Elkhart General 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 Elkhart General Hospital save lives? 1% worse 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 Elkhart General 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	12
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 34m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 1 hour and 59 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 37 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 33 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

70% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Elkhart General Hospital Stories

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Apr 16, 2022, 5:53 PM
Elkhart General Hospital: "Went to ER and had taken a double dose by accident of my Eliquis and Flecainide. I asked Triage nurse if I could just talk to ER Dr first as I had no symptoms. She said no. I got to ER room and was given a EKG which I did not need The ER doctor told me I'd she had talked to me in the lobby that I would not have needed any of it. She called poison control and they told her no problem. Thanks to a narrow minded triage nurse it will cost me when it didn't need to. I'm going to try to talk to the administrator of the hospital next week!" - Greg

Jan 31, 2022, 7:34 PM
Elkhart General Hospital: "Ever since I've arrived at the emergency room at Elkhart general hospital which has been 24 hours now
I've been nothing but lied to and pushed aside.
Still can't get any answers on anything getting ready to walk out" - Samuel

Oct 09, 2021, 10:27 PM
Elkhart General Hospital: "this is my comment" - aol

Aug 03, 2021, 7:06 PM
Elkhart General Hospital: "Waited in the ER lobby for 7 1/2 hours for a bed, for a kidney stone. Once in, staff was wonderful and I was discharged in 2 hours. " - Eric

Jul 27, 2018, 5:28 PM
Elkhart General Hospital: "Staff expertise may have saved our son's life. We are so grateful! However, cubicle 25 in the ER was filthy. Spills on floor. Grime on floor was probably caused by a wet mop used without sweeping first. Sink unsanitary. We love this hospital and want to hear their cleanliness is improved. " - Carol

Oct 09, 2016, 1:50 PM
Elkhart General Hospital: "Some of the doctors are very good take time some do not and just want to rush and not help at all I guess it depends who is working " - Amanda

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