Readmission Rates at Area Hospitals

Yesterday we looked at death rate comparisons for Medicare patients for heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia at Barrington’s, McHenry’s and Woodstock’s hospitals.

Today, we look at readmission rates for those three problems.
For heart attacks the Barrington, McHenry and Woodstock hospitals have readmission rares “No different than U.S. National Rate, ” as you can see above and below:


Readmission rates for heart failure are at national averages for Good Shepherd and Memorial, but worst than the national average at Northern Illinois Medical Center. The graphic from Medicare is below:
The pneumonia results for subsequent hospital visits follow for the three institutions:

The Feds say pneumonia readmission rates for Good Shepherd are in line with national averages, but readmission rates for the two Centegra hospitals are “Worse than (the) U.S. National Rate.”


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