It can seem when you're on vacation, you just can't get hurt or ill but it does happen. Millions of people visit the Grand Strand area each year and you can bet a few of those will need medical care.
Conway Medical Center, off Highway 501 recently received a poor rating in a usatoday.com article regarding tourism destination hospitals. Until two years ago, hospital ratings were not made public. Now through various websites, the public can access hospital ratings and comparisons for nearly all areas of operation, including mortality rates, heart failure and pneumonia.
The USA Today analysis of more than 42-hundred U.S. hospitals brought to light quality assessments for tourism destination hospitals. Conway Medical Center made the poorly rated list. "The ultimate goal is to identify areas where we can show improvement or where we could put new processes in or new methods of delivering care so that we can improve," said Julie Jarotte, Conway Medical Center’s
The article referenced the Department of Health and Human Services website, hospitalcompare.hhs.gov. Using numbers from the past three years, the study focused on:
-Heart attack mortality, which CMC showed no difference from the U.S. rates
-Heart failure mortality, which CMC rated worse than the U.S. rate and
-Pneumonia mortality also rated worse than the U.S. rate
“Yes, there we some issues and if you'll go again and look at what is currently out there for Conway Medical Center and for our performance you'll see that we made significant improvements in our processes,” said Jarotte. Jarotte said Conway Medical Center is now in the top 20 percentile of hospitals working to improve care. The center recently added a new administration building and added an additional fifty beds in a new bed tower.
"Whether you're a tourist or whether you're a local, you really need to take healthcare information and gather from many sources in order to form a good opinion about what's going on."
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