Jackson Jambalaya

Leapfrog is based on old data (2 years ago?), and then allows hospitals to choose what categories they submit information for. It is a flawed ranking and, many times, it works to the hospital's disadvantage.

My advice: stay out of all of them.

This is a real eye opener. Thanks for posting this.

No mention of wrong site surgeries at ST D? Strange…

I have visited several hospitals around Jackson several times for procedures, including open heart surgery, where, after 10 days of recovery, after being wheeled down the elevator towards the lobby to go home, the elevator door, just after I exited through it, fell off and slammed onto the lobby floor.
My surgery had excellent results, despite this auspicious incident. BTW, My favorite hospital, overall, is St. D's.

Pretty disgusting

Before anyone posts on this story they should educate themselves about Leapfrog.

when you hear a physician state that it is starting to feel as though Central MS hospitals are trying to see who can win at being the worst......Leapfrog...or not, we should all be concerned and demand better.

I just got out of St. D after a two day stay. I won’t be back there if I can help it.

The Merit Health Canton score is irrelevant, as it no longer exists. It was sold to UMMC.

Baptist went from A, A in 2022 to D, D in 2024. What changed?

I knew an elderly person who died earlier this year at St. D due to a terminal illness. I wasn't impressed with the care elderly people receive there.

There are no good hospitals here. Travel to Pensacola Sacred Heart. You will see how big of a dump the hospitals are here after visiting there.
But skip Baptist Pensacola. They will kill you.
Merit Rankin is being sold. Never go there for anything serious.

Did the Merit - River Oaks Hospital get merged or closed? I don't see them listed.

Retired MD here...
I always avoided sending anyone to Merit Hospitals. In my opinion, StD gave a lot better care than Baptist. StD is not as good as it was before the Baton Rouge hospital took it over and tried to fix everything that wasn't broken.
The bottom line is that going to any hospital is a crap shoot. You can have a good experience one time and poor experience the next depending on who is working, etc. My son was told in his residency in Texas that when he has a patient in the hospital "to watch over them diligently and assume everyone is trying to kill your patient"!

I've known people that have been in all of the Jackson hospitals. And I've wonderful stories and heard horror stories from each. Except the VA, that is overwhelmingly awful. But like 1:59 said, I could go myself to the same hospital twice and have two totally different experiences.

Any hospital with anything less than an A is totally unacceptable.

Who are all the A hospitals?

Good lord. Some of the red-zone problems are easily fixed. For example, everyone of these hospitals fail in "communication about discharge." Can't someone (hospitalist, floor nurse, discharge office, attending physician, anyone?) take responsibility for advising and updating patients about the discharge process?
Oh, and wash your damn hands. Y'all nasty!

UMMC and Baptist are both very good. But if you want excellent go to Mayo in Rochester MN.

My physicians have generally been very competent and professional at UMC and St.D. But It would be hepful if the women cut their 3-inch "designer" nails, and keep those nasty, smelly hair braids out of my face while taking my vitals

The former Merit Madison (in Canton) was awful - personal experience.
Merit Internal Medicine in Madison is terrible. If they do answer the phone it is answered in Vicksburg. Last year I arrived for an appointment and they were closed, according to a book-keeper who saw me on a security camera and came to the locked door.
Their former internal medicine physician who left to open his own practice took patient records with him for marketing purposes. Very illegal.

This is just a snapshot of Merit. I complained to Merit management but no one would even return my call.

Flakey!

I have too had a terrible experience at Merit Internal medicine in Madison. I was there for a blood draw and it took three employees five attempts to draw blood even with my veins yelling “pick me, pick me”. I am a former EMT so I should have done it myself.

St. D. Oncology Dept. should be avoided at all costs. I would say "Ask my brother" but he's dead.