Centinela Hospital Medical Center

Reviews 3

JA

Jawid Akram

This hospital and the attending doctor, Armund Hovonisian are responsible for the death of my father... The nurses are unqualified, incompetent, lazy, have no idea what to do in the case of a patient experiencing chest pains. Equipment is faulty and dated and no one is accountable at this hospital He was admitted for a virus, ended up with a heart attack in the hospital and he died. Due to the virus he was on antibiotics and IV. He had a heart monitor which was not working.. The monitoring desk changed it at least 12 time within a period of 3 days. The doctors and the nurses continued to give him Antibiotics and IV without checking his condition to see if he was retaining water. Due to excessive fluids, he began having chest pains, and no one was around except my brother and I. We ran out to the nurses desk to look for a nurse or anyone to help and no one was there.. A doctor was siting at a desk, he ignored our pleading for someone to come and check up on him.. good 5 minutes went by, and finally the male nurse came in and asked my father where he was having a chest pain...My father was so angry and in pain he angrily pointed to his chest. The nurse didnt do anything but said let me check the monitor... His heart monitor was NOT working and he said he was going to call the doctor... ALl this while my brother and I frantically running around for some one to attend to him.. Finally we decided to go downstairs to the emergency room and call EMT.. Good 20 minutes had gone by when someone finally came upstairs tried to revive him with an electric shock.. By this time he had already had a heart attack and never recovered and died 6 days later... The attending doctor was absolute negligent, he was never available and we had to leave angry messages with his office to call us. The doctor was Armand Houvisian. He deserves to have his license taken away!!!! We had attempted very hard to transfer my father out of this hospital and the doctor and the hospital denied it although a family doctor had made arrangements for my father to be transferred to an orange county hospital...It was because he was an out of network patient and the doctor would stand to make a lot of money treating this patient. While my father was in the ICU, the hospital services realized that they were responsible for the heart attack and possibly his death, they attempted to talk with us and we declined, because we had all intentions to disgrace the hospital and the doctor!.. We have made every attempt to go after this hospital and the doctor, but unfortunately no one is willing to take this case because it has become very difficult and a long process.. Any attorney willing to take on this hospital and the doctor, please do so and you can keep whatever you can get out of these people.. We dont want a penny!!! Just Justice!!! We dont want anyone to be another victim of this hospital or Dr Armund Hovonisian ... Any news channel reporters please investigate this hospital and Dr Hovonisian.. THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATRH OF MY FATHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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rainboAndMonstersyum

Before I went there yesterday, I called to ask what the hospital would do if I went in for the problem that I was having (abnormal vaginal bleeding migraine, bad cramps/abdominal pain, dizziness, fever and feeling faint while doing anything)and imidiately the nurse gives me attitude then hangs up. And mind you I called because I had to walk there and if I have to go somewhere I dont want to walk for no reason. So since she didnt give me an answer I had to take a 30 minute walk there even though Im sick and probably made it worse by doing so. I make it there to urgent care and to the back where I see the first two nurses who arent really letting me speak theyre just trying to rush me out it seems. So they give me a little container to do my urine test but dont take me to a bathroom they have me wait in the hall and dont get a chair until I say Im about to pass out. So I wait for about 25-30 minutes before they call me they send me to a room and I finally do the urine test. The doctor only finds me cause Im asking a nurse what I do with the urine and he sees the blood. The doctor is ok even though it seems like hes rushing me a bit and isnt really getting everything cause hes asking the same questions over. The female nurse he came in with seems a bit uncaring and just tries to everything quick. So he says hes going to go tests to see whats causing this to happen. So I end up sitting at that hospital all day I get multiple vials of blood drawn but end up getting discharge knowing nothing because the doctor never came back to tell me what was causing this to happen and its really annoying because I heard the nurses all looking at and talking about my test results but nobody came in the room to specifically tell me, and there was an elderly woman in the bed next to mine who had been asking for a nurses help almost the whole time I had come to the room I finally got fed up and had to get up and get a nurse for her. Like how do you not care that your patients are sitting in pain like that. Even for my migraine and cramps all I got was Motrin it didnt work but I felt it pointless complaining the nurses werent going to do anything The discharge nurse who gave me papers on what I already know and came to the doctor in the first place was shocked the doctor never came back like he was confused so he got the female nurse I started with and its frustrating cause when I was discharged I was being rushed out by that same nurse. And when I ask her for my blood test results she prints out a paper that only lab tech can read. After she rushed me out and had to walk home at night still feeling horrid knowing nothing more than I did when I walked in. I recommend that you dont go there because this isnt the first time Ive gotten poor service from this hospital

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Steven Pak

I will most likely get sued for writing this online review. But, I must do it, if I consider myself to be a true American citizen – and a true Christian. I was able to warn people / public by writing many reviews about the worst (barfing worst) restaurants in Springfield, Missouri – such as that new, fancy restaurant with the phoniest sushi. And, I was able to gift people / public by writing many reviews about the best (absolute best) hotels in Saigon, Vietnam. Then, I must be able to write my review on one of the worst hospital emergency rooms that I have ever experienced. Centinela Hospital Medical Center on 555 East Hardy Street, Inglewood, CA 90301. I have been to many ERs in the poorest countries in the world – and even in New Jersey, and, I must say that they were all better than the services that I got from the Centinela’s ER. I am not exaggerating!! In fact, almost everyone who was also waiting (for way too many hours) in the ER could not stop complaining about many things wrong with this ER. Some complaints – such as them having racist staff members – well, I am not sure . . . I am not writing this review to “punish” Centinela for having such a bad ER. That is not my job. That is actually their leaders’ job – the leaders’ who probably get paid way too much for doing almost nothing or for doing too many wrong things. I am writing this review so that Centinela’s leadership can make a change (a real, big change) that will help them improve their services to the good people whom they serve. From my personal observation, it seems that the most of the patients were minorities and low-income. I know how it feels to be a minority in America – I grew up in Iowa and I now reside in Missouri. I know how it is to be low-income – I was a young, single father for years and years to two young boys who had many medical and learning challenges. Why is that America continues to treat their minorities and low-income folks the worst, while they give the red carpet treatment to the foreigners and others who really do not care about America. -- by Changyon Pak (“Steven” Pak), Raised and Educated in Iowa, State of Missouri Resident, Biggest Fan of the Chicago Bulls, World Traveler for Over 30 Years