Patty Purdy

Review of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medi...

This is one of the worst hospitals I have ever bee...

This is one of the worst hospitals I have ever been to. My daughter was involved in a motor vehicle accident 2 years ago yesterday. She was riding a Vespa and a van ran a red light hitting her at about 40mph (the police est.) throwing my daughter approximately 40-50 ft. She hit her head on the pavement, unfortunately she was not wearing her helmet, she was taken to this hospital with all of her identification on her, her drivers license, insurance cards, etc., by the time she got to the hospital she was in distress and had to be put on life support.The hospital did a CT scan of her head and an X-ray of her left shoulder because they noticed it looked abnormal, they did no further X-rays or ct scans. Remember, she was on a motorcycle hit by a van going about 40 mph! Her family was never notified that she was in the hospital, we live approximately 4 hours away from her. Her employer called me, her mother, the following day, (Monday) to inform me that my daughter never showed up for work, which is not something my daughter would ever do. I immediately started calling friends to find out where she might be and all they knew was she went on a "blind date" on Saturday and never made it home!! Of course we all thought the worst - she had been killed, kidnapped, sold, whatever else could possibly have happened? Well her brother, his girlfriend, and other friends and I started calling all the hospitals, the police and anyone we could think of to start the search for her, after our third call to Advocate Masonic my son's girlfriend was finally told, oh yea there is a girl here by that name but if your not family we can't tell you anything! I got on the phone and said, I am her mother, what is going on with my daughter? I was then told, well she isn't doing very well, she was involved in a serious accident and is on life support - I couldn't drive the 4 hours fast enough. After 3 weeks of hell we discovered that not only did she have a traumatic brain injury, a broken left shoulder, but she also had 3 fractured vertebrae that they totally missed because they didn't bother to do any further X-rays or ct scans once they knew she had a brain bleed!! All they could tell her and me was she needed to stop screaming about the pain and stop asking for pain medication because she was obviously just wanting the high and she wasn't in pain. I asked for her records and and removed her against medical advice and brought her to Springfield IL, St. Johns hospital where they discovered that not only did she have the 3 fractured vertebraes but she also had bacteria menenjites from the brain injury. We are very lucky she is alive today and able to function as well as she is. She suffers every day in extreme pain due to their negligence. I wouldn't take anyone to this horrible place, they were so unkind to my daughter and to not notify a family that their child was on life support when they had all of her information is just uncalled for. They need to have their license revoked. I would sue them if I thought I wouldn't be tied up in legal fees for years upon years upon years. This is the worst treatment I have ever had to experience in my life and unfortunately I am the mother of not 1 child with a traumatic brain injury, but 2, her brother suffered an assault 10 years before she did, so this wasn't our first experience with what was happening.