Fairview Southdale 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 Fairview Southdale Hospital save lives? 7% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	15%
Heart Failure	10%
Pneumonia	10%

Infectious Disease at Fairview Southdale 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	72
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 51m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 3 hour and 25 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 28 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 36 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

67% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Fairview Southdale Hospital Stories

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Oct 11, 2022, 1:48 AM
Fairview Southdale Hospital: "My sister in law was brought in by ambulance, we arrived 2 hours after she arrived. She was still waiting for her initial evaluation when we arrived. Over an hour later she was taken to "triage", she had blood draws, blood pressure and an EKG.

We have now been waiting over 5 hours. No one has checked back, let us know test results or next steps. When we ask we are told that she is not dire enough to be seen yet and to wait. Again we have been sitting here over 5 hours, no indication of severity of her condition nor estimated wait time to see physician who could ultimately tell her to go home.

How is this patient centered health care? How is it possible that an emergency room can safely treat patients with these extreme wait times and lack of communication?

This standard of care, lack of care is appalling and totally unacceptable.

Going on 6+ hours now and counting, she is still in distress and has yet to be seen - how is this allowed?

10/10/22" - Tracey

May 24, 2022, 8:58 AM
Fairview Southdale Hospital: "I have questions: how has covid impacted the ER at F Southdale? How has it impacted weekend staffing and wait times? I had to come in with a kidney stone last Sunday 5/22/22. Never had one before and was in a lot of pain, vomiting. After being supplied with a urine-sample kit, my wait time was 90 minutes before I was taken into a treatment room and receive pain relief. I was really surprised, but got to thinking that the brutal treatment toward medical professionals during covid is likely the cause. The decimating of staff through covid deaths. The insane attitudes toward nurses & doctors since covid began. Is there any hard evidence backing up my theory? Thanks!" - Susan

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