Chris Jordan Review of Veterans Health Administration...
Do not leave your loved one here alone. This is t...
Do not leave your loved one here alone. This is the worst hospital, the worst place, I have ever been to on the planet. Dangerous. They will expedite your death. And they'll make your last weeks hell.
Rude and unprofessional. Can't even muster a bit of decency, much less kindness, to speak to ailing inpatients with respect. Filthy. Unsanitary.
The lobby tells a big part of the story. Segregated entrance -- one for staff, one for patients. Patients have to stand in line at a TSA-style security checkpoint, remove shoes and belts, scan bags, metal detector, the whole nine. Oh, and visitors have to go through the patient line. So there ain't many visitors for the inpatients.
Once inside, don't expect someone to greet you, ask you what's wrong with you, perform oh, i don't know, triage, or acknowledge that you just walked into a hospital. You'd better know where you're going. There ain't a map.
You'll notice a pharmacy area with people crowded around in various states of discomfort or outright suffering, with no one attending to them. This pharmacy wait area, God forbid you ever be stuck there, is hell.
Upstairs in the inpatient areas, the nurses actually removed the Patients Rights and Responsibilities document from the wall when I requested to see a copy. Not to give to me, but to throw away. Behind closed doors upstairs, ALL patients are treated like they are in a prison or a high security drug rehab center, without exception, even if they are there for a colonoscopy or kidney stones. If you complain to nurses, they will walk out and send police officers in -- to a hospital bed. To an immobile patient. And if you try to check out before they say, a team of six officers, armed and apparently ready to shoot, will physically stop you.
I wish I was exaggerating. But I am not. And anyone, anyone who wrote a positive review of this place has never been an inpatient and is probably an employee.
You'll need counseling if and when you survive this place. It should be raided and the management should be arrested.
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