Crockett 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 Crockett Hospital save lives? 12% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Failure	10%
Pneumonia	11%

Infectious Disease at Crockett 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	0
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 17m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 4 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 28 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 0 hour and 45 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

Crockett Hospital Stories

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Oct 25, 2023, 7:46 PM
Crockett Hospital: "Horrible place and people. Sat in er with my wife for 5hrs waiting for nothing. But watched all the er staff laugh and joke about patients pain and suffering, mocking them making joke was sicking to listen to and watch." - Jack

May 01, 2020, 12:30 AM
Crockett Hospital: "LOCAL NEWS


Family of woman who died after she was sent home from hospital while suffering a heart attack has been awarded $275,000 in compensation.
A Wayne County family received the compensation for her death.
April 28th, 2020, she was taken to the Lawrenceburg hospital suffering with chest pains, but doctors sent her home after they ran tests to determine illness .
The woman had on a heart monitor which she had been wearing as part of a study . Despite wearing a heart monitor, as well as having medical symptoms associated with female cardiac arrest, the Lawrence county ER sent the women home.
The Wayne county woman, however died the next day, according to her family .
Her family's attorneys allege negligence by the doctors at the hospital.
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The above could have been the outcome for a lady who visited the Lawrence County Hospital .
Lawrenceburg ER could find nothing wrong with the patient. She was released. Within 12 hours another ambulance was called to her home. This time, the woman was sent to a neighboring Regional hospital. The second Regional Hospital ER staff admitted the woman and saved her life .
The Lawrence County Hospital should have kept her overnight and not dismissed her.
I ask that you research this incident, if you read this, and care for the lives of rural residents being transported to this hospital." - any

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