Quality at Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital
Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital has been named one of the nation's top performers for quality care by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in America. The results were based on the hospital's performance related to heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care. Only 405 hospitals in the United States earned this honor. Just 14 were in North Carolina. Click here to read more about the award.
We are committed to providing patients a safe and harm-free environment. Providing optimal care every time is our goal, we measure and report how consistent we are in meeting this standard. Optimal care data is based on national standards that measure whether patients receive all recommended treatments for certain conditions. Our hospital measures optimal care performance in the following clinical areas: heart failure, heart attack, community-acquired pneumonia and surgical care.
Select each optimal care standard below to see how we compare to hospitals, nationally and statewide. More recent data is also provided for each standard.
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Patients who have had a heart attack should:
- Be given aspirin at arrival.
- Be prescribed aspirin at discharge.
- Be prescribed beta blocker at discharge.
- Prescribed ACEI (Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitor) or ARB (Angiotensin Receptor Blockers) for LVSD (Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction).
- Receive adult smoking cessation counseling.
- Be given a prescription for a Statin at discharge.
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Patients should receive the following treatments:
- Appropriate medication when admitted to the hospital
- Be evaluated for how well their hearts are functioning
- Appropriate instructions and education when they leave the hospital
- Be counseled and encouraged to stop smoking when they leave the hospital
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Patients with pneumonia should receive:
- An examination and a pneumonia vaccination
- An influenza vaccination
- Initial antibiotic selection
- An antibiotic within 6 hours
- Be counseled and encouraged to stop smoking
- An initial blood culture done in the emergency room before they receive their first hospital dose of antibiotics
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Antibiotics are medicines that prevent and treat infections. It is important for surgical patients to receive the right antibiotics at the right time. Patients having a surgical procedure should receive:
- Preventive antibiotics one hour before surgery
- Appropriate preventive antibiotics for surgery
- Stop receiving preventive antibiotics within 24 hours after surgery
- Doctor ordered treatments to prevent blood clots after certain types of surgeries
- Treatment to prevent blood clots within 24 hours before or after certain types of surgery
- Beta blockers during the period just before and after their surgery
- A safer method for hair removal
- Urinary catheters removed on the first or second day after surgery
- Care to keep their body temperature within normal range during surgery