Northridge Hospital 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 Northridge Hospital Medical Center save lives? 14% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	14%
Heart Failure	10%
Pneumonia	9%

Infectious Disease at Northridge Hospital 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	64
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	12

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 44 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 10 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 58 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

63% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Northridge Hospital Medical Center Stories

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Jul 24, 2017, 9:46 PM
Northridge Hospital Medical Center: "Northridge Hospital is my second home. I have had mostly good experiences except the nurses never get my medications correct even when handed a list from my Primary at UCLA. I talk to them, explain, spell, explain tid and qid, answer all their questions and they still get it wrong. The wait for admission can be long, but it's understandable as the ER nurses work so hard and the night nurses need their sleep. I do think the floor nurses need better staffing and more of it." - Pierce

Apr 24, 2017, 2:40 PM
Northridge Hospital Medical Center: "I WENT BY THE LAPD AMBULANCE TO NORTHRIDGE EMERGENCY DEPT. I HAD FALLEN AND HIT BACK OF MY HEAD.
HISTORY: I HAVE HAD A LACURAR STROKE AND 2 ENDOVASULAR COILS IN THE BRAIN.
I ASKED TO BE PUT ON HOSPITAL TRAY AND THEY NEVER CAME BACK TO REMOVE THE TRAY.MY HUSBAND DID IT.
THEY DID NOT OFFER GLOWN OR SHOTS. I WAS BAREFOOTED AND MY SHORTS. THE AMBULANCE DRIVER SAID NOT TO WORRY THEY WOULD CHANGING INTO A CLEAN GLOWN AND SHOES.
THE FIRST DR SAID I NEEDED A MRA TO CHECK THE INJURY. I WOULD HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE MRA MACHINE, UNTIL THEY HAD A SPOT FOR ME, AFTER THE EMERGENCIES WERE DONE. ABOUT 20 MINUTES. WHEN THEY CAME TO GET A NEW DR SAID I DIDN'T NEED THE MRA. NOW THE NEW DR WANTED TO DO STITCHES..8 OF THEM.I.
IT TOOK THE DR HOURS TO DO THAT PROCEDURE. I WAS BLEEDING AND THEY JUST WENT BY LOOKING AT ME.
WHEN THE RELEASED ME THEY GAVE TYLENOL WITH CODEINE. THE FIRST ID IT WOULD BE A STRONGER DRUG..THE 2 ND DR GAVE ME TYLENOL DOCTOR.
NO KNEW WHAT WHAT WAS GOING ON.
I WAS TOLD THIS WAS A COSNON AND I WOULD BE STAYING THE NITE.
ANOTHER DR I GO HOME BEING DIZZY.
I NEVER GOT THE GOWN AND WAKED UP THE HOSPITAL STILL IN OLD SHORTS AND BAREFOOTED.
I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL FROM 5:00PM UNTIL 12:00AM
I WILL NEVER COME BACK TO THIS HOSPITAL " - MARGIE

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