Of the 94 hospitals in Colorado,
Sterling Regional Medcenter in Sterling, CO is one of just 4 that are better than the nationwide emergency department averages in each of admit decision to inpatient admission, arrival to discharge, arrival to discharge for psychiatrics, patients who left before being seen, and patients with stroke symptoms who received brain scan results within 45 mins.
Sterling Regional Medcenter has these nationwide comparisons, plus standings
among those 94 hospitals:
- median time from admit decision to time of departure from the emergency department for patients admitted to inpatient status = 48 mins (16th-lowest)
the nationwide average is 99.0 mins
- median time from emergency department arrival to emergency department departure for discharged patients = 116 mins (17th-lowest, tied)
the nationwide average is 142.1 mins
- median time from emergency department arrival to emergency department departure for discharged psychiatric/mental health patients = 196 mins (23rd-lowest, tied)
the nationwide average is 258.2 mins
- patients who left the emergency department before being seen = 1% (10th-most, tied)
the nationwide average is 1.5%
- patients who arrived to the emergency department with stroke symptoms who received brain scan results within 45 minutes = 92% (5th-most)
the nationwide average is 73.7%