Doctors Hospital of Laredo

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Doctors Hospital of Laredo
Universal Health Services Inc.
Doctors Hospital of Laredo
Geography
Location10700 McPherson Rd, Laredo, Texas, USA
Coordinates 27°36′25″N99°28′42″W / 27.60691°N 99.47828°W / 27.60691; -99.47828 Coordinates: 27°36′25″N99°28′42″W / 27.60691°N 99.47828°W / 27.60691; -99.47828
Organisation
Care system Public
Type Community
Services
Beds180
Helipad Yes
History
Opened1974
Links
Website http://www.doctorshosplaredo.com/

Doctors Hospital of Laredo is a for-profit hospital owned and operated by Universal Health Services. There are 164 physicians on the medical staff with the hospital, 80 of whom are active staff. Has a Level III Trauma Center and a Level III NICU, as well as a wide array of medical services. Doctors Hospital of Laredo is located at 10700 McPherson Rd. in Laredo, Texas, United States.

Contents

Doctors Hospital operates five satellite clinics around strategic areas of the community. The five locations include Doctors Hospital Health Center (north central), South Laredo Diagnostic Center (south), Providence Health Center (North West), Nueva Vida Maternity Clinic (central heights) and Mines Road Family Clinic (North West). These five centers offer a variety of services accessible and convenient for patients. An additional MRI (Calton MRI) site is available to serve patients in central Laredo and a new freestanding emergency department located in South Laredo is under construction and scheduled to open in spring 2015.

History

Doctors Hospital was founded in 1974 by Dr. Harold "Pat" Yeary, a local dentist, and a group of partners who recruited a group of physicians to come Laredo, Texas and build a state of the art hospital. The original name was Laredo Health Center. The hospital has had seven previous owners: Physician owners, Medenco, Lifemark, AMI, EPIC, Columbia, Triad and UHS became its eighth owner in June 1999. The hospital opened in its new replacement facility on August 18, 2001. Located on the north section of the city, Doctors Hospital is surrounded by growing residential and commercial developments, schools, industrial parks, governmental agencies, and entertainment centers.

Services

Heliport

A helipad is available for emergency air ambulance service.

Awards and accolades

Hospital rating data

The HealthGrades website contains the clinical quality data for Doctors Hospital of Laredo, as of 2017. For this rating section three different types of data from HealthGrades are presented: clinical quality ratings for twenty-six inpatient conditions and procedures, thirteen patient safety indicators and the percentage of patients giving the hospital as 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:

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

Percentage of patients rating this hospital as a 9 or 10 - 66% Percentage of patients who on average rank hospitals as a 9 or 10 - 69% [9]

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