Wellstar Spalding 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 Wellstar Spalding Medical Center save lives? 8% worse than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate at Wellstar Spalding Medical Center	National Average
Heart Attack	12.3%	12.6%
Stroke	14.7%	13.9%
Heart Failure	11.6%	11.8%
Pneumonia	23%	18.2%

Infectious Disease at Wellstar Spalding Medical Center

Drug resistant bacteria are becoming a large health risk 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.

Infectious Disease	Cases
C. Diff Sickens more than a half million people each year and has a 17% mortality rate after one year1	0
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%2	5

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Average Time Spent In Emergency Department: 3h 8m

Serious cases where patients are admitted wait 6 hour and 41 minutes delay before admission 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 Patient Rating: BELOW AVERAGE



Footnotes:

¹C Diff Mortality Rate
²MRSA Mortality Rate

Wellstar Spalding Medical Center Stories

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May 12, 2022, 7:04 PM
Spalding Regional Medical Center: "It's over a 5 hour wait " - Bonny

Jan 04, 2022, 12:20 AM
Spalding Regional Medical Center: "It's ridiculous at Spalding County hospital. We been waiting for 11 hours and still haven't seen no doctor. Then when ask the nurse how it will be before they see my Mom and another elder lady. She get a attitude." - Ernestine

Sep 23, 2021, 7:29 PM
Spalding Regional Medical Center: "I went into Spalding Regional Hospital with chest pain, bad headache, I had forgotten when I removed my firearm and handcuffs, to remove my badge, I was in triage within 5 minutes and in treatment within 15 minutes and getting medical attention and pain medication all with 35 minutes. So don't tell they don't show favoritism towards certain people.
Waiting room was full when I walked in, I understand stand chest pain in an emergency, but my vitals were stable, if I hadn't had that badge on I would have just been pushed to the end of the line." - Rick

Oct 29, 2015, 12:22 AM
Spalding Regional Medical Center: "At this time it is really hard to come up with the words to express the horrific time my husband and I experienced at Spalding Regional. My husband has been left virtually disabled (Sepsis)from their treatment and he now has Osteomyelitis and life long MRSA from the experience. Three major surgeries in three months because of their mistakes and left with a hole in his leg with screws showing through. We are praying he will be able to walk with a cane soon since we found a doctor with compassion who removed the infected hardware out of his leg. On top of the life threatening bone infection his leg was not even set right. One surgeon there who shall remain nameless is an egotistical monster. How a doctor could do this to someone is something I can't even begin to understand. I would never recommend for anyone to go there. I feel like Sierra feels. " - Chari

Aug 10, 2015, 3:53 PM
Spalding Regional Medical Center: "My mother was seriously sick about a month or so ago and my father took her to Spalding. Worst decision ever! The staff was amazingly rude, didn't even bother to help her go to the bathroom or do simple things. They diagnosed her with blood clots and didn't even care enough to find out why a woman younger than 40 would have them and prescribed her Xeralto. Xeralto just made her feel worse and caused her to bleed. She stopped taking it simply because of how it made her feel. And now, as of a few days ago, my mother has been admitted to the ER in Macon because she was literally DYING BECAUSE SPALDING SCREWED UP AND DIDN'T CARE, found out that it wasn't blood clots but CERVICAL CANCER, and that if Spalding's doctors had even looked at her medical history they would've realized that Xeralto would be horrible for her. Even the lady that called today was rude!
I am definitely going to find a way to sue them for all this BS." - Sierra

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