Community Hospital East 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 Community Hospital East save lives? 18% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	16%
Heart Failure	15%
Pneumonia	15%

Infectious Disease at Community Hospital East

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 39m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 29 minutes

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

66% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Community Hospital East Stories

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Jul 01, 2023, 6:01 PM
Community Hospital East: "Our experience was zero. We were there well over 21/2 hours and wasn’t taken back to a room at all. My sister was very sick and also letting others go ahead of us with similar issues. Not at all impressed by this hospital. She never was seen. We finally left." - Dana

Jul 01, 2023, 9:21 AM
Community Hospital East: "Our experience was zero. We were there well over 21/2 hours and wasn’t taken back to a room at all. My sister was very sick and also letting others go ahead of us with similar issues. Not at all impressed by this hospital. She never was seen. We finally left." - Dana

Jan 09, 2023, 1:58 PM
Community Hospital East: "???? The wait wouldn't be so bad if the staff was in a better mood the past two times I've been at this hospital Community East Hospital in Indianapolis Indiana the staff has been awful, they've been short, uncaring, would barley look at me and just down right rude and mean and man I'll tell you if you tell them that you want someone else to try to get the IV in they'll get an attitude but after 3 or 4 times IT'S TIME TO GET SOMEONE ELSE! I always thought that was a rule or something ???????? God bless you all in Jesus Christ Mighty Holy Name Amen And Amen ????????????????????????" - Rebecca

Aug 29, 2021, 6:32 PM
Community Hospital East: "Just left this ER. Heard ER nurse say wait is 7-8 hrs. Also said no rooms in the back or upstairs. " - Liz

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