Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, 836 West Wellington Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center is located on Chicago’s North Side. It is one of the state’s largest, most comprehensive nonprofit medical centers. The hospital has many specialties. Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center is part of Advocate Health Care, the largest fully integrated health system in Illinois.
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center provides acute care as well as emergency department services. The hospital participates in nursing care registry, multispecialty surgical registry and general surgery registry. Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center is able to track patients’ lab results, tests and referrals electronically between visits. Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center uses outpatient and inpatient safe surgery checklists. The overall rating for the hospital has two stars out of five.
Based on the survey of patients’ experiences, the patient survey summary gives the hospital three stars out of five. Patients at the hospital who reported that their nurses “always” communicated well, stands at 79%. The Illinois and national averages are both 80%. Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center patients reported that their doctors “always” communicated well at the rate of 79%. 74% of who were surveyed said that they would definitely recommend the hospital to other patients. 71% is the average of patients who reported that they would definitely recommend the hospital to others in Illinois. The national average is 72% in that category.
Timely and effective care in hospital emergency departments is an essential element for good patient outcomes. Delays before receiving medical care in the emergency department is one of several reasons that patients suffer increased risks for serious illnesses and injuries. Waiting times are different at hospitals and those times vary widely. The length of time a patient may wait at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center depends on staffing levels, time of day, admitting procedures or the availability of inpatient beds. 51 minutes is the average time patients who came to the emergency department at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center waited with broken bones before getting pain medication. The Illinois average is 49 minutes. Only 1% of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center’s patients who came to the emergency department left before being seen or treated. The Illinois average is 3% with the national average being 2%. The average time patients spent in the emergency department before they were admitted to the hospital as an inpatient at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center was 322 minutes compared to the national average of 295 minutes and the Illinois average of 301.5 minutes. The data for this item was submitted based on a sample of cases/patients.
93% of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center’s patients were assessed and given the appropriate influenza vaccine. The Illinois and national averages are both 94%. In the same category of preventative medicine, healthcare workers at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center were given flu vaccines at the rate of 94%. The Illinois average is 87%.
The deaths among patients with serious treatable complications after surgery at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center was no different than the national rate at 136.48 per 1,000 patient discharges.
The website for the hospital is: http://www.advocatehealth.com/immc