Skyridge Medical Center 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 Skyridge Medical Center save lives? 10% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	14%
Heart Failure	14%
Pneumonia	15%

Infectious Disease at Skyridge Medical Center

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	16
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	4

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 51m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 48 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 0 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 59 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

66% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Skyridge Medical Center Stories

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Apr 27, 2015, 8:56 AM
Skyridge Medical Center: "This is the worst hospital to go to, the last time I was here I was in the waiting room for 5 hours while my daughter was passing out and she had 104 temp, she was 5 years old!!! Now I'm sitting in the ER and I have been waiting 3 hours to still not be seen!!! There was only 2 patients in the ER each time and both times at the emergency check in there same ER nurse was there and she is horribly rude!!! This hospital does not care about you they would let you die in their waiting room then get off their lazy bums and help some body!!! I do not recommend this hospital to anyone!! They should fire the staff here and hire some who have been thru a course of compassion!!! The only reason I came here again is because this is the only hospital in our town, maybe the cdc will shit this place down its nasty!!" - Judy

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