Saint Joseph's Regional Medical Center - Plymouth 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 Saint Joseph's Regional Medical Center - Plymouth save lives? 6% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	16%
Heart Failure	13%
Pneumonia	12%

Infectious Disease at Saint Joseph's Regional Medical Center - Plymouth

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	0
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 9m

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 31 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 0 hour and 46 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

75% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Saint Joseph's Regional Medical Center - Plymouth Stories

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Aug 20, 2022, 1:04 PM
Saint Joseph's Regional Medical Center - Plymouth: "On my last visit to this alledged Emergency Department, I was literally wondering abandoned for more tban three hours before being seen by a provider, despite arriving via ambulance with complaint of "difficulty breathing"! There were but a handful of "urgent care" patients present,many of whom arrived AFTER me...and, not one, but TWO providers were on duty.

I was falsely labeled a "drug addict" simply because I'd been on meds with "abuse POTENTIAL" but with no medical history/record of abusing anything over 40,25 and 12 years-EVER!
On an earlier visit, I'd presented with inadvertent acute alcohol poisoning and sbortness of breath, I had recently been forced to substitute alcohol for my benzo of 40 years (in order to prevent potentially FATAL seizures, which SHOULD be common knowledge-both drugs hit the same GABA receptor!) as I couldn't get into see my newly appointed Trinity Health PCP for three months and was out of some meds. I had asked my 9-y-old adopted son to make me a Martini (I'm bedridden due to muscle wasting) and he filled the tumbler to the brim... Still not sure how or why I drank it all, but such is demonstrably NOT typical behavior of myself! I'd recently halted my daughter's $500/month tuition reimbursement (again due to inappropriate spending). She's an FNP in this Emergency Room, and from what I've been able to ascertain, maliciously
informed Dr Cancel that I "had a history of alcohol abuse" despite no such history in my medical record-ever. She also stated SHE was concerned that I've been on three meds with "abuse potential", yet no such prescriptive record even remotely suggestive of abuse
exists. Despite her close proximity, I've only SEEN her perhaps a dozen times over the past seven years (I'm no longer able to ambulate). She's " permitted" me to see my grandkids all of 3-4 times in seven years! She only makes herself available, historically, when I'm giving her $$$. And,SHE has a provable prescriptive history (INSPECT record) of ampbetamine misuse during her ENTIRE nursing and FNP education!

Still, it is grossly negligent, and potentially LETHAL, to abruptly stop any patient's benzo after long term (appropriate) use! In fact, I ultimately DID have a tonic-clonic generalized seizure, which because of the nature of my rare muscle disease, caused global muscle contractures, widespread muscle cell death and ensuing kidney failure! Nice... " - Dr

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