Higgins General 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 Higgins General Hospital save lives? 8% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Failure	13%
Pneumonia	12%

Infectious Disease at Higgins General 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 50m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 10 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 29 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 0 hour and 57 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

Higgins General Hospital Stories

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Sep 02, 2021, 4:14 PM
Higgins General Hospital: "So my husband went to Bremen Higgins today. Waited 4 hours just to not be seen. They said it wasnt medical necessity that he see a dr. His hand is extremely swelled and he cant use it. We had to go 30 miles to a floyd urgent care to be seen. He has staff that was running to his arm to his heart and has a bunch of meds now. He was there 4 hours and they kept taking people after he came in said he wasnt sick and didnt need to see the doctors. He has no spleen and cant fight infection well. So now I might lose him due to the negligence of this er. I will be filing a form complaint with the state and anybody else that will listen. My husband's life wasnt as good as everybody else's today. He wasnt important to them. We will never use this hospital, you'd have better luck at a veterinary clinic.... " - Heather

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