Third world country medical care in the area of the villages, and in large areas of FL

FL is one of the highest fraud perpetrating locales in the USA, medical industry is not immune to fraud.

I go to AdventHealth Care in Tavares which is only about 20 miles from here. The hospital gets excellent reviews (see below).

AdventHealth Care Center Waterman in Tavares received an overall rating from CMS of 4 stars compared to the FL average of 3.48 and a National average of 3.32.

AdventHealth Care Center Waterman was also reviewed by Medicare to have a rating of 5 out of 5 stars.

Patients gave an overall rating of 91 out of 100. Furthermore, patients would rate this hospital 91 out of 100 in terms of recommending others receive care at this facility.

Relative to other hospitals nationally, the cost is lower at AdventHealth Waterman. At this facility, they have 468 providers across 41 primary specialties.

One star better than no star or no hospital.

Maybe cause all fraudsters moving in and continuing their careers? :22yikes:

When I was there in 2013 for a severe medical emergency, I had excellent emergency care. I am only alive today because of the doctors and nurses who were on duty that day. Thank you.

One thing I've found in life is that ratings are mostly bull. I've found this on cruise ratings (raters said the ship was "old and tired" which I found to be the opposite), hotel ratings (wildly different than my experience) and places like Yelp, which I've found to be totally unreliable on several occasions. Haven't we all at one time or another been pressured by a salesman or manager to give the business the full five stars in our ratings? It's no different for hospitals. Rely on your own experience or from trusted friends, and even then, your experience may be quite different. I had my gall bladder removed from the local hospital in mid-2023, and it was a very complicated problem with severe blockages, and my experience was great. Nurse care was outstanding, my surgeon was competent and had a good bedside manner, and the hospital itself was clean and neat. Your experience may be different.

Tophcha: I remember your posting about the horrible experience you went through at the time. And the misdiagnosis. It seems you had a dangerous tick-borne disease that you had brought from Massachusetts and they couldn't figure it out and it never occurred to them to send you someplace where it could be figured out. That is just scary.

Hospital ratings are based on comparisons. If a five star hospital has a 1% complication rate, a three star has 5%, and your hospital has a 10% complication rate it is doing poorly. But keep in mind that still means 90% of people did not have a complication and will be here talking about their excellent experience.

It is those kinds of differences across many criteria that got the local hospital its 1 one star rating. Most patients do well but too many, compared to other hospitals do not get quality care.

well typed!

That is correct, I got bit by a tick in Massachusetts sometime in late April or early May before returning to the Villages. The tick was kind enough to infect me with two infectious diseases, Babesiosis and Lyme disease. By around the Memorial Day Weekend the symptoms began to rear their ugly heads and got worse by the day until early June when I made the horrible mistake of going to the Villages Hospital. Babesiosis is a blood parasite that exponentially multiplies and blows up red blood cells, which carry oxygen throughout one’s body. The only thing close to Babesiosis is Malaria. As the parasites destroy red blood cells, the body’s essential organs become deprived of oxygen (hemolytic anemia). My kidneys and liver were failing, I couldn’t think straight, and my spleen was about to explode from filtering so many dead red blood cells. I was drowning on land. After over 12 hours in the Villages Hospital they erroneously concluded I had a unitary track infection and gave me a script for an antibiotic and sent me packing.

I am a very reasonable person and didn’t expect them to know what was making me gravely ill, but the incompetent idiots have no excuse for not recognizing my red blood cell count was critically low, my blood oxygen was practically nonexistent, and I was on my death bed. There is no excuse for anyplace calling themselves a hospital to be so grossly negligent. There isn’t a low enough rating I could give that place. If I didn’t get to a real hospital in Gainesville in short order I was a dead man.