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Act
Fast!
Award goes to lifesaving team
BY ANGELA MOORE
WHEN EMERGENCY STRIKES
Emergency care is something most people do not think about
until an emergency occurs. For life-threatening situations,
the closest hospital is the first option because time is of the
essence. But when a choice is possible, knowing the best
hospital ahead of time can mean the difference between life
and death.
St. Catherine Hospital recently earned the 2012 Emergency
Medicine Excellence Award™ from Healthgrades®, a leading provider of comprehensive information designed to help
consumers make an informed decision about their choices in
healthcare, physicians or hospitals.
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“I owe my wonderful care to the nursing staff who were
really on the ball and the doctors who gave me undivided
attention,” Guzman says.
A LOOK AT THE NUMBERS
More than 123.8 million people in the United States will make
that fateful trip to the emergency department of hospitals in
their community. Thirteen percent will end up being admitted into the hospital, according to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
Healthgrades has found clear differences in how emergency visits play out in the best-performing hospitals versus
all other hospitals. The Healthgrades Emergency Medicine
Excellence Award is based on the number of in-hospital deaths
among patients admitted through the emergency department.
After assessing 4,783 short-term acute care hospitals, only
263 hospitals qualified to receive the Emergency Medicine
Excellence Award. They had the lowest risk-adjusted mortality across the top diagnoses in the study, low enough to place
them among the top 5 percent of U.S. hospitals.
East Chicago resident Lucy Guzman is just one example
of how the Emergency department at St. Catherine Hospital
provides excellence in emergency care.
ONLINE
W
hen everyone in the Guzman household was
sick with the flu and Lucy woke up not feeling well, she assumed she, too, had the flu.
It turned out to be a heart attack.
Because Lucy Guzman was surrounded by highly trained,
skilled professionals—from East Chicago’s dispatchers and
EMTs to St. Catherine Hospital’s Emergency department
and cath lab staff—who knew what to do and when to do it,
she survived to tell her story.
“I ended up with a stent in my heart,” she says. “It’s not
something you’d ever expect, but when you feel sick, don’t
wait—get to the hospital immediately.”
Guzman and her family live near the East Chicago fi re
station, and family members who suspected something else
was happening, called 911 right away.
“The EMTs were there almost immediately and began to
give me medications; then they called ahead to St. Catherine,”
says Guzman. “They were waiting for me at the hospital.
When I got there, doctors and nurses began all kinds of tests.”
Be Prepared
Do you know where to go in case of emergency? Visit www.comhs.org/stcatherine
to learn more about the services offered at
St. Catherine Hospital.
http://www.comhs.org/stcatherine
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Vim & Vigor - Spring 2013 - Community Healthcare
Vim & Vigor - Spring 2013 - Community Healthcare
Community Message
Community Briefs
Winner’s Circle
No Place Like Home
Sowing the Seeds of Good Health
Sowing the Seeds of Good Health
You’re the Star
Heart-to-Heart
Lighten Up!
Have No Fear
Work It!
Diane Keaton
What Are the Chances?
9 Symptoms Never to Ignore
When Allergies Attack
Virtual Health
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