Beckley Arh 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 Beckley Arh Hospital save lives? 7% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	17%
Heart Failure	12%
Pneumonia	12%

Infectious Disease at Beckley Arh 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	20
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 33m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 55 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 15 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

Beckley Arh Hospital Stories

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May 25, 2021, 11:39 AM
Beckley Arh Hospital: "In 2020, I settled a lawsuit against Beckley Area Regional Hospital and one of their cardiologists. The filing for my case can be found online by searching my name and Beckley Area Regional Hospital. I had been fitted with a pacemaker it was later medically proven was not able to correct or improve my condition. The lower lead had been fractured at some point after installation and began randomly shocking my heart on it's own. My health declined and I sought out other medical opinions. Ten months after it was installed the pacemaker was completely removed. During the testing before that surgical procedure, it was discovered a medical instrument had been broken during the pacemaker install and a 46" surgical steel wire had been left tangled and embedded throughout my heart chambers and partly perforating my right renal vein. It would seem that this happened without the doctor/surgeon and OR team that day being aware of it. It was removed through a high risk surgery and the significant damage to my Tricuspid Valve repaired. 3" of the J-tip guidewire length, were left to remain embedded into the renal vein just short of my right kidney. The extreme risk of removing it requires that I will carry it there for life. I will need periodic checks for the repair to my Tricuspid Valve and heart wall damage. Other serious health issues arose and are permanent, relating to the initial object left in my heart and following surgeries. It is possible that I would need to return there for care again at some point in the future. Hospital choices in an emergency situation are not many in this area. It is not a thought that I am at peace with." - Tracey

Apr 10, 2017, 1:59 PM
Beckley Arh Hospital: "This hospital's service is terrible, do not waste your time. Went in with severe earache (possible busted ear drum). I just sat in an empty waiting room 3 hours to not even get to be put in triage yet...needless to say im done, leaving, and will NEVER return. Get your shit together ARH. I will continue to advertise your poor quality to every friend and family i have. Sickens me to say this is a healthCARE facility.." - Patrick

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