Sarah Brand

Review of CarolinaEast Health System

I cannot say enough terrible things about this hos...

I cannot say enough terrible things about this hospital! My mom was admitted in November of 2014 after going into cardiac arrest and being revived by EMT's at her home. The Doctors insisted she was completely brain dead and would need a feeding tube inserted and essentially become a vegetable. We opted for her to be taken completely off ALL sedation medications before we removed life support and what do you know she woke up and began speaking. Instead of keeping her in ICU (unable to move her arms and form full sentences) they moved her down to a low level care when she was still unable to move on her own. We were called and notified she had choked on her vomit and had pneumonia and was not waking up from it. (Odd!) 3 days later still had not waken up, we demanded brain scans and found out she had a stroke 3 days prior. Knowing stroked can be reversed if discovered within the first three hours, infuriates me further, there is no reason a healthy 50 year old woman should be 6 feet under due to terrible terrible medical staff! Had these doctors paid a bit more attention to their patients then my mother very well may still be alive today. PLEASE DO NOT BRING YOUR LOVED ONES TO THIS HOSPITAL!!!!!!