D C H 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 D C H Regional Medical Center save lives? 1% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	16%
Heart Failure	11%
Pneumonia	11%

Infectious Disease at D C H 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	52
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	20

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 37m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 38 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 9 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 21 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

D C H Regional Medical Center Stories

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Apr 18, 2022, 1:25 AM
D C H Regional Medical Center: "ER IN TUSCALOOSA IS A COMPLETE JOKE.. OVER 5 HRS AND STILL WAITING. U CAN SERIOUSLY BE DYING AND STILL BE WAITING..LOST 4 WORDS ON HOW RIDICULOUS THIS IS. " - William

Apr 18, 2022, 1:20 AM
D C H Regional Medical Center: "Going on 5 hrs. Husband with a blockage..this is a JOKE!!!!" - Denise

Oct 09, 2020, 12:07 AM
D C H Regional Medical Center: "The "er" is not an er. It's more like a hang out for the staff. Who are rude and inattentive. Biased to the point of letting someone e die rather than listen to a patient's own knowledge of there ailment. It's a terrible shame." - Barbara

Mar 12, 2018, 6:41 PM
D C H Regional Medical Center: "Staff is rude & isn’t concerned with helping their patients. Husband has been here in pain for over two hours - no one has seen him. Said they’d be right back for pain management but they never returned. When I Walked up to the nurses station to ask what was going on, the nurse rolled her eyes at me, gave me attitude and said she’s been busy.... even though there were three nurses sitting theee none in which even acknowledged me when I walked up. HORRIBLE emergency room!!!!! " - Jennifer

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