Magee Womens Hospital Of Upmc Health System 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 Magee Womens Hospital Of Upmc Health System save lives? 11% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Failure	10%
Pneumonia	11%

Infectious Disease at Magee Womens Hospital Of Upmc Health System

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	48
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 21m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 12 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 17 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 0 hour and 57 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

Magee Womens Hospital Of Upmc Health System Stories

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Sep 11, 2015, 12:49 AM
Magee Womens Hospital Of Upmc Health System: "when I was in labor with my daughter, I requested an epidural...big mistake. the anesthesiologists get to the room I was in and they explain to me what they're going to do and I agree and they get started. so when they ask me "can you feel this?", and it felt like they were moving the needle or something around in my back, so I said "yes" and then they said that they had to re-do it, from the beginning because it hadn't worked and I said okay and, again, it didn't work, so I let them do it a 3rd time and, of course, it didn't work, so I just told when I was in labor with my daughter, I requested an epidural...big mistake. the anesthesiologists get to the room I was in and they explain to me what they're going to do and I agree and they get started. so when they ask me "can you feel this?", and it felt like they were moving the needle or something around in my back, so I said "yes" and then they said that they had to re-do it, from the beginning because it hadn't worked and I said okay and, again, it didn't work, so I let them do it a 3rd time and, of course, it didn't work, so I just told them to forget about it because I don't want to end up paralyzed and when I looked down at the bed, the sheets were COVERED in blood from all of that. also, the anesthesiologists were trying to make it seem like it was MY fault that they couldn't numb me, when all I did was be as still as they told me to be...my back is also messed up from that to forget about it because I don't want to end up paralyzed and when I looked down at the bed, the sheets were COVERED in blood from all of that. also, the anesthesiologists were trying to make it seem like it was MY fault that they couldn't numb me, when all I did was be as still as they told me to be...my back is also messed up from that " - Crystal

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