Don't come here don't have your child here they have no nicu and send babies with low body temps trouble breathing and low blood sugar Home. They don't care about you or ur baby. Happy I followed my gut and took my baby to mcloud. Mcloud is the reason she is still alive. If a hospital has no nicu they should not have a labor and delivery. Update my baby is still in the hospital in Columbia if she was out in a nicu she wouldn't still be in the hospital now. We have been here for 2 weeks now and counting. read more

We arrived by ambulance in November after my 24 year old had 2 back to back seizures and couldn't move his right side. First let me say my son has Dysautonomia. So, nobody in this God forsaken town has a clue what that is but they MAY have heard of POTS (which is a form of Dysautonomia). So I should have known from our inpatient stay in August, at MUSC Florence (which is what this hospital is now, not CHS). First off, test were not run at appropriate times, 2ndly the male NP in the ER, I think his name was Summerfield, looked like he has just crawled out of bed. T-shirt was on inside out, his scrubs were too small and his gut was hanging out and his FLESH was shining in the ER. The room was dirty. Needle caps, etc in the floor so it's no wonder you leave the hospital sicker than when you came. They have a few marvelous docs & nurses, but we only saw 1-2 in November and none in August. They almost killed my child. Wouldn't give him his meds cuz he didn't have an assigned dr when we got on the floor (that's what his LPN-Linda told us). Then they say he's in a-fib. FREAK OUT #70 by now. Btw, the technician told us that and he WAS NOT! So, no meds for the night but some Tylenol that he's allergic to, (he takes more meds than I do including heart meds). I brought ALL his RX bottles so they could see his meds. Written by a local dr/hospitalist at that. My son was dosed with 1000 mgs of Keppra and then less than 18 hrs later hooked to a 24 hr eeg video monitoring system. He was severely dehydrated. No nurses coming in to check like they should. Not checking his bp. Supposed to be checking on his every 2-3 hours at night but didn't happen and we were there over 24 hours before we got IV fluids or saw a dr. I had to threaten them with a lawyer to get IV fluids and the fraudulent billing ......another story entirely. omg. I worked for BCBS and I did billing. These people not only try to kill you but want you to go broke at the same time. If you have another option. Take it. If my son has to go to ER again, we will bypass Florence and go straight to Charleston. I feel so bad for patients who go up they're alone. God help them. If you have a loved one who's staying overnight in the hospital....you better be there. So you know what's going on. Advocate for your loved ones who aren't able to do so for themselves. We had a couple really nice nurses, but otherwise everyone we saw sucked. The supervisorS I was complaining to were very nice and there were several of them. They were rude. Liars. Hateful. Disheveled and basically didn't know what to do without asking someone else. They'd come check the nurse board every 4-5 hrs and Fill it in as though they came every hr or 2 like they were supposed to and got mad because we erased it. That's fraud. I have videos and pics of everything that went on and ALL notes and we are seeing a REAL neurologist who knows about my kids illness today. Crying shame I have to go to Camden to see a cardiologist and Sumter to see a Neurologist who even know what Dysautonomia is. For any docs who actually read these, it's 2020. DO NOT TELL YOUR PATIENTS YOU'RE IGNORANT! Try Google. They lose faith in your ability and you lose face because you don't know! It's very common and you're probably misdiagnosing people with other things who really have Dysautonomia! WAKE UP PEOPLE. Educate yourself! www.dysautonomiainternational.org By the way, we HAVE found an Internal medicine guy here who didn't know what my son has either, but we referred to him by Dr Owen and he's been a TRUE GOD SEND! He has made every effort to learn about Todd's illness and has all kinds of information on my son and on Dysautonomia. There are amazing docs in Florence who really do what you to feel better, not just dollar bills. Thank you God for Dr E!!! We love him and are so thankful for him & his precious family too! read more

My mom and I bought my dad in for fainting and not feeling well. We arrived at 9:00am, and we are still waiting (5 hours later) for my dad to get a room. They drew his blood and took a CT scan of his chest/abdomen. We have yet to get any results, and the triage nurse is rude. I don't know her name but she's a blond with hot pink sneakers. We understand that people are seen according to the severity. Why call it an emergency room when nothing is considered an emergency? Carolina hospital sucks just like the rest of them. No one should have to wait 5 hours to be seen. This hospital is a disgrace, and Lord forbid you ask a question. The staff is a joke, and they all need training on how to treat their clients. The clients are the ones that bring in the money to help pay their salaries. I advise no one to come to this hospital. The only way to get seen is you be on your death bed. PLEASE DO NOT COME TO CAROLINA!!!!!!! I wish there was a negative star to give!!!!!! read more

Ok so if your in need of health care please don't let this hospital be your first choice after you check in you have to wait at least 45 min to be called for triage then depending on how many people are waiting you could be here for hours and hours before seeing a doctor and when the doctor feel swamped with patients he walks out the hospital and goes home now how's that for health care ... read more

Carolinas is my hospital! You will be seen in the ER in less than 30 minutes and the nurse staff are great. The physician I had took his time and really seemed to care. This is not the experience I've had in the past waiting for hours in pain McLeod's emergency room read more

It was the WORST experience I have ever had!! I went in with a complaint of a skin problem that was worsening. The doctor would not look at my pictures, he would not take a sample, he didn NOTHING! I asked to speak to a ward nurse, He left and I NEVER saw him again. The ward nurse did come in ( what a JOKE) with another young nurse who had to be guided through the process of putting data into the computer. When I asked what was going on, the WARD nurse said they were discussing paperwork. After asking me questions, they said I was being admitted for observation! ( The ward nurse told me the doctor had already left and when I asked to go home, she said we are where we are???? ) They escorted me to a room with a guard standing outside and told me to go into a room that had an outside lock only. The room had a bed, dirt and filth on the floor , bugs hanging from the ceiling and bug remains in various places on the walls. Beware.... if you chose to go to Carolina's ER. and they ask you what is wrong..... if you tell them the truth and it seems a little out there for them, you will find yourself in lock down and the guards will be your medical team, and will serve you your meals and escort you back and forth to a public restroom where you have to leave the door half open and go behind a screen!!! As you might expect...,. this is just the beginning.... I will not stop till I see this facility get what they deserve for all the civil and HIPAA violations they broke! read more