St Luke's Quakertown Hospital Ratings
1021 PARK AVENUE
Quakertown, PA 18951
Phone: (215) 538-4500
Quakertown, PA 18951
Phone: (215) 538-4500
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 St Luke's Quakertown Hospital save lives? 2% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.Mortality Rate | |
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Heart Attack | 16% |
Heart Failure | 12% |
Pneumonia | 12% |
Infectious Disease at St Luke's Quakertown 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 |
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C. Diff Sickens more than a half million people each year and has a 17% mortality rate after one year2 | 4 |
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3 | 0 |
Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings
Time until initial exam: 0h 31mNon-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 5 minutes
Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 8 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 24 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
St Luke's Quakertown Hospital
4.65
out of 5
based on 32 ratings.
32 user reviews.
70% of patients rate the hospital excellent
Positive Patient Ratings
Some patients praise:- Doctors usually communicate well with patients
- Pain was usually controlled for patients
- Rooms and facilities are usually clean
Negative Patient Ratings
Footnotes:
1Questionable efficacy of flu vaccination
2C Diff Mortality Rate
3MRSA Mortality Rate
St Luke's Quakertown Hospital Stories
Nov 24, 2016, 7:48 AM
St Luke's Quakertown Hospital: "My wife went to quakertown for pacrease problem they allmost killed her i pulled her out and took her to bethleham to real doctors she weighed 51lb in q town for a long time bethlehem got her took her in sergery right away she is now 120lb and ok. Also took my dad there in his last living days and they released him to my brother who hasn't seen him in 17 years he put dad in hospice in bethlehem against his wishes quakertown is a terable terrible hospitable very poor run" - Albert