Brigham And Women's Faulkner 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 Brigham And Women's Faulkner Hospital save lives? 4% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	15%
Heart Failure	11%
Pneumonia	11%

Infectious Disease at Brigham And Women's Faulkner 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	12
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	4

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 33m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 16 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 1 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 19 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

74% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Brigham And Women's Faulkner Hospital Stories

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Dec 15, 2020, 2:19 AM
Brigham And Women's Faulkner Hospital: "BWFH checked in 12/14 10:33pm my mother .
My mother 75 yo fall on her back.
In pain , high blood pressure.
It is almost 2:30am and we still waiting (!)
I just found out that there only one Doctor and one PA on rotation in ER.
And only 3 nurses.
This is unexeptable . " - Katerina

Dec 15, 2020, 2:17 AM
Brigham And Women's Faulkner Hospital: "BWFH checked in 12/14 10:33pm my mother .
My mother 75 yo fall on her back.
In pain , high blood pressure.
It is almost 2:30am and we still waiting (!)
I just found out that there only one Doctor and one PA on rotation in ER.
And only 3 nurses.
This is unexeptable . " - Katerina

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