DO NOT EVER GO HERE. IT IS A POTENTIAL DEATH TRAP!! From start to finish, multiple horrors occurred at this hospital which kept me for 3 days and 3 nights most of which could have been avoided, if they had treated me properly from the start. I ended up being my own nurse, doctor, and advocate.
1) I arrived via ambulance for severe abdominal pain that was displaying as an appendicitis. Yet I was left forced to sit in a chair, screaming in pain in the ER for 4 hours when I could've been given a painkiller right away.
2) When I was finally laid on a stretcher, that I found myself, I was placed outside the bathroom with no screen and left unmonitored where crazy drug addicts and homeless people came back and forth
3) While the x-ray found that I had a blockage of the small intestine that needed to be flushed out, I was left untreated for 36 hrs - which prolonged the illness, the pain, and the stay.
4) I was left in the ER for 2 days instead of being given a room and the procedures started that would've healed my pain and condition quicker.
5) Despite food allergies and my illness, I was given the wrong foods for all meals.
6) I was lied to by a doctor who claimed I would be moved to a room and given treatments to alleviate my small intestine blockage. 8 hours later I was then told to do the treatment myself in the middle of the ER and use the public bathroom, which was not feasible. A poop-covered screen was then placed in front of me (see pic)
7) I was finally moved to a curtained area but no procedure was done. The following morning, the procedure had still not been done and I was still in pain in the ER. So I was forced to find a room, barricade myself in it with some medical machinery, and perform the procedure on myself! This private room was in the ER all along and should have been used by a nurse or a doctor to perform this necessary procedure when I was first examined!! Leaving the poison in my body for 36 hours extended both the stay and the organ damage leaving me with weeks of pain that I am still dealing with.
8) Instead of treating patients with the urgency that the ER room requires, ER nurses and doctors were whooping it up and even online shopping - ( see pic)
9) ER Nurses, doctors, and security allowed patients to be loudly talking and disturbing other patients, which meant patients got sicker because we got no rest. In addition, the place is like lying in a freezer, which if anyone has a fever or chills will make them very sick.
10) The nurse lied to me about my EKG which was abnormal so it was fortunate that I checked what it said.
11) My IV infiltrated twice. The first time it was taken out only after blood and fluid started dripping out in the ER. When I was finally moved to a room 48 hours after I arrived, the nurse incorrectly put the IV back IN THE SAME BLOWN VEIN! When I told her it hurt like crazy and was not normal, she checked it and claimed it was fine. I went to sleep for 2 to 3 hours and woke up with my arm full of IV fluid. There were no buttons to get a nurse's attention, so I walked out into the hall and showed the new nurse. I told her it had to come out urgently but she ignored me and didn't do anything. So I had to go to the front desk and yell at all the assembled doctors! If I had not woken up, the entire IV bag would have gone into my arm instead of my vein, which could've caused nerve damage, a blood clot, amputation, and/or killed me! The resident, who took it out, then had the sheer gall to say that it was fortunate that I had been vigilant. What happens to patients, who are too incapacitated or do not know, to be vigilant?!
12) I was a witness to the elder abuse of Ms. Black, the Alzheimer's patient, that they put me in the room with. She was curled up, naked, in her bed and left for the entire day I was in with her. She kept asking for water and was ignored. 3 meal cycles passed and no one straightened her up and fed her or gave her water. It was also freezing in the room and she was naked and uncovered for the entire time. I am very concerned about this situation and this needs to be rectified immediately. I have called to check on her and she is still there 3 weeks later despite them lying and saying they were moving her to a nursing home.
13) When lunch came again and it was milk and other inappropriate foods again, I insisted they discharge me. When the discharge papers came, they were inaccurate and I had to re-write them and wait 3 more hours to get them changed!!
So from start to finish, I had to be my own nurse, doctor, and advocate at this horrible hospital. The pain and intestinal infection has caused long-term damage due to it not being properly handled from the get-go. My left arm where the IV infiltration occurred was still not better 2 weeks later, so I will have had to go to urgent care twice. In addition, I now have a bacteria infection and rash from where they injected me without first using alcohol wipes, so that is being treated. read more