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

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	14%
Heart Failure	10%
Pneumonia	10%

Infectious Disease at Danbury 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	64
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	4

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 26m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 8 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 37 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 43 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

Danbury Hospital Stories

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Jul 31, 2023, 8:05 PM
Danbury Hospital: "I was sent by my primary doctor to er as oxygen level extremely low concern. Ordered scan of ecmo cat scan still waiting since 5:00 pm. Now 8;00 pm. Others have been here since noon. Coughing all around I have an autoimmune disease. This is really traumatic. I know short of staff but I wanted a print out of my doctors orders and any tests such as chest X-ray blood work sent to my doctor and scan to reschedule no such luck if I drop dead I tried they failed " - Angelina

Jul 31, 2023, 8:05 PM
Danbury Hospital: "I was sent by my primary doctor to er as oxygen level extremely low concern. Ordered scan of ecmo cat scan still waiting since 5:00 pm. Now 8;00 pm. Others have been here since noon. Coughing all around I have an autoimmune disease. This is really traumatic. I know short of staff but I wanted a print out of my doctors orders and any tests such as chest X-ray blood work sent to my doctor and scan to reschedule no such luck if I drop dead I tried they failed " - Angelina

Jul 31, 2023, 8:05 PM
Danbury Hospital: "I was sent by my primary doctor to er as oxygen level extremely low concern. Ordered scan of ecmo cat scan still waiting since 5:00 pm. Now 8;00 pm. Others have been here since noon. Coughing all around I have an autoimmune disease. This is really traumatic. I know short of staff but I wanted a print out of my doctors orders and any tests such as chest X-ray blood work sent to my doctor and scan to reschedule no such luck if I drop dead I tried they failed " - Angelina

Jul 31, 2023, 8:05 PM
Danbury Hospital: "I was sent by my primary doctor to er as oxygen level extremely low concern. Ordered scan of ecmo cat scan still waiting since 5:00 pm. Now 8;00 pm. Others have been here since noon. Coughing all around I have an autoimmune disease. This is really traumatic. I know short of staff but I wanted a print out of my doctors orders and any tests such as chest X-ray blood work sent to my doctor and scan to reschedule no such luck if I drop dead I tried they failed " - Angelina

Dec 22, 2022, 2:09 AM
Danbury Hospital: "7 and a half hours is beyond despicable for a bloodstream infection! Unbelievable! I have cancer as well! Atrocious!" - yesterdays

Nov 24, 2022, 7:57 PM
Danbury Hospital: "I went to er thanksgiving evening with cut finger. One person on duty. I have been there three hours and have not been seen. Is this medical care?" -

Aug 10, 2022, 12:41 AM
Danbury Hospital: "I fell this morning and hit my head. Since a headache and some instability followed I went to the Danbury Hospital ER. Got there about 11:30. Triage followed by EKG and Ct-scan rather expeditiously. Then was told to go back to the waiting room and await follow-up. Over five hours later I was still waiting. Finally my daughter talked to someone pointing out I was 89 years old and had been there over five hours. OK, "between patients" I was taken in to an empty patient room right behind the triage area and soon a doctor arrested to tell me every thing was OK and I could leave. Incidentally there were about six empty patient rooms along the hallway. Not having a patient room was the first excuse I was given for the delay. The room I eventually was taken to didn't have a bed but I didn't need a bed to be told no problem and I could leave. I would hope that for a patient with a head injury with possible internsl bleeding they would not wait five hours to read the scan. They should have known shortly after reading the scan there was no problem. Any case I was there 6 hours plus, most of it waiting to be told everything was good and I could leave." - Jim

Feb 10, 2022, 5:14 PM
Danbury Hospital: "I haven’t been to the hospital since 1998, I have never felt so disrespected as I did that night. I told them what my problem was and they treated me as a frequent flyer ! Well I am not !! They left my soiled clothes on and never cleaned me or helped me . Freezing because I was wet they came and said that I was discharged and it was time for me to go. No shoes on and wet I was told to get dressed in whatever I had with me( nothing as I was taken in by ambulance) I said I have nothing can you wait for my boyfriend to bring me shoes , the nurse or orderly said that you have socks on so you’re ok. So I went and waited in Er and waited till I had to walk in my socks to get to my car in the wet cold weather . I understand you are overwhelmed and understaffed but I am very disgruntled about this . Please please understand I am not a degenerate , and nobody should be treated like it ever!!! Compassion is the key to good hospitals." - Janine

Dec 17, 2014, 12:05 PM
Danbury Hospital: "We took our daughter there after her pediatrician felt she may have appendicitis and may need to have her appendix removed. We dealt with an extremely nasty nurse who literally scarred her because she couldn't find her vein, a nasty head nurse who was a friend of the nasty nurse, and our total wait time was NINE hours. Not only that, but they claimed to be in network, and we got mysterious bills totaling over $1000.00 for mystery doctors - a total scam in my book. One even billed her as a new patient with a new patient fee while she was in the ER. My insurance thought she actually went to his office. " - Donna

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