Delta 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 Delta Medical Center save lives? 5% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Failure	12%
Pneumonia	13%

Infectious Disease at Delta 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	12
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: 1h 0m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 26 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 32 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 36 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

71% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Delta Medical Center 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

Oct 21, 2023, 10:55 AM
: "Waited at the Vanderbilt ER after being laced with Cocaine and was never seen. I was freaking out because obviously I’ve never done Coke and the side effects were scary and unexpected. I was genuinely panicking in the waiting room and almost passed out from hyperventilating. I ended up waiting so long that I made it through the whole high, eventually calmed down on my own, and drove myself home. Apparently a coke high doesn’t last that long (thank God) but is really scary and intense…especially when you aren’t expecting it. Emotionally scarred forever." - DW

Oct 18, 2023, 5:14 AM
Franklin Woods Community Hospital: "This is ABSOLUTELY LUDICROUS!!! And oh how they say their # 1 and JC doesn't need another hospital. The only way we don't need another hospital is to find SOMEONE TO MANAGE THESE TWO!!!" - Zina

Oct 10, 2023, 9:20 AM
Vanderbilt University Hospital: "Vanderbilt ER wait times on average are 6-12 hrs. And have been as much as 24 hrs. This is from countless experiences with this hospital." - Byron

Aug 28, 2023, 9:48 PM
University Of Tn Memorial Hospital: "That's a goddamm lie I came by ambulance they sat me in the waiting room been here 6 hrs.nothing said they waiting on a room since 4pm" - Bruce

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