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Chestnut Hill Hospital Ratings

8835 GERMANTOWN AVE
Philadelphia, PA 19118
Phone: (215) 248-8200

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Emergency Services: YES




Contents:
Quality of Care - Infectious Diseases - ER Wait Time - Patient Ratings



Quality of Care - Mortality Rate

How well does Chestnut Hill Hospital save lives? 4% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.
Mortality Rate
Heart Attack15%
Heart Failure12%
Pneumonia14%


Infectious Disease at Chestnut Hill 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 DiseaseCases
C. Diff
Sickens more than a half million people each year and has a 17% mortality rate after one year2
4
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 36m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 7 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 47 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 13 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
Chestnut Hill Hospital 4.65 out of 5 based on 25 ratings. 25 user reviews.


69% of patients rate the hospital excellent

Positive Patient Ratings

No consistently positive ratings

Negative Patient Ratings

  • Staff doesn't respond quickly when patients need help
  • Facilities are sometimes dirty




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



Chestnut Hill Hospital Stories



Aug 04, 2022, 3:08 PM
Chestnut Hill Hospital: "At 5am on 8/4, I have been waiting for 1hour, 45minutes in the waiting room in severe pain. I believe this a completely unacceptable amount of time to be seen in the middle of the night." - Pamela

Aug 04, 2022, 6:44 AM
Chestnut Hill Hospital: "At 5am on 8/4, I have been waiting for 1hour, 45minutes in the waiting room in severe pain. I believe this a completely unacceptable amount of time to be seen in the middle of the night." - Pamela

Jan 02, 2022, 10:50 AM
Chestnut Hill Hospital: "Chestnut Hill will Kill for a dollar Bill if they think they can get away with it. Insurance fraud Scheme between doctors and staff. Go to a hospital with actual educated professionals who care about humanity. Stay far away from this place you guys. Stay Safe!" - Atts

Jan 02, 2022, 5:24 AM
Chestnut Hill Hospital: "I recently sat in there ER for over five hours with symptoms of a heart attack or stroke" - Michelle

May 04, 2020, 9:52 AM
Chestnut Hill Hospital: "Chestnut Hill Hospital, won’t test a patient for Covid-19 unless they are being admitted in the hospital and put on a ventilator, or maybe they won’t test black people. I just read my discharge papers and noticed they changed the reason(s) I came to the hospital: Chest pain, trouble breathing, headache, sore throat, pain in my extremities, and a nasty cough. However, my discharge papers said “reason for visit” -cough. “Diagnosis” - cough with exposure to COVID-19 virus. The funny part is I’ve been isolating for months, so how could they determine I had exposure, yet refused to give me a test for it???
I was in the ER, for covid symptoms. My treating physician asked me: “you know what’s going around? You probably have coronavirus. But we can’t test you unless you needed to be admitted to be on a ventilator.” The doctor was nice. He said “if it were up to me, I’d give you the test, and everyone else that had symptoms.” 5/3/20 8:25am. The staff warned me that this might happen. They only test patients that need ventilators. It’s unethical, wrong, and misleads and shadow the actual number of Covid-19 infections. My home hospital Chestnut Hill is Trash.. God bless us all."
- Olaniyi

May 04, 2020, 9:52 AM
Chestnut Hill Hospital: "Chestnut Hill Hospital, won’t test a patient for Covid-19 unless they are being admitted in the hospital and put on a ventilator, or maybe they won’t test black people. I just read my discharge papers and noticed they changed the reason(s) I came to the hospital: Chest pain, trouble breathing, headache, sore throat, pain in my extremities, and a nasty cough. However, my discharge papers said “reason for visit” -cough. “Diagnosis” - cough with exposure to COVID-19 virus. The funny part is I’ve been isolating for months, so how could they determine I had exposure, yet refused to give me a test for it???
I was in the ER, for covid symptoms. My treating physician asked me: “you know what’s going around? You probably have coronavirus. But we can’t test you unless you needed to be admitted to be on a ventilator.” The doctor was nice. He said “if it were up to me, I’d give you the test, and everyone else that had symptoms.” 5/3/20 8:25am. The staff warned me that this might happen. They only test patients that need ventilators. It’s unethical, wrong, and misleads and shadow the actual number of Covid-19 infections. My home hospital Chestnut Hill is Trash.. God bless us all."
- Olaniyi

Feb 14, 2020, 10:43 PM
Chestnut Hill Hospital: "I think it's the worst ever that's why I started going to Abington Hospital they are very good and give you the proper treatment I've had very BAD experiences at Chestnut Hill Hospital I Hate that place " - Deborah

Jan 02, 2020, 9:02 AM
Chestnut Hill Hospital: "My visit to the ER was very pleasant i know thats an usual descriptive word for a trip to the hospital, but from the traaige to discharge was amazing . I seen within 10 min. of signing in. My nurse was very explanitive of was going on . My doctor was out of sight , his bedside manner was awesome he took all of my anxiety and fear out of my visit. He explained every test and every result in detail. I almost started to believe i wasnt sick it was like visiting a group of friends., and to top it off my visit only lasted 2 hrs.I love CH hospital ." - Deborah

Sep 21, 2018, 4:30 PM
Chestnut Hill Hospital: "Chestnut Hill is like a roach motel. Every time I'm admitted they drag their feet so they can keep me long enough to make their money. The mismanaged my diabetes and I truly think I'll die here because it's a money making prison" - Elzabwty

Jun 30, 2018, 12:57 PM
Chestnut Hill Hospital: "Presently being held prisoner here cleared by all physicians except infectious disease Dr Dolan whose bedside manner is that of Joseph Mengele. Told I was discharged and then sentenced to two more days in this shit hole of a hospital. I'm their Guinea pig and their prisoner. They've taken all my personal effects including my clothing and refuse to release me. " - A


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