laura karaglanis

Review of OWENSBORO MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM

My mother was taken to their ER with a heart rate ...

My mother was taken to their ER with a heart rate of 130+. 24 hours later it still hadn t gotten below 115 - at one point she wasn t given her medicine on time so the little progress that had been made was gone. The only goal seemed to be to get her below 100 and then discharge her without any answers. When my dad requested a transfer to another hospital they resisted by refusing to facilitate the move and by telling us we were on our own (also wouldn t give us any of the medical records). He then requested a discharge. That s when we drove her to Nashville s St Thomas where within 6 hours her rate was below 100 and within 48 hrs we had xrays, blood work, an echo, an EP test, an ablation, the fluid around her heart expelled and were back home.