Cambridge Health Alliance 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 Cambridge Health Alliance save lives? 6% 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 Cambridge Health Alliance

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	52
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 18m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 1 hour and 43 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 15 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

Cambridge Health Alliance Stories

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Apr 03, 2024, 9:26 PM
: "Umass Memorial Health worcester 4.5 hours and still waiting. As a cardiac patient with symptoms!" - John

Mar 20, 2024, 7:10 AM
Wing Memorial Hospital And Medical Center: "Been here 2.5 hours and only one lady here and no one calling us. Not sure what going on behind the doors, every bed full? Doctors that busy when no one’s come in? ???? " - Peter

Mar 16, 2024, 6:28 PM
Wing Memorial Hospital And Medical Center: "Been here 2.5 hours and only one lady here and no one calling us. Not sure what going on behind the doors, every bed full? Doctors that busy when no one’s come in? ???? " - Peter

Mar 16, 2024, 8:36 AM
Wing Memorial Hospital And Medical Center: "Been here 2.5 hours and only one lady here and no one calling us. Not sure what going on behind the doors, every bed full? Doctors that busy when no one’s come in? ???? " - Peter

Mar 10, 2024, 3:57 AM
Brigham And Women's Hospital: "I had surgery on Jan 12, 2022, with Dr Lu, I was schedule for 10 AM, but I was called at 6 PM for back surgery, I don’t know at the time, why??, I finally was called at 6,!that my husband left bc I am from Springfield, and he was unable to stay, ( I arrived at the hospital at 7 AM, do the math) I was hungry, sitting in the waiting room with 5 spinal broken bones, in pain, and desperate., well I had the surgery and after one day, I was sent home on a 2 hours trip., well after this surgery I was seen only once, and all my back troubles, pain in my legs and hips that I cannot control., I had been calling and spoken with this David, and they refused to give me an appointment to see some doctors, they cut me open ( an incision about 14 inches, I had been fused from L one, to S one, an operation that had affected my hips and legs, I haven’t seen anyone in over two years, I am bedridden more, and what this David does with his rundown is: sending me to different doctors in which when I see them, they wouldn’t do anything and the 3 that I had seen, they just recommend that I should go back and seen Dr Lu, but this David had refused to make me an appointment and in the meantime I am fighting my back, hips, and leg pains the best I could, how can this place be so unreal and unreachable to treat a human being in this century., please, I am dying with pain, this surgery ruin my life, and I am at my wits ends trying to make an appointment with any doctor there, it’s being 2 years now that I haven’t been seen after that traumatic operation, what can I do?? This sucks, am I in an African country??, no, this is woman Bingham best???, seriously " - Eva

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