Saint Joseph's Hospital Of Atlanta 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's Hospital Of Atlanta save lives? 2% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	14%
Heart Failure	13%
Pneumonia	12%

Infectious Disease at Saint Joseph's Hospital Of Atlanta

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	60
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	8

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 37m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 3 hour and 1 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 57 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 2 hour and 0 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

76% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Saint Joseph's Hospital Of Atlanta Stories

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Dec 13, 2022, 2:46 PM
Saint Joseph's Hospital Of Atlanta: "I have been sitting in your ER FOR 2HRS NOW. YOU DONT SEEM TO CARE ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE. Your smart-alecks behind try to tell me there is no wait. Are they pure simpletons? I am still sitting. 37 minutes to check in. " - Josalyn

Nov 29, 2022, 11:19 AM
Saint Joseph's Hospital Of Atlanta: "Beg to differ. We have been here 7 hours at St Joes and still not seen the dr" - Monica

Nov 28, 2022, 8:38 PM
Saint Joseph's Hospital Of Atlanta: "Beg to differ. We have been here 7 hours at St Joes and still not seen the dr" - Monica

Feb 15, 2017, 7:57 AM
Saint Joseph's Hospital Of Atlanta: "This is one of the worst hospitals in atlanta. Gradys and my dogs vet take better care of their patients." - Lisa

Nov 23, 2016, 6:40 PM
Saint Joseph's Hospital Of Atlanta: "One of WORST gospital experiebces I've ever had. Went in for a scheduled colostamy reversal. While waiting for surgery i was TIED (feet and hands) to my bed. My feather pillow from home was taken as well as my cell phone. I wrote MANY complaints and nevet teceived ANY rrsponse. The WORST was the surgery. The dr. Blotched it and have a resulting condition too much to go into hrte. STEAR CLEAR OF THESE PEOPLE! !!!!!" - Amy

Nov 23, 2016, 6:40 PM
Saint Joseph's Hospital Of Atlanta: "One of WORST gospital experiebces I've ever had. Went in for a scheduled colostamy reversal. While waiting for surgery i was TIED (feet and hands) to my bed. My feather pillow from home was taken as well as my cell phone. I wrote MANY complaints and nevet teceived ANY rrsponse. The WORST was the surgery. The dr. Blotched it and have a resulting condition too much to go into hrte. STEAR CLEAR OF THESE PEOPLE! !!!!!" - Amy

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