I am, unfortunately, a mixed reviewer.

I am, unfortunately, a mixed reviewer.

Let me start with the worst, then you can choose whether to keep reading on I would *never* give birth here *ever* again. After reading reviews about how awesome of a hospital PSHMC is and how wonderful their maternity department was, I was excited to give birth here. I wish that my experience had even a tiny bit lived up to my expectations and hopes. Upon entry, we were informed this is a teaching hospital. I didn't mind this fact as long as the appropriate supervisors were present. The nurse staff prior to giving birth were incredible. It all went downhill when it came time for my epidural. The *student* went to put the exposed needle into my spine and nervously dropped the needle into the waste bin. He then picked it up and attempted to reuse it. The anesthesiologist overseeing the student did nothing to stop him from putting a dirty needle in my spine. If it weren t for my husband demanding a new needle, he would have put a dirty needle into my spine. Once the epidural was in place, it only worked on one side of my body. A few hours passed and I was 10cm dilated and ready to push. Upon looking around the room, there were easily 25 people in there watching me in one of my most vulnerable positions. I tore really badly, and the people in the room said hey did not know how to stitch me where I tore. In my hazy state I said okay and held my beautiful baby without a care in the world. About an hour after giving birth, an older woman walked in and introduced herself as the on-call OB and apologized for missing my birth but it looks like my students took great care of you. READ. THAT. AGAIN. That means that I gave birth in a room full of 25 students and NOT ONE of them was a full-time OB. It wasn t until my 6 week check up that I was told that I should not have left the hospital without being stitched, and leaving me unstitched meant permanent damage to my ladybits. After going to my room for my lovely three day stay, the nursing staff was awful. Every one of them had a different opinion of how I should care for my child, so I left the hospital not knowing whether or not I should do certain things, like clean the area near baby s belly button, because literally every nurse had a different opinion on it. I had also requested a lactation consultant the second I entered my room and continued to ask all three days and didn't see one until I had my bags packed and baby in her carrier ready to walk out the door.

Since then, I have had okay experiences in the ED personally. I was just seen not long ago in the updated ED and had a good experience. I think the ED excels at working with adults, but not so much when it comes to pediatrics. My daughter has had consistently awful experiences there with the exception of ONE time (because she was dressed as a princess and everyone ranted and raved about it). When she was an infant, she was prone to stomach bugs. The after-hours nurse instructed me to take her to the ER several times when this happened, and every time we ended up with a cocky, condescending student who would write us off as overly protective and often rolled their eyes at us. Keep in mind, the only reason we felt the need to bring our daughter in is because the after-hours nurse told us to. There was one time we had a student who couldn t even be bothered to put down his sandwich and chew his food before opening his mouth to talk to us. Good thing my daughter doesn t have any allergies since he spit his food all over her and us.

Overall, I would advise against going to this hospital for specialty (ie OB and pediatric) purposes, but if you sever a limb, they re pretty decent at doing their job.