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Review of Maui Memorial Medical Center

Maui Memorial Medical Center Hospital is still jun...

Maui Memorial Medical Center Hospital is still junk
Based on personal experience and stories from others, Kaisers MMMC is still providing us with junk heath care, especially when compared to Oahu Hospitals. The blame rest squarely on Kaisers MMMC management and the people who let Kaiser take control of Maui s only hospital. We ve all heard the horror stories from MMMC, but they become very real when you almost die there.
I went to MMMC for a routine non surgical ERCP to remove a stone from my pancreatic duct. After almost dying of Acute Kidney Failure in the ICU, I left MMMC being kept alive by Kidney dialysis and with other serious medical problems I never had before and had nothing to do with my pancreatic duct.
A month after my discharge from MMMC, I went to Poli Momi Hospital on Oahu for the same ERCP procedure. They found and removed a large stone (13mm) that MMMC somehow missed which was the start of the series of events that led to my Kidney failure there. There were no complication at Poli Momi, I didn t almost die, and went home the next day.
Why was Poli Momi s staff and equipment so much better? Why do Maui people have to fly to Oahu to make sure they don t die from simple medical treatment? We were led to believe that Kaiser running Maui Memorial would change things. It hasn t.
Oh, If something goes seriously wrong with your treatment at MMMC, the grievance dept. is run by Kaiser public relations dept. It seems the whole MCCC is a PR effort to make Maui people believe they can get quality medical care at MMMC when they really need to go to Oahu for that. Kaisers motto should be suffer not thrive .