I'll give them one star because my mother is still...

I'll give them one star because my mother is still alive....my mother had an aortabifemoral bypass, very serious surgery..in the two weeks, her dressings were changed TWICE. Cardiovascular team wasn't changing them (even tho that's their rule, they looked at the incisions and recovered them with the same dressing) and only two nurses advocated to change them in that two week span. They were scared to because it going going "against doctor orders" but they did...Her incisions quickly got infected and turned necrotic. (How does that happen so quickly while being in hospital care). Then They discharged her!! She puked all night my dad brought her back in not even 10 hours later. I left for a couple days to enjoy my honeymoon only to walk in and find her abdomen severely distended, her legs super swollen, incisions infected, and my mother puking, pale, dehydrated...how did NO ONE see the signs. Had I known this was going to happen I would have NEVER left her side. She should have never been discharged in this state. Not one doctor or nurse noticed? Which shows they weren't even assessing her. I heard Dan, a nurse, tell the doctors she was doing really good!...what? Do you not see her? After I was very vocal to the doctors, they decided to run a couple tests (which should have been done DAYS before...they had to do an I&D of my mother's wound and put on a wound vac, which she also had for over a month. From the tests..My mother had an ileus and what they thought either kidney or heart failure, and also went septic. Two of her three incisions separated. She was in the icu 4 times and on floors 8, 2, 10, you name it. And in the hospital for over a month! One nurse told her she couldn't believe she was still there the next day!! (Who says that). The cardiovascilar team, gastrointestinal team, and general surgery had VERY poor communication, my mom had her NG takin out and put in a total of 5 times, MAYBE 6 I lost count. I mean hell they didn't even catch she had anything wrong with her abdomen, until I pointed out the obvious. I don't know how, because she wasn't having bowel movements and she was constantly puking. They kept feeding her! The cardiovascular doctor that did her surgery Dr. Govitz, didn't See her until her 17th day in the hospital. His team did, a very quick check up. But I was pretty upset that THAT surgeon didn't see her until she was in the ICU. He told me "they don't intervene until they KNOW there's an infection," well that pissed me off..because it was pretty obvious from the start. She had every sign possible. SO he waited to intervene until it was in her blood stream and she was in ICU......Idk just so much went wrong. It was hard to fix everything at once. She had great care in the ICU and in the ICU over flow, don't get me wrong. But basic assessments the nurses could have done would have saved her from going septic also advocating for her too would have been a great first step. The doctors not changing the dressings are beyond me. One cardiovascular doctor did make her get up and walk which is awesome considering the circumstances, the nurses did not care to..From finding all this out we stepped up. my sister and I walked her constantly, I cleaned and changed her dressings, even her accidents. We were by her side every second of the day.....case management was great, but we decided to take her home and not to rehab for fear she would get worse. She did great with us! Thank god she barely remembers being in there, she only remembers the bad things, which is sad, but I don't remember anything good really either. It was the summer of hell. We contemplated transferring her to UofM. We didn't because she was slowly getting better. I don't think we will ever do another surgery at this hospital...ever. Not if we want to live to see the next day.