Aurora St Lukes 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 Aurora St Lukes Medical Center save lives? 18% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	13%
Heart Failure	9%
Pneumonia	10%

Infectious Disease at Aurora St Lukes 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	180
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	8

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 34m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 47 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 25 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 37 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

Aurora St Lukes Medical Center Stories

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Sep 06, 2023, 5:01 PM
Waukesha Memorial Hospital: "Dude I have been waiting for 5hours when there are lots of people sitting in the waiting room..I understand that people need help but so do I right now" - Richard

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May 15, 2022, 11:01 PM
Columbia St Mary's Hospital Milwaukee: "Wait time for emergency room was very long at the lake drive location in Milwaukee. Checked in at 6:30PM. It's 10P and we are still in the waiting room. This is unacceptable for emergency room care. We've been here so long that I had to request another oxygen tank for mom as hers ran low while we are waiting. " - Anthony

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