Ventura County 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 Ventura County Medical Center save lives? 19% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Failure	13%
Pneumonia	15%

Infectious Disease at Ventura County 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	28
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 0m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 56 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 44 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 3 hour and 14 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

Ventura County Medical Center Stories

Share your experience

Dec 23, 2022, 7:29 PM
Ventura County Medical Center: "Hi long would I have to wait to see a doctor for real affected thumb ans my other thump is starting to get onfected thanks" - Cheryl

Apr 16, 2020, 10:50 PM
Ventura County Medical Center: "I went into the ER here for servers pain in my neck. Doctor came in an accused me of being an addict & refused any help.
I do not abuse drugs all my medications
Are taken as instructed or the pharmacy wouldn't fill them. He was the worst Dr ever! I end up going to St John's in Oxnard & got treated with respect.
Vc hospital had the nerve to bill me for
What? Being called an addict! Never again will I go there! " - Ann

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