Brookwood Medical Center
Hospital name: Brookwood Medical Center
Old Name: Brookwood Medical Center
Provider type: Hospitals
Status: Active
State: Alabama
Post: 35209
County: Jefferson
City: Birmingham
Address: 2010 BROOKWOOD MEDICAL CENTER DRIVE
Phone: (205) 877-1000
Fax: unknown
Email: unknown
Web site: www.bwmc.com/CWSContent/brookwood-medical
Owner: Proprietary
Type Hospital: Acute Care Hospitals
Review: Medical Centers,
Hospital Services
- Offers Emergency Services
Hospital Compare Information (Source: cms.gov)
- Emergency Services: Yes
- Meets criteria for promoting interoperability of EHRs: Yes
- Hospital overall rating: 3 out of 5 stars
- Mortality national comparison: Same as the national average
- Safety of care national comparison: Above the national average
- Readmission national comparison: Below the national average
- Patient experience national comparison: Same as the national average
- Effectiveness of care national comparison: Same as the national average
- Timeliness of care national comparison: Same as the national average
- Efficient use of medical imaging national comparison: Below the national average
- Able to receive lab results electronically: Yes
- Able to track patients' lab results, tests, and referrals electronically between visits: Yes
- Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): Lower Confidence Limit: 0.328 - No Different than National Benchmark
- Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): Upper Confidence Limit: 1.984 - No Different than National Benchmark
- Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection: Number of Device Days: 5369 - No Different than National Benchmark
- Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): Predicted Cases: 5.586 - No Different than National Benchmark
- Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): Observed Cases: 5 - No Different than National Benchmark
- Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.895 - No Different than National Benchmark
- Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): Lower Confidence Limit: 0.406 - No Different than National Benchmark
- Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): Upper Confidence Limit: 2.081 - No Different than National Benchmark
- Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): Number of Urinary Catheter Days: 5439 - No Different than National Benchmark
- Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): Predicted Cases: 5.996 - No Different than National Benchmark
- Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): Observed Cases: 6 - No Different than National Benchmark
- Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 1.001 - No Different than National Benchmark
- SSI - Colon Surgery: Lower Confidence Limit: 0.157 - No Different than National Benchmark
- SSI - Colon Surgery: Upper Confidence Limit: 1.676 - No Different than National Benchmark
- SSI - Colon Surgery: Number of Procedures: 179 - No Different than National Benchmark
- SSI - Colon Surgery: Predicted Cases: 4.873 - No Different than National Benchmark
- SSI - Colon Surgery: Observed Cases: 3 - No Different than National Benchmark
- SSI - Colon Surgery: 0.616 - No Different than National Benchmark
- SSI - Abdominal Hysterectomy: Lower Confidence Limit: 0.049 - Better than the National Benchmark
- SSI - Abdominal Hysterectomy: Upper Confidence Limit: 0.960 - Better than the National Benchmark
- SSI - Abdominal Hysterectomy: Number of Procedures: 896 - Better than the National Benchmark
- SSI - Abdominal Hysterectomy: Predicted Cases: 6.881 - Better than the National Benchmark
- SSI - Abdominal Hysterectomy: Observed Cases: 2 - Better than the National Benchmark
- SSI - Abdominal Hysterectomy: 0.291 - Better than the National Benchmark
- MRSA Bacteremia: Lower Confidence Limit: 0.693 - No Different than National Benchmark
- MRSA Bacteremia: Upper Confidence Limit: 3.135 - No Different than National Benchmark
- MRSA Bacteremia: Patient Days: 65509 - No Different than National Benchmark
- MRSA Bacteremia: Predicted Cases: 4.417 - No Different than National Benchmark
- MRSA Bacteremia: Observed Cases: 7 - No Different than National Benchmark
- MRSA Bacteremia: 1.585 - No Different than National Benchmark
- Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): Lower Confidence Limit: 0.434 - Better than the National Benchmark
- Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): Upper Confidence Limit: 0.870 - Better than the National Benchmark
- Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): Patient Days: 65509 - Better than the National Benchmark
- Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): Predicted Cases: 51.327 - Better than the National Benchmark
- Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): Observed Cases: 32 - Better than the National Benchmark
- Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.623 - Better than the National Benchmark
- Payment for heart attack patients: $24,826 - No Different Than the National Average Payment
- Value of Care Heart Attack measure: Average Mortality and Average Payment
- Payment for heart failure patients: $17,610 - No Different Than the National Average Payment
- Value of Care Heart Failure measur: Average Mortality and Average Payment
- Payment for pneumonia patients: $19,798 - Greater Than the National Average Payment
- Value of Care Pneumonia measure: Average Mortality and Higher Payment
- Payment for hip/knee replacement patients: $21,694 - Greater Than the National Average Payment
- Value of Care hip/knee replacement: Average Complications and Higher Payment
- Rate of complications for hip/knee replacement patients: No Different Than the National Rate
- Death rate for heart attack patients: No Different Than the National Rate
- Death rate for CABG surgery patients: No Different Than the National Rate
- Death rate for COPD patients: No Different Than the National Rate
- Death rate for heart failure patients: No Different Than the National Rate
- Death rate for pneumonia patients: No Different Than the National Rate
- Death rate for stroke patients: No Different Than the National Rate
- Postoperative Acute Kidney Injury Requiring Dialysis Rate: Not Available
- Postoperative Respiratory Failure Rate: Not Available
- Serious blood clots after surgery: No Different Than the National Rate
- Blood stream infection after surgery: Not Available
- A wound that splits open after surgery on the abdomen or pelvis: No Different Than the National Rate
- Accidental cuts and tears from medical treatment: No Different Than the National Rate
- Pressure sores: No Different Than the National Rate
- Deaths among Patients with Serious Treatable Complications after Surgery: No Different Than the National Rate
- Collapsed lung due to medical treatment: No Different Than the National Rate
- Broken hip from a fall after surgery: No Different Than the National Rate
- Serious complications: No Different Than the National Value
- Perioperative Hemorrhage or Hematoma Rate: No Different Than the National Rate
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