Blessing Hospital 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 Blessing Hospital save lives? 6% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	15%
Heart Failure	13%
Pneumonia	13%

Infectious Disease at Blessing Hospital

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	40
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 33m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 1 hour and 57 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 23 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 10 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

Blessing Hospital Stories

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Dec 09, 2016, 12:53 AM
Blessing Hospital: "Blessing Hospital was rated as one of the best hospitals in the Midwest. I can't see how. Some of the doctors are so unprofessional. I had an MRI done with anesthetic. The anesthesiologist (Dr. Nguyen) told me that they normally don't do MRI's with anesthetic on adults and we should "SUCK IT UP." She also tried to talk me out of having it done with anesthetic. The procedure was scheduled well in advance. Patients are already under some form of stress or anxiety when they arrive. When I told her to just do it with anesthesia. She acted rude and had an attitude. NO PATIENT should have to feel that way I felt. I honestly felt like I was bothering her when it IS HER JOB to make me or any other patient feel comfortable and do the procedure as scheduled. I would NEVER recommend Blessing Hospital to anyone. " - Jane

Jul 13, 2016, 6:10 PM
Blessing Hospital: "Blessing hospital is an absolute joke. Nobody knows what they're talking about. No communication. My "Doctor" said he would come down to do my procedure and then told an ER doctor to do it. The ER Doctor called to ask what to do, recovery information, etc, and the doctor said that I would come back in a day to get packing removed and that I would be able to return to work in 4 days. Today we called my doctor to get told we couldn't be seen until 6 days later and that my packing should have been getting changed 2 times a day, which was not what we were told. And also that I couldn't return to work for a week which was frustrating due to the fact that I had already called work twice to tell them I could work within 4 days. I had a polonital cyst on my tailbone. When we came into the the emergency room nobody (including my Doctor) knew what that was. My family has NEVER had good experience with Blessing Hospital and I would never recommend going there. It was an awful experience. I will be taking a drive to Hannibal hospital next time. " - Garret

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