Palo Verde 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 Palo Verde Hospital save lives? 22% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Failure	12%
Pneumonia	17%

Infectious Disease at Palo Verde 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	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 31m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 37 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 1 hour and 48 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 2 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

60% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Palo Verde Hospital Stories

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May 03, 2022, 1:30 PM
Palo Verde Hospital: "Refused service for 2 hours on a one year old" - Clark

May 15, 2021, 7:40 AM
Palo Verde Hospital: "Came by ambulance to Palo Verde Hospital after serious roll over accident. I would h as ve gotten better care if I stayed in my upside down burning car. Not only was I there for hours before seeing a doctor when I did the doctor did not even exam me, touch me or look at my cuts that I was complaining about, just ordered tests. When i asked for something for pain he said "what do you want me to give you". Seriously??? They wheeled me outside to a trailer, hoisted the gurney up to a tiny spot, barely fit the gurney. While waiting there was no call button for a nurse do if you needed anything you either screamed for someone or just didn't get any service. Doctor comes back in and merely says "nothing is broken". Still complaining about the worst cuts and still no one has looked at it. Accident was at 10:30 a.m. on Hwy 95 heading to San Diego from Phoenix, discharged from hospital close to 6:00 p.m. just before leaving nurse FINALLY dabbed some hydrogen peroxide on some if the cuts, wrapped it in gauze and put a sling on my arm. Never did clean out wound or wipe dried blood off. Thank God I didn't have anything more serious. When I got to San Diego the wounds on my arm and elbow were getting worse and I continued to pick glass out of my cuts on my hip (which no one even looked at) so I went to urgent care at Scripps. Not only were they infected and I needed antibiotics. So happy I was able to see a real doctor in San Diego who cleaned out glass in my arm and gave me excellent medical care. Just pray you don't need emergency medical care if you are in the area of Palo Verde." - Bonnie

May 19, 2017, 8:30 PM
Palo Verde Hospital: "The worst hospital I ever been to my face is swollen up really bad neck is killing me I've been sleeping off and on I also feel like I wanna throw up and went to the doctors on Wednesday never did on me he said I had 99% cancer he gave me mad I went to the hospital today they denied me saying that I have to see my way to Dr I call my Dr early in the morning they will call me if someone cancel the appointment I can't even keep my eyes open the hospital is horrible I would never win if I'm not in so much pain" - Christina

May 19, 2017, 8:30 PM
Palo Verde Hospital: "The worst hospital I ever been to my face is swollen up really bad neck is killing me I've been sleeping off and on I also feel like I wanna throw up and went to the doctors on Wednesday never did on me he said I had 99% cancer he gave me mad I went to the hospital today they denied me saying that I have to see my way to Dr I call my Dr early in the morning they will call me if someone cancel the appointment I can't even keep my eyes open the hospital is horrible I would never win if I'm not in so much pain" - Christina

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