Riverside General Hospital

Acute care hospital with emergency services · Columbus, OH · CMS certification number 360000 (example)

Outcomes by procedure

Each result was measured for the hospital. It includes every doctor who treated patients there and is not any one doctor's result. Patients are Medicare fee-for-service unless a row says otherwise.

Hip and knee replacement

Complications after hip or knee replacementLower is better

2.1% of eligible patients had a complication. CMS rates this no different from the national rate of 2.4%.

Apr 2020 to Mar 2023 · CMS adjusts this rate for differences between patients
Unplanned readmission after hip or knee replacementLower is better

4.0% of patients returned to a hospital unplanned within 30 days. CMS rates this no different from the national rate.

Jul 2020 to Jun 2023 · planned readmissions, such as a scheduled surgery on the other knee, do not count

Heart attack and heart bypass surgery

Death within 30 days after a heart attackLower is better

12.4% of heart attack patients died within 30 days. CMS rates this no different from the national rate.

Jul 2020 to Jun 2023 · CMS adjusts this rate for differences between patients
Death within 30 days after heart bypass surgeryToo few cases

CMS did not publish a rate. The hospital had too few eligible cases.

Jul 2020 to Jun 2023 · too few cases is not a good or bad result

Colon surgery and all patients

Infection after colon surgeryLower is better

The infection ratio is 0.82. CMS rates this no different from the national benchmark of 1.0.

Jan to Dec 2025 · under 1.0 means fewer infections than predicted · all patients, not only Medicare
Serious complications, all patientsLower is better

The serious complication score is 0.98. CMS rates this no different from the national value.

Jul 2021 to Jun 2023 · CMS defines how this score combines several safety events

Delivery

Severe complications during deliveryWithheld by CMS

CMS withheld this value for every hospital in the current release.

Current release · a withheld value is not zero and not a poor result

Programs

The kidney transplant and adult heart surgery programs have registry results. OpenHealth holds both for review and does not show them yet.

Doctors who list this hospital

214 doctors list this hospital in the CMS directory. Each doctor's own results are on their profile. The hospital's results above are not theirs.

Location

1Riverside General Hospital3.4 mi

3535 Example Drive, Columbus, OH 43214

(614) 555-0199 · Emergency services, per CMS hospital information
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Sources and methods

Every value on this page comes from one of these public files. OpenHealth reads them again each night. A missing result is not a zero, and no page combines results into one score.

  • CMS hospital complications and deathsHospital results · periods vary by measureOpen file
  • CMS unplanned hospital visitsHospital results · Jul 2020 to Jun 2023Open file
  • Transplant program registry (SRTR)Program results · held until cohort dates are confirmedOpen file
  • Society of Thoracic Surgeons public reportsProgram results · held while reuse terms are reviewedOpen file