Paula Burgess

Review of Glenwood Regional Medical Cent...

HORRIBLE: My 77yo father was recently a patient ...

HORRIBLE: My 77yo father was recently a patient in Glenwood. First time ever in a hospital. He was diagnosed with Metastatic Stomach Cancer.

This was the WORST experience in a hospital anyone could have ever imagined. The nursing care was horrible. No one knew what they were suppose to be doing. Not one nurse, NONE, ever did a head to toe assessment on my dad. Never listened to is heart, breath sounds, bowel sounds (with NGT in stomach), peripheral pulses after surgery, etc.....He was over sedated, and if I ( daughter) hadnt been there and noticed it he would have just been lying there. In the 12 days only one nurses aide was helpful (Denise) and kind. Never once did they send an orderly, but i dont lime they had one for men patients.

My mother also 77yo, stayed with my dad during the day, asked to have trash emptied one day , and they brought her 3 trash bags to do it herself, this was enough to tell me that no one i loved would ever be brought to Glenwood.

Nurses were like robots with their computers, walking in pulling that high tech computer with their backs turned to my dad asking questions. Not knowing i was a nurse, i would question the nurses, and no one knew what the other was doing, they never reported to each other..

It took knowing someone higher up to recieve adequate care., which is sad for you and me.

Horrible, horrible!!!!