Blanchard Valley 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 Blanchard Valley Hospital save lives? 13% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	16%
Heart Failure	14%
Pneumonia	14%

Infectious Disease at Blanchard Valley 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	16
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 20m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 30 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 56 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 38 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

78% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Blanchard Valley Hospital Stories

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Sep 16, 2022, 8:36 PM
Blanchard Valley Hospital: "I'm embarrassed for you. Inadequate is how this emergency room is ran. I imagine the rest of this facility is as ridiculous as the check in. Small Town, small minds I get it. You don't know what you don't know, but I'm here to tell you ITS NOT GOOD or OK....at all." - Wendell

Nov 30, 2017, 11:48 PM
Blanchard Valley Hospital: "I took my mom out to ER tonight at 7:30pm I we sat there in the waiting room til 9:30 pm there were four other people came in after us.i understand that people who ineed to go is fine but the girl from college came in because she headache she told me and didn't go to work so she needed a note now my mom is 70 year old and having back pain and iching I am so but ask the lady at the desk she told me that we just need to wait maybe we should have call her doctor not come out for back " - Stacy

Jul 08, 2017, 7:00 AM
Blanchard Valley Hospital: "On July 8 2017 I brought my mother to ER at 3:30 put waited in waiting room for 1hour then call back to a room and nurse came in told my mom we are busy you not dieing should call your doctor well we was planning on it in the morning but she was in a lot of pain so I brought her out the nurse said well we will see you when we can left it been 5 hours no nurse no doctor no one has even came in. let hope now that shift change maybe next nurse or doctor will come in not holding my breath god bvh was doing good while back but not sure why there service has down hill in past years or so
" - Stacy

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