Ssm St Marys Health 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 Ssm St Marys Health Center save lives? 8% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	15%
Heart Failure	9%
Pneumonia	12%

Infectious Disease at Ssm St Marys Health 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	60
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 40m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 21 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 18 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 2 hour and 30 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

Ssm St Marys Health Center Stories

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Nov 12, 2022, 1:23 PM
Ssm St Marys Health Center: "This place is unclean, uncaring, and unsanitary. The only hospital worse is St Alexian. The er took over 8 hours and it was not busy. Never a dr only pas. Awful wxperience" - S

Oct 14, 2022, 9:00 PM
Ssm St Marys Health Center: "After a scheduled follow up EEG, my Neurologist suggested that I go to the ER when my husband was concerned about my behavior post EEG. I was in the ER from 10:15 a.m. until 6:12 p.m. on Wednesday, 12 October. I understand triage. However, we were not kept current on what my personal situation was. When I was finally called back from the ER waiting area to a room and asked to speak to a doctor, I was told the results of that morning's EEG were normal. We were kept all those hours in the ER while the staff did blood draws to check heart enzymes. I presented to the ER on the advice of my Neurologist. I spent hours in the ER with no information from staff on what they were try to do for me. I believe hospital staff owes each patient updates on their progress. I didn't get that courtesy from St. Mary's ER staff." - Susan

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