Missouri Baptist 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 Missouri Baptist Medical Center save lives? 20% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

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

Infectious Disease at Missouri Baptist 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	40
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 14m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 3 hour and 43 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 35 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 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

67% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Missouri Baptist Medical Center Stories

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Nov 29, 2022, 8:56 PM
Missouri Baptist Medical Center: "The wait time is incorrect for this hospital. I know because I am there now and I have been waiting for almost 5 hrs now and I was here at 3:15pm. I am here because of what is for sure broken toes that are swollen and painful and I am still waiting. " - Virginia

Jul 06, 2022, 8:43 AM
Missouri Baptist Medical Center: "I arrived in the ER at 0415 there was about 3 people in the waiting room. I didn’t go back until 0650 and wait another hour before seeing the doctor. I sat in that ER crying in pain. Worst experience I ever had and I’m a nurse. " - RaToya

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