Gordon 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 Gordon Hospital save lives? 2% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	14%
Heart Failure	14%
Pneumonia	10%

Infectious Disease at Gordon 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	16
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 34m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 1 hour and 56 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 58 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 16 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

77% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Gordon Hospital Stories

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Oct 04, 2022, 5:11 PM
Gordon Hospital: "Run DO NOT GO TO THIS ER, WORST Drs around! Staff is nice and helpful but Drs are jerks. " - April

Oct 04, 2022, 12:37 PM
Gordon Hospital: "Run DO NOT GO TO THIS ER, WORST Drs around! Staff is nice and helpful but Drs are jerks. " - April

Jun 30, 2021, 12:52 PM
Gordon Hospital: "They're sorry they treat you like a pill head won't give you anything to stop even hurting muscle relaxers don't stop pain and tramadol don't stop pain especially when you separated your shoulder I would suggest going to another hospital to leave Gordon county alone cuz they sent me out of there hurt saying my x-rays didn't show anything wrong with my shoulder but when I went to Floyd medical they said I separated my shoulder again so unless you want to be sent home hurting and pain and something from being wrong with you and them telling you they ain't I would go somewhere else!" - WILLIAM

Jun 25, 2021, 2:30 PM
Gordon Hospital: "Courtney W a nurse at the Gordon hospital emergency room was the best nurse I’ve ever encountered! My mom lost a lot of blood and when this happens she has to have a blood transfusion. All the nurses that ever worked on my mom never could get a IV! They poked her so many it killed me! Well thank God for Courtney W. she got the IV after only two tries! She’s amazing!" - Britney

Dec 20, 2016, 5:44 PM
Gordon Hospital: "I have had my dad here over 5 hours and he has't been fed dinner and isn't in a room.
In er for over 5 hours is unacceptable and we still don't know how kong before he gets a room. " - al

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