MacNeal Hospital, 3249 S. Oak Park Avenue, Berwyn, Illinois 60402
MacNeal Hospital is a general and medical surgical hospital located in western Chicago suburb of Berwyn, Illinois. The hospital provides families with comprehensive services that includes obstetrics (mother/baby) care, orthopedics, sports medicine, rehabilitation, oncology, home health, emergency and immediate care services, bariatric surgery and cardiac surgery. MacNeal Hospital has a rating of two stars out of five. The hospital is an acute care hospital which provides emergency department services. It participates in nursing care and general surgery registries. The hospital is able to track patients’ lab results, tests and referrals electronically between visits. MacNeal Hospital uses outpatient and inpatient safe surgery checklists.
The Hospital Consumers Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS), is a national survey that asks patients about their experiences during a recent hospital stay. Those results are used to compare other hospitals based on 11 hospital quality topics. For example, MacNeal Hospital’s patients were asked whether their nurses “always” communicated well. MacNeal Hospital’s patients’ answers was that 73% of the time nurses “always” communicated well. The Illinois and national averages are both 80% in this category. 79% of MacNeal Hospital’s patients reported that their doctors “always” communicated well compared to the Illinois average at 82% and the national average which is also at 82%. 60% of MacNeal Hospital’s patients reported that they would definitely recommend the hospital to others while 71% is the Illinois average and the national average is 72%.
It was reported that at MacNeal Hospital ischemic stroke patients received the medicine needed to break up a blood clot within 3 hours after symptom started 100% of the time compared to 89% which is the Illinois average and 87% for the national average. According to the data provided, MacNeal Hospital’s patients at the rate of 2% was the percentage of mothers whose deliveries were scheduled too early when a scheduled delivery was not medically necessary. The Illinois average in this category is 1% with the national average being 2%. The MacNeal Hospital data submitted was based on a sample of cases and patients who reported in this category.
According to the data presented, MacNeal Hospital’s patients were readmitted for heart failure at a lower rate than the national average which stands at 21.9%. The death rate for heart failure patients at MacNeal Hospital was no different than the national rate.
The hospital website is: https://www.macneal.com.