Bartow 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 Bartow Regional Medical Center save lives? 0% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	16%
Heart Failure	11%
Pneumonia	12%

Infectious Disease at Bartow 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	12
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: 0h 25m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 1 hour and 59 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 25 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 33 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: BELOW AVERAGE

55% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Bartow Regional Medical Center Stories

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Mar 09, 2021, 7:20 AM
Bartow Regional Medical Center: "Although there are a very select couple of nurses who go above and beyond Being caring and just treating someone who is terrified scared and alone with some9ne with decency for the most part the day and 2nd shift nurses are very rude nasty people who not only allowed my alarm to go off for 45 minutes without any response until my husband called up there which only caused more mistreatment including lying on my chart about what they were doing for me slamming my water not ice water my water on the table in front of my stating I has snacks from the empty packages on the table standing outside my room laughing and saying bitch go home as well as other nasty rude comments and treatment Being yelled at like I was bothering them my iv was leaking and nothing was done to fix or even hooked back up I am going to file a lawsuit for the emotional and mental trauma all this caused me

" - Tammy

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