Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute 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 Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute save lives? 5% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	15%
Heart Failure	12%
Pneumonia	9%

Infectious Disease at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute

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	4
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	12

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 6m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 38 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 18 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 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: AVERAGE

61% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute Stories

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Nov 10, 2018, 2:27 PM
Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute: "My mother was a patient there. She was bedridden and not mobile or able to get to a toilet. She was being given the strongest laxitives possible to reduce the ammonia in her system. She needed to have someone clean her often. This wasn't happening. She was left in her own stool for over six hours at a time because nobody could be bothered to help her. I went out to the nurses station to ask for someone to take care of her and I was ignored until I threw the books I was holding into the middle of the floor and began throwing a fit. It's disgusting how they treat people. The nurses were too busy charting and unfortunately on several occasions were too busy flirting with the doctors to help. I absolutely hate that hospital and the nurses who put their responsibilities off on others. When my mother was there the CNA assigned to her told us she had 18 patients to cover. That's just criminal in my opinion. And I know for a fact that at least three doctors recently divorced their wives for women they had an affair with at this hospital. I've been vocal about that too. They foster a disgusting disgraceful environment there. " - Lisa

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