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Our Quality of Care

Patients are partners in improving the quality of care we provide at SSM Health Care's hospitals and other facilities. How? By completing inpatient surveys after their visits to our facilities. The results of those surveys are used by our caregivers to determine what we need to improve on and how we compare with other hospitals nationwide and in their respective states.

Our results appear below. In March 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) began posting the results of these patient satisfaction surveys known as Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems. These surveys ask patients about their experiences with care during recent overnight stays in our hospitals.

SSM St. Clare Health Center

This table shows eight aspects of care considered most important by patients, plus "overall rating of care" and "willingness to recommend the hospital to others." Survey questions have response options ranging from "never" to "always." The percentages reported in the table reflect the highest rating possible or the percent of patients who said "always.”

 
Percent of Patients Giving Most Positive Response
  Composite
Avg for
SSM St. Clare
Health Center
Avg for all reporting hospitals in the US
Avg for all reporting hospitals in Missouri
Nurses "always" communicated well
73
74
75
Doctors "always" communicated well
79
80
80
"Always" received help as soon as they wanted
55
62
62
Pain was "always" well controlled
67
68
68
Staff "always" explained about medicines before giving it to them
55
59
58
Room and bathroom were "always" clean
67
69
71
Area around room was "always" quiet at night
48
56
55
"Yes" were given information about what to do during recovery at home
77
80
81
Gave hospital rating of 9 or 10 on scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest)
63
64
65
Would "definitely" recommend the hospital to family and friends
69
68
67

These results are from patients who had overnight hospital stays at SSM St. Joseph Hospital of Kirkwood from January 2008 through December 2008. St. Joseph Hospital closed on March 30, 2009 the same day that the new replacement hospital, SSM St. Clare Health Center, opened.

 Numbers highlighted in blue show where the hospital scores "higher" than the national norm.

 Data Source:
 www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov

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