Jaylene Owen

Review of Tennova

This hospital has a serious problem. I'm not sure...

This hospital has a serious problem. I'm not sure if it's a combination of the staff or the hospital procedures. Someone mentioned since Obama care the average wait is 10 hours ...this is absolutely ridiculous. At no point should an ER have a wait time of 10 hours.

I finally walked out after 11 hours AMA because it was a circus. At no point in time did any personnel express concern over our well-being, the only thing they were concerned about was letting us wait. At certain points you would assume the hospital staff might be concerned with the fact that in 11 hours a sick patient might be hungry or even might be in need of a blanket or some other type of comfort. Yet none of this was offered. With no end in sight it was clear we needed to leave.

With wait times like these the hospital should increase the staff it's a simple equation of supply and demand. I'm just absolutely shocked because I can't imagine there was that many life threatening cases that the emergency cases waiting existed. For example before I had got there for my son there were two women both in their second trimesters having complications as if possibly miscarrying, and yet neither had seen a doctor in 7-8 hours.

At no point in time would I recommend anyone to go to the hospital dieing or not... it's clear the staff is overwhelmed the procedures and processes are outdated.