BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM Review

A Review of the Data

Prepared by Richard Saunders as of January 31, 2024.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") distributes more than 80 tables of data on hospitals on a quarterly basis. That is a lot of information to pour through to try and build a comprehensive review of BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM. Luckily, we are here to help! I’ve put together this page to help you to get a better idea of what the hospital does, who is affiliated with it, share any patient survey data and much more. (If you want to jump to a specific section of the review, here are the section headers: General Hospital Data, Ratings, Cost Analysis, Infections, Comparison, Nearby Skilled Nursing Facilities, Doctors Associated with BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM, Survey Analysis.)

In the briefest summary, BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM is one of the types of hospitals called Acute Care Hospitals. It is in BRENHAM, TX. Its five star rating is 4 . Its type of ownership is Voluntary non-profit - Private. The facility's Medicare ID is 450187. It does provide emergency services. There are 0 medical professionals and 0 doctor groups affiliated with the hospital. We do not have data on average costs for care provided at BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM.

The information presented below is based on data provided by U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). It is updated as new data is made available.

General Information for BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM

Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating for BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM

Overall Rating:

The Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating for BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM summarizes a variety of measures across 5 areas of quality into a single star rating for each hospital. Once reporting thresholds are met, a hospital’s Overall Star Rating is calculated using only those measures for which data are available. Hospitals report data to The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") through the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program, Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR) Program, Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP), Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Reduction Program, and Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program. Overall Star Ratings aren’t calculated for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) or Department of Defense (DoD) hospitals.

Most hospitals will have an Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating of 3.

National distribution of the Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating The following table shows the national distribution of the Overall Star Rating based on July 2022 results.

Additional detailed on the method for calculating the Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating from this document.

Patient Survey Results

Below is information compiled by CMS on the percentage of patients who respond to specific treatments and a comparison of the results for BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM to the national results for similar facilities.

There is no patient survey data available for BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM.

Cost of BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM, Compare to National and State Averages

Understanding how much a hospital is going to cost is extremely difficult. Hospitals themselves actively obscure what they charge and have negotiated different rates with different insurers. Then you have the problem of the wide variety of treatments which the BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM provides.

To provide some standard metric to compare hospital costs, CMS publishes the MSPB (or "Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary"). Even though you may not be on Medicare, this metric may still be useful. The MSPB is expressed as a percentage compared to the national average for costs that Medicare incurs. A percentage higher than 100% means the hospital charges more than the national average while a percentage less than 100% means the hospital charges less than the national average.

MSPB for BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM: Not Available

We do not have detailed cost analysis for BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM.

Infection Rates at BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM

These measures show how often patients at BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM contract certain infections during the course of their medical treatment, when compared to other hospitals nationally.

Not data on infection rates is available for BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM in our database.

How BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM Compares to Other Similar Facilities

This is how BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM compares to other similar hospitals nationally based on data provided to CMS.

Top Hospitals in BRENHAM, TX

Worst Hospitals in BRENHAM, TX

Skilled Nursing Facilities Near BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM

Many hospital patients are not ready to return home after a hospital visit. If recovery is going to be protracted, doctors will often advise that the patients recuperate at a skilled nursing facility. Below is a list of the skilled nursing homes near BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM ranked by their CMS 5-Star Overall Rating.

Medical Groups Affiliated with BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM

There are 0 doctors and 0 medical groups that are affiliated with BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM.