Huntsville 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 Huntsville Hospital save lives? 7% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	15%
Heart Failure	12%
Pneumonia	14%

Infectious Disease at Huntsville 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	120
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	32

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 1h 4m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 3 hour and 4 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 55 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 51 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

73% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Huntsville Hospital Stories

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Mar 12, 2024, 7:17 PM
Huntsville Hospital: "I have been waiting at Huntsville Hospital Madison ER for over 5 hours now. Still not in a room. I’m a single mom and need to get home. " - Jennifer

Dec 03, 2023, 8:46 PM
Huntsville Hospital: "I have been in this waiting room for an agonizing 13 hours with no end in sight. This is inexcusable and whoever is running this department is an abject failure and embarrassment to their profession! Shame on this facility, nothing about emergency response should take 13 hours! This establishment is the complete opposite of CARE! " - Steven

Dec 11, 2022, 8:09 AM
Huntsville Hospital: "I have been in this waiting room for an agonizing 13 hours with no end in sight. This is inexcusable and whoever is running this department is an abject failure and embarrassment to their profession! Shame on this facility, nothing about emergency response should take 13 hours! This establishment is the complete opposite of CARE! " - Steven

Dec 11, 2022, 3:30 AM
Huntsville Hospital: "I have been in this waiting room for an agonizing 13 hours with no end in sight. This is inexcusable and whoever is running this department is an abject failure and embarrassment to their profession! Shame on this facility, nothing about emergency response should take 13 hours! This establishment is the complete opposite of CARE! " - Steven

Dec 11, 2022, 3:17 AM
Huntsville Hospital: "I have been in this waiting room for an agonizing 13 hours with no end in sight. This is inexcusable and whoever is running this department is an abject failure and embarrassment to their profession! Shame on this facility, nothing about emergency response should take 13 hours! This establishment is the complete opposite of CARE! " - Steven

Dec 08, 2022, 3:48 PM
Huntsville Hospital: "Currently still waiting. Got here at 10 am. It’s almost 3 pm. " - Smith

Nov 28, 2022, 6:42 AM
Huntsville Hospital: "Been here for seven hours and not been seen. Ridiculous. " - Virgil

Oct 04, 2022, 5:24 AM
Huntsville Hospital: "so went to Madison er for my 6 month old daughter the first time. very helpful great experience. they said if she doesn't improve or seems to be getting worse to take her to children's er. (Her pediatrician is out of town we do have appointment when he returns.)
well I take her down to children's cause she started running another fever and coughing allot. Against my better judgment I drove the hour to children's er and sat there for 4 hours, then proceeded to watch
several people get to go straight back. some I understood younger babies sounding horrible, but the others not so understandable, apparently if you need a translator you get to skip the line. and the several people who asked why they got to go back first when they just got here got a massive attitude from the nurse. the only thing I would give them credit for is the front door security gaurd she was very helpful and friendly. I will drive 2 hours north to Vanderbilt or south to Birmingham before ever attempting to return there." - Desiree

Feb 14, 2022, 5:15 AM
Huntsville Hospital: "Yay, after 15 hours of her waiting miserably in the waiting room (not exaggerating) she is going back for test. … I really do not recommend this place." - Keith

Feb 14, 2022, 5:13 AM
Huntsville Hospital: "Yay, after 15 hours of her waiting miserably in the waiting room (not exaggerating) she is going back for test. … I really do not recommend this place." - Keith

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