Jennifer The Mom

Review of Hunterdon Healthcare

Very very disappointed of our experience at this h...

Very very disappointed of our experience at this hospital. My husband was brought there by ambulance from our hotel after getting sick on vacation. Every other hospital I have ever been to and experienced, when someone is brought in on ambulance they don t leave the patient wanting on a gurney in between the registration and triage area for an hour to even get into the ER so he can spent his time throwing up in front of people coming in to both places. Awful! Then when they brought him back they never put him into a room in the Er but left him by the nurses station with his wife and 8 year old daughter with an incredibly rude nurse who was questioning why my very sick husband was moving around and wasn t lying on his sheet and blaming him for it! He was kept out there in the hall, throwing up for 10 hours!!! They didn t give him anything to drink and he was suffering from dehydration. Not even ice chips and he was so thirsty from throwing up. Imagine throwing up and not at least having an ice chip for 10 hours. I believe that because my husband has been in recovery and on methadone for TWO years!! they treated him like a leper, like this dehydration was his fault when it ended up he had severe acute gastritis and my husband hasn t done drugs in two years. I thought doctors have an obligation to treat people with dignity. I m appalled and intend on directing this hospital and this experience directly in my blog and in a book I am writing regarding how the medical community treats drug addicts. Regardless, we saw two people go into the room right next to my husband for things like bursitis and my husband who had to stay over night and was finally admitted and was throwing up for hours wasn t allowed a room where he could be comfortable and turn off the lights. I have been to ERS in many areas in the country as I have lived all over and I have never experienced such angry nurses who can t think for themselves, doctors who are prejudiced and a hospital who can t deal with the amount of people coming to their ER.