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Surgery Quality Measures

The quality measures below tell you how well Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare hospitals follow the recommended guidelines for care before, during, and after surgery.

Compare Wheaton’s scores with state and national averages for:

Surgery patients who were given an antibiotic within one hour before surgery to help prevent infection
Surgery patients who received the appropriate antibiotic to help prevent infection
Surgery patients whose preventive antibiotics were stopped within 24 hours after surgery
Surgery patients who were taking beta blockers before coming to the hospital and who were kept on the beta blockers during the period just before and after their surgery
Heart surgery patients whose blood glucose was kept under good control in the days right after surgery
Surgery patients who had hair removed using a safer method
Surgery patients whose doctors ordered treatments to prevent blood clots after certain types of surgeries
Patients who received treatment within 24 hours before or after their surgery to help prevent blood clots after certain types of surgeries
Surgery patients whose urinary catheters were removed on the first or second day after surgery
Surgery patients with perioperative temperature management

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