New Milford 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 New Milford Hospital save lives? 13% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	16%
Heart Failure	16%
Pneumonia	12%

Infectious Disease at New Milford 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	20
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 17m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 1 hour and 15 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 18 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 0 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

73% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

New Milford Hospital Stories

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Apr 15, 2020, 10:43 AM
New Milford Hospital: "The worst acted like I was bothering them by going there did not prescribe anything for my needs of infection had to call a doctor the next day to get a prescription if you want to die go here " - Anthony

Apr 15, 2020, 10:41 AM
New Milford Hospital: "The worst " - Anthony

Feb 11, 2020, 2:34 PM
New Milford Hospital: "Was told to arrive 1 hour before my husbands one day surgery, which we did. He was taken in immediately for his insurance stats and then taken to prep area. I was told it would be a few hours and was given a time he would be ready, told to be sure to be back by that time. Deciding to stay is always my preference as I would never want to be away in the event “something” went arise. During my wait, I did overhear that surgeries were once ahead of schedule, now were being delayed. I was NOT given any heads up. Rather than that.. I was informed 15 minutes prior to his “pick up” time that he was JUST going in for the procedure. There is a certain amount of worry and concern that occurs when a loved one is receiving a procedure that CAN have complications. When I was notified I asked why I wasn’t told 2 hours ago, it was explained to me that she didn’t know...yet appropriately 90 minutes ago she did know there were delays. Personally I find this “notice” TOTALLY unacceptable, callous and without regard for the waiting spouse. While I do understand things happen, proper communication and compassion were lacking in this situation. Perhaps to some my husbands procedure might be routine however your SOP practices need to be greatly adjusted to consider the waiting person and the patient. Simply going through the motions like a robot has lead to this review and anyplace else I can post it. " - Gayle

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