Bay Medical Center Sacred Heart Health System 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 Bay Medical Center Sacred Heart Health System save lives? 16% 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 Bay Medical Center Sacred Heart Health System

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	36
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 46m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 49 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 21 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 2 hour and 48 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

71% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Bay Medical Center Sacred Heart Health System Stories

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Jul 17, 2017, 6:06 PM
Bay Medical Center Sacred Heart Health System: "I was in severe pain and knew SOMETHING was REALLY wrong with me! We arrived at Bay County where I was handed a cup for a urine sample and told to sit in the waiting area. I was the loudest person in there writhing in pain. I was seen to take vitals where my bp was 80/60 and was put back in the waiting area. Then tried to lay flat to get a CT scan. I screamed in pain so loud that nurses came running from down the hall and was then put back into the waiting area. Almost lost consciousnesses twice and nothing was done. Something was deathly wrong with me. Thank goodness I had the foresight after 3 hours of waiting in intense pain to call another ER and see what the wait time was. (I'll post an excellent review on them as well) Bay County was by far the worst experience of my life! I've never been in that amount of pain before and no one was doing anything to help...however, the young lady coming off a heroin high was getting a lot of attention...and pain medication...true story. (In case your curious, I ended up having a ruptured ovarian cyst no one even knew about and had 2 liters of blood pooling up into every empty space of my body. The ER doc and surgeon said I was very lucky to change hospitals and they are certain even 1 hour more and I would have died!) " - Bay

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