St Joseph's Hospital 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 St Joseph's Hospital save lives? 6% 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 St Joseph's 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	172
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	16

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 43m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 42 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 50 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 0 hour and 53 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

St Joseph's Hospital Stories

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Jul 30, 2023, 6:13 PM
St Joseph's Hospital: "It's longer at St Joseph that it is stating. Still waiting in waiting area for almost 4 hours. " - Erica

Apr 20, 2023, 1:25 AM
St Joseph's Hospital: "Been here literally over 6 hours waiting to be seen" - Demetria

Jan 30, 2023, 10:43 PM
St Joseph's Hospital: "Wait time is inaccurate because I’m currently waiting from 2pm this afternoon to 10:42 pm in the waiting room and still have not been seen " - Lucille

Jan 02, 2023, 4:41 PM
St Joseph's Hospital: "Alreadybeen better than three hours at st joes." - Ross

Sep 04, 2022, 8:49 PM
St Joseph's Hospital: "Awful!!!

First of all no doctor will see you with covid we waiting room full of contagious people.
There needs to be separate waiting rooms.

Wait time is TOO LONG!!

" - Betty

Aug 28, 2022, 8:20 PM
St Joseph's Hospital: "It’s been over 4 hours the waiting room is maxed out and they keep letting people in, this is the most horrible experience I have ever had" - Megan

Jul 18, 2022, 4:17 PM
St Joseph's Hospital: "2+ hours at St Josephs?! So not accurate. A friend has been there twice in two weeks and the average wait is 6-8 hours. This is straight out of the staff's mouth. My friend waited ALL day (8 hours) the first time and as I type this, he has been waiting six hours and seems to be experiencing no progress. This place is awful. " - Misty

Jan 10, 2022, 10:44 AM
St Joseph's Hospital: "I have fever can't break it and can't hold my urine. Incontinence my doctor told me to go to the hospital I'm on 2 liters of oxygen. I can't go to sleep I took NyQuil yesterday cold and flu and I took NyQuil Zzz" - Cynthia

Nov 13, 2021, 1:45 PM
St Joseph's Hospital: "I'm a patient person and I thank all the workers at St. Joseph hospital. I know that there are people here that are in more pain than I, but I'm here because I'm a diabetic patient and my blood sugar is up it was 390 pain in my side and my vision is getting blurry. Please St. Joseph Hospital speed up. " - Cynthia

Nov 13, 2021, 1:45 PM
St Joseph's Hospital: "I'm a patient person and I thank all the workers at St. Joseph hospital. I know that there are people here that are in more pain than I, but I'm here because I'm a diabetic patient and my blood sugar is up it was 390 pain in my side and my vision is getting blurry. Please St. Joseph Hospital speed up. " - Cynthia

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