Erie County 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 Erie County Medical Center save lives? 4% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	16%
Heart Failure	10%
Pneumonia	12%

Infectious Disease at Erie County 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	144
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	8

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 34m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 4 hour and 44 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 4 hour and 15 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 2 hour and 38 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: BELOW AVERAGE

53% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Erie County Medical Center Stories

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Jul 06, 2023, 12:14 AM
Erie County Medical Center: "My husband cut his finger off at work, and we’ve been waiting in lobby for 4 hrs already and haven’t even been seen yet. The girl next to me got into a car accident and she’s been here for 8+hrs " - Hailee

Jul 06, 2023, 12:08 AM
Erie County Medical Center: "My husband cut his finger off at work, and we’ve been waiting in lobby for 4 hrs already and haven’t even been seen yet. The girl next to me got into a car accident and she’s been here for 8+hrs " - Hailee

Apr 11, 2022, 9:22 PM
Erie County Medical Center: "Long story short- as if that’s even a possibility.
Severed artery in finger at 1:30. Went to an ER clinic and was told this is a potentially life threatening situation. (I have never seen blood like this before. Soaking paper towels. Dripping paper towels)
Knowing that a trip to ECMC was a trip into the twilight zone- I headed out with my very injured and patient coworker.
Our arrival was greeted by the usual mix of characters. After checking in we were called into the back - thinking - wow this is actually not going to be a trip into the twilight zone. Wrong!
2.5 hours later- my coworker starts telling me he is in more pain than before (level 10). I got up and went to the desk. The one associate was busy so I waiting infront of the one who seemed “not busy”.
Here is what he was busy doing- watching live streams on his phone. When the desk phone rang he looked up and offered to “help me”. I explained to him the situation and his response was “I will make a note of it.” Did not offer my friend even the slightest of attention- nothing - zero. “He will make a note of it.”
I know these are hard working people and I know things are tough everywhere, but really. You can’t pull yourself away from you cell phone videos enough when sitting at the desk in an ER room- loaded with all kinds of everything. You give your fellow coworkers a bad name and are an embarrassment to those who take their jobs seriously and are mature enough to stay off their phones. " - Ev

Dec 08, 2021, 4:55 AM
Erie County Medical Center: "Arrived @ 1900 on Tuesday evening 12/7/21, it is now 0500 on Wednesday 12/8/21. I now have a new symptom~severe back/hip pain from sitting and not being seen for 10 hrs. Did I mention that I'm diabetic and COVID-19 positive? " - Kristi

Sep 28, 2021, 11:23 PM
Erie County Medical Center: "Terrible experience with this hospital. I had a major surgery and waited hours before I was able to be medicated. They would tell me you can't have this at home....no but I am not at home.. Hopefully my pain will be managed better at home. Don't treat patients like they are useless. I'm a RN and would never treat my patients they way I was treated!! " - Susan

Mar 09, 2020, 2:13 AM
Erie County Medical Center: "I was in the lock up area for 10 days and 7 times they didn't give me my meds and one of the nurses was fooling around with a guard and I was assaulted by the person in the next bed" - Shawn

Mar 16, 2017, 11:59 PM
Erie County Medical Center: "Doctor sent me for x ray due to severe back pain I arrived at the hospital on 3/16/17 around 5pm current date is 3/17/17 12:15am and I have still as of yet have not been seen despite having a no of 138/20 due to pain this hospital is a f#@$%* joke. No patient should ever have to wait this long to be treated.last time knowingly coming here. My ad ice is choose your hospital wisely BC YOU'LL DIE WAITING TO BE SEEN I. ECMC!!!! " - Jeremiah

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