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My reviews keep being removed but I hope they stay...

My reviews keep being removed but I hope they stay long enough to save a life and a family the heartache that my family has gone through. There is very little I can say positive about this hospital, the case workers, the physicians, and most importantly the nursing staff in the neurological ICU. We tried to be advocates for my brother and the shut us down, protected their staff, and helped kill my brother. Again I am forced to pick at least 1 star to post this and that's still 2 more then deserved. Horrible, horrible staff and patient care with just a couple of exceptions. If you find yourself or a loved one up in the neurological ICU and you get a nurse named Nicole do Everything you can to have her removed. I would like to add, since they have kept this one up, that you may notice I never get the message apologizing and asking me to contact them.
Full disclosure my brother, Todd, arrived in the neurological ICU on April 6th after having a brain aneurysm on April 4th. He was brought in on a respirator and was under heavy sedation to keep him under. His first day there he woke up and tried to remove the respirator. Ron, his nurse his first 2 days, was amazing. He was supportive and honest and hopeful. Monday April 8th we met his new nurse, Nicole, she was rude and to say the care she gave my brother was sub-standard is an understatement. Her first day on she asked us to leave his room to "re position" Todd when we were allowed back in the room Todd had a blood blister bulging from his left eye which she told me was "normal" she never spoke to him when she would actually come into his room to suction his lungs, she never did any mouth care, and treated him like he was a burden. The second day she was on she again asked us to leave so she could "re position" him and when we were finally allowed back in his room he had blood pooled in his right ear, down the right side of his face and all over his pillow. When I demanded she come back in the room she threatened to have us removed after she clean him up and changed his pillow case before getting the neurologist into his room. Again she still wasn't talking to Todd just treating him like a body, when she came into the room, that is. At one point I asked why there was blood in his respiration tube and asked if the dark fluid that was filling the tube could be cleaned she responded with "I'll contact respiratory and have them come up cause they don't care much for others' doing their job" when the Respiratory therapist finally showed up she detached the tube and emptied it onto a cloth on my brothers' chest and plugged it back in. As a family we complained about his care and asked how to have him moved to a different hospital on April 12th. We were informed that Todd was "unstable critical" and couldn't be moved. They gave my brother a paralytic drug because he kept trying to wake up and was Not happy with being strapped down or the tube down his throat. Not one time did they put in the trachea tube, never measured the pressure on his brain until Tuesday the 17th (or possible Monday night the 16th) when they put the bolt in at his bedside. While on the paralytic drug he was placed on dialysis as well as remaining on the respirator. On Wednesday the 18th the told us that my brother no longer had any brain stem activity (code for brain dead) we requested a 2nd opinion. In the meantime the kidney doctor removed my brother from dialysis and they were giving him lasik (unsure of the spelling, but it removes fluid) I asked his nurse, at that time, about a cath, cause where is the fluid going? She told me my brother had had complete organ failure and the kidney doctor could stop any procedure he felt was harmful to his patient. Two days later, on April 20th, the second opinion informed us that there was no brain stem activity. He was removed from the respirator that evening. Not one person in that hospital explained what to expect when you what your love one die like that, they never once offered any condolences until they asked my mom for her signature on his death certificate.

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