Fort Sanders 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 Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center save lives? 10% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	15%
Heart Failure	10%
Pneumonia	10%

Infectious Disease at Fort Sanders 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	48
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: 0h 34m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 10 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 46 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 2 hour and 24 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

77% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center Stories

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Jan 08, 2024, 5:51 PM
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center: "I waited over 6 hours to be placed in a room. I had a spinal cord injury and was made to wait in the waiting room in excruciating pain with no one doing anything to at least offer a way to make me feel more comfortable. Worst. Experience. Ever. " - Angela

Jan 05, 2023, 1:29 AM
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center: "It says 2 hours and 45min for Fort Sanders, BULL CRAP!! I’ve been here in waiting room since 5pm Wednesday with a heart issue! The man beside me w/ one leg has been here in waiting room since 2pm! It’s now 1:28am on Thurs. " - Jess

Dec 10, 2022, 12:48 AM
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center: "Been here since six o'clock this evening it's now one am and the doctors and nurses walk by u like nobody's calling to them it's the worst hospital staff ever" - mark

Sep 21, 2022, 10:36 AM
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center: "Why are they just leaving me just sitting here and excruciating pain when there's nobody hardly at all in this emergency room and especially nobody that seems to be in any sort of pain why am I being just left and sit here why am I not being seen?" - Jackie

Aug 28, 2022, 2:00 AM
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center: "This is by far the WORST ER Department I've ever been to. My mother who is a level 4 cancer patient waited from 3:00 PM to 3:35 AM to be seen in the ER(OVER 12 FUCKING HOURS). I HATE this hospital with a pasion; I am very very frustrated at the lack of care this hospital gives. IF YOU HAVE STAFFING ISSUES thats a larger issue. YOU NEED TO FIX IT! Thn they trap you from leaving by sticking a IV in your arm so you are basically stuck until a DR can take the damn thing out. I hate that hospital, 8/28/2022" - TIFFANY

May 24, 2022, 3:14 PM
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center: "I’m currently sitting in the ER waiting room of Ft. Sanders, suspecting I have a broken hip or blood clots in my leg or hip from a fall. I’ve been in the waiting room since 11:45 this morning and it is currently 6:30. They will not give me the results of my x-ray, cat scan, or ultrasound. They say we must wait for an empty bed in ER and, only then, can a doctor share those results. I wouldn’t recommend anyone come here if they have any other options." - Sandra

May 23, 2022, 6:32 PM
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center: "I’m currently sitting in the ER waiting room of Ft. Sanders, suspecting I have a broken hip or blood clots in my leg or hip from a fall. I’ve been in the waiting room since 11:45 this morning and it is currently 6:30. They will not give me the results of my x-ray, cat scan, or ultrasound. They say we must wait for an empty bed in ER and, only then, can a doctor share those results. I wouldn’t recommend anyone come here if they have any other options." - Sandra

Feb 26, 2022, 5:55 PM
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center: "Last time we came to ER we waited 17 hours for a 15 minute procedure to put G- tube back in. Now we are here with G/J tube stopped up and looks like it will be another 17 hours. Only one doctor working. Worst ER in Knoxville !!!!!!" - Lisa

Dec 08, 2021, 12:00 AM
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center: "I have been here with my sister for over 4 hours now. Once they ruled out a heart attack I think they make you wait so long that you just leave!! Lazy employees!!! " - Rebecca

Nov 09, 2021, 1:19 AM
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center: "Terrible service checked in at 3:20 pm for prescient broncittis & to get chest
x-ray and at 11:20 pm still not seen and left! Front desk was hateful & unhelpful, worst experience I ever had at this hospital!" - Missy

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