Tift Regional Medical Center 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 Tift Regional Medical Center save lives? 6% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	16%
Heart Failure	11%
Pneumonia	14%

Infectious Disease at Tift Regional Medical Center

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	24
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 43m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 22 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 41 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 2 hour and 12 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

70% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Tift Regional Medical Center Stories

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Jul 09, 2017, 3:47 PM
Tift Regional Medical Center: "My sister and I took my 90 year old Dad into the ER for pain and still waiting after 2 hrs and he's still complaining of pain. Where's the compassion and care? The ER is rough and slow." - Cheryl

Oct 10, 2015, 12:43 AM
Tift Regional Medical Center: "Tift Regional Medical Center - Tifton, GA By far the worst experience I have had in my 67 years. Nurse told me to shut up. I asked her for assistance in getting my clothes for discharge and she said "get your own dam clothes" and went out and slammed the door. I feel trying to get to my clothes (had a fall risk plastic orange bracelet on). I am not suffering terribly from the fall and it is so terrible that the doctors in Tifton say that they haven.t the expertise to help me and I now travel to Valdosta for treatment and doctors there think I will need a shoulder replacement in the near future." - M

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