North Okaloosa 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 North Okaloosa Medical Center save lives? 9% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	18%
Heart Failure	12%
Pneumonia	13%

Infectious Disease at North Okaloosa 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	12
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 22m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 1 hour and 55 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 8 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 33 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

North Okaloosa Medical Center Stories

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Jun 27, 2022, 11:55 AM
North Okaloosa Medical Center: "I am 100% certain people do not know where to actually go to rate this hospital because hundreds of people have responded to a post on social media I put up about the absolute filth and disrepair I experienced last week. All confirming it’s been this bad for years." - Cassandra

Jan 04, 2022, 5:26 PM
North Okaloosa Medical Center: "I question the reliability of this information. My brother in law almost died from MRSA he contacted at North Okaloosa Med Center. Three different surgeries and all three ended up with MRSA. " - Dee

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