Rusty Merz

Review of Community Medical Center-Toms ...

My father has been here twice in the past month. ...

My father has been here twice in the past month. Both due to emergency issues. He taught me to be a patient and humble man but the atrocity that is Community is beyond anything I care to keep quiet about.

This hospital is an awful combination of incompetence and understaffing. The incompetence is from upper management allowing their staff to dwindle to a point where people who really need immediate care suffer. You can hear it in every nurses voice. They are overwhelmed. These are amazing folks that cannot help leaving these patients untended.

They end up being rushed and the finer details that would otherwise increase the quality of stay for the patient are left behind. My father would sit in pain for hours. Ignorant of what treatments were happening and or when they were happening. He thought he was dying because nobody could tell him what was going on. It wasn't until we aggressively demanded answers from head nurses that they gave us some idea of how they were planning on proceeding.

Barnabas should be ashamed of themselves for letting this happen. I don't know anyone that would recommend this place. If you've ever had the unfortunate circumstance if needing to go to a Meridian hospital like JSUMC or Riverview, you'd see really quick why they come highly recommended.

I hope they get their act together. The community needs them. Their overworked employees deserve better.