Monongahela Valley Hospital 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 Monongahela Valley Hospital save lives? 4% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	17%
Heart Failure	11%
Pneumonia	12%

Infectious Disease at Monongahela Valley Hospital

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	32
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 30m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 17 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 44 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 0 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

78% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Monongahela Valley Hospital Stories

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Aug 13, 2018, 10:57 PM
Monongahela Valley Hospital: "Visited the ER after a motorcycle accident brought in by ambulance.
Right shoulder in a lot of pain, and had some road rash.
After waiting around to be seen, took some x rays (no broken bones), then they gave me a prescription for ibuprofen because (although i was apparently in immense pain and could barely even stand) we were told they dont prescribe pain killers unless there is a broken bone. This is ridiculous. OH and they nearly sent me home without even cleaning the wounds until i said somethong and only then did they clean the large sized skin abrasions.

We were shocked at the pain medication policy because i apparently was in immense pain, but they turned me down again. Thank god i got in to see my orthopedist the next day and he was also shocked that they gave me nothing for the pain that could possibly help. Now, i understand about drug addicts and all, but this is not health care, its more health neglect." - Bernie

Dec 19, 2016, 9:41 PM
Monongahela Valley Hospital: "Shame on Mon-Vale HealthPLEX Imaging!!! Shame on Mon-Valley Hospital Patient Rep.!! And most assuredly, Shame on the INTERPRETING RADIOLOGIST - a finding?, REALLY ? That requires additional mammogram views? THEN ONE IS PREVENTED FROM SEEING THE RADIOLOGIST, One diagnosed with CANCER in 2013!!! Then an Ultrasound, only to be told an MRI is required. That was done at McKessport and showed NOTHING! Mon-Valley Billing does have the record though for getting one's bill to them, then they immediately start calling. In addition to the "false positives' that another reviewer noted, add "false finding'' and the infamous "observation" - where one is not admitted and the insurance does not pay, so lucky you gets a bill - to the SCAMS in so-called Healthcare today." - MICHAEL

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