St. Luke's Hospital (New Bedford, Massachusetts)

St. Luke's Hospital is a Massachusetts hospital located at 101 Page Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

St. Luke's Hospital
Geography
LocationNew Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
Services
Emergency departmentYes
Beds293
Links
Websitehttp://southcoast.org
ListsHospitals in Massachusetts

History

The hospital was founded in 1884 by the Protestant Episcopal church with large financial contributions from Horatio Hathaway, a church leader who was one of the founders of Berkshire Hathaway.[1]

In 1996 St. Luke's merged with Charlton Memorial [2] in Fall River and Tobey Hospital [3] in Wareham to form the Southcoast Health System.

In 2006, St. Luke's began building a new Emergency Department. Inside there are nineteen new private treatment bays. In 2008 The In-House Patient Pharmacy Department installed a more modern and Drug dispensing system throughout the floors called Pyxis Connect. While its operations continue in 2009 as the upgrade to the OR Rooms and Endoscopy Departments received new machines per room. It has proven to be a well effective tool for the Hospital and Pharmacy Department.

Services

St. Luke's has 293 beds in service and offers extensive in-patient medical and surgical services, with particular expertise in neurosurgery, cardiology, and general surgery.

Patients have access to advanced diagnostic testing, including computerized tomography scanning, MRI, and nuclear cardiology.

Rehabilitation services are available on-site.

Hospital rating data

The HealthGrades website contains the latest quality data for St. Luke's Hospital, as of 2015. For this rating section two different types of data from HealthGrades are presented: quality ratings for thirty-two inpatient conditions and procedures and thirteen patient safety indicators. Usually HealthGrades data includes the percentage of patients giving the hospital a 9 or 10 (the two highest possible ratings), but for this hospital that data is missing.

For inpatient conditions and procedures, there are three possible ratings: worse than expected, as expected, better than expected. For this hospital the data for this category is:

  • Worse than expected - 6
  • As expected - 21
  • Better than expected - 5

For patient safety indicators, there are the same three possible ratings. For this hospital safety indicators were rated as:

  • Worse than expected - 0
  • As expected -12
  • Better than expected - 1[4]

References
  1. Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts: containing historical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families ... (Google eBook) (J.H. Beers & Co., 1912) pg. 1312
  2. Charlton Memorial
  3. Tobey Hospital
  4. HealthGrades website, at http://www.healthgrades.com/hospital-directory/massachusetts-ma/southcoast-health-st-lukes-hospital-hgst1ec52386220021 .

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