Geisinger Medical Center 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 Geisinger Medical Center save lives? 8% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

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

Infectious Disease at Geisinger Medical Center

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	192
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	36

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 24m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 33 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 28 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 3 hour and 14 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

78% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Geisinger Medical Center Stories

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Oct 22, 2020, 11:28 AM
Geisinger Medical Center: "I arrived 8:30 10/19/20 for a swallow test. I finally was taken back about 9:15 or 20 after . The speach therapist Alison M. Leskiw arrived , clearly wasn't happy to be there. After the test, she asked me if I had any "weakness " ..I'm obviously not a medical professional, I advised I have a thyroid condition , ( thinking she's referring to my neck ) she was irritated , asking " no weakness!" .Well now I'm really more upset ,I was worried to begin with. I advised I have arthritis, she became downright hostile , snapping " No , Neurological !" ,Now I'm stunned , confused ,and ready to cry , I just blurted "no.."and had to get out of there..Now I'm thinking "What is she talking about ?? M.S.?? I don't ever want to deal with her again. What's more , Nobody should be treated like that! Her attitude from the get go was lousy, but I shrugged it off. The nasty grilling at the end was totally uncalled for. Thank you for your time.
" - Catherine

Jul 13, 2016, 3:30 AM
Geisinger Medical Center: "Geisinger health system as a whole reminds me of a person who buys a luxurious house but can not afford to furnish it...all for show. They can not staff what they build, completely pathetic. They claim to be "caring" but are unable to live up to their words. A 4-6hr wait time in an outdated emergency room with frustrated overworked and underpaid staff members = idiocy, period! It reminds me of a on line seller claims to have all the product and then you place the order to find out they won't give you your money back and you have an eight week lead time. Imagine a five-star hotel with a single outhouse restroom.... that's the feeling you get when you walk into the emergency room of these ridiculous facilities. They can spend all the money on advertising and changing logos and claiming that they are there for the patient but cannot live up to the words. Sort of like a Patiller selling a rotten vegetables but keeps explaining how delicious and good looking they are while showing you a fungus covered tomato. Profit driven egotists. GEISINGER -> Greedy Egotistical Imbeciles, complete with your choice of words. Thanks! " - Laurie

Apr 26, 2016, 10:05 PM
Geisinger Medical Center: "I went to Geisinger in Danville for chest pain. They took me for an x-ray and blood work then sent me to the waiting room. Supposed to give me aspirin but never did. I finally just walked out of the waiting room after being there for six hours. I understand they were busy but six hours with chest pain. " - Sandra

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