The CBC program has embarked on a major study of Canadian health collecting data from former patients and users of hospital facilities, a process designed to provide an overview of sorts in a variety of categories on hospital care in Canada.
Their findings will be reviewed as part of a program on the CBC tonight on hospital care in Canada, the special "My Hospital" airs at 9 PM.
In the Northwest the ratings continue to come in and so far the results are mixed for our local medical institutions, using a variety of factors to determine the overall score of each hospital, though in some cases the data was incomplete and an overall rating was not provided.
The results for the Northwest were as follows:
Kitimat General Hospital and Health Centre received a rating of "B"
The overall score of the Kitimat Hospital was based on three of the five categories that were surveyed by the Fifth Estate. Kitimat received a B for Nursing-sensitive adverse events, medical patients, another B in the readmission after surgery category and a C for readmission after medical treatment. No grades were issued for the Mortality after major surgery category, or the Nursing-sensitive adverse events, surgical patients category.
You can review the Profile for the Kitimat General Hospital here.
Prince Rupert Regional Hospital received a rating of "C"
That score was compiled from respondent data that shows when it comes to Nursing sensitive adverse events medical patients the Hospital received a positive review of a B. PRRH received another B under the category of Readmission after medical treatment. Things weren't quite as positive in the category of Readmission after surgery, which resulted in a D grade, based on the apparent high number of surgical patients required to return to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. No data was available for the survey under the categories of Mortality after major surgery or Nursing-sensitive adverse events, surgery patients.
You can review the profile for Prince Rupert Regional here
Like the other hospitals in the Northwest, some of the data that the Fifth Estate compiled was incomplete at
Bulkley Valley District Hospital received a rating of "C"
The Bulkley Valley rating came from reports on three categories, in the Nursing-sensitive adverse events, medical patients category they received a C, as they did for readmission after medical treatment. In readmission after surgery they received a D rating. There was no data considered for two categories, the mortality after major surgery and in the Nursing-sensitive adverse events, surgical patients part of the survey.
You can review the profile for Bulkley Valley Hospital here.
Mills Memorial Hospital in Terrace did not receive an overall Grade from this survey.
However, the Terrace hospital did receive a breakdown on the same categories that the other hospitals were reviewed on.
In the category of Nursing-sensitive adverse events, surgical patients Mills memorial received a C, Nursing-sensitive adverse events, medical patients also garnered them a C. While readmission after surgery brought their grade down to a D and re-admission after medical treatment earned them a B.
You can review the Mills Memorial profile here.
Masset Northern Haida Gwaii Hospital and Health Centre did not receive an overall Grade from this survey.
The data was also not of enough volume to provide a complete picture of health care at Queen Charlotte Islands General Hospital. Those categories that were graded provided the following results.
The Masset hospital received a B in nursing sensitive adverse events, medical patients, and a D in readmission after medical treatment. No results were outlined in the three other categories of mortality after major surgery, Nursing-sensitive adverse events, surgical patients and Readmission after surgery category.
You can review the Northern Haida Gwaii Hospital and Health Centre profile here.
Queen Charlotte Islands General Hospital did not receive an overall Grade from this survey.
Like Masset's Health Centre, The data was also not of enough volume to provide a complete picture of health care at Queen Charlotte Islands General Hospital. Those categories that were graded provided the following results.
Under the nursing-sensitive adverse events, medical patients category Queen Charlotte City gained a B, with a D assessed in the readmission after medical treatment category. Like Masset, Queen Charlotte City did not have results in three categories of mortality after major surgery, Nursing-sensitive adverse events, surgical patients and Readmission after surgery.
You can review the Queen Charlotte Islands General Hospital profile here.
An overview of the Fifth Estate program can be found on the CBC website.
The nature of the program has made for much in the way of discussion over the last few days.
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