Katie Dudley

Review of Gritman Medical Center

My husband was taken there from Elk River for a sp...

My husband was taken there from Elk River for a spontaneous lung collapse. When the put the pigtail chest tube in they missed puncturing his heart by millimeters. It was done too low on his left chest. He was there for a week without a single linen change on his bed and was handed a small tub of water with soap and a wash cloth and told to bathe himself. The pigtail chest tube was replaced by a larger tube in his side. A few days later the suction machine attached to the chest tube broke in the night. The nurses had no clue how to replace the machine. They got a new on and we're reading the instructions. They didn't clamp off his chest tube while doing the replacement which blew his chest up like a balloon and caused excruciating pain. They did not put gloves on and had all the hoses and stuff laying on the hospital floor. He was transferred to another hospital where he recieved exceptional care. Never will either one of us go to Gritman again. He had to ask for his pain meds. Sometimes waiting 45 minutes after calling for them. Worst hospital ever.