Univ Of South Alabama 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 Univ Of South Alabama Medical Center save lives? 7% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Failure	13%

Infectious Disease at Univ Of South Alabama 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	8

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Time until initial exam: 0h 57m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 3 hour and 45 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 5 hour and 1 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 3 hour and 0 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

71% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Univ Of South Alabama Medical Center Stories

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Jul 14, 2022, 5:39 PM
Univ Of South Alabama Medical Center: "Does anybody read these? I don’t think they do because I left 2 on the day I was at the ER no kind of response back. That means I want get one back from this either. I guess I will have to call and complain! This is peoples lives they are playing with!" - Teresa

Jul 14, 2022, 5:34 PM
Univ Of South Alabama Medical Center: "I was at the ER on Monday July 11,2022 I arrived before 10:00am for severe pain around 11-11:30 I was called back to triage to get vitals and pee in a cup. I had to hold on to that cup for 4-5 hours I went to the desk to ask if the would like to take it from me the girl asked what is that you would think she would no what a urine sample looks like but who knows so someone comes and gets the sample just to bring it back to me to hold for another several hours so I finally after 7 hours waiting I get called back to sit in the hall way for another 1-2 hours never saw a doctor could not get any kind of answers finally a doctors asst came out took me to a room to tell me I had a bad uti no blood work nothing I have 1 kidney and I am on the verge of dialysis which was told to them when I came so they called an antibiotic and told me to make an appt with my primary never ever saw a doctor and they acted like they did not give a damn about anybody and a guy came back sneezing on everyone was told he might have covid don’t know but the didn’t give a toot. This is so very unacceptable and so wrong on many levels but I will get a bill from a doctor that I never seen these people have no compassion but yet they choice this career I think someone needs to do something at best for dropping the ball I deserve some answers!" - Teresa

Jul 11, 2022, 2:43 PM
Univ Of South Alabama Medical Center: "I am still here in the waiting and holding a cup of pee that they had me pee into I understand the wait but holding on to my pee cup and it’s been several hours" - Teresa

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