Kaweah Delta 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 Kaweah Delta Medical Center save lives? 9% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	18%
Heart Failure	11%
Pneumonia	14%

Infectious Disease at Kaweah Delta 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	44
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	8

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 28m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 3 hour and 10 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 16 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

68% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Kaweah Delta Medical Center Stories

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Dec 28, 2022, 1:57 AM
Kaweah Delta Medical Center: "I pray that when I have an event I have ample time to go to Stanford. I also pray that my grandchildren can be immediately taken to Valley Children’s.

I am seriously concerned about the value of life verses money at Kaweah. By the way. Why does Kaweah keep changing its name? Also, why is it necessary to pay for pricey commercial on TV? Shouldn’t word of mouth be ample with the Stella care you claim to provide?" - Toni

Jun 24, 2017, 10:06 AM
Kaweah Delta Medical Center: "We came here for severe left eye pain . I went back was seen by PA then blood work and just waiting in the waiting room. It's been about 4 hrs. There's about only two patients in ER waiting to be seen. This place is very dirty bugs running around bathrooms very dirty. PA wanted to rule out eye stroke that he said is serious to him and needed to be checked. So if it was so urgent why are we waiting still. My wife worked in the ER and never seen such a dirty area and in violation of the HIPPA law. I wouldn't recommend thus hospital to no one if I would have known this I would have drove to Bakersfield 1hr 15min just to go to Dignity Hispital/Mercy Hospital but thinking since this is the only Hospital out here looks very bad on Visilia. Will never come here again unfortunately . The RN never comes out to check on anyone here BP,Vitals, temp. " - Jim

Oct 14, 2016, 2:44 AM
Kaweah Delta Medical Center: "So weve been wait here for 4 hours or more an they lag so much hardle check in they still havent even put me in a god damn room this hospital sucks ass im ging everyone a heads up do not ever come here...." - Hope

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