Charles cole memorial hospital Reviews

My son came by ambulance after having a dislocated knee...BY AMBULANCE....and we sat in the waiting room for 7 HOURS....and still waiting. I understand they take people based severity but 7 HOURS AND STILL WAITING!!!! The x rays were read just waited and waited and waited for us to hear the results. Mind you they also had a head trauma that sat in the waiting room for 9 hours and walked out to go somewhere different....kid had a neck brace swollen face...and still waited. Absolutely ridiculous and this is the best hospital in our area??!!!

I have had 5 surgeries at Cole. Four overnight. My care was excellent. Dr. Gianoti. did three of them. Dr. Fouany 2. Therapy on my shoulders for the third time. I have no complaints. I like the care of a small hospital

Doesn't qualify as a first aid station. Same for the shinglehouse annex. If you have a life threatening emergency, try to make it to olean

My spouse had knee replacement surgery in July 2019 and I had a hip replacement Oct 2019. We travel from St.Marys ( an hour away). Champion Orthopedics is a gem hidden away in the mountains. As is UPMC Cole Hospital. Our care for both of our hospital stays was outstanding. Everyone from the Dr s, nurses, therapists to the housekeepers and dietary went out of there way to make sure we were taken care of. The nursing staff as busy as they were, answered bells promptly. I highly recommend anyone who is looking for orthopedic services call them.

If you can, find a different hospital and better doctors to visit. I've had very mixed experiences here but overall have seen a decline in the quality of services over the years.

there has been two different occasions with two different kids.. my 4-year-old went to the ER and they didn't do anything for him. found out two weeks later after he had fever and couldn't sleep for 2 weeks that he had Lyme disease. "misdiagnosis". My 7-year-old has had a knee issues for 2 months. they did a MRI in coudersport sent us the geisinger. We got geisinger and they did not send the X-ray or the MRI.

Ive had 2 csections here the first by Awada OOF WHAT A NIGHTMARE. The second Dr. Gable went smoothly however one of the nurses assisting needs to learn bedside manners instead of lecturing a mother during contractions.
My first baby dr. Rigas insisted she had an infection and put her on antibiotics even though all blood work and paperwork showed my baby girl was perfectly healthy and Pittsburgh hospital specialists even said she is perfectly fine get her off those antibiotics.
Third baby I had they decided to take it upon there self and spell his name the way they want, and change outlr family dr. Information.....
Glad my 2nd born was born in Dubois never had any problems with them.

Rude OBGYN
4 days ago Dr.Caliendo said he felt okay to deliver me. On the 20th I go in at 330am with extreme contractions. He yells at the dad while I am in labor and insists on shipping us to a different hospital while my contractions are 1 to 2 minutes apart and strong. He later comes back and makes a horrible apology that escalates the situation further. I was put (in active labor) in the back of an ambulance for 2 hours. Then found out the other hospital only accepted me because he said I had recent p.e. The paperwork that was sent with me had the midwife's name as if we saw her that day ( we didn't at all) ...which would make sense if I was under her care. He pawned off a laboring woman on another hospital, pawned off his notes/work on the midwife, and yelled at the father twice with a laboring woman in the room. I've never felt more scared and uncared for as a patient in my life. Avoid this hospital at all costs.

When Dr. Fouany was my OB/GYN, at Cole Hospital in Coudersport, PA during 2011-2013, I had many, many problems with him. Unfortunately, I didn t know about the problems until much later on. To begin with, I requested to give a natural birth for my son, and he agreed. During my labor, I did not realize that I was hooked up to Pitocin until well after my child was born - via C-section. This led to hours of unbearable but unproductive pushing. My epidural catheter was also incorrectly inserted, leading to no pain relief and a very scary (and again horrendously painful) beginning to my C-section, which then led to general anesthesia, which I was woken up from with no additional pain relief. Agonizing does not begin to describe the pain I was in. Dr. Fouany had prescribed 5 mg of Vicodin for having had a 22 hour labor, at least 8 of it pushing, and then cutting me wide open.
My birth experience was robbed from me. I'd have been able to give natural birth had it not been pressured upon me and then my child cut out of me. There was nothing wrong with the child's heartbeat, by the way, at 22 hours in. It was just that Dr. Fouany threatened to use forceps or do a C-section if I didn't give birth within 1/2 hour at that point. I chose the C-section to avoid damage to my son.
You cannot imagine the pain I woke up in, but I had no idea at the time that they had woken me up with no pain medication other than the general anesthesia, which of course was wearing off quickly by the time I awoke 4 hours after the surgery.
After this terrible experience, I requested a form of birth control afterwards that would help me not become pregnant again for at least 5 years. Dr. Fouany prescribed Essure, a titanium spiral device placed in both Fallopian tubes that creates scar tissue by irritation, leaving no space for sperm to get through. I did not realize at the time how new this device was, or that it was permanent. I've never been able to conceive again.
I know this seems extreme, but not only THAT, but I went back into Dr. Fouany's office 3-4 weeks after the procedure with extreme abdominal pain and bleeding. He asked for a pelvic exam and said that it was a problem with the Essure device that he would fix. Without my knowledge or consent, he placed ANOTHER Essure titanium spiral in my left side. I moved to a different town years later and went into a different OB/GYN with pain in my abdomen. He told me that the ultrasound showed 3 Essure devices in my uterus, that they were migrating, and that I'd have to have a hysterectomy to stop the constant pain, which I'd lived with for 6 years at that point. I know that there have been many lawsuits about this device. I joined a class action a few years ago and then dropped it when doctors at Charles Cole wouldn't fax/email/mail me my medical paperwork; they said that they needed an in-person signature and I now lived hours away. I figured it wasn't worth it.
I'm now 40 years old and, after a hysterectomy, still have one Essure device implanted because it's wrapped around my ovary, and the surgeon had opted not to take it out because it wasn't part of our pre-surgery talks to remove my ovaries. This would have led to menopause, and I was only in my late 30's at the time.
I am forever grateful for my healthy, now 8-year old son. But this doctor received an award about a year after my son was born, and I hear that he's well regarded. These reviews look like he's well liked among his patients. I just want to say that this was the worst doctor I've ever had, and that he not only robbed me of a natural birth experience and made my labor and recovery unnecessarily and excruciatingly painful, he also robbed me of having any more children, or even a pain free life after labor.
I've been unable to talk about it until now, and my son is 8. I write this today to warn other women of this doctor. He is the worst I ve ever had, and I am now looking at a 3rd major surgery, this one to take out the two Essure devices in my left side, along with that ovary, to stop the constant pain 8 years after the fact.

I had an emergency situation come about with tinnitus and needed to be seen as soon as possible, I live a couple hours away from the practice but I was searching for a place that accepted my insurance, when I called the receptionist told me that they had an opening that week and that my insurance was accepted. I was seen by the doctor and I was in and out of the office within 20 minutes. 2 months later I received a bill in the mail for $340.00 for services provided. When I called back to the office to figure out why I was charged they then told me my insurance wasn t accepted and I would be responsibility to pay for the services. After a month and a half of calling different departments and speaking to patient advocate services it was clear that they were not willing to work with me on the situation. I explained that the day I came into the office they took my insurance and drivers license and told me I was good to go and that I didn t think it was fair that I was expected to pay the services when the situation could have been prevented by the office telling me before I was seen that it would not have been covered. I was getting no where but frustrated by the end of the situation so I ended up just paying it so my credit wouldn t be effected. I understand people make mistakes but I think that they should have been more helpful and atleast met me halfway with the medical balance since they were the ones who told me I my insurance was accepted. Will not be returning to this practice or referring anyone here.