Saint Joseph 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 Saint Joseph Medical Center save lives? 8% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	15%
Heart Failure	11%
Pneumonia	10%

Infectious Disease at Saint Joseph 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	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 3 hour and 48 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 42 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

70% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Saint Joseph Medical Center Stories

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Nov 09, 2022, 5:10 PM
Saint Joseph Medical Center: "We've been here almost 6 hours with no end in sight. If we leave now, insurance is likely to deny claims for any testing done thus far. So frustrated. " - Wilma

Jun 25, 2022, 10:17 PM
Saint Joseph Medical Center: "We came in to the ER at 5:30. My husbands speech was slurring and he was a little confused. All of the test have been done and all the results are in. Still waiting on the doctor to talk to him about the results. It is now 10:15 PM, another 15 minutes it will be 5 hrs. We are so over this! " - MICHELLE

Jun 25, 2022, 10:14 PM
Saint Joseph Medical Center: "We came in to the ER at 5:30. My husbands speech was slurring and he was a little confused. All of the test have been done and all the results are in. Still waiting on the doctor to talk to him about the results. It is now 10:15 PM, another 15 minutes it will be 5 hrs. We are so over this! " - MICHELLE

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