King's Daughters' 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 King's Daughters' Medical Center save lives? 1% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

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

Infectious Disease at King's Daughters' 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	64
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 22m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 36 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 9 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 19 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

75% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

King's Daughters' Medical Center Stories

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Jun 22, 2017, 10:14 PM
King's Daughters' Medical Center: "I'm not sure about the main hospital, but the Urgent care in Grayson is a catastrophe. The fat loser NP Tom Thomas doesn't want to do anything to help anyone or listen to concerns. Thinks hes knows everything and that all the patients are stupid. Needs to be fired and have his license revoked. Very disappointed in Kings Daughters." - Alfred

Feb 04, 2015, 1:46 AM
King's Daughters' Medical Center: "Kings Daughters hospital is a horrible hospital that almost killed me. I was having my appendix removed and instead they severed my large intestine and I became toxic and was vomiting black bile for days and almost died. They also gave me MRSA and had the worst staff I have ever experienced. They changed my sheets only once a week and the hospital has gotten very large over the years but they are understaffed and overworked. The house keepers told me that they had to clean three times the amount of rooms they used to and that they fired many senior workers because they had to pay them more and have tried many times to shut the unions out and decrease quality of equal pay and benefits for equal work. The hospital is a stain on the Ashland, Ky community and only cares about their bottom dollar and not their patients or employees. The outbreaks of STAFF and MRSA have been exploding there and they have been embroiled in contrversy, greed and rampant corruption that has been well documented in our local newspapers. KDMC truly has become an embarrassment to former doctors and nurses who helped build a strong foundation for it, but greed and poor decision making based on cutting staff and gouging patients has ruined a once proud establishment. It is sad but true and if you don't want to catch a horrible disease and end up in worse shape then when you walked in I would stay away from KDMC like the plague because it is an eyesore on my hometown and a mockery of the Hippocratic oath. You have been warned by someone who experienced their filth and greed first hand unfortunately." - Michael

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