Northside Hospital Forsyth 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 Northside Hospital Forsyth save lives? 4% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	15%
Heart Failure	12%
Pneumonia	14%

Infectious Disease at Northside Hospital Forsyth

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	60
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 15m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 1 hour and 57 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 25 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 34 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

77% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Northside Hospital Forsyth Stories

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Jan 02, 2024, 2:56 PM
Northside Hospital Forsyth: "NORTHSIDE FORSYTH Not sure how they figure the two hour wait time. We've been here 6 hours. My wife is showing serious symptoms yet we are just sitting here getting worse. " - PHILIP

Sep 14, 2022, 7:19 PM
Northside Hospital Forsyth: "I sat with my 81 year old father for 4 hours in the waiting room while he was in constant pain, including chest pain and shortness of breath. Staff is friendly and competent, but leadership needs to hire an outside source to assess how to make the ER more efficient and effective. " - Amy

Oct 28, 2015, 7:31 AM
Northside Hospital Forsyth: "Our mother is a long time bedridden patient that frequently has gone to Northside Forsyth with uti s, strokes, sepsis and other life threatening causes. Until the passed two weeks we thought this was the best hospital around to take her too and have always been very pleased. Th nurses were great but we are not pleased with either Doctor she had. Our mother is 83 years old. Some might think this is too old for any quality of life. It's our mother and it doesn't matter if she is 183 she is a precious human being who has cared and kept us the family we are today. Did I say she is our mother. She was very sick and tests were run but sent home in a couple of hours and told there was nothing else they could do. Probably Obama care techniques.. She was taken to a nearby hospital because she was so ill. They have run all sorts of tests and admitted her into the hospital. They cannot believe she was sent home twice being this sick. We have been with her overnight as we do not see the results coming out to be a good situation. Demand your family get the care they deserve. I mean they are the ones paying for it. Don't be afraid to speak out. As for me and my family of years and years of going to nsforsyth those days are over because doctors refused to help her one more time. It's sad to think of the others they have failed in the passed. Wake up nsforsyth you have parents that could be in the same situation very soon. I hope they get the care they deserve....we didn't. " - Upset

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