St Bernards 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 Bernards Medical Center save lives? 18% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	18%
Heart Failure	15%
Pneumonia	13%

Infectious Disease at St Bernards 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	24
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%3	16

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 47m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 53 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 3 hour and 0 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 44 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

72% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

St Bernards Medical Center Stories

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Sep 15, 2015, 11:33 AM
St Bernards Medical Center: "Last night I took my husband too the Emergency room with a bad Headache and nausea.I am furious at this point .The doctor and nurse acted like I wasn't there.They were asking him questions.He was out of it because he was given an I V for nausea and to help with the headaches.He drifted off to sleep.So when they came back and forth into the area where we were.And they were asking him questions.He was out of it so I responded.They were looking at me as if what are you talking about .after he took several test .They came and forth checking his blood pressure still talking to him.i was trying to corporate with them since he wasn't able .The results were given from the rest .Then when he was ready for discharge the nurse started rubbing on him as if I wasn't sitting there.They didn't act like I was married to this man .He was dizzy when he got up.I was trying to help him.He turned around an gave the discharge nurse that had been back and forth in the room .As we were leaving the nurse went up behind him and started rubbing on his chest .I was think Hello does my face a blank written on it .she saw me looking but she didn't stop.This is not professional.And I think she should be Fired." - You

Sep 15, 2015, 11:32 AM
St Bernards Medical Center: "Last night I took my husband too the Emergency room with a bad Headache and nausea.I am furious at this point .The doctor and nurse acted like I wasn't there.They were asking him questions.He was out of it because he was given an I V for nausea and to help with the headaches.He drifted off to sleep.So when they came back and forth into the area where we were.And they were asking him questions.He was out of it so I responded.They were looking at me as if what are you talking about .after he took several test .They came and forth checking his blood pressure still talking to him.i was trying to corporate with them since he wasn't able .The results were given from the rest .Then when he was ready for discharge the nurse started rubbing on him as if I wasn't sitting there.They didn't act like I was married to this man .He was dizzy when he got up.I was trying to help him.He turned around an gave the discharge nurse that had been back and forth in the room .As we were leaving the nurse went up behind him and started rubbing on his chest .I was think Hello does my face a blank written on it .she saw me looking but she didn't stop.This is not professional.And I think she should be Fired." - You

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