Abington Memorial 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 Abington Memorial Hospital save lives? 10% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	14%
Heart Failure	10%
Pneumonia	11%

Infectious Disease at Abington Memorial 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	76
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	8

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 11m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 18 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 3 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 40 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

Abington Memorial Hospital Stories

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Mar 19, 2024, 6:22 PM
Abington Memorial Hospital: "This hospital is garbage unfortunately. Brought my daughter in with an abscess throat infection, spitting up blood, shivering with fever, can’t swallow her spit, and here we continue to sit three hours later. The hospital staff have an uncaring attitude. It’s sad how bad this hospital has failed since it was taken over." - Ben

Feb 29, 2024, 4:44 AM
Abington Memorial Hospital: "I have arrived at Abington hospital at 7:25 and it’s 4:42 and I am still waiting to be seen by a doctor
It’s unhumain to see so many people suffering with such a long wait
Also the risks of being exposed to so many different virus during the long waits.
" - Gislene

Jan 20, 2024, 3:06 AM
Abington Memorial Hospital: "Nurse for my mom in the emergency hasn't found a way for me to get a phone call about mon for over 3 hours. She was brought there from a rehab facility, so I don't actually know where she is - still at the ER or back at the facility, do I? I don't trust that the roads are safe after the snow today so I didn't ride over there. Every other time I tried to get info about a family member in an ER, I was updated within a reasonable time by phone. Was told there is no phone in mom's room. I'm wondering if she's in a hallway due to lack of rooms. I was just reading the bad reviews for this ER. Out of all the bad reviews, the longest wait time was 14 hours. Sounds like something that would occur in Pakistan. America the Wonderful! - NOT" - Sherry

Dec 30, 2023, 10:31 PM
Abington Memorial Hospital: "Been here for five hours!" - Nicole

Jan 03, 2023, 8:17 PM
Abington Memorial Hospital: "It is over a 5 hour wait... Not sure what is happening here but 5+ hours seems the standard just to get your vitals checked watched over a dozen people leave " - Lee

Dec 29, 2022, 12:18 AM
Abington Memorial Hospital: "My father was taken by ambulance and 7 hours in hasn’t been assessed don’t believe these wait times they are completely not accurate " - Lori

Dec 29, 2022, 12:05 AM
Abington Memorial Hospital: "My father was taken by ambulance and 7 hours in hasn’t been assessed don’t believe these wait times they are completely not accurate " - Lori

Apr 16, 2021, 1:53 AM
Abington Memorial Hospital: "I have been waiting NINE hours and was just told they don't know when I will be seen. Absolutely unacceptable and ridiculous." - Candace

Dec 02, 2020, 7:06 AM
Abington Memorial Hospital: "Sitting in ER right now going on HOUR NINE and STILL have not been seen. " - Liz

Aug 01, 2019, 5:40 PM
Abington Memorial Hospital: "Abington has been the place of all my admissions from age 3 until recently. The hospital is definitely not what it used to be, sadly. Growth seems more important to them than caring for the patient. I am horrified that they allowed Jefferson to take over, making it horribly confusing to identify just who is caring for you and their level of education - resident, fellow, staff? Worst of all was my last admission when a Drexel resident lied and told me she was a staff physician, and I also had the hospitalist from hell. The nurses were wonderful, which helped a little. The room was in the old Highland building (now called Berger for some unexplained reason) and it was a little dark but I had it to myself which was nice. I also have only experienced one horrible nurse and I reported her to the nursing director. Aside from these incidents, my care has been good but instead of gobbling up another block of real estate, I wish the hospital had spent the money on refurbishing the older inpatient rooms. For my knee replacement, I was in the new Ortho wing and it was beautiful and sparkling clean. However, since then I have been a patient at Doylestown twice and it wins hands down over the Abington of today, in cleanliness and caring. Sadly, Abington is not what it used to be before all the expansion and some of the hospitalists are downright awful. " - Nancy

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