Title: Dekalb Regional Medical Center
Description: Dekalb Regional Medical Center
Location: State: Alabama
City: Fort Payne
Address: 200 Medical Center Drive South West
Top services: Bowel Obstruction
Cholecystectomy
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Gastrointestinal Bleed
Heart Attack
Heart Failure
Hip Fracture Repair
Pneumonia
Sepsis
Stroke
Features: Get Previous Order: 103
Intensive Care beds: 12
Adult and/or Pediatric Care beds: 91
Teaching Hospital: No
Rates: Cardiac services: Below national average in 2 of 2 areas
Critical Care services: Below national average in 3 of 3 areas
Gastrointestinal services: At national average in 2 of 4 areas
General Surgery services: At national average in 1 of 2 areas
Orthopedic services: Above national average in 2 of 2 areas
Pulmonary services: Below national average in 2 of 2 areas
Patient safety rates: Prevention of death in procedures where mortality is usually very low: average
Lack of pressure sores or bed sores acquired in the hospital: average
Ability to diagnose and treat in time: better
Avoidance of collapsed lung due to a procedure or surgery in or around the chest: better
Lack of infections acquired at hospital: average
Absence of hip fracture after surgery: average
Avoidance of excessive bruising or bleeding as a consequence of a procedure or surgery: better
Adequate organ function and electrolyte and fluid balance after surgery: average
Avoidance of respiratory failure following surgery: average
Lack of deep blood clots in the lungs or legs after surgery: better
Avoidance of severe infection following surgery: average
Lack of surgical wound site breakdown: average
Complication rates: Hip Fracture Repair: 5
Total Knee Replacement: 5
Cholecystectomy: 5
Affiliated doctors: Dr. Shoaib Khalil, MD
Dr. Stephen F Blackstock, MD
Dr. Chester C Hicks, MD
Dr. John F Pirani, MD
Dr. Manish Shah

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