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Sherman Oaks Hospital Ratings

4929 VAN NUYS BLVD
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
Phone: (818) 981-7111

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Emergency Services: YES




Contents:
Quality of Care - Infectious Diseases - ER Wait Time - Patient Ratings



Quality of Care - Mortality Rate

How well does Sherman Oaks Hospital save lives? 17% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.
Mortality Rate
Heart Attack13%
Heart Failure10%
Pneumonia9%


Infectious Disease at Sherman Oaks 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 DiseaseCases
C. Diff
Sickens more than a half million people each year and has a 17% mortality rate after one year2
24
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 21m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 1 hour and 55 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 1 hour and 42 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 48 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
Sherman Oaks Hospital 3.9 out of 5 based on 24 ratings. 24 user reviews.


51% of patients rate the hospital excellent

Positive Patient Ratings

Some patients praise:
  • Doctors usually communicate well with patients

Negative Patient Ratings

  • Staff doesn't respond quickly when patients need help
  • Nurses often fail to communicate
  • Patients were often left in pain
  • Facilities are sometimes dirty
  • Rooms were often noisy at night




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



Sherman Oaks Hospital Stories



Jan 26, 2024, 10:25 PM
Sherman Oaks Hospital: "Says wait time is 1hr 45min. The actual wait time is 5-6 hours tonight.," - B

Jul 08, 2022, 11:19 PM
Sherman Oaks Hospital: "onanistic " - Amiel

Mar 02, 2022, 2:50 PM
Sherman Oaks Hospital: "BELOW THE STANDARD OF CARE!

I was given doctor orders to have a CT scan at SOH. While I was in the ER the ER Dr stated I had a sinus infection and waiting for a CT scan was not necessary. Two weeks later I had a stroke and Major Brain Surgury for a ruptured Intracranial Hematoma.

I had all the symptoms. I explained these symptoms to the SOH emergency Dr. "
- Steve

Jul 01, 2021, 2:48 AM
Sherman Oaks Hospital: "Sherman Oaks hospital is the worst hospital. My mother was admitted hospital and more then five days i was trying to speak with the doctor but unable to speak. Nurses that i talked every day they were telling everything is ok and some how fifth day doctor called and say je will put her on vantilator they kept her more then a month on vantilator and one night they called and told me that she is having cardiac arrest and she cant survive until morning. They killed my mother did not provide good care and nobody knows how they treat patients because they dont let anybody to ho and see her patients. God will punish all the doctors and their parents same way that they treat their patients. They just come to work to get paid for doing nothing. I wish same thing happened to their parents if they really care about them. Shame on all of them that they become doctors but they are junk. " - Sam

Jan 07, 2021, 10:24 PM
Sherman Oaks Hospital: "Sherman Oaks hospital is the worst hospital in L.A county. The doctors and nurses very uneducated. They dont know how to treat people. They are very rude and unresponsible to the patients and to patients relatives. They don’t care if the patients needs help. No matter how us the patients doing they remove oxygen and put the patients on the vantillator in order they don’t get tired and sfter a few days when the patients is already in bad condition they let them die. All doctors who work in that hospital they are monsters. I hope their parents and all family members to be treated that way how they treat the other people. The representatives who works in the reception when you ask them to talk with your patients they put you on hold and never answered. You need to call them whole day that if you are lucky somebody will answer you. I hate that hospital. Please, please dont go that hospital because if you go there they will try ti get the miney from your insurance and after you die. Thats the way they treat people????" - Astkhik

Jan 07, 2021, 7:57 PM
Sherman Oaks Hospital: "Sherman Oaks hospital is the worst hospital in L.A county. The doctors and nurses very uneducated. They dont know how to treat people. They are very rude and unresponsible to the patients and to patients relatives. They don’t care if the patients needs help. No matter how us the patients doing they remove oxygen and put the patients on the vantillator in order they don’t get tired and sfter a few days when the patients is already in bad condition they let them die. All doctors who work in that hospital they are monsters. I hope their parents and all family members to be treated that way how they treat the other people. The representatives who works in the reception when you ask them to talk with your patients they put you on hold and never answered. You need to call them whole day that if you are lucky somebody will answer you. I hate that hospital. Please, please dont go that hospital because if you go there they will try ti get the miney from your insurance and after you die. Thats the way they treat people????" - Astkhik

Nov 24, 2020, 6:59 PM
Sherman Oaks Hospital: "It seems like every ER I've been to the staffer always laughing and talking on their phones or just standing around and this place has been no different brought a relative in it was super quick for him to be pulled into the back and diagnosed with what we already knew was a spider bite and that it needed to be drained but of course like every other Shady Hospital they did an unnecessary x-ray to just build the insurance unnecessarily and of course after that took almost 2 hours to drain it something we could have done at home. However just in case there were any other procedures that needed to be performed by a doctor we went to the hospital just out of caution worst choice and a waste of time" - Anthony

Apr 29, 2017, 2:34 AM
Sherman Oaks Hospital: "Sherman Oaks Hospital is a horrible place. I went to the emergency room and was turned away. The Doctor on duty told me they could not treat me, that I needed a higher level of care (they told me this in the hallway, before going into a room, standing in a hallway. I left and went to Cedars Sinai where I was appropriately treated. Two months later, I received a bill. I disputed it, and was turned into the collections.

The ER doctor, a complete Charlatan. AVOID, AVOID AVOID!!!! THEY ARE A SCHEME. "
- Ella


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