Page 12 August 23 , 2012 TORRANCE TRIBUNE Seniors Picking the Right Hospital for You By David Sayen Compare – anyone can access them. The questions include how well doctors such as the frequency of pressure sores and If you’re having a medical Both tools give you a good and nurses communicated with patients, and urinary incontinence. emergency, the best thing you can snapshot of the overall quality of whether patients’ pain was well controlled. And we’re now posting the full text of do is get to the nearest hospital. care at various local hospitals and Patients also are asked if the hospital kept our inspection reports, so you can read in But if you need non-emergency skilled nursing facilities. their room clean, and whether they received detail about any problems that were found treatment, and you have time to Hospital Compare shows, information in writing about what symptoms at a specific nursing facility. plan, how do you find a hospital for example, how often and or health problems to look out for after they To find Hospital Compare and Nursing Home that best fits your needs? how quickly hospitals give were discharged. Compare, go to www.Medicare.gov and scroll A good place to start is the recommended treatments for Finally, patients are asked to rate their to the bottom of the page, under “Resource Medicare website, www.Medicare. heart attack, heart failure, overall hospital experience on a scale of Locator.” We also have compare tools for home gov. There you’ll find an easy-to-use tool that pneumonia, and children’s asthma. zero to 10 – and if they’d recommend that health agencies and dialysis centers. has quality-of-care and patient- satisfaction It also shows the percentage of patients hospital to a relative or friend. If you don’t have a computer, you can call information on more than 4,000 hospitals who developed serious conditions such as Nursing Home Compare shows the us, toll free, at 1-800-MEDICARE. We’ll help around the country that participate in Medicare bloodstream infections and bed sores while results of health inspections and provides you get the information you need. and Medicaid. in the hospital. Such conditions are often information on staffing, including the David Sayen is Medicare’s regional The tool is called Hospital Compare. We preventable, if the hospital follows best number of nurses, physical therapists, administrator for Arizona, California, Hawaii, have a similar, user-friendly tool – Nursing practices. and nursing assistants at each facility. and Nevada. You can always get answers Home Compare – to find skilled nursing You can find out how often patients returned It also has a variety of measures that describe to your Medicare questions by calling homes. More than 17,000 skilled nursing to the hospital with the same condition, and the quality of care in skilled nursing homes, 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227). • facilities in the United States are listed. how that rate compares with the national We recently redesigned and added more average. information to both tools. We recently began posting information on Hospital Compare and Nursing Home how often a hospital uses imaging procedures Compare have two purposes. One is to help such as CT scans or MRIs on patients with “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; people make good decisions about where they Medicare. That’s important because some but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see get health care. By making quality-of-care imaging tests carry potential health risks, information easily accessible to the public, we including unnecessary exposure to radiation. the one which has been opened for us.” also hope to encourage hospitals and skilled Hospital Compare also lets you read ~ Helen Keller nursing homes to improve their performance. the responses of patients to a detailed You don’t have to be enrolled in Medicare questionnaire that asks about their experiences to use Hospital Compare or Nursing Home and level of satisfaction. business & professional directory alarms flooring handyman painting plumbing KIRK FLOORING BILL’S HOME AND APARTMENT RICH’S PAINTING FOR ALL YOUR PLUMBING NEEDSMAINTENANCE We offer LOW VOLTAGE SERVICES carpet (310) 322-6099 Specializing in apartment turn around and home repairs. 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