Wickenburg Community Hospital Ratings

---

Contents:
Quality of Care - Infectious Diseases - ER Wait Time - Patient Ratings

---

Quality of Care - Mortality Rate

How well does Wickenburg Community Hospital save lives? 14% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Failure	10%
Pneumonia	10%

Infectious Disease at Wickenburg Community Hospital

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	0
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 0m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 0 hour and 0 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 0 hour and 0 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 0 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: POOR

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

Wickenburg Community Hospital Stories

Share your experience

Oct 09, 2021, 1:59 AM
Wickenburg Community Hospital: "Was told my friends case isn’t important to them if he’s not going to sign in. We’re here waiting to make sure his throat doesn’t close for an allergic reaction, and they could care less. Then called security on us ..... we “:smelt like paraphernalia “" - Marc

Apr 06, 2021, 3:21 PM
Wickenburg Community Hospital: "Terrible place! Scheduled for cardioversion but was bumped for no reason. Director of diagnostic imagine ng lied about not knowing I was bumped but he made the decision. Wch didn't even discuss before moving me with cardiologist. Cardiologist got me in at banner university and they were awesome. Hospital us very clickish and upper management is the majority of issue." - Clay

Compare hospitals in Maricopa County