Riddle Memorial 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 Riddle Memorial Hospital save lives? 3% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	16%
Heart Failure	11%
Pneumonia	12%

Infectious Disease at Riddle Memorial 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	80
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 21m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 3 hour and 3 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 57 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 2 hour and 26 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

65% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Riddle Memorial Hospital Stories

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Oct 11, 2023, 8:10 AM
Riddle Memorial Hospital: "My wife is fighting breast cancer and she's been in the hospital a few times. She's had a hysterectomy and pelvic floor repair. Her doctor put her on a medication because of a bad UTI and we are in the emergency room because she has a fever ,she also has kidney disease and we've been waiting almost 3 hours! The doctor told her to come to the ER because she possibly has a kidney infection. I would think they would take her back and treat her before it gets worse. This is an emergency! She's got kidney disease and almost died three years ago from it. This is unexceptional service. " - Ralph

Aug 17, 2016, 11:25 AM
Riddle Memorial Hospital: "I went there with serious dog bite wounds. Slices on both sides of hand, with a mound of flesh emanating from palm wound. Bites on the leg and wrist area. There three hours and never treated by an MD, only a PA. She stitched me up and I was on my way. Trouble is, better for me if I never went there at all, and just cleaned the wounds myself. Hand blew up. Saw other doctors. Had stitches removed, wounds drained, and was told if that didn't work it would need surgery to clean out the infection. So for days I'm worrying and going through all that unnecessarily because of negligence. How do not get seen by an MD with such severe wounds in a hospital? " - Mike

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