Grand Strand 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 Grand Strand Regional Medical Center save lives? 7% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	14%
Heart Failure	11%
Pneumonia	11%

Infectious Disease at Grand Strand 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	32
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 16m

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 54 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 58 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

66% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Grand Strand Regional Medical Center Stories

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Apr 01, 2017, 11:47 PM
Grand Strand Regional Medical Center: "As a side note to my previous comments, the patient also was given NO pain medication even though she told numerous nurses and Dr.Slotts that she was in terrible pain. We requested to see a nursing supervisor 4 times and have not yet seen any supervisor, sad but enlightening to see this side of healthcare." - Laurie

Apr 01, 2017, 11:25 PM
Grand Strand Regional Medical Center: "Came to this ER with a fellow nurse who had been vomiting all day and had been unable to take her antibiotics or pain medicine prescribed the prior day for an infection in her tooth. After 3 hours of waiting the ER Dr,Dr.Slotts , finally came in to see her. This man was so condescending and rude that he made me see the side of healthcare that the public so often talked about in a negative way. There was absolutely no compassion from this man at all. Please Grandstand, reassess this staff member. Dr. Slotts, please treat all patients with the respect and dignity that is a positive reflection to your profession ." - Laurie

Oct 29, 2016, 7:17 PM
Grand Strand Regional Medical Center: "Boarded and collared after a blunt force head injury to left side of head knocking out teeth on left side with blunt force injuries, taken to GSMC where I was found on concrete floor with blunt force head injury now to right side of head with 5 crushed teeth, crushed right knee, crushed left arm and wrist with tramatic brain injuries. Hospital refuses to release detailed records so I can get an attorney. David Brookes the Risk Manager, now called the Death Manager. They killed 25 year old Kelly Fay and do many more. SC is nondisclosure state so Noone can tell the public about deaths and serious injuries. Never go b to Grand Strand Medical Center. They try to cover up all fatalities and injuries by them. They need to lose they license.
" - lyda

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