Bethesda North 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 Bethesda North save lives? 4% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	14%
Heart Failure	11%
Pneumonia	12%

Infectious Disease at Bethesda North

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	108
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	12

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 45m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 7 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 47 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 27 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

76% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Bethesda North Stories

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Dec 03, 2021, 5:58 AM
Bethesda North: "poor service will find other place to get help ." - marty

Sep 24, 2017, 1:13 AM
Bethesda North: "Slow service nasty nurses will not answer call light " - steve

May 25, 2016, 8:35 AM
Bethesda North: "On May 20th I had lower back surgery, at Bethesda North, there were complications removing a bone fragment and the surgery took nearly 7 hours, during recovery I was scheduled a regiment of IV pain medication and oral pain medication every four hours. The nurses would not show up for 30-minutes to 1 hour and would often skip my IV medication and encourage me to wait an additional 30 minutes to 1 hour for my oral pain medication. They clearly were using stall tactics, they lectured me about addiction and made me feel guilty for asking for morphine, despite my severe pain from the back surgery. After begging for my SCHEDULED IV medicine I was given a weaker dose to just take the "edge off", I did not blame the nurses, I believe they are trained to treat patients in this manner. I left Bethesda North emotionally, and physically scarred, and will never return to that hospital for care. " - Jeff

Nov 23, 2015, 9:32 AM
Bethesda North: "My experience on the Orthopedic unit after surgery was horrible. The nurses were uncaring and non-responsive. I went 11 hours without pain meds and finally had to call the Doctor myself. Nurse Judy was the worst. I will never set foot in this hospital again.

I had a similar experience 8 years ago with my Mother and hoped they had changed. Nope, still the same.
" - Holly

Nov 23, 2015, 9:31 AM
Bethesda North: "My experience on the Orthopedic unit after surgery was horrible. The nurses were uncaring and non-responsive. I went 11 hours without pain meds and finally had to call the Doctor myself. Nurse Judy was the worst. I will never set foot in this hospital again.

I had a similar experience 8 years ago with my Mother and hoped they had changed. Nope, still the same.
" - Holly

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