1670 Clairmont Road, Decatur, GA, 30033 · (404) 321-6111
Beds
456
Certified beds
Star rating
3 of 5
Patient survey: 2 of 5
Net patient revenue
-
No cost report
Net income
-
Discharges
-
Clinicians
0
From the hospital's yearly cost reports (fiscal years as the hospital reports them)
Locations are shown at the center of the ZIP code.
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate for COPD patients | 4.9% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 12% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 6% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.4% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 9.2% | US median 15.2% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 22.4% |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
No Medicare clinicians list this hospital.
Official US government data: hospital records, ownership records, yearly cost reports and quality measures, linked by the hospital's CCN and NPI. Financials are for fiscal years as reported by the hospital.
Decatur (Atlanta) VA Medical Center is a government-owned veterans affairs hospital in Decatur, GA with 456 beds and a 3-star overall rating.
Medicare clinicians who work here
| US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 14.8% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 22% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 5.7% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.9% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 4.3% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.21 | US median 0.96 |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.70 | US median 0.48 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.78 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 79% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 70% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 2 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 55% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 61% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 64% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 54% | US median 71% |
Decatur (Atlanta) VA Medical Center in Decatur, GA has 456 beds.
Decatur (Atlanta) VA Medical Center is not part of a multi-hospital health system in the official ownership records. It is a government-owned hospital (Government (federal)).
Decatur (Atlanta) VA Medical Center has an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 2 out of 5 stars in the patient survey. 3 death rate measures are better and 0 worse than the national rate.
Yes, Decatur (Atlanta) VA Medical Center provides emergency services.