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Allegheny General Hospital

320 East North Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA 15212-4756

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Performance for this hospital includes performance data from the following affiliated hospital campuses:

Allegheny General Hospital-Suburban General Campus

100 South Jackson Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA 15202-3499



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Appropriate Care

Appropriate Care Measures Indicates how often patients received all recommended treatments for their clinical condition. Goal is 100%.
The column highlighted in yellow is the benchmark to which the hospital is compared. Click other column headers to change the comparison.

  Allegheny General Hospital PA Rate * US Rate *+ Top 10% Nationally +
Overall Appropriate Care    Hospital did not release data to PHCQA
   Heart Attack Care    Hospital did not release data to PHCQA
   Heart Failure Care    Hospital did not release data to PHCQA
   Pneumonia Care    Hospital did not release data to PHCQA
   Surgical Care    Hospital did not release data to PHCQA

Heart Attack

Process Measures Measures how often hospitals are performing recommended tasks. Goal is 100%.
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  Allegheny General Hospital PA Rate * US Rate * Top 10% Nationally
Aspirin on Arrival    100% 98% 98% 100%
Aspirin Prescribed at Discharge    100% 99% 98% 100%
ACEI or ARB for LVSD    99% 95% 95% 100%
Beta Blocker Prescribed at Discharge    99% 99% 98% 100%
PCI within 90 Minutes    92% 85% 86% 100%

Outcome Measures Measures hospital results in specific areas. Goal is 0%.

  Allegheny General Hospital PA Average    
Heart Attack Mortality   No different than U.S. National Rate
CABG Mortality    1.9 % 1.7 % Not significantly different than the expected rate

Heart Failure

Process Measures Measures how often hospitals are performing recommended tasks. Goal is 100%.
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  Allegheny General Hospital PA Rate * US Rate * Top 10% Nationally
Discharge Instructions    93% 87% 86% 100%
ACEI or ARB for LVSD    98% 94% 93% 100%

Outcome Measures Measures hospital results in specific areas. Goal is 0%.

  Allegheny General Hospital PA Average    
Heart Failure Mortality   No different than U.S. National Rate
Readmission Rate for Heart Failure (Complication / Infection)    8.2 % 7.3 % Not significantly different than the expected rate

Pneumonia

Process Measures Measures how often hospitals are performing recommended tasks. Goal is 100%.
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  Allegheny General Hospital PA Rate * US Rate * Top 10% Nationally
Pneumococcal Screen/Vaccination    99% 93% 91% 100%
Blood Culture within First 24 hours (ICU)    100% 96% 95% 100%
Blood Culture prior to First Antibiotic    95% 95% 94% 100%
Initial Antibiotic within 6 Hours    96% 95% 94% 100%
Initial Antibiotic Selection    96% 92% 91% 99%
Initial Antibiotic Selection for ICU Patients    100% 67% 66% 100%
Initial Antibiotic Selection for Non-ICU Patients    95% 95% 94% 100%
Influenza Screen/Vaccination    93% 89% 88% 100%

Surgical Care and Infection Prevention

Process Measures Measures how often hospitals are performing recommended tasks. Goal is 100%.
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  Allegheny General Hospital PA Rate * US Rate * Top 10% Nationally
Beta Blocker during the Perioperative Period    92% 92% 91% 100%
Prophylactic Antibiotic within 1 hour of incision    [ + ] 98% 96% 95% 100%
Appropriate Antibiotic    [ + ] 99% 98% 98% 100%
Prophylactic Antibiotic Discontinued within 24 hours    [ + ] 89% 94% 92% 99%
Cardiac Surgery Patients with Controlled 6 A.M. Postoperative Blood Glucose    95% 96% 92% 99%
VTE Ordered prior to Surgery    98% 96% 93% 100%
VTE Received within 24 Hours of Surgery    97% 94% 91% 100%

Outcome Measures Measures hospital results in specific areas. Goal is 0%.

  Allegheny General Hospital PA Average    
Bloodstream Infections    3.6 1.6    

Consumer Assessment

Patient Experience Measures Measures various aspects of patients’ experiences during their hospital stay. Goal is 100%.
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  Allegheny General Hospital PA Avg US Avg Top 10% Nationally
Doctor Communication    74% 78% 80% 87%
Nurse Communication    68% 75% 75% 83%
Responsiveness of Hospital Staff    51% 62% 63% 75%
Pain Well Controlled    65% 68% 69% 75%
Medicine Explained by Staff    51% 58% 59% 67%
Room and Bathroom Kept Clean    62% 69% 70% 81%
Room Quiet at Night    44% 50% 57% 70%
Provided Discharge Information    81% 81% 81% 87%
Hospital Rating    58% 63% 66% 77%
Hospital Recommendation    64% 65% 68% 81%

*The PA and US rates are case-weighted averages. The rates are calculated by dividing the total number of patients who had the recommended care by the total number of patients who met the criteria for that measure across all hospitals.

**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.

+US rates and Top 10% Benchmarks for Overall and Pneumonia Care are calculated using PN-5c in place of PN-5b for all data from April 2007 forward. National benchmark data provided by the Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality.

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