Meritus 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 Meritus Medical Center save lives? 5% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	17%
Heart Failure	11%
Pneumonia	13%

Infectious Disease at Meritus 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	0
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 0m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 0 hour and 0 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 59 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 2 hour and 59 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

74% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Meritus Medical Center Stories

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Jun 02, 2022, 10:14 AM
Meritus Medical Center: "I waited for 11 hours after hitting my head and having a seizure. " - McKenna

May 29, 2022, 12:32 PM
Meritus Medical Center: "Yesterday, I took my dad into the ER due to him exhibiting many stroke-like symptoms. His blood pressure and our statements were collected as to why we were there that day within 5-minutes. We waited about 30-minutes to get his blood drawn and an additional 1-hour to have a CT scan done. After that, we were told that we’ll know more in about 1-hour and to please wait in the patient area, so we did. After waiting an additional 7-hours, checking in with the main desk to see what the delay was, we were told that it’ll only take 1-hour once the doctor reviews over the information collected. Because I love my dad, I’ll wait forever and push when necessary to make things happen. Despite our patience and combined efforts, my dad's faith was crush and he finally walked out the door enraged telling me, “Now you know why I don’t believe in our health care system. If this is the best I can expect, then I guess I’m gonna die.”. Our story is not unique but I’m pushing forward to try to get situations like this the attention they need because like the loving family that sat behind is, they were STILL waiting after being there for 18+hours. For everyone involved in the medical community, thank you for your service. For those encouraging the mindset of doing more with less, shame on you. May karma bless you and your loved ones as you have blessed us." - Isaac

Sep 05, 2021, 12:51 AM
Meritus Medical Center: "Sat here for almost 5 hours with chest pain..nausea..vomiting and Lowe back pain. Ridiculous they took a hospital nurses kid with broken POSSIBLE bones bone first " - Michelle

Oct 10, 2017, 10:09 PM
Meritus Medical Center: "I received excellent care for my outpatient ERCP surgery at this hospital. Four days later I began having complications from my surgery and arrived at the ER at 3:00 PM in SEVERE right side abdominal pain. I was left in the waiting room doubled over in pain for 4 hours and finally made it back to a room in the ER at 7:00 PM. The nursing staff and the doctor allowed me to suffer for an additional hour prior to beginning an IV of pain medication. I went for a CT scan around 8:00 pm and am still sitting in the room waiting for someone to stop in and explain what the heck is going on. I have seen my nurse 3 times in the past 3 hours and the ER doctor once. In the meantime I have laid here and all of my medication had worn off and I am in pain again. Still waiting for an order to relieve me. Have a feeling I may be waiting all night. Anyway this experience has been beyond a nightmare. I wouldn’t take my dog to this ER and for the life of me
will never return here for care. " - Faith

May 25, 2017, 1:09 PM
Meritus Medical Center: "Many Misdiagnosis here for Many Years. Misdiagnosis causes Medical Errors. Both of which can cause Death or Permeant Damage and is one of the Leading Causes of Death in America. Doctors often will follow previous Misdiagnosis and not listen to the patient. They often deny medication side effects or medical errors. Most often, injuries are not evaluated properly & Misdiagnosised which can lead to Permeant Damage/Disability. If a patient continues to complain of chronic pain that was often misdiagnosed, the patient is often labeled by doctors as Mental, Liar, or Drug Seeker. I believe there needs to be clear guidelines on how to treat, evaluate and care for patients with injuries or chronic medical conditions. The Problem is with Doctors & Management. Most of the Nurses are great. The Financial billing department often makes errors & refuses to fix them. I heard they have even billed people for care as a child 20 years later as they are now adults. Also, I hear many complaints of C-Diff & other infections that are not being diagnosed or put in patient charts. " - S

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