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

	Mortality Rate
Heart Failure	11%
Pneumonia	11%

Infectious Disease at American Fork 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	8
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 2 hour and 12 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 20 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 9 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

American Fork Hospital Stories

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Apr 10, 2022, 8:11 PM
American Fork Hospital: "Came into the ER with chest pain and have waited for almost an hour while other patients have gone back. I was told they didn’t have any rooms available but apparently they don’t have any rooms for me. If I could give this ER a negative star review it would be too good. Judgemental and do not deliver a duty of care to all patients. " - Jill

Jul 24, 2021, 5:10 AM
American Fork Hospital: "We took a family member in for multiple long and repetitive grand seizures. The ER did her blood work and tested her urine- no MRI was done because it was "late". She had another seizure in front of one of their staff while trying to get to the restroom. It was shortly after this seizure- in front of staff- that they discharged her as "stable". A short time (minutes) after being discharged, when attempting to get to her front door, she collapsed again, having multiple seizures in a row, but this time wasn't breathing when she went under. We decided to take her to the U instead. And when I called to tell the AF ER nurse to tell her what had happened, the woman on the other end was very cold and short with me. All she said was "she was stable when we discharged her". I think they sent her away because they didn't want to monitor her because she didn't have insurance. I'm not sure why else they would discharged her while she was still in that condition. It was made worse because it was so late at night and no one else (like a doctor or urgent care) was open to help her. We went in for help with our loved one and walked out in worse shape and with a massive bill. It's infuriating and heartbreaking." - Jessica

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