Cookeville 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 Cookeville Regional Medical Center save lives? 2% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	14%
Heart Failure	12%
Pneumonia	13%

Infectious Disease at Cookeville 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	56
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	8

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 44m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 56 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 17 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

72% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Cookeville Regional Medical Center Stories

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Aug 20, 2022, 3:28 PM
Cookeville Regional Medical Center: "I am witnessing something which I don't quite understand how it could happen in our region and especially in our county. Kidney Stones are extremely painful and should not be taken likely. I am cursed with them. I am fortunate to have a high tolerance to pain and can tough out a lot of injuries and pain that other people can't. After a four-month battle with a kidney stone, it got the best of me about 9 pm last night and Dink drove me to the Cookeville Regional Emergency Room. Seven hours later, I still had not seen a doctor and gotten any relief. The tragedy of this is not my case but the cases I witnessed during my seven hours there.
(1) a young man about eight years old with a bacterial infection in his digestive tract who had been there about six hours waiting on help. (2) a gentleman in his 40's who had just had a heart attack and was having problems and had been waiting for three hours. (3) a young man in his 20's whose left foot and leg were swollen twice their size from what appeared to be an infection who had been there for Seven hours and finally left without care. (4) An elderly gentleman in a wheelchair who waited five hours and finally left. When my pain caused me to start throwing up, I called my Urologist and got his answering service who advised me to go to the ER. Really?
After seven hours of pain, we came home to try to find some pain pills left over from a toothache and they didn't touch the pain.
I have always bragged on Cookeville Regional's service but there is definitely something wrong and it needs addressing.
" - Jon

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