Local hospital ratings decline
 

The ratings of two local hospitals (Villages & Leesburg) dropped from "B" to "C" -- according to a national rating group (Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade). Infections and staffing issues were cited.
Nearby Ocala Hospital and West Marion Community Hospital maintained their "A" ratings.
(Source: Search Results)

The Villages hospital got a C rating, that seems overly generous. Take the lowest possible rating and then go a couple notches below that and you got a more appropriate rating.

[QUOTE=saratogaman;2161668][[COLOR="Red"][SIZE="4"][B]The ratings of two local hospitals (Villages & Leesburg) dropped from "B" to "C"

In other breaking news, the sun came up this morning...

West Marion Hospital is the ONLY one I will go to.
My wife just was there for a week, and it was great experience for her.
Clean rooms, helpful medical staff, the state's greatest doctors.

It's our secret, just don't tell anyone.

Sad hoped that UF would know how to fix the village hospital

Thanks for posting this..

Why am I not surprised?

I'm sure hundreds, actually probably thousands, of us share your feelings... how sad our area is not THE standard for top medical and hospital care.

Not enough worker bees in and around TV. Developer keeps expanding 55+ Villages. Where are the young/younger workers going to live?

What’s really sad is it’s the polar opposite.

This score is produced by an organization whose primary interest is patient safety and outcome. Looking at their data the biggest point loss was because they do NOT have intensive care specialists managing, or available, for their ICU patients. So you are admitted to an ICU in both The Villages and Leesburg and you have inadequately trained doctors in those units.
Somehow other hospitals in the larger area have managed to hire intensivists to provide care for their sickest and most vulnerable patients.

When was the Villages hospital ever a B. Another rating system has it listed as a 1 with a 5 being the highest. It was a 1 before being bought and remained a 1 after a couple years with the new owner. Disappointing for sure.

Amen!

No improvement over the past years-the villages hospital needs to be investigated by medical authorities and I’m sure after an investigation they should close the place down. I speak from experience in the ER in August.

My thought exactly. Sure is a great motivation to stay as healthy as possible. :pray:

live is the biggest issues.. and schooling/learn medical .. when so many young people are stilling living in the basement waiting for the next hand out.. My husband was in the Villages hospital in July, with short staff, he had good care .. it's not a resort for the demanding, it's in and out.. hospital is too small for the area, new one being built in the suburbs/south of 44 ..

I recommend Advent Health/Waterman, in Taveres, on 441. It’s more of a drive, but A rating and very nice,

The only thing that will fix this is pressure from state and local government.

Wish the developer would push higher standards for the village hospital but guess it is not necessary to keep selling more homes. After all he is the one with the clout

And the food is actually good!

Question....what if you have a good say heart doctor and have to go to the hospital for a procedure but he his your doctor is it ok to go to the villages hospital as long as in his care?

Thanks for posting. No excuse for infections, staff shortages or not

rate
 

Geez UF Health Shands Hospital got a C at least AdventHealth Waterman got a B
Looking where I lived up north all C little B - I think the rating is unrealistic

I agree The Villages and Leesburg gave me excellent care. Unfortunately, short staffed.

What if a doctor/surgeon is greatly skilled but has to rely on substandard clinical support staff or on the crappy conditions in a facility? I guess you have to marry the best of each facet of care. My mother died after an excellent procedure only to succumb to poor post operative monitoring and care in a Philadelphia hospital. Nursing care was laissez-faire at best.

Hospital
 

[QUOTE=saratogaman;2161668]The ratings of two local hospitals (Villages & Leesburg) dropped from "B" to "C" -- according to a national rating group (Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade). Infections and staffing issues were cited.
Nearby Ocala Hospital and West Marion Community Hospital maintained their "A" ratings.
(Source: Search Results)[

Don't forget we DON'T have Certified ER docs manning both Emergency Depts. My PC doc said for him to get hospital privileges he would have to do shifts in the ER. He declined - said I am not qualified to be an ER doc. UF health rep confirmed the lack of certified ER docs at one of the question/answer mtgs.

Multiple states, multiple hospitals in my system available as a traveler. Extreme top pay for all positions.

Why they all Need Staff, working short staffed for over 3 years. Many health care workers were not given a choice during Covid, their department’s shuttered, for close to 2 years. Many just retired if they could, like I did (then returned to different areas. But only a small amount of certain staff was retained, causing long hours, and care went south. Those who worked burned out, because hospitals choose to furlough too high of a percentage to save money.

ED department ‘s are the most abused, filled with too many who should have gone to urgent care.

Most Hospitals have always had some “B”, “C” ratings for many years, but leapfrog is not a score to worry about. Lack of staff is a major concern, but it will take years to fix. UF new build will be a teaching hospital, with residents and students abound. Then you will be seen by no less than 10 eager new to the field fresh faces every day

You would think TV would fix the hospital they have now before building a new one in the south end. Gonna be another money pit with poor health care.

Advent Ocala is Great Too
 

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My husband just had a procedure at Advent Ocala Hospital on Monday. It was clean and the staff was effective, kind, and efficient.



QUOTE=Michael G.;2161756]West Marion Hospital is the ONLY one I will go to.
My wife just was there for a week, and it was great experience for her.
Clean rooms, helpful medical staff, the state's greatest doctors.

It's our secret, just don't tell anyone.[/QUOTE]

The OP provided you a link to look at the information. This company, Leapfrog, using its metrics gave the Villages a B in the Spring 2022 rating. It is not hard to find. There are other agencies that also rate hospitals using different criteria. CMS uses a 1 to 5 scale
Medicare.gov

Despite all the glowing comments posted on TOTV by patients who say that while the ER is a disaster once you are admitted the care is wonderful... the CMS survey of patients done after discharge shows a very low satisfaction score and that fewer than half those surveyed would recommend the hospital to others.

I basically agree with the statement about the ER vs. after admittance. We found that to be true. But there never seems to be beds available and my wife spent the night on a gurney in a hallway before being brought in for urgent surgery. It was kind of a third-world-country experience. That is not going to get a satisfactory score from most people. The surgery was excellent I must add.

I think a C is better than what they used to be a few years ago. I remember a couple of years ago. before UF, that these 2 hospitals would not even fill out the evaluation paperwork to be rated,

Great care
 

Did take 12 hours to be placed in a room. However had great care during surgery and one week in the hospital and three weeks post-op as an outpatient. While many place blame on staff and MDs, I would look at the demographics of TV population: majority of population is older and many geriatric. Most younger doctors seek a broad demographics of young to older population. Additionally adequate staffing is handicapped due to the huge growth of the TV population.

You’ve Got That Right
 

That’s been my experience. I had a local doctor tell me that if I somehow woke up and found myself in The Villages Regional Hospital, call a taxi and get out of there. He said it’s more than just long waits and poor service, that the medical care there could kill you!

That was my experience recently. My doctor ordered a simple injection of a drug I needed. I thought, “how could they screw that up?” But they did. After waiting 14 hours I found that they had entered the wrong order in ER admissions.

DON’T GO TO THE VILLAGES REGIONAL HOSPITAL!

No thank you. I refer the Waterman hospital as the Waterman Inn. I spent seven days and each and every day someone from the billing dept came to my room and asked how I would pay for my out-of-pocket part of the bill. SAY WHAT?? Now, this was a few years back.

Hospitals
 

First, Leapfrog is an unofficial rating site, they don't look onsite but only post based on what they get as a response to surveys - and even then, any response is voluntary.

Their scores don't make sense, out of 6 categories Orlando Health had 2 reds, a yellow and 3 greens and was rated .839 (lower the better) for an A. Waterman had 3 reds, 3 greens and was rated .605 for a B. A better score but a worse rating? The Villages had 2 reds and 4 greens, The 2 reds were for MRSA and C Diff. 42% of the population walks around with MRSA so any patient probably walked in with it, same for C diff. Orlando Health was dinged for infections after surgery and UTI (both are patient care items) and still got an A. West Marion got dinged for post op infections (patient care items) but got an A. Like I said, the scores don't make sense.

The biggest problem at TVH? It is too small, it has been expanded twice and really have no place to expand more, UF's starting over with a new, larger, hospital is the best answer.

There more to very good amenities in a 55 community which a senior will need badly
 

The seniors need good clean up to date hospitals, well trained doctors and nurses and caring trained employees, community travel to get to medical facilities, better health care providers. Concentrate on this problem and the rest will follow

When UF took over TVRH and LRMC much was expected but little delivered. 135,000 plus residents are still waiting for some solid improvements to these two hospitals. Perhaps the new Village of Middleton will help attract more medical personnel to this area. I think we have found there is no “quick fix” to this issue.

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Agree 100%, but where are you going to get good, young, experienced nursing staff and doctors to come here to a retirement community where much of the need is geriatric.

I have had surgery in the hospital, my doctor has come down here from the Beth Israel in NJ, or maybe NY. She says the hardest thing is to find experienced support staff for her practice and for her surgical needs. I had a primary care doctor who had moved here from Boston Mass General and he openly told me he was fed up with working in a major hospital with all the rules and regulations, that he was going to practice in TV for about 10 yrs to get his two children through college in Boston and then he was done.

It is what it is. The pay is too low to get good staff, the summer heat is too high, housing is expensive and there is basically very little for young professionals to do in the vicinity of TV.