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Key Quality Metrics
  • Deliveries: Episiotomy; elective delivery
  • Newborns: Hepatitis B vaccine; breastfeeding
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Important to Consider
  • Premature birth, complications during delivery and birth defects make a baby's transition from mom even more challenging. Such deliveries require the consideration of specialized care provided at a high-level neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
  • Norton Children's Hospital, connected to Norton Hospital, has a Level IV NICU, the highest as designated by the American College of OB/GYN.
  • Norton Women's & Children's Hospital has a Level III NICU.
  • Norton Healthcare cares for more neonates then anyone in the state.
Points of Distinction
  • Region's only obstetrics-dedicated anesthesiologists
  • Certified lactation consultants to help ease any concerns with breastfeeding
  • Alternative birthing options to address the many different preferences of women today
  • Largest birthing provider in the state
  • Largest neonatal provider in the state
  • Special programs and classes, like prenatal classes, are offered at Marshall Women's Center
Points of Distinction
  • Mammogram results in less than 24 hours
Key Quality Metrics
  • Acute myocardial infarction (AMI)/heart attack: Readmissions; death
  • Heart failure: Readmissions; death
  • Cardiac catheterization
  • Cardiovascular procedures
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Points of Distinction
  • Norton Heart & Vascular Institute Atrial Fibrillation Program
  • Cycle V Chest Pain Center, the region’s highest accreditation
  • Vascular Access Center for dialysis patients at Norton Audubon Hospital
Key Quality Metrics
  • There are no current cancer quality measures to reference.
Points of Distinction
  • Kentucky’s only accredited Integrated Network Cancer Program, as designated by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer
  • Cancer Resource Centers available to patients and families
  • Oncology-certified nursing
  • Prompt Care Clinics to meet the urgent care needs of cancer patients
  • Largest patient navigator program in the region, with 17 navigators
  • Clinical trials
  • Multidisciplinary clinics offering collaborative, integrated treatment plans
Key Quality Metrics
  • Median time spent in the emergency department
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Points of Distinction
  • Comprehensive Stroke Center
    (Norton Brownsboro Hospital)
  • Certified Primary Stroke Center
    (Norton Audubon Hospital)
  • Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
    (Norton Brownsboro Hospital)