AVERA SACRED HEART HOSPITAL is a Voluntary non-profit - Private, Medicare Certified Acute Care Hospital with 144 beds, located in YANKTON, SD. It has been given a rating of 4 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 if 4-5 stars would mean the hospital performed better than other hospitals.
Updated: 01/12/2019 — See below for more information on AVERA SACRED HEART HOSPITAL such as quality of care and patient experience.
See how AVERA SACRED HEART HOSPITAL 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 AVERA SACRED HEART HOSPITAL |
Answered “Always” | Answered “Usually” | Answered “Sometimes” |
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Patients who reported that their doctors communicated well |
This Hospital: 80% South Dakota: 85% Nationwide: 82% |
This Hospital: 16% South Dakota: 12% Nationwide: 14% |
This Hospital: 4% South Dakota: 3% Nationwide: 4% |
Patients who reported that their nurses communicated well |
This Hospital: 76% South Dakota: 83% Nationwide: 80% |
This Hospital: 18% South Dakota: 14% Nationwide: 16% |
This Hospital: 6% South Dakota: 3% Nationwide: 4% |
Patients who reported that they received help as soon as they wanted |
This Hospital: 66% South Dakota: 78% Nationwide: 70% |
This Hospital: 26% South Dakota: 17% Nationwide: % |
This Hospital: 8% South Dakota: 5% Nationwide: 8% |
Patients who reported that their pain was well controlled |
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Patients who reported that staff explained about medicines before giving it to them |
This Hospital: 66% South Dakota: 71% Nationwide: 66% |
This Hospital: 21% South Dakota: 18% Nationwide: 17% |
This Hospital: 13% South Dakota: 11% Nationwide: 17% |
Patients who reported that their room and bathroom were clean |
This Hospital: 77% South Dakota: 79% Nationwide: 75% |
This Hospital: 18% South Dakota: 16% Nationwide: 17% |
This Hospital: 5% South Dakota: 5% Nationwide: 8% |
Patients who reported that the area around their room was quiet at night |
This Hospital: 67% South Dakota: 71% Nationwide: 62% |
This Hospital: 27% South Dakota: 24% Nationwide: 28% |
This Hospital: 6% South Dakota: 5% Nationwide: 10% |
These measures show how often hospitals provide care that gets the best results for patients with certain conditions.
Quality Measure at AVERA SACRED HEART HOSPITAL |
Hospital | South Dakota | Nationwide | |
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Emergency Department1 | Average (median) minutes patients spent in the emergency department, before they were admitted to the hospital as an inpatient | 189 minutes | 180 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 | 54 minutes | 48 minutes | 102 minutes | |
Average (median) minutes patients spent in the emergency department before they were seen by a healthcare professional | 17 minutes | 14 minutes | 20 minutes | |
Average (median) minutes patients who came to the emergency department with broken bones had to wait before getting pain medication | 30 minutes | 41 minutes | 49 minutes | |
Percentage of patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 1% | 1% | 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 | 65% | 72% | |
Average (median) minutes patients spent in the emergency department before leaving from the visit | 121 minutes | 109 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 | 87% | 58% | 57% |
Median Time to Fibrinolysis | 22 minutes | 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 | 61 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 | 98% | 96% | 95% | |
Average (median) number of minutes before outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack got an ECG | 6 minutes | 6 minutes | 7 minutes | |
Colonoscopy care3 | Percentage of patients receiving appropriate recommendation for follow-up screening colonoscopy | 92% | 84% | 85% |
Percentage of patients with history of polyps receiving follow-up colonoscopy in the appropriate timeframe | 100% | 90% | 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 | 3% | 3% | 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 | Not Available | 4% | 2% |
Cancer care6 | Percentage of patients receiving appropriate radiation therapy for cancer that has spread to the bone | 93% | 83% | 82% |
Preventive Care7 | Patients assessed and given influenza vaccination | 99% | 93% | 93% |
Healthcare workers given influenza vaccination | 99% | 97% | 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 | 98% | 96% |
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