Antelope Valley Hospital Med 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 Antelope Valley Hospital Med Center save lives? 11% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	14%
Heart Failure	11%
Pneumonia	18%

Infectious Disease at Antelope Valley Hospital Med 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	48
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: 1h 11m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 49 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 4 hour and 39 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 2 hour and 48 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

60% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Antelope Valley Hospital Med Center Stories

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Apr 19, 2020, 3:44 AM
Antelope Valley Hospital Med Center: "The doctors who handled my son's case were very poor communicators. I was not given the respect as my son's decision maker. II was lied to, bullied and scared into making an uninformed decision in my son being put on dialysis. Doctors lied and covered up the fact that my son contracted right-sided infective endocarditis while in ICU. It was covered up and they pretended they had no idea how he contracted the infection. After obtaining my son's hospital doctors' notes, he entered with pneumonia, and he was misdiagnosed with sepsis and multiple organ failure. He was highly sedated with power drugs which caused many adverse side-effects, which instead of considering the cause of the side-effects, being the medications they were using they ended up giving him blood transfusions, and throwing him on dialysis, which I was forced into an uninformed decision after the doctor who initiated the treatment used bully and scare tactics, without informing me of the dangers and risks of the treatment. I believe this man was not even a kidney doctor. I as his decision maker was not given the opportunity to make an informed decision concerning my son's life. I did not even see this conversation in the notes.My son was admitted a second time, and it is far later after my own research that he was admitted due to the side effects of the dialysis, along with the adverse affect of the propofol he was sedated with while in ICU. High blood pressure which could not be controlled with medication. Upon the release of my non I was not informed that the BUN and the creatinine numbers had come way down, but instead was told that both of his kidneys were damaged and deemed him to the rest of his life on dialysis. He was deceptive and I lost all trust. I feel that I was not given any support in trying to help my son get better, in fact I feel that he received iatrogenic treatment. A case of health disparity. My son was 35 years old and black and the our experience as I look back was like being in a modern day concentration camp in America. I rate our experience at Antelope Valley Hospital a '0'." - Tamara

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