Long Beach Memorial 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 Long Beach Memorial Medical Center save lives? 9% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	14%
Heart Failure	9%
Pneumonia	13%

Infectious Disease at Long Beach Memorial 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	96
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	8

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 9m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 4 hour and 37 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 4 hour and 27 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 2 hour and 48 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

70% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Long Beach Memorial Medical Center Stories

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Feb 22, 2024, 10:50 AM
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center: "2/22/2024 Been sitting in ER waiting room with my girlfriend for four (4) hours with no end in sight! " - Paul

Sep 23, 2023, 2:25 PM
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center: "We've been waiting since 1130 last night, and as of 1124am still waiting. Kidney stone." - John

May 17, 2023, 8:43 AM
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center: "Absolutely miserable ER experience. I got here at 1:45. It's now 9:35. And the ER waiting area is a day care facility.

I will never come back to this ER unless I'm unconscious and in an ambulance." - Mark

May 17, 2023, 12:36 AM
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center: "Absolutely miserable ER experience. I got here at 1:45. It's now 9:35. And the ER waiting area is a day care facility.

I will never come back to this ER unless I'm unconscious and in an ambulance." - Mark

Mar 10, 2023, 5:15 AM
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center: "Took partner to ER and after initial tests we waited. The new triage area has little cubicles the size of a closet. The space is so small it’s difficult for both nursing staff, patient and another person. I don’t know what they were thinking of when they remodeled these areas but they made them worse. This whole ER needs to be enlarged. The parking is awful too. There’s no place to really drop of a patient. Build a new building and design a ramp system to take patients from the ER to the hospital. Expand parking and have ER drop off and parking with more space. It’s gotten worse since I was there in 2017 and again in 2021, 2023. When are they going to take this ER seriously? They don’t have Community Hospital anymore so now we have less choice. It’s an embarrassment for Long Beach. Build a new ER!" - Penny

Jun 09, 2021, 4:56 AM
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center: "I am a concerned mother who dropped off my daughter at your ER yesterday afternoon at 5pm. She was checked in after 20 mins but was told to wait in the patient’s waiting room area. Had an EKG and Lab work done at 8pm and was told again to wait in the outside waiting area for the results. It is now 1:41am when I called the ER if she is still outside and the answer was yes. My daughter was sent by her doctor to the ER to be checked cause she was having difficulty breathing, heart rate was fast was also pale and weak and is also diabetic. So how long will it take for them to tend to her as an ER patient sitting in a chair outside since 5pm yesterday without a nurse watching over and checking on her BP, heart rate and pulse, without any first aid medication, water or food? She should at least be resting, laying down in bed while waiting for her EKG and laboratory results. I did not intend to write a mean letter, just a concerned mother worrying about her daughter. Hoping that nothing serious will come out because of this situation. Thank you…" - Cynthia

Feb 29, 2020, 2:13 PM
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center: "Ridiculous" - Patience

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