Please read all of this. Do not go to this hospita...

Please read all of this. Do not go to this hospital, and if you have any friends and loved ones who work here you should know how this place is run. As someone who works in healthcare, I have never seen a more dysfunctional hospital or medical setting. It is severely under staffed, current staff is overworked, many of the employees are rude and that s if they acknowledge you, most likely due to the symptoms of the hospital s frugality.
I went here one night with a HA, body aches and N&V. The ED was not packed, but everyone that was there was complaining that they had been there for hours and should have gone to Baptist. The man next to me for 2/3 hrs I was there(and he had been there for over an hr prior) was getting up every 5 min to go and pee because he was in so much pain. He would walk by the sign in desk on his way to the BR, where the staff is standing there laughing and one nurse is massaging another staff member s shoulders, with a look of pure pain on his face, hunched over with a pee cup that despite the maybe 20 times I saw him go, only had a few drops of urine in it and they didn t care. One woman went to the counter crying asking, why is no one being taken back? Can I please just get some Tylenol? I am in so much pain please! They wouldn t give her Tylenol, because they didn t have enough staff to have someone approve it. She asked if there weren t enough beds, to which the man at the counter replied, no, we have plenty of open beds, we just don t have enough staff. Ok so the ED isn t packed, there are plenty of open beds and yet the reason everyone was being forced to wait hours and hours was because there isn t enough staff?! Meanwhile all I see is employees standing around talking, giving each other back massages, one nurse was shuffling along like a snail. I have never seen someone walk so slow and this woman is working in an ED. I wasn t even acknowledged when I went to the counter and the man at the desk wasn t helping anyone. No one asked me what was wrong or for my insurance. One kid was there by himself, had a broken leg and crutches. When they finally came to get him, the nurse didn t even look at him and rudely told him let s go and walked away w/o him leaving me, a complete stranger, to carry his things since she, despite her empty hands, left a kid who can barely walk to carry all of his things.
I have nurse/tech/doc friends who work here and the things they tell me about the mistreatment of the staff and residents is inhumane and heartless. They do not care about burnout or the wellness of their staff. They "help" others at the cost of their employees mental and physical health. The only thing they care about is $$$. They take money from their staff(pay cuts and min wage), get paid to have free labor with their residents/interns(Medicare pays for residents and the hospital still takes over half of what they are given for each resident and this is nowhere near where their mistreatment ends despite guidelines), and they perform tests/procedures that are NOT necessary in order to bill pts at a higher rate and meet quotas. ex a tracheotomy, even if there are better and less risky/scarring options just to make a quota. A friend in the ED said docs are in such a rush or huff that a simple facial suture turns into them impatiently stapling the wound closed making the patient look like Frankenstein and more likely to have scarring. Hospitals should be run like well-oiled machines. This place is running more like a Ford Pinto that at any moment could burst into flames. Stop paying your money grabbing figure head chairmen and high up admin seven figures and put it towards better staff/training, more staff so current employees aren t overworked, higher pay, improving the quality of life in and outside of work for your staff(employee wellness should be a high concern in ALL departments in such a high stress and hr demanding facility). Stop treating your staff and patients like a paycheck and start showing them the caring, selfless nature medicine needs and the respect and treatment they deserve.