Northern Louisiana 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 Northern Louisiana Medical Center save lives? 14% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	17%
Heart Failure	12%
Pneumonia	16%

Infectious Disease at Northern Louisiana 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	12
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 11m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 1 hour and 46 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 36 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 24 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

63% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Northern Louisiana Medical Center Stories

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Nov 28, 2022, 12:05 PM
Northern Louisiana Medical Center: "Bull shit been in here for 3hrs other patients been waiting 2 days patient in car crash with glass in face and put in back of line" - Tyler

Nov 28, 2022, 1:18 AM
Northern Louisiana Medical Center: "Bull shit been in here for 3hrs other patients been waiting 2 days patient in car crash with glass in face and put in back of line" - Tyler

Jun 15, 2022, 5:30 PM
Northern Louisiana Medical Center: "On June 8, 2022, we went to Er . The room wasn't clean. There was needles that was used and still had blood in them, still on the counter. Blood was on bed rails, blood on floor, and blood on cabinets. Room shouldn't have been used. We told someone, they say they don't clean rooms in between patients. " - Walter

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