Salem Township 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 Salem Township Hospital save lives? 19% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Failure	12%
Pneumonia	16%

Infectious Disease at Salem Township 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	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 0m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 0 hour and 0 minutes

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

70% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Salem Township Hospital Stories

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Aug 24, 2021, 6:42 PM
Salem Township Hospital: "Horrible experience trying to get son tested for covid.Hospital was unable to keep track of covid order from doctors office, twice order was faxed and confirmed received when trying for test hospital was still unable to find order. I had to physically get order from doctor and come into the hospital for test outside test was unavailable after two and a half hours of continuous attempts to have him tested. Front desk lady continued to ble doctors office. " - Huff

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