Antelope Valley Hospital 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 Antelope Valley Hospital save lives? 0% better than the national average, based on the overall mortality rate for critical illnesses.

	Mortality Rate at Antelope Valley Hospital	National Average
Heart Attack	11.8%	12.6%
Stroke	12.4%	13.9%
Heart Failure	9.7%	11.8%
Pneumonia	22.5%	18.2%

Infectious Disease at Antelope Valley Hospital

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	27
MRSA Causes life-threatening bloodstream infections, pneumonia and surgical site infections. Mortality rates may be as high as 20%2	6

Emergency Room Wait Time Ratings

Average Time Spent In Emergency Department: 3h 28m

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: AVERAGE



Footnotes:

¹C Diff Mortality Rate
²MRSA Mortality Rate

Antelope Valley Hospital Stories

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Apr 19, 2020, 3:44 AM
Antelope Valley Hospital Med Center: "The doctors who handled my son's case were very poor communicators. I was not given the respect as my son's decision maker. II was lied to, bullied and scared into making an uninformed decision in my son being put on dialysis. Doctors lied and covered up the fact that my son contracted right-sided infective endocarditis while in ICU. It was covered up and they pretended they had no idea how he contracted the infection. After obtaining my son's hospital doctors' notes, he entered with pneumonia, and he was misdiagnosed with sepsis and multiple organ failure. He was highly sedated with power drugs which caused many adverse side-effects, which instead of considering the cause of the side-effects, being the medications they were using they ended up giving him blood transfusions, and throwing him on dialysis, which I was forced into an uninformed decision after the doctor who initiated the treatment used bully and scare tactics, without informing me of the dangers and risks of the treatment. I believe this man was not even a kidney doctor. I as his decision maker was not given the opportunity to make an informed decision concerning my son's life. I did not even see this conversation in the notes.My son was admitted a second time, and it is far later after my own research that he was admitted due to the side effects of the dialysis, along with the adverse affect of the propofol he was sedated with while in ICU. High blood pressure which could not be controlled with medication. Upon the release of my non I was not informed that the BUN and the creatinine numbers had come way down, but instead was told that both of his kidneys were damaged and deemed him to the rest of his life on dialysis. He was deceptive and I lost all trust. I feel that I was not given any support in trying to help my son get better, in fact I feel that he received iatrogenic treatment. A case of health disparity. My son was 35 years old and black and the our experience as I look back was like being in a modern day concentration camp in America. I rate our experience at Antelope Valley Hospital a '0'." - Tamara

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