Southside Regional Medical Center

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Southside Regional Medical Center is a 300-bed [1][2] hospital near the Petersburg, VA tri-cities, VA area. The hospital was originally started in 1948 by the city of Petersburg, but was sold to Community Health Systems (a conglomerate based in Tennessee) in 2003 [3][4][5] and reloacted. Its current president is Michael J. Yungmann [2] (the former CEO of Lake Wales Medical Center in Florida, a site also owned by Community Health Systems). The hospital is desingated as a Level III Trauma Center by the Virginia Department of Health. [6]

Hospital rating data

The HealthGrades website contains the latest quality data for Southside Regional Medical Center, as of 2016. For this rating section three different types of data from HealthGrades are presented: quality ratings for twenty-two inpatient conditions and procedures, thirteen patient safety indicators and the percentage of patients giving the hospital a 9 or 10 (the two highest possible ratings).

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 - 7
  • As expected - 15
  • Better than expected - 0

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

  • Worse than expected - 2
  • As expected - 10
  • Better than expected - 1

Percentage of patients rating this hospital as a 9 or 10 - 67% Percentage of patients who on average rank hospitals as a 9 or 10 - 69%[7]

School of Nursing

SRMC has offered nurse training since 1895.[8][9] Since January 2005, the hospital has also offered online nursing training[9] including bachelor's degrees [9] that is used by other Community Health Systems hospitals, including Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia, Pottstown Memorial Medical Center in Montgomery County, and Jennersville Regional Hospital and Phoenixville Hospital, both in Chester County.[10]

References

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