Saint Luke's South 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 Saint Luke's South Hospital save lives? 14% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	13%
Heart Failure	10%
Pneumonia	10%

Infectious Disease at Saint Luke's South 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	20
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 30m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 16 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 28 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 0 hour and 47 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

79% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Saint Luke's South Hospital Stories

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Feb 16, 2023, 4:41 PM
Saint Luke's South Hospital: "Been sitting er waiting room for 3 hours. This is pathetic." - Chad

Mar 14, 2022, 5:24 PM
Saint Luke's South Hospital: "3 hours in an ER is unacceptable only 1 person has gone back since we got here. This is ridiculous!! I’ve seen 2 people leave to go to other hospitals what is going on with St. Luke’s. " - William

Mar 14, 2022, 3:54 PM
Saint Luke's South Hospital: "3 hours in an ER is unacceptable only 1 person has gone back since we got here. This is ridiculous!! I’ve seen 2 people leave to go to other hospitals what is going on with St. Luke’s. " - William

Mar 14, 2022, 3:23 PM
Saint Luke's South Hospital: "3 hours in an ER is unacceptable only 1 person has gone back since we got here. This is ridiculous!! I’ve seen 2 people leave to go to other hospitals what is going on with St. Luke’s. " - William

Jul 16, 2020, 8:15 PM
Saint Luke's South Hospital: "2015 ICU experience
never again will I recommend at Luke's south in overland park Kansas " - G

Dec 25, 2017, 3:06 PM
Saint Luke's South Hospital: "RN gave me the impression I was wasting his time by being there with my cough and high fever. He obviously doesn't like treating fat older people and started the IV where it would be the most painful doing a terrible taping job. No communication as to vitals or medical triage. Just put the gown on and doc will be in soon. Coldest care ever. I have 20 years ER experience and observing these people was very sad to watch. The ER doc eventually became more involved. The X-ray tech was excellent." - Pat

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