Melissa G

Review of North Shore long Island Jewish

1 Star is even to much of a rating for this place....

1 Star is even to much of a rating for this place. I couldn t tell the difference was my mom a paitent in Flushing, Elmhurst, or LIJ hospital. People talk about how horrible Flushing and Elmhurst hospitals are but the experience of LIJ the last two days was less than sub par of any of those hospitals. Maybe LIJ excels in their Maternal unit, but anything after that they fail. When I first saw my mom I know she had a major surgery but she looked horrible, not sure what the anesthesiologist did but she was bruised in multiple places on her arm that anyone who saw her (nurse and doctor) said what happened here?! . Not only does she have multiple 10 inch bruises on her forearm and next to her armpit but her lip was swollen like she was punched in the face where she s lost feeling in her mouth even two days after the surgery. The nurses we encountered had terrible bedside manner my mom coming out of surgery into the recovery room and having commands barked at her with attitude. I m sorry you may hate your job, and I know it s a tough job, but I don t know where you had your training from I think these nurses have to go back and find their manners again. Ask them for something and they forget well when my mom hasn t been given anything to eat in a 24 hour period and she just asked for something small and another two hours passes she has to buzz you again and you walk in the room with an attitude and say I forgot . Well one day when you re a paitent and you ask your nurse for something and they forget hopefully that will teach you something nursing school maybe forgot. The only positive workers I met and actually seemed to care were the transportation workers. They made sure they didn t go so fast and were easy when there was a bump on the floor to not hurt my mom moving her from recovery to her hospital room. But the best part is how there so concerned with how after such a surgery you shouldn t be left alone and you re not allowed to drive home the person that took her downstairs to wait for me to get my car just basically dropped her off and left without any supervision and no help to get her into my car. I don t know what happened to this hospital, I m also not sure what happened to common decency, but if you re gonna need to have a surgery I wouldn t recommend this facility and I did speak to others who had horror stories from this place and will never return. I can for one say we will be avoiding this hospital like the plague. And the nurses were so concerned about us filling out a survey of how we were treated well to bad they didn t act like they wanted a good review.