Riverside Regional 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 Riverside Regional Medical Center save lives? 3% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	14%
Heart Failure	12%
Pneumonia	12%

Infectious Disease at Riverside Regional 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	44
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	20

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 1h 53m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 52 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 34 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 44 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

Riverside Regional Medical Center Stories

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Oct 09, 2023, 3:45 PM
Riverside Regional Medical Center: "My wife is pregnant and has been throwing up we’ve been waiting and still are waiting for 4 hours just for a IV. She is dehydrated and weak but would have been better off at home in the bed rather waiting in a lobby for 4 hours. Something needs to be done about these ridiculous wait times " - Nick

Dec 11, 2022, 1:04 AM
Riverside Regional Medical Center: "Dmv is faster, " - Matt

Oct 05, 2020, 6:24 PM
Riverside Regional Medical Center: "well yes they do john #BLM we sure do." - AnnMarie

Sep 29, 2020, 4:19 AM
Riverside Regional Medical Center: "Very long wait times. The online wait times are not even remotely accurate. Nurses are not permitted to even give estimated wait times. Crack heads and thugs get priority. Nurses are good. This use to be a reliable place." - John

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