Centura Health-St Thomas More 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 Centura Health-St Thomas More Hospital save lives? 14% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Failure	15%
Pneumonia	12%

Infectious Disease at Centura Health-St Thomas More 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	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 27m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 6 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 26 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 18 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

65% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Centura Health-St Thomas More Hospital Stories

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Jan 20, 2022, 10:39 PM
Centura Health-St Thomas More Hospital: "My 1 year old daughter should not have to sit in an ER waiting room from 2:43pm and still waiting to be seen by the time 9:00pm came. I have heart disease and if I were to have a heart attack and this hospital was the only option available (and it is) I would not count on this hospital, to save my life." - Ryan

Jul 30, 2020, 7:51 PM
Centura Health-St Thomas More Hospital: "told on 17 june by dr olsons office that i would get a refferal for a orthopedic surgeon. refferal was not put in till 7 july 2020. this is 30july still have no refferal. my wife has left numerous phone messages with drs office and as of yet no one has taken the time to call her back. in the meantime i still have severe back pain. what does it take to get someone to respond and at least pretend like you care" - richard

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