In Leapfrog's report "Problems with Surgery" "Death from treatable serious complications" Mary Washington has one of the worst grades in the entire country.
This Hospital's Score: 215.85
Best Hospital's Score: 86.68
Average Hospital's Score: 168.38
Worst Hospital's Score: 222.70
This is consistent with our own experiences. Our first child was born via cesarean at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and our second was born at Mary Washington in Fredericksburg also by cesarean. Comparing those experiences I observed a huge difference in process and how each hospital dealt with complications that nursing staff identified or were self-reported by the patient.
We had post-surgery complications with the 2nd birth in FXBG and I couldn't believe the cavalier response when we reported something was wrong. I continued to advocate on my wife's behalf but got nowhere. From a patient-outcome perspective I expected a much different response, heck from a corporate risk perspective I'd expect something much different. I told my wife that from the sidelines it felt like "cowboy" medicine.
And Handwashing should be table-stakes. We figured that out 130 years ago thanks to Dr Joseph Lister.
I used to work here on contract as a nurse in 2023. I ended my contract due to the gross negligence of the hospital clinical leadership on safety issues I kept on escalating including hiring leaders in clinical areas with no direct background/experience on the service line but because they are friends with the chief nurse. The ED physician group also had a weird dynamic and always wanted to push their agenda that wasn't always good for patients. Their blood culture contamination rate, left without being seen rate was horrible. It was bad. Plus they paid this management consultant Huron about 60k every other month for sugar coating their metrics. pretty bad. Even travel nurses were leaving and cutting contracts early.
Is anybody surprised? Having survived an atrocious experience with surgery and aftercare, my complaints have been ignored. Survey compliance means nothing if they don’t act upon the results.
Yikes.
Oh, this is quite scary.
In Leapfrog's report "Problems with Surgery" "Death from treatable serious complications" Mary Washington has one of the worst grades in the entire country.
This Hospital's Score: 215.85
Best Hospital's Score: 86.68
Average Hospital's Score: 168.38
Worst Hospital's Score: 222.70
This is consistent with our own experiences. Our first child was born via cesarean at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and our second was born at Mary Washington in Fredericksburg also by cesarean. Comparing those experiences I observed a huge difference in process and how each hospital dealt with complications that nursing staff identified or were self-reported by the patient.
We had post-surgery complications with the 2nd birth in FXBG and I couldn't believe the cavalier response when we reported something was wrong. I continued to advocate on my wife's behalf but got nowhere. From a patient-outcome perspective I expected a much different response, heck from a corporate risk perspective I'd expect something much different. I told my wife that from the sidelines it felt like "cowboy" medicine.
And Handwashing should be table-stakes. We figured that out 130 years ago thanks to Dr Joseph Lister.
This Hospital's Score: 40
Best Hospital's Score: 100
Average Hospital's Score: 78.65
Worst Hospital's Score: 15
I used to work here on contract as a nurse in 2023. I ended my contract due to the gross negligence of the hospital clinical leadership on safety issues I kept on escalating including hiring leaders in clinical areas with no direct background/experience on the service line but because they are friends with the chief nurse. The ED physician group also had a weird dynamic and always wanted to push their agenda that wasn't always good for patients. Their blood culture contamination rate, left without being seen rate was horrible. It was bad. Plus they paid this management consultant Huron about 60k every other month for sugar coating their metrics. pretty bad. Even travel nurses were leaving and cutting contracts early.
Is anybody surprised? Having survived an atrocious experience with surgery and aftercare, my complaints have been ignored. Survey compliance means nothing if they don’t act upon the results.