Shelby Baptist 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 Shelby Baptist Medical Center save lives? 4% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	16%
Heart Failure	14%
Pneumonia	11%

Infectious Disease at Shelby Baptist 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	20
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 30m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 20 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 5 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 25 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

72% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Shelby Baptist Medical Center Stories

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Jul 26, 2021, 9:49 PM
Shelby Baptist Medical Center: "Wait time in ER is horrendous. Took 6 hours and my wife ended up having internal bleeding by the time they finally saw her. I watched an elderly woman with a TIA stroke wait for over 2 hours. Do not go here. Drive to another hospital." - Robert

Sep 12, 2017, 12:08 AM
Shelby Baptist Medical Center: "i am currently in Shelby Baptist,and have received exceptional care, not only from my doctors but the entire staff. Shelby provides a Christian environment,and do there best to make it feel like home. This is my second extended stay here and I feel compelled to share how well I have been treated. Special thanks to my nurses,Leslie,Katherine,Mitzy,and Sam thankyou and God bless " - austin

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