DIXIE Coats

Review of McLeod Health

I have had so many problems at this hospital I don...

I have had so many problems at this hospital I don't know where to start. The biggest was the death of my father who went in for routine gall bladder operation and ended up dying due to the neglegience of so many people.His cardiologist, surgeon and the nurses. Since there is limited space what actually ended up killing him was being sent home with orders that only said see you DR in 2 weeks. When we got him home on Easter Sunday he aked where his oxygen was, we didn't know what he was talking about, and I couldn't get anyone on the phone that knew, on Monday at being on the phone for hours I find out before he came home Home Health should have been there and set up not just oxygen, but a hospital bed, walker, porta potty, etc, we did not get all this in place until 8:30pm, he went over 36hrs without the oxygen he needed, at 7:30pm on Tuesday he died in the ER.There is much more to this story but just let me caution you do not leave your loved one alone for a sec and question everything they do, look at the paperwork before you go home if something doesn't seem right ask about it. My dad was not given the care that McLeod loves to boast about in their pretty little glossy magazine, there are no smiling Drs. and very few smiling nurses, I wish everyday my mother would have sued that hospital but my family are just not that tyoe of people and she didn't feel she could go through something like that, it is a shame that this hospital gets away with all the unethical, illegal, fraud that they do.I will submit another post to explain my meaning behind that.