Mease Countryside 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 Mease Countryside Hospital save lives? 7% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	14%
Heart Failure	12%
Pneumonia	10%

Infectious Disease at Mease Countryside 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	64
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	0

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 50m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 57 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 16 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 2 hour and 6 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

71% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Mease Countryside Hospital Stories

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Aug 23, 2021, 3:29 PM
Mease Countryside Hospital: "I was advised by my primary care to immediately seek treatment for my covid 19 symptoms at the closest hospital where regeneron can also be administered. What a mistake going to Mease Countryside that was. I can only assume they are unaware of the CDC guidelines or just chose to not follow them. "Corralling" anyone with cold symptoms in a small area with no more than maybe 2 feet between them is INSANE. Hey Board of directors NOT EVEYONE WILL HAVE COVID YOU PUT IN THERE, but you now have expose EVERYONE !!!!! So incredibly irresponsible!!! I guess we now have a good idea why this pandemic is spreading !!! Mease Countryside ER waiting room is an incubator !!!! You would think DR's would have better sense !!!!" - C

Dec 19, 2015, 2:00 PM
Mease Countryside Hospital: "I was brought by ambulance to Mease Countryside ER. I suffer from an anxiety/depression disorder that most times is controlled by medication. I became very ill and weak and had tremors so bad I couldn't dial my cell phone. I used my landline to call 911. The EMT's were very efficient and recognized my distress right away. I got to the ER and a nurse took some blood for testing. Then another nurse came in and discussed my condition. After about an hour the Doctor came in, talked to me for five minutes and left never to be seen again. A nurse came in about 45 minutes later and gave me a 1mg injection of Ativan. After a period of time she came back with my discharge papers! The first injection did nothing and I was still suffering. After I complained that I wasn't any better than when I first arrived she went away. About 10 minutes later she came back with another 1mg injection of ativan and my discharge papers. I hadn't improved at all and here I was being sent home without any further treatment even though I still felt terrible. I complained to the nurse again and all she would do is keep shoving the discharge papers in my face. I realized that the ER was done with me and no matter what my symptoms sent me home.
I will never use Mease Countryside ER again. They were so uncaring and so uneducated about my condition. I left the ER feeling almost like I first felt after arriving by ambulance.
I start with a new physician soon as my insurance has changed. She is registered at Mease Countryside. I am not looking forward to ever spending a minute there again. They are so "busy" with patients I felt like cattle. I hope this gets posted somewhere that they can see this complaint. I know it won't do much good but at least in other ERs I have had to go to over a 15 year period, they are the worst I have ever had to use." - Timothy

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