Wuesthoff Medical Center Rockledge 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 Wuesthoff Medical Center Rockledge save lives? 1% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate
Heart Attack	15%
Heart Failure	13%
Pneumonia	11%

Infectious Disease at Wuesthoff Medical Center Rockledge

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	44
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 19m

Non-critical cases where patient is discharged have total visit time of 2 hour and 29 minutes

Serious cases where patients are admitted have 2 hour and 42 minutes to be admitted, then an additional 2 hour and 40 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

47% of patients rate the hospital excellent



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

Wuesthoff Medical Center Rockledge Stories

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May 19, 2017, 9:35 AM
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Healthcare from Hell

Here in Brevard County Florida the local hospitals are often derisively refered to as;
Parrish "just perrished", Cape Canaveral "cape carnival" and Wuesthoff "worst off".
The first two names may be unfair, but Wuesthoff Health System easily wins the
reputation for being the worst, they deserve it, they have worked hard to earn it.
Recently, I went in to submit blood and urine samples for routine tests ordered by
my physician. The nurse who actually takes the blood samples has been polite and
courteous for years. The clerical staff however must have learned customer service
from the airline industry. ID is requied and when I asked for the return of my driver's
licence, the clerk declined saying she would use it to commit fraud and other crimes.
This was not helpful, not amusing and not appropriate. I never had a police officer
refuse to return my driver's license or even had to ask for it back. I never had a
police officer threaten to use my driver's licence to commit crimes which I would
later be accused of. Wuesthoff "worst off", worse than getting stopped by a cop.

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