Gettysburg 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 Gettysburg Hospital save lives? 9% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	16%
Heart Failure	10%
Pneumonia	9%

Infectious Disease at Gettysburg 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	4
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 41m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 30 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 12 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 46 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

65% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Gettysburg Hospital Stories

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Mar 19, 2024, 6:22 PM
Abington Memorial Hospital: "This hospital is garbage unfortunately. Brought my daughter in with an abscess throat infection, spitting up blood, shivering with fever, can’t swallow her spit, and here we continue to sit three hours later. The hospital staff have an uncaring attitude. It’s sad how bad this hospital has failed since it was taken over." - Ben

Mar 17, 2024, 11:13 PM
: "At ate a health bad wait" - Ty

Feb 29, 2024, 4:44 AM
Abington Memorial Hospital: "I have arrived at Abington hospital at 7:25 and it’s 4:42 and I am still waiting to be seen by a doctor
It’s unhumain to see so many people suffering with such a long wait
Also the risks of being exposed to so many different virus during the long waits.
" - Gislene

Feb 19, 2024, 7:18 PM
Milton S Hershey Medical Center: "Been here waiting 12 hours " - Gregory

Feb 14, 2024, 4:20 PM
: "I sat a long while just to have the doctor say rectum nearly killed em." - Lewis

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