Tawas St Joseph 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 Tawas St Joseph Hospital save lives? 5% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	17%
Heart Failure	13%
Pneumonia	11%

Infectious Disease at Tawas St Joseph 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	0
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 19m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 1 hour and 45 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 38 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 0 hour and 50 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

68% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Tawas St Joseph Hospital Stories

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Aug 04, 2016, 4:15 PM
Tawas St Joseph Hospital: "The doctor an nurse where more friendly then the front desk! Ur experiences in a hospital should be more friendly from the get go! Through out the whole time! Its just really upsetting and really thought it would be better the west branch when i told them i need blood pressure meds they ignored me my bro goes to west branch they give him his meds when he cant make if to his doctor cause r doctors r 3 hrs away we just moved here i got ignored the whole time well that sucked it was all bad! Waiting isnt what bothers me them rushing there jobs that bothers me!" - Jane

Aug 04, 2016, 3:57 PM
Tawas St Joseph Hospital: "See when Wyandotte hospital does a ct scan they roll you in the bed right next to the machine and u scoot right on it and tge make sure ur ok and very friendly! Im telling u all this hospital is so dumb! You know as soon as you say ur feel dehydrated in wyandotte ur pee os dark u have a infection they will give you fluids iv! Its actually the first thing they do when u get put in a room is a iv or ur getting poked u need ne pain meds even if u dont need a iv! They have a lot to learn here i would be a good person to tell them what they should be doing how they should be running it cause ive been to hospitals so much i see all there faults and there not just small there VERY VERY BIG AND BAD!" - Jane

Aug 04, 2016, 3:47 PM
Tawas St Joseph Hospital: "Horrible front desk person kept asking if i wanted to leave and go to urgent care 1st of bitch do ur job im here for a reason they say the wait could be long theres 3 people ahead of me well then thats fine im here for a reason cause 5 days ago i was here and didnt help at all! So i finally get past her by saying i dont think the urgent care runs tests like a hospital does! Your no doctor dumbass now do ur job let the doctors do theres! Im from detroit area i been to hospital plenty of times! And i cant believe they would try to make me drive to a urgent care! If she dont like and is incompetent at doing her job she needs to find a new one! I said do u know how to do ur fucking job! No shame here it is what it is! Then my heart rates at like 116 when i get to a bed my hands where shaking after this im texting my friend to keep calm or at least try to i just kept saying she isnt gonna be back there only time i will see her still to start off with that when u the patient dont want to be there in the first place! This hospital sucks and its close but west branch sounds better and ive heard thats where people go to die im like well i dont know may be id rather take my chances! Cause your supposed to leave the hospital better then when u went in! And like i said im from detroit area and i have to say the medical staffs r way more into life then these retarts up here! These hospitals have bad names for a reason they can help u or hurt you! An shouldnt be like that! I think who ever is running that little show needs to talk to take some notes from some downriver hospitals like wyandotte hospital or oakwood! Cause these places will have 10 people in fromt of me and still take me and not ask me to go to urgent care not how u run shit! " - Jane

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