Carol Erwin

Review of Caromont regional healthcare

My husband was admitted through the ER for complic...

My husband was admitted through the ER for complications due to acute liver failure May 14, 2016. Everyone that took care of him from the ER to discharge was outstanding with the exception of one nurse who was rude to him on more than one occasion on his last day in SICU.
June 8, he was readmitted by his GI as his health continued to decline quickly and he still was not scheduled for an evaluation with a liver specialist in Charlotte till June 17. His GI called the hospitalist about admitting him and getting him transferred to CMC to be evaluated for a liver transplant within one to two days. Once we were there and it was determined that his kidneys were failing as well, we were told we should just go on home and call in hospice.
Thank God I was there to stand up for my husband or he would be dead now!!! I insisted that they contact the director of the liver center who agreed to take him on transfer. When we got to CMC my husband had less than one week left, he was put on the transplant list on June 15 and transplanted on the 17th.
If your doctors are not capable of treating a patient's condition, then transfer them to another hospital!
From now on, we will go to CMC where their doctors do everything they can to save a patient's life not just send them home to die.