I've worked at Huntington Health care for 7 yrs.I have recently been promoted to Resident Advocate…read moreI love my job and love the Residents.Thanks for giving me the opportunity to do wat I've always wanted to do.

A member of my family contracted staph infection through a hernia surgery. The hospital wrote her a…read moreletter apologizing for the pain and inconvenience of the infection she contracted while at the hospital. I soon found that four other people I knew of had contracted staph through surgery here. My family member was out of work for four months and had to wear a wound vac 24 hours a day , seven days a week during this time .

I hesitate to even give this hospital one star as I would not take my dog there after how they…read morefailed my mother. After a sudden attack of crippling severe pain & nausea, we called for an ambulance to take mom from a local hotel we were staying in while in Huntingdon for family reunion. ER doctor was baffled so admitted her for observation. Since it was a Saturday no tests or specialists were available for 2 days! I mentioned moving her to larger hospital. They assured me it wasn't necessary. But 4 days later of watching her suffer in tortured pain, we insisted they transfer our mother to The Geisinger. They said she was probably just constipated and needed an enema. I found out later Dr Waddle made a chart note on the 3rd day that mesenteric ischemia must be considered but they still didn't move her or treat her until morning if 5th day and only because we insisted. By the time they medivaced her to The Geisinger, her small intestine was necrotic & she was practically dead. Despite emergency surgery, we had to withdraw her from life support and watch her die slowly for another week. Sixteen days of hell and my family has been devastated for all time by their bungling incompetence. It cost my Dad's sudden decline in health & he died after 18 months of horrible loneliness and grief. The drs at Geisinger told me if she had been transferred within the first 12 to 24 hrs she would probably be alive. Instead they just let her rot to death and had the audacity when I asked them to do a better job of managing her pain that "we think your mother is confused about her pain" After they told us what had caused the initial attack of severe pain, I was able to find her fatal condition in a 3 minute Google search which stated "any elderly person admitted to ER with pain disproportionate to physical findings, acute mesenteric ischemia must be considered". They killed my mother! I will never forgive their lying to us. Dogs get better treatment than my mom did. To make matters worse the floor nurse was a total witch & yelled at my 83 yr old father who had been thru a stroke and had atrial fibrillation because he laid down on the extra bed in the room. He was physically and mentally exhausted watching his wife of 62 yrs dying before his eyes in excruciating unmanaged pain which they thought was her exaggerating her condition. I hate this hospital! This was where she had been brought into this world and they were the cause of the excruciating and unnecessary sudden end to her life. I tried to get justice but drs lie and cover for each other. Stay away from here if you want to live!