Northwest Hospital 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 Northwest Hospital Center save lives? 1% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	16%
Heart Failure	10%
Pneumonia	13%

Infectious Disease at Northwest Hospital 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 4 hour and 24 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: BELOW AVERAGE

58% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Northwest Hospital Center Stories

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Dec 26, 2021, 3:38 AM
Northwest Hospital Center: "Came in 2p on 12/25/21 it is now 3:30am 12/26/21 and I have still not been seen and now charged for 4 oxygen tanks. Utterly ridiculous. Haven’t even had blood drawn. " - Phaedra

Nov 03, 2021, 1:56 AM
Northwest Hospital Center: "Been here since 5 something its 5mins to 2 now. This is ridiculous " - Jamal

Oct 28, 2021, 8:20 PM
Northwest Hospital Center: "Patient arrived in extreme abdominal pain at 4:00pm! Patient was registered at 4:23pm. Patient’s vitals taken at 5:15pm. Patient informed glucose levels were high (362). Patient promised fluids … no fluids 3 hours later! No fluids 4 hours later. Fluids arrived after complaining at 10:15pm. Patient had an IV placed at 5:15pm blood was drawn and placed in vials … hour later Patient informed that someone forgot to label vials so Patient had to have her blood drawn again. Unacceptable! By the way … the fluid bag has been empty for 1 hour and it is now 12:49am we are still here and has not been seen for the extreme abdominal pain! #Unacceptable" - Patrice

Oct 26, 2021, 12:57 AM
Northwest Hospital Center: "Patient arrived in extreme abdominal pain at 4:00pm! Patient was registered at 4:23pm. Patient’s vitals taken at 5:15pm. Patient informed glucose levels were high (362). Patient promised fluids … no fluids 3 hours later! No fluids 4 hours later. Fluids arrived after complaining at 10:15pm. Patient had an IV placed at 5:15pm blood was drawn and placed in vials … hour later Patient informed that someone forgot to label vials so Patient had to have her blood drawn again. Unacceptable! By the way … the fluid bag has been empty for 1 hour and it is now 12:49am we are still here and has not been seen for the extreme abdominal pain! #Unacceptable" - Patrice

Oct 26, 2021, 12:50 AM
Northwest Hospital Center: "Patient arrived in extreme abdominal pain at 4:00pm! Patient was registered at 4:23pm. Patient’s vitals taken at 5:15pm. Patient informed glucose levels were high (362). Patient promised fluids … no fluids 3 hours later! No fluids 4 hours later. Fluids arrived after complaining at 10:15pm. Patient had an IV placed at 5:15pm blood was drawn and placed in vials … hour later Patient informed that someone forgot to label vials so Patient had to have her blood drawn again. Unacceptable! By the way … the fluid bag has been empty for 1 hour and it is now 12:49am we are still here and has not been seen for the extreme abdominal pain! #Unacceptable" - Patrice

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