Onslow Memorial 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 Onslow Memorial Hospital save lives? 9% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	17%
Heart Failure	11%
Pneumonia	15%

Infectious Disease at Onslow Memorial 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	32
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	4

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 40m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 3 hour and 23 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 4 hour and 41 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 3 hour and 16 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: BELOW AVERAGE

56% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Onslow Memorial Hospital Stories

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Dec 22, 2023, 6:07 AM
Onslow Memorial Hospital: "just now
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6yo eith +104 fever, vomiting, swollen lymphnodes. Waited 6 hours to be put in a room just to wait more. 7 families stood up and walked out while i was there without recieving treatment despite some of them limping or raging ear infection. A wheelchair patient asked front desk for water because he couldn't push himself and she said "no I'm not a nurse, go get a nurse." I was audibly shocked.

The worst experience at a hospital yet again, onslow county never changes... 10 years since we came here last and I wouldn't come back again even if it truly was an emergency. How embarrassing this is our only Emergency room for our entire area and it still can't help its people..." - Sarah

Aug 27, 2022, 2:40 AM
Onslow Memorial Hospital: "I sat in the ER for 10 hours before they even called my name I was there for 3 hours and they finally pulled me back from my vitals just to send me back out to the waiting room while I waited the remainder 10 hours then they called me back and they didn't even give me a room they sat me down in a rolly chair AKA office chair in the hallway and I sat there for additional 3 hours and when I asked the nurse when is the doctor going to see me she said oh you got to wait until after shift change but I explained to the woman that I've been there for almost 13 hours at this point and she says to me well like I said you have to wait until after shift change and then day shift can handle your case there's nothing we can do for you at that point I was already so frustrated I just left so my experience at Onslow Memorial Hospital was the sorriest and laziest Hospital I've ever been to I can understand that they were busy but there was literally three nurses in the entire ER and barely know patience other than me rooms were empty but yet I had to sit out in the hallway and listen to all the nurses gossip to each other about their phones and their social media accounts somebody really needs to get on their cases before somebody dies like it happened in Wilmington Hospital patient dies in the waiting room because of lack of responsibilities that the nurses ate supposed to do they get paid to be nurses not to sit there hang out with friends and laugh and giggle and have a good time" - Brandon

Apr 09, 2021, 11:18 AM
Onslow Memorial Hospital: "Worst wait time and never being put in a room but the bill is still always like you were in a room!!" - Janice

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