Bartow Regional Medical Center Ratings

2200 Osprey Blvd
Bartow, FL 33831
Phone: (863) 533-8111

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Emergency Services: YES

Contents:
Quality of Care - Infectious Diseases - ER Wait Time - Patient Ratings

Quality of Care - Mortality Rate

How well does Bartow Regional Medical Center save lives? 7% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate at Bartow Regional Medical Center	National Average
Heart Attack	11.9%	12.6%
Heart Failure	14.1%	11.8%
Pneumonia	19.7%	18.2%

Infectious Disease at Bartow Regional Medical Center

Drug resistant bacteria are becoming a large health risk 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.

Infectious Disease	Cases
C. Diff Sickens more than a half million people each year and has a 17% mortality rate after one year¹	0
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%²	0

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Average Time Spent In Emergency Department: 2h 12m

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 Patient Rating: AVERAGE

Positive Patient Ratings

Some patients praise:

Nurses usually respond quickly when patients need help
Nurses usually take time to communicate well
Doctors usually communicate well with patients
Patients usually receive help when they request it
Rooms and facilities are usually clean

Negative Patient Ratings

No consistently negative reviews

Footnotes:

¹C Diff Mortality Rate
²MRSA Mortality Rate

Bartow Regional Medical Center Stories

Mar 09, 2021, 7:20 AM
Bartow Regional Medical Center: "Although there are a very select couple of nurses who go above and beyond Being caring and just treating someone who is terrified scared and alone with some9ne with decency for the most part the day and 2nd shift nurses are very rude nasty people who not only allowed my alarm to go off for 45 minutes without any response until my husband called up there which only caused more mistreatment including lying on my chart about what they were doing for me slamming my water not ice water my water on the table in front of my stating I has snacks from the empty packages on the table standing outside my room laughing and saying bitch go home as well as other nasty rude comments and treatment Being yelled at like I was bothering them my iv was leaking and nothing was done to fix or even hooked back up I am going to file a lawsuit for the emotional and mental trauma all this caused me

" - Tammy

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