St Tammany Parish 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 Tammany Parish Hospital save lives? 5% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	14%
Heart Failure	12%
Pneumonia	11%

Infectious Disease at St Tammany Parish 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	52
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: 1h 6m

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

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 3 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 35 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

79% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

St Tammany Parish Hospital Stories

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Aug 02, 2021, 9:30 AM
St Tammany Parish Hospital: "You webpage says my local hospital wait time is over 3 hours, yet when I go to the hospitals website it says their wait time is 22 minutes. This website is a lie. " - busted

May 01, 2021, 4:44 PM
St Tammany Parish Hospital: "So so disappointed it’s really frustrating when you sit here and wait 2 hours not complaining just waiting your turning, but then you start noticing people who came in an hour after you, walking out the door to leave so you politely walk to the desk , u don’t want to upset anyone and be pushed all the way to the end so you calmly ask when they think your child would see the doctor and they say idk and then just a little irritated u mention all the people that are leaving and she tells you your waiting on the peds side so as I walk to sit down the next patient called back is a child that came in well after your son. Now don’t get me wrong I’m in the medical field so I understand triage of patient care and and I also understand that if someone comes in with gun shot/ chest pain of course they should be seen before my son’s broken finger, but after talking to a few patients you wonder how ones cold comes first idk they seem what and what since the child has no fever so I’m just guessing u normally would see the patient that was there 1st but seems they do things differently here" - Amber

May 01, 2021, 4:44 PM
St Tammany Parish Hospital: "So so disappointed it’s really frustrating when you sit here and wait 2 hours not complaining just waiting your turning, but then you start noticing people who came in an hour after you, walking out the door to leave so you politely walk to the desk , u don’t want to upset anyone and be pushed all the way to the end so you calmly ask when they think your child would see the doctor and they say idk and then just a little irritated u mention all the people that are leaving and she tells you your waiting on the peds side so as I walk to sit down the next patient called back is a child that came in well after your son. Now don’t get me wrong I’m in the medical field so I understand triage of patient care and and I also understand that if someone comes in with gun shot/ chest pain of course they should be seen before my son’s broken finger, but after talking to a few patients you wonder how ones cold comes first idk they seem what and what since the child has no fever so I’m just guessing u normally would see the patient that was there 1st but seems they do things differently here" - Amber

Apr 08, 2021, 9:14 PM
St Tammany Parish Hospital: "My email, bank account, identity theft, Social Security number, telephone number, hospital records, absolutely everything about me phone iPad everything has been hacked by scammers I have reported this to the FBI and the FTC and my signature and my CPA. Furthermore I have been falsely cues of many things by this pretentious hospital no worries I will take care of it ASAP" - L

Apr 08, 2021, 9:14 PM
St Tammany Parish Hospital: "My email, bank account, identity theft, Social Security number, telephone number, hospital records, absolutely everything about me phone iPad everything has been hacked by scammers I have reported this to the FBI and the FTC and my signature and my CPA. Furthermore I have been falsely cues of many things by this pretentious hospital no worries I will take care of it ASAP" - L

Aug 08, 2020, 6:22 PM
St Tammany Parish Hospital: "your nursing staff has a LOT a lot of learning to be done.
Courtesy and interactions with patients need to be taught .
Information given me with staff on the same day not the same .
Refusal to give blood test results ' why ?
12 minutes to answer nurse button - why .
Most follow up doctors people unprofessional. " - Marvin

Jan 25, 2019, 12:29 AM
St Tammany Parish Hospital: "Although I threatened no one, I was put in protective custody and taken to this hospital. The nurse threatened me with restraints and forced drugs to power trip in front of the police. I was discharged within hours with a diagnosis of anxiety and anger (um, yeah!) as I was not a threat to myself or others. I should have never been involuntarily forced to the ER in the first place as I never threatened anyone. The hospital staff had no compassion or concern for my welfare. They treated me like I was a nuisance when I was put there against my will. The security guard yelled at me, "I was only going to offer you a blanket," when I calmly asked him to leave me alone. Another nurse offered no assistance when I was discharged and the phone did not work for me to tell my ride where I was. For crisis intervention (which was unwarranted in this situation as I was cleared of any suicidal diagnosis and cleared to return to work the following day by my doctor), they power tripped and tried to threaten me with coercion (restraints/forced drugs). I will never trust this hospital or staff, nor will I allow their threats to silence me for this injustice." - Victoria

Sep 15, 2016, 5:40 AM
St Tammany Parish Hospital: "I called the ER & spoke to a nurse, I asked a pretty basic question & her response was irritated & lazy. Went something like, 'it depends, I can't really tell you, I mean you'll just have to use your own judgment, I really don't know'
My question was- did I need to bring a friend I thought possibly had a mini stroke approximately 12 hours ago to the ER or to her primary care. Basically, is it an emergency situation or not? She didn't really know, I'll just have to use my own judgement! To me that sounds like a ridiculous response- is it life threatening & needs immediate medical attention? She asked 'how is she acting now'? I replied ' I don't know, I'm not with her now, it's only in retrospect that I'm realizing this could be the problem' does is it really matter how she's acting now? If she was acting as if she had a mini stroke 12 hours ago- shouldn't the next step be immediate medical attention? I don't know why I even bothered to call & ask, I already know the answer. Obviously if she's possibly had a stroke she needs to seek medical attention as soon as possible, but it won't be at this ER. So rude, and no people skills at all. Ridiculous " - Jenny

Sep 15, 2016, 5:39 AM
St Tammany Parish Hospital: "I called the ER & spoke to a nurse, I asked a pretty basic question & her response was irritated & lazy. Went something like, 'it depends, I can't really tell you, I mean you'll just have to use your own judgment, I really don't know'
My question was- did I need to bring a friend I thought possibly had a mini stroke approximately 12 hours ago to the ER or to her primary care. Basically, is it an emergency situation or not? She didn't really know, I'll just have to use my own judgement! To me that sounds like a ridiculous response- is it life threatening & needs immediate medical attention? She asked 'how is she acting now'? I replied ' I don't know, I'm not with her now, it's only in retrospect that I'm realizing this could be the problem' does is it really matter how she's acting now? If she was acting as if she had a mini stroke 12 hours ago- shouldn't the next step be immediate medical attention? I don't know why I even bothered to call & ask, I already know the answer. Obviously if she's possibly had a stroke she needs to seek medical attention as soon as possible, but it won't be at this ER. So rude, and no people skills at all. Ridiculous " - Jenny

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