measures. A rating of 1-2 stars means the hospital performed below average compared to other hospitals.
Updated: 01/12/2019 — See below for more information on DCH Regional Medical Center such as quality of care and patient experience.
See how DCH Regional Medical Center scored for the following categories:
The following is a national survey that asks patients about their experiences during a recent hospital stay.
Patient experiences at DCH Regional Medical Center |
Answered “Always” | Answered “Usually” | Answered “Sometimes” |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patients who reported that their doctors communicated well |
This Hospital: 79% Alabama: 84% Nationwide: 82% |
This Hospital: 16% Alabama: 12% Nationwide: 14% |
This Hospital: 5% Alabama: 4% Nationwide: 4% |
| Patients who reported that their nurses communicated well |
This Hospital: 77% Alabama: 81% Nationwide: 80% |
This Hospital: 17% Alabama: 14% Nationwide: 16% |
This Hospital: 6% Alabama: 5% Nationwide: 4% |
| Patients who reported that they received help as soon as they wanted |
This Hospital: 60% Alabama: 71% Nationwide: 70% |
This Hospital: 26% Alabama: 19% Nationwide: % |
This Hospital: 14% Alabama: 10% Nationwide: 8% |
| Patients who reported that their pain was well controlled |
This Hospital: % Alabama: % Nationwide: % |
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| Patients who reported that staff explained about medicines before giving it to them |
This Hospital: 60% Alabama: 68% Nationwide: 66% |
This Hospital: 17% Alabama: 16% Nationwide: 17% |
This Hospital: 23% Alabama: 16% Nationwide: 17% |
| Patients who reported that their room and bathroom were clean |
This Hospital: 65% Alabama: 74% Nationwide: 75% |
This Hospital: 23% Alabama: 17% Nationwide: 17% |
This Hospital: 12% Alabama: 9% Nationwide: 8% |
| Patients who reported that the area around their room was quiet at night |
This Hospital: 65% Alabama: 70% Nationwide: 62% |
This Hospital: 26% Alabama: 23% Nationwide: 28% |
This Hospital: 9% Alabama: 7% Nationwide: 10% |
These measures show how often hospitals provide care that gets the best results for patients with certain conditions.
Quality Measure at DCH Regional Medical Center |
Hospital | Alabama | Nationwide | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency Department1 | Average (median) minutes patients spent in the emergency department, before they were admitted to the hospital as an inpatient | 331 minutes | 255 minutes | 282 minutes |
| Average (median) minutes patients spent in the emergency department, after the doctor decided to admit them as an inpatient before leaving the emergency department for their inpatient room | 122 minutes | 81 minutes | 102 minutes | |
| Average (median) minutes patients spent in the emergency department before they were seen by a healthcare professional | 46 minutes | 26 minutes | 20 minutes | |
| Average (median) minutes patients who came to the emergency department with broken bones had to wait before getting pain medication | 24 minutes | 61 minutes | 49 minutes | |
| Percentage of patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 3% | 2% | 2% | |
| Percentage of patients who came to the emergency department with stroke symptoms who received brain scan results within 45 minutes of arrival | Not Available | 62% | 72% | |
| Average (median) minutes patients spent in the emergency department before leaving from the visit | 166 minutes | 129 minutes | 138 minutes | |
| Heart Attack or Chest Pain2 | Outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack who got drugs to break up blood clots within 30 minutes of arrival | Not Available | 61% | 57% |
| Median Time to Fibrinolysis | Not Available | 28 minutes | 28 minutes | |
| Average (median) number of minutes before outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack who needed specialized care were transferred to another hospital | Not Available | 65 minutes | 58 minutes | |
| Outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack who received aspirin within 24 hours of arrival or before transferring from the emergency department | 95% | 95% | 95% | |
| Average (median) number of minutes before outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack got an ECG | 9 minutes | 7 minutes | 7 minutes | |
| Colonoscopy care3 | Percentage of patients receiving appropriate recommendation for follow-up screening colonoscopy | 83% | 89% | 85% |
| Percentage of patients with history of polyps receiving follow-up colonoscopy in the appropriate timeframe | 100% | 83% | 89% | |
| Pregnancy and Delivery Care4 | Percent of mothers whose deliveries were scheduled too early (1-2 weeks early), when a scheduled delivery was not medically necessary | 4% | 2% | 2% |
| Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment5 | Patients who developed a blood clot while in the hospital who did not get treatment that could have prevented it | 7% | 3% | 2% |
| Cancer care6 | Percentage of patients receiving appropriate radiation therapy for cancer that has spread to the bone | 92% | 82% | 82% |
| Preventive Care7 | Patients assessed and given influenza vaccination | 96% | 94% | 93% |
| Healthcare workers given influenza vaccination | 95% | 80% | 88% | |
| Cataract surgery outcome8 | Percentage of patients who had cataract surgery and had improvement in visual function within 90 days following the surgery | Not Available | 100% | 96% |
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