Alamance Regional Medical Center Ratings

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Contents:
Quality of Care - Infectious Diseases - ER Wait Time - Patient Ratings

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Quality of Care - Mortality Rate

How well does Alamance Regional Medical Center save lives? 6% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	14%
Heart Failure	15%
Pneumonia	12%

Infectious Disease at Alamance Regional Medical Center

Drug resistant bacteria are becoming the largest health facing the United States. There are an increasing number of drug resistant bacteria, including: drug resistant bacteria due primarily to unnecessary and mis-applied use among humans and livestock, patients with hospitalizations for relatively minor reasons can suddenly face lifethreatening illness.

While many hospitals are implementing questionable flu vaccinations¹ for their employees, many fewer have as rigorous solutions for nosocomial MDR infections.

Infectious Disease	Cases
C. Diff Sickens more than a half million people each year and has a 17% mortality rate after one year2	32
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	0

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 1h 36m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 3 hour and 30 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 12 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 3 hour and 20 minutes delay before leaving to their room.

Patient Ratings

While customer satisfaction surveys don't necessarily reflect the quality of care provided at the hospital, it can identify some areas that are important standards to maintain, such as managing pain and maintaining a sanitary environment.

Overall Rating: AVERAGE

70% of patients rate the hospital excellent



Footnotes:
¹Questionable efficacy of flu vaccination
²C Diff Mortality Rate
³MRSA Mortality Rate

Alamance Regional Medical Center Stories

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Feb 24, 2023, 2:54 AM
Alamance Regional Medical Center: "I have been sick for over 3 weeks...have been to PCP and still sick. Been here for 2 and a half hours and just heard the 1st name called since I've been here but have seen at least 5 people discharged. This is unacceptable. I am so uncomfortable just sitting here waiting. " - Mildred

Dec 01, 2022, 10:11 PM
Alamance Regional Medical Center: "This place sucks! 9+ hours and still waiting in waiting room without being seen by anyone! Why? This is unheard of! Some one can die waiting! The emergency room filled and emptied several times while waiting. Still waiting! Can’t ask questions people get offended. End up waiting longer if you ask questions about how much longer. Someone needs to handle such problems!" - Joe

May 26, 2021, 7:16 AM
Alamance Regional Medical Center: "I arrived at the ED at 4:55 am on Wednesday, May 19. Receiving my After Visit Summary, I see that my sore throat, nasal congestion, and cough were the only symptoms listed, though I specifically said the light-headedness, dizziness, and extremely weak kneed feeling were what brought me into the ED at that time. I had taken a MucinexDM at midnight, and at 2 am some of congestion was gone, but mouth was very dry (along with other symptoms). No fever, which may have taken them off track. BP was 180. Waited over 90 minutes before getting into room. Two ACC students asked questions, put on BP monitor. I did not realize BP monitor was on upside down, but monitor was buzzing and no one came in to check. Blood was drawn by one of ACC students - high white blood cells, glucose 150. PA-C gave a very quick exam. Listened with stethoscope to back and said "sounded good" but did not check chest from front or ears (since I complained of dizziness). Looked quickly at throat, said looked ok. Nurse upon leaving said to continue with Mucinex, should be fine. I took MucinexDM faithfully 2x daily upon leaving ED, and was able to have a virtual office visit with my Primary Care office where I was diagnosed with Pneumonia and put on Azithromycin immediately. I started to feel better the next day." - Betty

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