Community Hospital Of Long Beach 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 Community Hospital Of Long Beach save lives? 9% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	17%
Heart Failure	13%
Pneumonia	13%

Infectious Disease at Community Hospital Of Long Beach

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	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 38m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 53 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 38 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 30 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

60% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Community Hospital Of Long Beach Stories

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Jan 02, 2015, 8:42 PM
Community Hospital Of Long Beach: "My 79 year old Mother was admitted the week before Christmas with fluid in her lung. The nursing staff was fine and the physical care she received from the doctor who got her case was ok but I think the way the doctor talked to my Mother was inappropriate and cruel.

After the fluid was drained from my Mom's lung a CT scan showed a small mass in her lung. Before ANY test results had come back to indicate what the mass might be this doctor was scaring my Mom with talk of cancer. The doctor told my Mom it was "most likely malignant and if that was the case there was nothing they could do for her, they would send her home for as much time as she has left". The doctor told my Mom to "go home and enjoy her last Christmas with her family". WTF Doctor?!?!

First of all we don't know if it's cancer or not yet, that doctor is not an oncologist so if it turns out to be cancer how does that doctor know what her treatment options might be, and for Christ's sake why would you say "last Christmas" to a patient who is already scared of what her diagnosis might be? That is cruel, plain & simple.

I'm sure the doctor was giving her honest opinion about what might happen but really, she could have kept all of that to herself and still have been honest. Honest would have been "We have no test results yet so go home and rest and enjoy Christmas with your family". That's all.

I work in healthcare, I know not every doctor is sensitive to patient's feelings. But I also know you don't diagnose a patient without test results and you sure as hell don't tell a patient they are going home to have a "last holiday" when you are just their ER doctor!! Doctors aren't gods (although some of them think they are) and the best they can do is give you their best educated guess based on their education & experience. But do us all a favor Doctors and treat and talk to your patient the way you would want your own family member to be treated and talked to. " - M

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