St Peter'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 Peter's Hospital save lives? 10% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	15%
Heart Failure	11%
Pneumonia	9%

Infectious Disease at St Peter'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	144
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 3 hour and 41 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 4 hour and 12 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 2 hour and 16 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

St Peter's Hospital Stories

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Jun 04, 2022, 6:39 AM
St Peter's Hospital: "Absolutely the worst care I have ever seen in my years as a patient and a daughter of a patient. My mother went into this hospital where she is treated upstairs at the hematology practice for myleofibrosis with standing orders from a St. Peter’s hematologist who was on call this evening when we went as my mother had a severe nose bleed and platelets at 13. Her standing order was for platelets below 15 at the hematology practice. After 3 hours there I called the nurses desk to speak to the charge nurse named “mike”. He would not tell me his last name. He informed me that no calls would be made to the blood bank to order platelets by the physician until he saw my mom and examined her and that it was an 8 hour wait. So my mother wouldn’t be seen until 8am at this point as it was midnight. I asked if the doctor would just read her labs and her chart that he would see the order and could call the blood bank. Mike said the doctor didn’t have time to look at my moms chart and was dealing with “actual emergencies”. When I tried to explain my moms medical history to him further he said “I’m going to have to go now” and hung up the phone. I plan to find out this charge nurses last name and report him to the OPMC as not only was he stating false medical information about my mothers labs to me, because he didn’t know I had access to her chart (lying to me saying her labs were the same as yesterdays - they weren’t). He also lacked any compassion and lied to me about the wait time, which was only 3-4 hours when we checked with triage. " - Monique

Jun 04, 2022, 2:17 AM
St Peter's Hospital: "Absolutely the worst care I have ever seen in my years as a patient and a daughter of a patient. My mother went into this hospital where she is treated upstairs at the hematology practice for myleofibrosis with standing orders from a St. Peter’s hematologist who was on call this evening when we went as my mother had a severe nose bleed and platelets at 13. Her standing order was for platelets below 15 at the hematology practice. After 3 hours there I called the nurses desk to speak to the charge nurse named “mike”. He would not tell me his last name. He informed me that no calls would be made to the blood bank to order platelets by the physician until he saw my mom and examined her and that it was an 8 hour wait. So my mother wouldn’t be seen until 8am at this point as it was midnight. I asked if the doctor would just read her labs and her chart that he would see the order and could call the blood bank. Mike said the doctor didn’t have time to look at my moms chart and was dealing with “actual emergencies”. When I tried to explain my moms medical history to him further he said “I’m going to have to go now” and hung up the phone. I plan to find out this charge nurses last name and report him to the OPMC as not only was he stating false medical information about my mothers labs to me, because he didn’t know I had access to her chart (lying to me saying her labs were the same as yesterdays - they weren’t). He also lacked any compassion and lied to me about the wait time, which was only 3-4 hours when we checked with triage. " - Monique

Mar 14, 2022, 12:12 AM
St Peter's Hospital: "My daughter was sent by ambulance to the ER at 7:00pm. It is now 12:11am and she has not been seen yet. She is actually crying out with such abdominal pain. No one cares. " - Karen

Nov 11, 2021, 4:26 AM
St Peter's Hospital: "We waited 8 hrs and can confirm others waited 14 + hrs on 11/10/21 - 11/11/21. A man who couldn't walk was falling over in the seat begging for help for hours. " - Cory

Sep 21, 2021, 6:40 AM
St Peter's Hospital: "Having wheezing issues from chemotherapy. Breathing hurts. So far over an hour waiting. No one but homeless people waiting to leave. They say ER swamped. Breathing is essential. " - Vicky

Sep 02, 2021, 3:45 PM
St Peter's Hospital: "Been to St. Peters 4 times in the last year. Three have been about 7 hours each and one was 12 hours. Each time was for my wife that is prone to falling. Each time was for a ct or mri scan. Each time she was sent home with no consequences. If you think this is a great record you ought to work for the government. The last time she was sent for a scan after only waiting about 1.5 hours. After another 2.5 hours we got the results. I thought I was free to take her home but they told me she needed a urinalysis. I'm not sure why. After another 3 hours we got the results and we were free to go. Seriously, there needs to be major changes to the er experience. I realize that the nurses are busy I could see that but there needs to be some categorizing of patients so that ones that lets say only need a scan can get in and out quickly, about 2 hrs or so. Maybe there should be satellite ers that have the capability of mri or ct scans for broken bones or trauma, analyzing cuts, applying casts etc. " - William

Aug 25, 2021, 1:36 PM
St Peter's Hospital: "Been in the ER for 3 hours. Took my blood pressure and gave me a wrist band. How would you rate this experience. " - SUzanne

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