Santiam 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 Santiam Memorial Hospital save lives? 3% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Pneumonia	12%

Infectious Disease at Santiam 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	12
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 31m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 6 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 5 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 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: BELOW AVERAGE

58% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Santiam Memorial Hospital Stories

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Feb 02, 2022, 12:47 PM
Santiam Memorial Hospital: "They are ill equipped in handling complex situations. The staff was adequate except for a heavyset woman who appears to have some mental health issues. She was not only unprofessional but she also failed to listen and she took her obvious anger out on the patient for no reason as she was trying to pick an argument. We are observing more and more mental health problems among hospital staffing. Miserable people such as this should be screened as their abnormal behavior is detrimental to the patient. She is only a nurse, and we suppose they probably cannot do much better at procuring ethical and professional people in this tiny backwoods facility but this person is clearly not thinking logically. Her name is Georgina Zinn. Her back problems, as well as her personal life must be a wreck." - SKL

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