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The PHCQA Performance & Progress Report on hosptial quality

Hospitals 25 miles or less from: Zip Code 18105 12 Hospitals Found

Surgical care and infection prevention measures track hospital performance pertaining to medical procedures that should be conducted or precautions that should be taken to minimize the risk of patient illness and infection occurring while hospitalized.

Percent of surgical patients who received antibiotics within 1 hour prior to surgical incision. (CMS)

Patients having hysterectomy surgery who received medicine to prevent infection (an antibiotic) within one hour before the skin was surgically cut.*

Why Is This Important    Additional Clinical Information

Prophylactic Antibiotic within 1 hour of incision—Hysterectomy
January 2013 - December 2013 Results *

 
   
PENNSYLVANIA RATE 99%  
Easton Hospital 97% View Historical Data
Gnaden Huetten Memorial Hospital Not Enough Cases To Compare View Historical Data
Grand View Hospital 100% View Historical Data
Lehigh Valley Hospital 99% View Historical Data
Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg Not Enough Cases To Compare View Historical Data
Palmerton Hospital N/A
Sacred Heart Hospital 100% View Historical Data
St. Luke's Allentown Campus 99% View Historical Data
St. Luke's Hospital 99% View Historical Data
St. Luke's Hospital - Anderson Campus N/A
St. Luke's Quakertown Hospital N/A
Westfield Hospital N/A

*The Hospitals 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 Hospitals’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.