Patient Satisfaction

The Mission of OSF HealthCare is "to serve persons with the greatest care and love in a community that celebrates the gift of life." To fulfill that Mission, OSF St. Francis Hospital & Medical Group strives to provide high quality health care to all who enter its doors. The Sisters, Administration and Staff of OSF are dedicated to practices that improve patient safety and ensure that our patients receive the very best care.

Patients, family members, and visitors at OSF are encouraged to express their views about hospital services. While you are a patient at OSF, please express any concerns you may have to the staff that are taking care of you. Ask to speak to a supervisor or manager if you feel that your questions have not been answered or if you still have concerns.

If you have questions or concerns related to your hospital experience after you have received care or discharged, please contact the Community Relations Manager.

The Community Relations Manager can be contacted at:

OSF St. Francis Hospital & Medical Group
3401 Ludington Street
Escanaba, MI 49829
Phone: (706) 786-5707 x5516

OSF St. Francis Hospital will endeavor to answer your questions or resolve any of your concerns in a satisfactory manner. We look forward to continuing to meet your health care needs with high quality services in a safe environment.

Patient Surveys

At OSF St. Francis Hospital & Medical Group, providing safe, quality care is our priority. We randomly and routinely survey patients following a visit to our facility and value their feedback. If you receive one of our surveys in the mail, we encourage you to fill it out and share with us your perceptions and experiences. If you did not receive a survey but would like to share a comment or concern, please contact us at:

OSF St. Francis Hospital & Medical Group
Attn: Community Relations
3401 Ludington St.
Escanaba, MI 49829
Phone: (906) 786-5707, x5516

Patient Satisfaction and Service Quality

OSF St. Francis Hospital & Medical Group welcomes feedback from our patients and their loved ones. Patients have the opportunity to complete patient satisfaction surveys developed by Press Ganey Associates, Inc., the healthcare industry's leading independent vendor of satisfaction measurement services. The firm annually processes nearly 8 million completed surveys in all 50 states and serves 40 percent of all hospitals with more than 100 beds.

Hospital and emergency room patients are sent a Press Ganey satisfaction survey after discharge. Results are tabulated and tracked monthly, quarterly and annually for each department and for the hospital as a whole. In addition to our own scores, our results are compared to national averages so we know how OSF St. Francis compares to medical centers throughout the country.

The percentage of patients who completed a survey for the first quarter of 2010, between January 1st and March 31st, rated OSF St. Francis between either "very good" or "good" regarding their experience in the:

Our goal is to improve our service everyday and to uphold the Mission of The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis "to serve persons with the greatest care and love".