Legacy Good Samaritan 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 Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center save lives? 7% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	15%
Heart Failure	12%
Pneumonia	10%

Infectious Disease at Legacy Good Samaritan 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	16
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 27m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 49 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 14 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 54 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

Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center Stories

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Jul 22, 2022, 5:25 AM
Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center: "Been waiting withvSEVERE abdominal pain for 3 hours.????”" - Jennifer

Jul 22, 2022, 3:48 AM
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Jun 29, 2022, 9:36 PM
Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center: "Legacy good Sam and meridian park ER I tried to be seen Sunday Monday Tuesday and Wednesday all days except Wednesday I left after waitin 4-6 hours and not even be evacuated then becareful if you leave to many time the us" - Samantha-Anne

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