Harford Memorial 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 Harford Memorial Hospital save lives? 5% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	18%
Heart Failure	11%
Pneumonia	12%

Infectious Disease at Harford Memorial 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	0
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 0m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 0 hour and 0 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 46 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 2 hour and 13 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

62% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Harford Memorial Hospital Stories

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Feb 13, 2024, 2:42 PM
Harford Memorial Hospital: "Harford memorial hasn't existed since Feb 6 2024 yet this page says there's a 248 minute wait " - Brandon

Oct 15, 2023, 4:05 AM
Harford Memorial Hospital: "This hospital needs to be closed down for good cause the staff doesn't care about the patients. They are only there for the paycheck. The ER staff is the worst but I will say the staff upstairs does care a little. When they see your report and see what medication you take at home they think you are there just for meds but your not. I have been there a couple of times for pain in my back and my legs and they let you sit there for 10hrs before checking on you. I was crying in pain cause never had this before and they didn't care. I had numbness in my legs and into my feet. I called for help a couple times and got no help but when they took me upstairs and I told them how I was feeling and my pain passed a 10 they call the Dr on call and asked if I can have something stronger and something to relax me. They said sorry about what happened in the ER and took care of me without bitching. So that is why I said the ER NEEDS TO BE CLOSED. " - Mike

Oct 13, 2023, 12:21 AM
Harford Memorial Hospital: "I've been here over 3 hrs, and my son is 7 with croup. He's been barking in the ER and they won't do ANYTHING at all " - Katie

Aug 23, 2021, 10:07 PM
Harford Memorial Hospital: "I got here and my daughter is still waiting on the waiting room and she got a migraine she need to be somewhere quite " - dorene

Aug 23, 2021, 9:53 PM
Harford Memorial Hospital: "I got here and my daughter is still waiting on the waiting room and she got a migraine she need to be somewhere quite " - dorene

Mar 08, 2018, 12:45 PM
Harford Memorial Hospital: "After being transferred from another unit in the hospital (Severe depression) 1-6-2018 for a heart problem detected during a routine check of vital signs ,, I was given an Echocardiogram then wheeled back to my room for "evaluation". It was there I spent 4 days waiting for test results but on Wednesday 1-10-2018 at 4 am I developed a lower abdomen pain and was diagnosed as "Constipation" ,,followed up with a laxative ... the pain worsened and by 6 AM I was doubled over with pain // but in the meantime my male nurse was filling out basic information on another patient in my room .. when I overheard him asking the patient if he had a downstairs bathroom ,, I moaned out loud "Geezsus, I have an emergency" to which he Replied "Constipation is not an emergency" .. I finally feel on the floor before convincing someone I needed a Cat Scan ,, the results of which showed kidney stones // I suffered for almost 5 hours before being given pain medication (In addition to the laxative).
I then suffered all night from severe diarrhea brought on from the wrongly prescribed large dosages of laxative.
The next day found me recovering from the stone/diarrhea and I was able to get some peaceful rest ... that was until about 9pm when this awful pain developed in my penis ... it felt like the inside was ripped apart before the nurse gave me something for the pain. The medication ebbed for about an hour then began to return. I woke up around 3am with pain resembling the pain I had 2 days prior so I pressed the nurse call button .. I suspect but am not sure the initial diagnosis of Constipation was interpreted as being my problem so once again I had to endure pain progression and by 5am I was begging for help ... it was then the nurse told me that my doctor was unavailable until after 6am .. I was hurting,, boy was I hurting until a contraction doubled me over and I fell from my bed to the floor /// the nurses responded by ordering me back in bed ,, it was then my anger erupted. My language would have put a sailor to shame as I screamed for help while admonishing all who were around me ,, it was at this point someone administered pain medication and given another cat-scan (never did know the results but the pain was all I cared about) .. I was released last Sunday 1-14-2018" - Tom

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