St Anthony's 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 Anthony's Medical Center save lives? 1% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	16%
Heart Failure	12%
Pneumonia	12%

Infectious Disease at St Anthony's 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	88
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	8

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 1h 12m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 3 hour and 24 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 23 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 2 hour and 27 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 Anthony's Medical Center Stories

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May 21, 2022, 11:59 AM
St Anthony's Medical Center: "Took my Mom on Friday, May 20th after speaking with her doctor office staff who tried to get her in for an Ultrasound for potential blood clot in leg post cardiac cath but no appointments available anywhere in the St Louis area- they suggested we go to the ER - we waited over 6 hours and the place was a circus… babies with high fevers not being seen, a woman in obvious severe pain that fainted and the weren’t even seen - we finally left - we will never ever go back to Mercy South - my sister passed away 3 weeks after discharge from this horrible place - never again." - Paula

May 21, 2022, 11:59 AM
St Anthony's Medical Center: "Took my Mom on Friday, May 20th after speaking with her doctor office staff who tried to get her in for an Ultrasound for potential blood clot in leg post cardiac cath but no appointments available anywhere in the St Louis area- they suggested we go to the ER - we waited over 6 hours and the place was a circus… babies with high fevers not being seen, a woman in obvious severe pain that fainted and the weren’t even seen - we finally left - we will never ever go back to Mercy South - my sister passed away 3 weeks after discharge from this horrible place - never again." - Paula

Jan 06, 2022, 9:13 PM
St Anthony's Medical Center: "Last ER visit...and I do mean LAST ER visit...my husband & I waited 7 hrs to be seen...They need to hire more staff. My sister-in-law was told by ambulance not to go to Mercy South ER...that any St. Luke's affiliate would be preferable. " - Beth

May 25, 2021, 2:40 AM
St Anthony's Medical Center: "Been waiting over 8 hours" - Julie

Feb 16, 2021, 8:53 PM
St Anthony's Medical Center: "Been waiting 8 hrs. Miserable. " - Thirza

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