Ana Blanco

Review of Kendall Regional Medical Cente...

The ER staff and floor nursing staff was great.

The ER staff and floor nursing staff was great.

However, I saw the cardiologist and his team at 11:00 am and was told that I could go home. At 3:30 pm I was still there. I approached my nurse and asked her how late patients are discharged from the hospital. She said that someone like me that was cleared and could drive myself home it could be anytime. She asked if I wanted her to call the hospitalist, I said yes. It turns out that the cardiologist did not update my chart on the computer and the hospitalist did not know that I had been cleared to go home.

The nurse manager was at the station and said that sometimes the doctor forgets to inform the hospitalist that the patient can be discharged. I was waiting three and a half hours to be discharged because there was no communication between the cardiologist and the hospitalist. If I had not insisted I would have been there for another three and a half hours. I find this completely unacceptable. If the doctor has so many patients he forgets to update the chart in the computer then he needs to carry an iPad or go back to old school methods and have a print out of the patient's for the day to keep him on track of which patient's charts have been updated.