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Information and education are key components in any improvement process. This report is designed to educate the community on the current state of health care in Vanderburgh County and to identify preventative measures that will increase personal and community wellness. This report is brought to the community by the Partnership for Health Care Information.
To view report, click on the following link. http://health.usi.edu/commhlth/partnershipdocument.pdf
(You will need the Adobe
Acrobat Reader and this can be downloaded if it is not installed on
your computer.)
The content of this report includes information regarding the rate of hospitalization for, severity of, and mortality of five categories of hospital data from 1997-99. Cardiac services, orthopedics, pulmonary services, stroke, and women’s health are included in this report. These particular procedures and diseases were chosen because of the high volume of these diagnoses and procedures as well as their significant cost.
Within these groupings, particular diseases and procedures were selected and include:
• Cardiac Services
first operative cardiac bypass with cardiac
catheterization;
first operative cardiac bypass without cardiac
catheterization;
angioplasty without heart attack;
circulatory disorders with heart attack;
cardiac catheterization;
heart failure;
chest pain;
• Orthopedics
joint replacement
back/neck surgery
back treatment
knee surgery
• Pulmonary Services
asthma/bronchiolitis
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
simple pneumonia
• Stroke
• Women’s Health
Cesarean section
vaginal birth after Cesarean.
The Partnership for Health Care Information is composed of: the Tri-State Business Group on Health, Deaconess Hospital, St. Mary’s Medical Center, the Tri-State Business Group on Health and the University of Southern Indiana School of Nursing and Health Professions. The Partnership has released several other reports including community-wide procedure rates, hospital-specific mortality rates, and a competitive charge analysis, group of providers, and businesses that work together to provide the community with meaningful information regarding health and health care services in the Evansville community.
The purpose of the reports released by the Partnership for Health are to:
• provide health care information to the Evansville community;
• identify opportunities for improvement of health and
health care in our community;
• inform individuals of their personal responsibility for
lifestyle choices impacting their health
and the overall health of the community;
• to provide a comparative basis for establishing community
health care goals;
• to equip health care providers such as hospitals, outpatient
centers, and physicians
with a starting point from which they can measure
the improvement of the community’s health status; and
• to create the awareness and discussion among health care
professionals, insurers, business leaders, and the
population at large of preventative measures,
optimum medical interventions, and continuous quality improvement..
The following prior reports released by the Partnership for Health Care Information can be accessed on the University of Southern Indiana School of Nursing and Health Professions home page. ( Community Health Information )
• Surgical Procedure Rates Vanderburgh County, 1995-1997
• Vanderburgh County Fetal and Infant Mortality Review, 1998
• Asthma in Vanderburgh County, Executive Summary, 1998
• Cancer Data--Vanderburgh County, Evansville, Indiana. 1992-1997
To view report, click on the following link. (You
will need the Adobe
Acrobat Reader and this can be downloaded if it is not installed on
your computer.) If you have questions about the report, you may contact
Dr. Nadine Coudret, Dean of the University of Southern Indiana School of
Nursing and Health Professions, at 812-465-1151 or through email at ncoudret@usi.edu
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