St Vincent's Birmingham 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 Vincent's Birmingham save lives? 2% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	16%
Heart Failure	11%
Pneumonia	13%

Infectious Disease at St Vincent's Birmingham

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	44
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	12

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 38m

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 7 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 41 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

77% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

St Vincent's Birmingham Stories

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Jun 23, 2022, 2:47 PM
St Vincent's Birmingham: "On Tuesday June 21, I took my daughter to the E.R. at St. Vincent's hospital. She was in excruciating pain. We arrived at 8:24 pm, according to the sign in by the person up front. There were not many patients with hospital band on their arms in the waiting room. However, when I was relieved by another family member at 12:04 pm, she had still not been seen by a physician. Where is the compassionate care I see advertised on TV about St.Vincent's Hospital?
" - Martha

Mar 15, 2022, 2:46 AM
St Vincent's Birmingham: "Waited over 8 hours in the ER with blood pressure 199/120." - Myrtis

Sep 14, 2021, 11:15 PM
St Vincent's Birmingham: "The wait time on your website is gross low! People have been there for 5 hours waiting, without seeing even the lab tech, before a nurse! " - Michelle

Jul 01, 2021, 5:09 PM
St Vincent's Birmingham: "Well unlike some I don’t pick a choose by color or refer to by color. It’s amazing to me how some ppl only consider that a certain color was nice! Unbelievable,racist,small minded. I went last night also with kidney stone all of the nurses an staff was very kind even when I was complain about my pain. But the doctor there treated me as if I was a drug addict because I am in pain management. He was very hateful, snide, an should even be a doctor!!! I believe his name was Reddington. I’m a 58 yrs old definitely not an addict! I ask him for 5 narco just to get me thru the pain until they pasted. Then he said he wouldn’t! Then he said oh I’ll give you tramadol laughed an said oh that’s right you can’t take that with a smirk sarcastically! When he came in at that time I was laying there ( to shots an I still had sharp pain) I had my head under the cover with my phone in hand,he proceeded to say I was asleep an the shot must be working. I told him I wasn’t asleep you can see my phone in my hand. Then he argued that I was to asleep. I told him that the shot did work to a point but I still had stabbing pain. He told me to take the meds I have an you will be fine! Well as he knew I can only take it as prescribed an no more! If it was working then I wouldn’t be there! He told me “ oh well “ I was appalled! He was a @&: ^*€|¥#! What the hell is he doing there with that attitude! " - LT

Oct 24, 2017, 6:38 AM
St Vincent's Birmingham: "I'm not sure what has happened at St Vincent's.ER I'm Bham,
But my experience was shocking. Last night my father was taken there by ambulance. I arrived and was treated kindly by the security staff. The unit clerk, in fact every black.person that greeted and helped me were so so kind.
The nurses- ALL.WHITE, Wih exception to a male nurse who was nice and so helpful,
These people are awful. They are so angry and act as if they could be anywhere else. The unit clerk wouldn't even look up from the screen to greet me.
Just cold. Ansh dad was diagnosed with pancreatits. He asked his nurse for pain meds a.secons time, no answer.
Then 7 PM shift came on and they were so helpful.
The male nurse took care.od my Dad.
My Dad was sick sick and unable to stand alone.
He had.to use the urinal. We asked two times and no.even showed up!
Not even the nurse assistant. I helped my Dad,
And just a couple months post op spine surgery myself.
It was just a very disappointing experience. These people are cold.tjeir angry and seem miserable working here.
Get it together St Vincent's ER.
We will heading elsewhere for next emergency.
Like Grandview. Remember we have a choice.we trusted you.
And you didn't deliver. " - J

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