When you read reviews that say not to go to a hosp...

When you read reviews that say not to go to a hospital, don't make the mistake we did--LISTEN TO THOSE REVIEWS!! Don't make the same mistake, seeing that someone from DCH is taking the time to come on here and address concerns making it APPEAR that they are making an effort to do better. THEY ARE NOT!

While on a cross country trip from South Carolina to California, my mother developed pulmonary embolisms (blood clots in the lungs) that landed her in the hospital in California. Now my parents had to make the trip back home to SC in this unfortunate situation. They were close to Tuscaloosa when it was clear she needed to be seen again because of blood loss and they ended up at DCH. She ended up being severely anemic because of the anticoagulant she was on for her PEs. They insisted she be admitted to have a blood transfusion. Ok, great! Take care of her. Except that EVERYTHING they did, she had to wait for HOURS! The NEXT MORNING, after it being 24 hours since she first arrived, they said her iron was still too low and they needed to do two more transfusions. That they would need to wait 4 hours after the second one to test her blood to see if she could leave. Sounds great, get it done so they can get home. 11:00 PM, they STILL HADN'T DONE THE FINAL BLOOD TEST!! THEY WERE STILL WAITING! HOW COULD TWO TRANSFUSIONS AND A BLOOD TEST POSSIBLY TAKE AN ENTIRE DAY?!

Then had the audacity to have her do ANOTHER CT scan, where they determined she needed to stay in the hospital because she had blood clots in her lungs. YOU DON'T SAY!?! That's why she's on the anticoagulants, which they made clear from the beginning!!

A really good way to collect more money from patients and insurance companies---keep them there as long as possible and do ridiculously expensive unnecessary tests like CT scans. She'd already had a CT scan at the previous hospital, WHICH SHE SHOWED THEM. Yet somehow they insisted she needed another.

My parents finally left, without even doing that final blood test, because they were so sick of waiting. The staff there had the nerve to give looks to them as they left, as if my parents were in the wrong.

If all the other reviews and this one have not made it clear this far, let me clarify--DO NOT GO TO THIS HOSPITAL!!! Do yourself a favor and drive a little farther and go somewhere else!!