South Shore Hospital Ratings

8012 SOUTH CRANDON AVENUE
Chicago, IL 60617
Phone: (773) 768-0810

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Emergency Services: YES

Contents:
Quality of Care - Infectious Diseases - ER Wait Time - Patient Ratings

Quality of Care - Mortality Rate

How well does South Shore Hospital save lives? 6% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	17%
Heart Failure	9%
Pneumonia	10%

Infectious Disease at South Shore Hospital

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 35m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 48 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 56 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 2 hour and 47 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: POOR

South Shore Hospital 3.75 out of 5 based on 23 ratings. 23 user reviews.

42% of patients rate the hospital excellent

Positive Patient Ratings

Some patients praise:

Doctors usually communicate well with patients

Negative Patient Ratings

Staff doesn't respond quickly when patients need help
Nurses often fail to communicate
Patients were often left in pain
Facilities are sometimes dirty
Rooms were often noisy at night

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

South Shore Hospital Stories

Apr 14, 2024, 4:25 AM
Advocate South Suburban Hospital: "Brought my son to ER and wait time has been over ten hours. 04/13/2024" - Miki

Apr 02, 2024, 8:12 PM
Central Dupage Hospital: "Wait times 04/02. Got here at 3, still in waiting room. Others are reporting they arrived between 1 and 3. " - Edward

Mar 13, 2024, 5:16 PM
Palos Community Hospital: "Ridiculous. Longest patient waiting for over 3 hours but not called 4 hours later from the Emergency Department. Service here is awful now. Never again" - Charlene

Feb 27, 2024, 6:56 PM
Herrin Hospital: "Been over 2 hours and my son has a 103 fever. Covid. Left him in the waiting room " - Teresa

Feb 17, 2024, 1:09 AM
: "I currently have been waiting SEVEN hours at Advocate Christ Hospital " - April

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