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Hutcheson Medical Center Ratings

100 GROSS CRESCENT
Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742
Phone: (706) 858-2101

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Emergency Services: YES




Contents:
Quality of Care - Infectious Diseases - ER Wait Time - Patient Ratings



Quality of Care - Mortality Rate

How well does Hutcheson Medical Center save lives? 4% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.
Mortality Rate
Heart Attack16%
Heart Failure13%
Pneumonia12%


Infectious Disease at Hutcheson 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 DiseaseCases
C. Diff
Sickens more than a half million people each year and has a 17% mortality rate after one year2
8
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 43m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 39 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 22 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 10 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
Hutcheson Medical Center 4.45 out of 5 based on 27 ratings. 27 user reviews.


64% of patients rate the hospital excellent

Positive Patient Ratings

Some patients praise:
  • Nurses usually take time to communicate well
  • Pain was usually controlled for patients

Negative Patient Ratings

  • Facilities are sometimes dirty




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



Hutcheson Medical Center Stories



Jan 02, 2024, 2:56 PM
Northside Hospital Forsyth: "NORTHSIDE FORSYTH Not sure how they figure the two hour wait time. We've been here 6 hours. My wife is showing serious symptoms yet we are just sitting here getting worse. " - PHILIP

Oct 04, 2023, 3:52 PM
Wellstar Cobb Hospital: "Pain in knee and hand gets kno" - Helen

Sep 18, 2023, 6:45 PM
St Mary's Hospital: "I have always had a good experience with St Mary's except for this time the emergency room was a little packed I had gotten there at approximately 5: 30 ish I didn't get back into the ER part with a room until about 8:30. Then once I got back into the emergency room I was hooked up to monitors given pain medicine and just left in there they did an exam on me and I have been ringing the nurses call button they told me they would get my nurse well about 30 minutes it went by I still had not heard nothing so I took all my monitors off I was very irritated at this point I had been neglected in the waiting room now I was being neglected in the emergency room. And as I took the monitors off I sat there for about 20 more minutes nobody ever come to check to see if I was okay anything so I finally got up and I walked out and I had an IV stuck in my arm and had to have a cop come out to my house and remove it it is the worst experience I have ever had at a hospital. But what really got me was when I took all the monitors off and nobody even bothered to come out there and see if I was still alive or dead.q" - Jody

Sep 06, 2023, 2:14 AM
Southern Regional Medical Center: "It’s 2:13 am I’ve been waiting since 7:40 pm to be seen about blood covering my eyes due to busted blood vessels I’ve just been sitting here and it doesn’t seem like I’m going to be seen before 8am I’m crying " - Merquise

Aug 22, 2023, 8:26 AM
Emory University Hospital Midtown: "I had nasal cancer and surgery on July 14,2020. Because of covid I wasn’t allowed anyone to stay or visit me. It was 10.5 hour surgery. They replaced my palate with a Musale from my right wrist. They took skin from my key to cover my wrist. Took all my top teeth out and put all but two back. My throat was cut all the way across. There were 6 drainage tubes. I was supposed to be in icu for 3 days. They put me in a reg room after one day. They said because of covid. Everything is because of covid. I was treated terrible once I got to the reg room. It was like being in a third world country. I couldn’t talk or write. My arm was in a cast and had two drainage tubes. Nobody was helpful to me at all. I’m surprised I even lived. I had gastric cancer in 2011 and was in a Gwinnett county hospital. I don’t have one bad thing to say against that hospital. 24 days there and excellent care. I complained as best I could to Emory once I could speak some. Nobody ever got back to me. It was inhumane treatment. Beware if you are ever there on the 2nd floor. " - Joy


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