Portland Va 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 Portland Va Medical Center save lives? 34% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate at Portland Va Medical Center	National Average
Heart Attack	12%	12.6%
Heart Failure	6.8%	11.8%
Pneumonia	13%	18.2%

Infectious Disease at Portland Va Medical Center

Drug resistant bacteria are becoming a large health risk 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.

Infectious Disease	Cases
C. Diff Sickens more than a half million people each year and has a 17% mortality rate after one year1	Not Available
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%2	Not Available

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Average Time Spent In Emergency Department: 0h 0m

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 Patient Rating: VERY GOOD



Footnotes:

¹C Diff Mortality Rate
²MRSA Mortality Rate

Portland Va Medical Center Stories

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Jul 09, 2025, 7:52 PM
Providence Portland Medical Center: "I am a Licensed Professional Counselor. I have a client with an acute pain situation. He has been to the Providence ER 4 (four!!!) times and they turn him away saying they cannot help him. If this hospital cannot help people then it should shut down.
I called and spoke with Nurse Supervisor Jason who promised me he would get my client seen by a neurologist. he broke that promise. They discharged my client saying "we can't help you" then WHAT ARE YOU THERE FOR??? This hospital ER should be decertified because they are inhumane and incompetent and dishonest." - Baruch

Jun 27, 2025, 1:00 AM
: "WTF is going on? Motorcycle accident waiting hours?! Severe pain hours in an empty lobby?! I won't bother with gross mishandling of trauma and mental wellness or any mental health disorders...I mean really why people are surprised people turn to street drugs for relief and then America criminalizes it .as far as I'm concerned more and more like the street drugs are the real MD pharmacy and the criminals are the way this nation handln' things. " - Jax

May 28, 2025, 6:55 PM
Ohsu Hospital And Clinics: "I was sent to OHSU following a motorcycle accidenton 6/1/23. I sat on a gurney in a hallway for several hours, spoke briefly with one overworked intern, they drew blood, then I was discharged. There was no physical examination, no diagnostic work up, no observation, the blood test was for alcohol even though there was no alcohol involved and the accident was over eight hours earlier. They missed a tibial plateau fracture that should have had immediate surgery, and a significant neck sprain. They billed me over $20,000 for "activation of a tramua team" among other services that were simply not there. When I filed a grievance for the last of the bills, and submitted the subsequent MRI showing clearly the knee fracture, the letter I got back stated that the fracture must have happened in the 10 days between the ER visit and the MRI This was of course physically impossible as I couldn't really walk and was recovering from the other injuries from the motorcycle accident. Now I am looking at significant arthritis in my neck and knee because of this poor care. " - David

May 19, 2025, 1:50 PM
Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center: "I have waited in your emergency room over 4 hours. Everybody else has gotten called except me and then they say oh, you're next on the list and I still never get called. I end up leaving. You have the worst customer service skilled people working there.You need to take all your employees from that e r and train them on customer service skills" - Carol

Jan 04, 2025, 7:49 PM
: "Providence St Vincent. Been here 3 hours. Construction in the ER waiting room means you have to wait in a cramped waiting room with many others. I’m squeamish, and to my horror they are putting in IVs right here in the waiting room, no curtain. Sitting in a wheelchair with a bad back, the reason why I’m here, and my back feeling worse and now my tailbone hurts. " - Tom

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