Sebastian River 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 Sebastian River Medical Center save lives? 5% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	14%
Heart Failure	11%
Pneumonia	12%

Infectious Disease at Sebastian River 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	4

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 22m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 9 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 46 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 32 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

64% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Sebastian River Medical Center Stories

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Feb 20, 2017, 11:14 PM
Sebastian River Medical Center: "Normally this is a very good hospital except for the night of 8 Feb 17
My wife is on dialysis and she needed to go to the emergency room at Sebastian Hospital. Everyone was great until Doctor Edwin Stroup came in to talk to my spouse. She was trying to explain to him why she was there and that she is on Dialysis, from that point on things went south. He (Dr.Stroup) told my wife he did not care or wanted to know why she was having problems with her insurance and then she tried to explain to him again, that was the reason she came to the ER,and she was not feeling well. Then he said " I DON'T FRICKING CARE ABOUT THAT EITHER. I became very very upset, him and I started raising our voices at each other, that made my spouse upset again, she jumped out of bed and said she was leaving, Then this unprofessional doctor had the nerve to tell her to stay so he could take a blood test. She told him you must be crazy if you think I am going to let you take blood a test after your nasty attitude toward us. I don't know what is wrong with this doctor stroup, maybe he doesn't like mixed couples, don't know. I am a retired veteran with 22 years of military service and I can spot a person who is unprofessional and he is. I would never go back to this hospital again if he is the doctor of a shift. However, we did go back again that following Friday after we had talked to my spouse Kidney doctor, she assured us that doctor stroup would not be on duty, because if he were we would not have gone and probably ended up suing him for negelect. " - Leon

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