Tri-City Medical Center

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Destiny Leon

During my time in the hospital as a patient. I overheard various conversations and comments from the nurses. Especially sine they were pretty loud and 5 ft from my room with their door wide open. In the beginning of my stay one nurse constantly gossiped about another named Kristen. She said a various amount of times "Kristen thinks she can tell everyone what to do." "I dont really like Kristen." It took me by surprise from how unprofessional she was being. Then around noon a nurse was leaving and another nurse said "noooo! Youre leaving us in hell!" quite loudly, to the nurse who was already standing in the hall. Another instance, two nurses were also in this room "treatment room 1" and when the security guard Joey had walked into the room one, holding the door open since he was on duty, a nurse said "oh we were gonna take off our clothes for you!" I had also asked security when I could leave since no nurse bothered to check in on me, or even ask if I wanted food/water. The guard was the one to ask me. He went and asked and never came back but I heard a nurse tell him "tell her i said nooo nooo nooo." Which he responded with "Ill let you tell her that." A little later I asked a nurse when I could leave, she leaned against the door and crossed her arms and said "If i could tell you Id be a millionare." So I asked for an estimate and she said "Well the liaison has to see about 10 patients in front of you.." Then she just walked away. I then asked if I could use my phone and responded "Youd have to check with your nurse." And walked away again. Near the end of my stay they got a call about an incoming patient and when they hung up one nurse said "great another nut job!" I finally met with the Liaison which we spoke for birefly 10-15 minutes and I was allowed to be discharged. I was their from a little around 10am until 4:30pm. I waited hours to just see someone for a few minutes. The staff are very unprofessional and rude. Ive never experienced this type of behavior from staff in a hospital. Im really disappointed in the lack of care and disgusting attitude of the nurses.

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Jack James

Discusting nurses in the emergency room. Very dry and abrasive and definitely arent the most knowledgeable. I went in because my imbecile Dr wrote me a prescription for my Cluster headaches and gave me 6 doses for a month and each dose is for 1 headache when meanwhile during a cluster period I can have anywhere from 3 -6 headaches per day. Anyways when I went into the E.R wich I really didnt want to do but i had to work in the morning and knew I would need some form of relief because I could feel a cluster coming on. The Nurse had no clue what I was talking about, I kept telling her that I have Cluster headaches and she kept saying "oh so you came here for just a headache" very dismissive basically saying I shouldnt have come in for just a stupid old headache by her tone, If she had any knowledge of the field then she would know that Clusters are the equivalent in pain to a woman having a baby or a man peeing out a watermelon and theyre about 20 times more painful than a Migrane. I wouldnt wish these on my worst enemy. I just want that rude nurse to pick up her phone and Google Cluster headaches AKA Suicide Headaches before she passes judgement on somone, I ended up just getting up while they were taking my blood pressure and leaving because I knew once the cluster came on strong I wouldnt be able to handle being in there with these incompetent nurses so I left and sat in my car for 45 minutes banging my head on the steering wheel for relief. Just wanted to thank you for such an amazing experience. Its a shame the way the medical industry creates monopolies for hospitals, if this place had any competition within the area it would no longer be around I can guarantee you that, but because of the monopoly hospitals have on areas they will continue to give sub par service and get away with it. Some advice for the nurses, if your not passionate about being a nurse and 100 % in it to help people then you should resign immediately. Being a good nurse takes a special type of person and if your not that person then dont bother because people lifes are in your hands.

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A Private User

I was rushed here by my school nurse because I was cutting myself, it was not anything serious but I was forced to. My dad and I spent almost 2 hours waiting, and when I was finally able to check in, oh it began. The nurses (there were 2 present) checked my pulse & etc, then they asked to see my abrasions; one of them had the nerve of asking "Wow... Why did you cut yourself? Why? Did you want to die or something?" in the most ignorant and condescending tone. Really? A grown nurse would inquire such thing from a clinically depressed 16 year old adolescent? Why? Shouldnt there be some personal privacy? Some respect for the patient? (Im not implying that I should have been treated like royalty, but better than that.) The accompanying nurse did nothing but stare, following the first one. After I was checked in & everything, they transferred me into one of the rooms; there, I waited some more for a doctor. During the entire stay they monitored my heart rate which I thought was unnecessary, they also drawn some blood for thyroid problems? (more unnecessary s#%^.) Finally, a doctor came to examine my cuts and asked me some questions. *More waiting...* A psychiatrist came to ask me more questions, then left. She finally gave me some papers about depression and abrasions. Then I got my cuts bandaged, and left. Overall, my entire visit consisted of hours of just waiting and doctors telling me what I already knew. The check in nurses were very disrespectful and very unprofessional. The doctors and psychiatry staff were so so. The final cost of such service was ridiculous, and is not worth it. Aside from all the negative experiences, I do COMMEND the ER nurses & volunteers; they were very nice, they talked to me and made my stay in the ER as comfortable as possible. (This is the only reason why Im giving 2 stars.)

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Ash

This is by far the worst hospital; Tricity is worse than a 3RD world country hospital. I was in ER this week- 8 hours for nothing. Here is how it works- 1. You check in- wait for 30 plus minutes 2. After 30 minutes-Triage- then wait another 40 minutes 3. X-Ray- after this wait another 45 minutes to be taken into a cubicle 4. 45 minutes later- another nurse comes and tells you- please wait for another 2 hours 5. 2 Hours later- physician assistant comes- says she will order an xray- hello miss-the x-ray was taken 2 plus hours ago- she says oh really- i havent heard from xray dept. let me check- 6. 50 minutes later- you walk back and forth and these people are all sitting in the room chatting- EMT,NURSE, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT 7. I am like can you please check- my 12 year old is hungry- please 8. 45 minutes later PA Comes in and tells me- well the Radiologist has not had a chance to view x-ray 9. Now i tell her- madam- Physician assistant- i have been here almost 8 hours I think i need to leave- here is my insurance information again- please bill me and call me with results. 10. Long story short- in 3 minutes the REGISTRATION LADY SHOWS UP- HAHAHAH now they are scared they wont get paid for this scam- hahah in 45 minutes they check me out end result- X-RAY NEGATIVE NO MEDICATION NEEDED NO BANDAGE NEEDED- I Literally had to tell the PA and EMT to put a splinter for my kids finger- and they they still couldnt do it! This place is a Joke! THIS PLACE SUCKS- TRICITY NEEDS TO BE SHUT DOWN! We could have driven to Tijuana,Mexico- 45 minutes drive and gotten better care and cheaper and faster- and i am neither latino nor can speak a Lick of Spanish- hahahah! TRICITY HOSPITAL IS HELL- STAY AWAY!

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