John Hall

Review of Providence St. Joseph Medical ...

This is the long long short story, wife was brough...

This is the long long short story, wife was brought in a ambulance from work for respiratory issues and she is also pregnant. The intake lady came in took insurance and copay after about forty-five minutes of arriving. She wasn t seen by anyone for three hours in a room, place filled up a and empty a few times. The first nurse Tony was super forgetful or just over his shift and ready to leave. She was cold and asked for a blanket, he forgot and brought two about forty-five later after seeing her with two jackets covering her. We used the buzzer on the wall because after three and a half hours she just wanted to leave. We waited another half hour then used the buzzer again and the guy answering was puzzled that Tony still hadn t come to check on us, and we wanted to leave. Ten minutes later the Dr showed up and she was incredibly amazing!! She wanted to have blood drawn, fluids given through IV because she was dehydrated, and influenza swab done. Tony finally shows up fifteen minutes after doctor leaves and says he hears we wanted to leave AMA (Against Medical Advice). We said the Dr came in and we decided to stay. So now he s bummed he had to do all of these things. My wife says she also has heart burn about seven to ten times, he does nothing. Then right before hooking her up she throws up into the little baggies. Then he hooks her up and gets blood everywhere. She gets blood drawn every month since she had been pregnant and I have never seen that happen before. He says to her she has weird veins. Does the fetal heart monitor and leaves. About 20-30 minutes later her fluids bag has emptied and a new nurse who was also lovely comes in and everything finally starts happening, and test come back plus answers are finally given. At this point we have both been there six hours. They wanted to keep her because they said her heart rate was a little high. My wife and I said she would do much better at home and taking a hot salt bath then resting in bed and would come back if anything escalated. But Tony forgot to record the fetal heart beat so we have to do it again before we can leave. We finally got to leave after six and a half hours, without getting any prescriptions or anything. We get home to look at the paperwork they gave us and she was given a prescription for tums, which no one told us about.... Seriously, it s an over the counter drug.
-The next day she went to her regular OB who was appalled at her sister providence hospital and gave her a Z-pack right away to prevent infections.