Gwinnett 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 Gwinnett 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 Gwinnett 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	60
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 48m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 3 hour and 0 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 4 hour and 1 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 2 hour and 50 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

72% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Gwinnett Medical Center Stories

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Dec 16, 2020, 10:22 PM
Gwinnett Medical Center: "I waited 4 hours before I finally walked out. Obviously, triage didn't feel that an abcess that is moving through my body on the left side, with shooting pains in my head, swelling at my clavical and the back of my neck, that an Oral Surgeon told me to go to my nearest emergency room!!! The nurse that first saw me before triage, her comment was "these oral surgeons sending people to the ER and shook her head" I explained it was more than a tooth abscess, it's moving near my heart!! The dentist nor oral surgeon would extract under the circumstances. She most obviously thought it wasn't important enough because I had to walk out after seeing a dozen or more people going before me. My symptoms were also difficulty swallowing. I have also been on antibiotics for 15 days and my chest is hurting on the left side as well. There I sat. Unbelievable. They were Rude and treated me like I was only there for medication!! I went to Northside Cherokee ER on 11/20 because my face was swollen like elephant man. The dentist that told me to go there said I needed IV antibiotics cause I had pain and swelling in the neck. He sent me away with 10 days amoxicillin and NOTHING FOR PAIN. AFTER ANTIBIOTICS I ended up at an emergency dentist who prescribed me Keflex. It's been 5 additional days since then. Today I was supposed to have it extracted but was TOLD BECAUSE OF MY CONDITION GO BACK TO THE ER!!! THEY treated me like I said, like shit and I was wasting their time!! Had the ER given IV antibiotics like I needed? I would not still be suffering or in life threatening danger. I ought to sue, so help me God if it goes to my heart or brain and I don't die? YOU CAN COUNT ON IT. " - Monica

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