Putnam Community 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 Putnam Community Medical Center save lives? 15% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	16%
Heart Failure	14%
Pneumonia	14%

Infectious Disease at Putnam Community 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	20
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	4

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 27m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 1 hour and 44 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 57 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 20 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

Putnam Community Medical Center Stories

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Jan 28, 2023, 7:18 PM
Putnam Community Medical Center: "Got into a fatal car accident. Checked in Palatka ER at 11:53am and took in the back 2hrs later. Laceration all over, head hit steering wheel blacking out, something in eye. Did not see a doctor and nurses forgot about me in the room that held 6 devided by curtains (other people checked in and out the whole time). Nurses stated doctor’s rotated out 3 times while I was waiting. They did a CT scan and one nurse scrubbed lacerations leaving most of the glass still in the wounds. Spoke with detectives, gave blood, statements etc and it was done and over with. Around 8pm my wife asked the nurses if I could have something to drink and they openly admitted to forgetting about me. Asked them about the scans and one nurse just said everything was negative. No issues?!?!? Went to doctors in Gainesville and the scans they took shown ruptured disc, 2 others herniated, torn ligaments and pinched nerves. I am now in $20k debt that I can’t pay thanks to Palatka Florida ER. " - Josh

Jan 28, 2023, 6:58 PM
Putnam Community Medical Center: "Got into a fatal car accident. Checked in Palatka ER at 11:53am and took in the back 2hrs later. Laceration all over, head hit steering wheel blacking out, something in eye. Did not see a doctor and nurses forgot about me in the room that held 6 devided by curtains (other people checked in and out the whole time). Nurses stated doctor’s rotated out 3 times while I was waiting. They did a CT scan and one nurse scrubbed lacerations leaving most of the glass still in the wounds. Spoke with detectives, gave blood, statements etc and it was done and over with. Around 8pm my wife asked the nurses if I could have something to drink and they openly admitted to forgetting about me. Asked them about the scans and one nurse just said everything was negative. No issues?!?!? Went to doctors in Gainesville and the scans they took shown ruptured disc, 2 others herniated, torn ligaments and pinched nerves. I am now in $20k debt that I can’t pay thanks to Palatka Florida ER. " - Josh

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