St Alexius 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 St Alexius Medical Center save lives? 20% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	14%
Heart Failure	8%
Pneumonia	10%

Infectious Disease at St Alexius 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	0

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 44m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 3 hour and 9 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 32 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 25 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

St Alexius Medical Center Stories

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Jun 10, 2022, 9:31 PM
St Alexius Medical Center: "I went in at 10:30pm and left at 3:15am. Within that time my vitals were taken and a covid test. I waited then I was given a room. I was in the room about 1hr & 1/2. The dr really did nothing for me but tell me I may have a virus. No blood work. My symptoms were bad headache, nausea, fatigue, dizzying, extremely weak. He gave me something for the nausea and I had to ask for something for the pain. He apologized several times for not asking me some things. I left without knowing if maybe I was dehydrated or something. I am still not 100%, not sure if I'm contagious. I was not satisfied with the exam. " - Efrain

May 14, 2020, 6:06 PM
St Alexius Medical Center: "If you’d like for patients to return for routine or other things besides covid-19, you’re going to have to think like a patient who’s fearful and set things up differently. I can see you are trying, but I am doubtful it will pass the public’s muster. It did not pass mine.

Here’s my experience. My respiratory symptoms were a red flag to the staff so I was correctly asked to register for my xray by phone from the parking lot so they could take extra precautions. This is something everyone should appreciate and celebrate! When I completed the registration (5 people and an hour of my time, BTW, in addition to your clever website that allowed me to photograph my pertinent documents), I was instructed to proceed to the emergency room entrance where they had a cordoned off area for patients like me to wait. There was only one chair so I assume that only one patient at a time can wait there. I quickly realized however, that my waiting area served as both an employee entrance to the hospital and it was very close to the patient entrance to the emergency department. All the many, many people passing through wore a surgical mask. There were 5 employees wearing only a surgical mask standing around talking all within a few feet from me. Now, being a nurse, I know that copious PPE does not exist. I also know that covid-19 is a droplet and airborne disease (at least for a little while) and that only a N95 mask is truly considered protective against it (but a surgical mask is better than nothing I will concede). I also know that about 25% of covid-19 carriers are asymptomatic, but can potentially still spread the disease. When I asked to wait directly outside because I was uncomfortable in that environment with so many people around me, the nurse told me no. This seemingly would have caused her no inconvenience as I mentioned I would wait at the window for her visual signal to return, and a mere 10 steps would have taken her to the door where she could have called me. Anyway, you must do better. I’m guessing that any patient being asked to wait in a makeshift waiting area which is technically the employee entrance would be nervous.

I would have shared this privately with the hospital for your internal use, but I could not find a way to do that. Best of luck to you. I am rooting for you." - Joy

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