Tomball Regional 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 Tomball Regional Medical Center save lives? 16% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	16%
Heart Failure	9%
Pneumonia	9%

Infectious Disease at Tomball Regional 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	32
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 53m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 32 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 38 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 1 hour and 35 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

63% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Tomball Regional Medical Center Stories

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Mar 03, 2015, 9:08 PM
Tomball Regional Medical Center: "Never Go to Tomball Hospital. I just got out from a month stay because I got C-Diff disease and three infections. I just went in for a colonoscopy. And got C-Diff and three infections. Then they sent me to Kindred for long term care because of the disease and infection. I just got out last Step.from what was purpose to be a simple thing of two days and was in for two months because of staph infection I got in there I said the last time I would never got back to Tomball Hodpital well I will I Will Never Go Back To That Hospital. That is the nasty hospital I have ever been in. So if you want to get a disease or infection go there.I will not.." - David

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