Lewistown Hospital 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 Lewistown Hospital save lives? 2% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

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

Infectious Disease at Lewistown Hospital

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	16
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 29m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 24 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 44 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 0 hour and 53 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

60% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Lewistown Hospital Stories

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Jan 13, 2017, 9:24 AM
Lewistown Hospital: "Took my daughter to Geisinger lewistown hospital for draining of wound from surgery. She was in pain having bad anxiety and we sit in waiting room for 2 hours finally after being called back we thought thank God but that totally got thrown out window bc we sat back there for another 2 hours before doctor ever came in. When she came in she sent video to her ortho doctor and xray when they brought my daughter back doctor can in and said her ortho dr will be calling tomorrow with time for surgery on money he wants to open her back up and do a wash out. So we were out there for 4 1/2 hours for it to take the Dr only 30 mins to look at her and send her home. If she would have came right in she could have had us out of there so they could free bed up for someone else because waiting room was still packed 4 1/2 hours later. " - Francesca

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