Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare 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 Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare save lives? 5% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	15%
Heart Failure	12%
Pneumonia	11%

Infectious Disease at Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare

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	52
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: 1h 26m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 4 hour and 24 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 4 hour and 30 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 2 hour and 6 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

67% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare Stories

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Aug 18, 2023, 2:48 AM
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare: "I fell from 10 feet and landed on my buttocks, and my elbows, and head, I can't believe it's been 5 hours in this error lobby at bixler er center, I can't walk and probably broke something in my hip area and my left rist" - Kevin

Oct 03, 2021, 12:48 AM
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare: "Wait time on 10-2-21 is DANGEROUSLY LONG!!! " - BigSlick

Oct 02, 2021, 11:50 PM
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare: "Wait time on 10-2-21 is DANGEROUSLY LONG!!! " - BigSlick

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