If you live in Nashville, Ga or the surrounding area and have a TRUE EMERGENCY, ask to be transported to SGMC Valdosta or Tift Regional. I personally would stay away from any SGMC emergency room.
My husband was a patient admitted between 00:30 and 01:00 11/27/2016. We will not discuss the fact that I was treated horrendously after commandeering a wheel chair for my husband (there were two witnesses in the lobby at the time that came to MY defense).
We will discuss the fact that this emergency room is a stop for a Band-Aid. The PA on duty at the time walked in for less than 30 seconds put a stethoscope to my husbands chest and back and walked out. Upon observation, the PA could be seen texting or playing games on a cell phone sitting behind the nurses station. My husband was the only patient in that emergency room for over three hours. I sure regret that we bored him!
After over three hours, 2 EKG's, Blood work, chest X-rays, THREE back-to-back breathing treatments, I.V. antibiotics and steroids, the good PA returns and says, you have acute bronchitis and your sodium is low. Don't drink water, drink Gatorade, unless you want me to admit you and pump sodium through you. Follow up with your doctor. You should be out of here in 10-15 minutes.
At that point three of the four staff members in the ER disappeared.
Not once did anyone take into account his past medical history or the fact that his blood pressure was still way too high and unpredictable to be released.
I brought him home and will now seek legal counsel. Video and audio were taken by the witnesses in the lobby.
Seriously, if you have a small wound/injury or even some other minor issue, go. If you truly have an emergency, bypass Berrien Campus.
Sometimes, you will get lucky and find one of the very few exceptional PA's they have on staff. Luck of the draw and my husband got the village idiot that prefers to play with his phone. It was only after we arrived home that I realized my husband had this very same issue a few years ago... I believe the PA was the same.
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