Scripps Memorial Hospital - Encinitas 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 Scripps Memorial Hospital - Encinitas save lives? 7% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	13%
Heart Failure	11%
Pneumonia	12%

Infectious Disease at Scripps Memorial Hospital - Encinitas

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	32
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 26m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 40 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 6 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 50 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

73% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Scripps Memorial Hospital - Encinitas Stories

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Apr 08, 2022, 5:11 PM
Scripps Memorial Hospital - Encinitas: "the best ever!! My daughter is and will be released in 2 days I have nothing else to say but your the best thank you thank you!!!!! Everyone from the check in guy to all the the staff even the doctor called me today your awesome.
cindy b." - cindy

Nov 25, 2017, 7:27 AM
Scripps Memorial Hospital - Encinitas: "Came in early morning with severe abdominal pain. Staff couldn't care less about us or anyone else. Can't say when we will be seen. Says if we call an ambulance they will bring us back here and be put outside. " - Greg

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