Brownwood Regional Medical 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 Brownwood Regional Medical Center save lives? 3% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	15%
Heart Failure	12%
Pneumonia	13%

Infectious Disease at Brownwood Regional Medical 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	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 10m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 1 hour and 46 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 19 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 21 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

63% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Brownwood Regional Medical Center Stories

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Sep 07, 2020, 11:30 AM
Brownwood Regional Medical Center: "Yes, they get you in fairly quickly but then it’s a long wait to get anything done. Between everything that is done there is another long wait and then when you are told you’ll be dismissed is the longest wait! I sat and watched the doctor sit at the desk the entire time we were there. He came in and asked a few questions. Asked if we’d had an X-Ray yet. Well no, you haven’t ordered it yet! Bedside manner was lacking as well!" - Tammy

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