Highline 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 Highline Medical Center save lives? 11% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	17%
Heart Failure	13%
Pneumonia	13%

Infectious Disease at Highline 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	28
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 27m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 1 hour and 47 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 5 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 56 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

63% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Highline Medical Center Stories

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Oct 06, 2022, 3:24 AM
Highline Medical Center: "We’ve been here 10 hours now …." - Rebecca

Mar 07, 2018, 2:57 PM
Highline Medical Center: "Went in to the ER for a 3inch cut on the top of my head 8 day ago. Was in the ER for over 4 hours and when they did work on my head the entire job took less than 2 minutes. As I was waiting I could over hear the doctor I was waiting for through the curtain talking with her coworkers about everything from fashion choices to her pregnancy. She looked like she could go into labor any minute.
Went to get the staples out today at my family doctor and he said this was one of the worse staple jobs he had seen. It was crooked and the skin was overlapping so it couldn't heal properly. The wound was infected and he ended up removing the staples reopening the wound and stitching it back together the right way. I'm now on antibiotics for a week to help with the infection. On the up side they were all real nice. " - Brady

Apr 19, 2016, 7:12 PM
Highline Medical Center: "Went to er last thursday eve with a sprained ankle i had an outstanding experience wait time was maybe 5 minutes was taken to a room Molly was great dr aviles was thorough and great dont remember the young mans name who fitted my cast but he asked me when he was through how was i getting home i drove and my car was far away so he told me i wasnt going to walk by myself to my car he got a wheelchair and pushed me to my car total time was about 1 and 1/2 hours i have never had a better hospital experience thank you" - susan

Apr 18, 2016, 10:13 PM
Highline Medical Center: "Went to er last thursday eve with a sprained ankle i had an outstanding experience wait time was maybe 5 minutes was taken to a room Molly was great dr aviles was thorough and great dont remember the young mans name who fitted my cast but he asked me when he was through how was i getting home i drove and my car was far away so he told me i wasnt going to walk by myself to my car he got a wheelchair and pushed me to my car total time was about 1 and 1/2 hours i have never had a better hospital experience thank you" - susan

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