What is being measured?

STATE AVERAGE

(According to Hospital Compare

www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov)

National Average

(According to Hospital Compare

www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov)

SEORMC

(January - March 2010)

Heart failure patients who receive either a prescription for a medicine called an "ACE inhibitor" or a medicine called an angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) when they are discharged from the hospital

92%

90%

83.3%

Heart failure patients who are given advice about stopping smoking while they are in the hospital

94%

93%

100%

Heart failure patients who receive specific discharge instructions about their condition

86%

79%

79.3%

Heart failure patients who have had the function of the main pumping chamber of the heart (i.e. left ventricle) checked during their hospitalization

95%

90%

97.5%