Kaweah Delta Health Care District

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Rick Flores

I was born there as were most of my siblings. I watched them build the "new" hospital which is now obsolete and in desperate need of renovation. I also watched over the years as the administration (politics) proceeded to interfere with care, nursing care quality plummeted, infection rates soared, (Both due to post-op as well as poor quality nursing intervention in the rooms) and overall quality of care decreased to the point where most locals refer to it as "A great place to die!" It is truly SAD! While there are some amazing doctors (Primarily "locals" who returned to Visalia after medical school), overall it is nearly impossible for Kaweah Delta/Visalia to attract quality doctors because it has little to offer them over other cities/hospitals. (I would rather work at St. Agnes or Delano!) Sadly, the history of extreme racial prejudice at Kaweah Delta Hospital continues to cause issues for Hispanic doctors. (Until recently, Hispanic doctors who performed well were literally "Run out of town"! (When I was a young boy, it was "understood" that Hispanic patients could NOT go to Kaweah but would only be treated at Community!!! Same was true to privileges for Hispanic doctors...Only at Community! (I know many Hispanic doctors who left because of exactly this issue! They could NOT believe the level of hatred and intolerance towards Hispanics both at the hospital and the city who owned it!! Sadly, while there is the "appearance" of change, the prejudice and disturbing intolerance continues "under the table" at BOTH the hospital and the city. (The county facilities are nut much better if at all. I experienced unbelievable prejudice in terms of jobs at the county! Even though I was extremely OVER qualified for a summer position, I was told that it was "impossible" for me to work at the county because I was Hispanic!) I do NOT want to turn this into a racially motivated discussion nor am I bitter about my experiences growing up in Visalia for I LOVED growing up there. However, the hospital is simply a MESS! My mother died there under "questionable" circumstances. (My brother, a doctor, noted that the poor quality of nursing care obviously contributed to her untimely death!) I sincerely hope that at some point Visalia can change their attitude towards the administration of the hospitals(I get constant complaints from the doctors about the situation at KDH.) and work with the doctors and nurses to improve the quality of care in Visalia! Primary issues: Facility obsolete and poorly maintained, poor quality administrators (Politics/morals, Training and Ability problems), poor quality nursing care (along with the great quality nurses, many are poorly trained and supervised, have questionable ability for some/many, the hospital has insufficient education/job placement requirements and finally there are tremendous moral and census determination issues), incompetent doctors (While some are great, many are substandard...and the names are KNOWN but since money drives everything and even incompetent doctors can make a lot of money for the hospital (Connected to poor quality administrators) the "deadly" doctors continue to provide POOR quality care!

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Heather Kantola

The only reason I am giving this hospital a star, is because the staff was some what nice. With me being a RN it is very hard for me to keep my mouth shut. I understand that hospitals are very busy, and can get really crazy really fast. If you have patients waiting hours to get into to be seen then I would say that something needs to be changed or more people needs to be hired. I was there on Wednesday the 26th at 9:30pm, because of a boil that was causing me not to be able to walk sit down ect. I got checked in just fine and fast. I waited in the waiting room for 3 hours before I went back and was seen by one of the doctors. Then wait another 1 and half to been seen by the doctor himself. He said that i needed to be seen by the ER doctor cause they could not look at me with out a room. I said ok thank you. It took them 2 hours to tell me that I need to go back out in the waiting room to wait for a bed. Another 2 hours passed and I was called to a room in the back. The nurse was in the room and very nice with me and asked me how I was doing and how my pain was and what was wrong.. A hour passes, then another then another then another and no one has came to the room or even came and seen how I was doing. I was laying in the bed in pain for 4 hours before someone came and seen me. Then doctor finally came in and asked what was wrong. Said that I need to be put in a gown and then he would be back to see me... A hour passed and I was not in a my gown then 30 mints latter a young man came in that I have never seen the whole time I was there asked me to put the gown on..?? It took the doctor another 45mints to come back in and see me. Another nurse came in that was not even my nurse and was helping the doctor. They said what they were going to do and I asked them your going to cut me open without me looking at it. The lady said no one has seen what you are talking about and I said no I have been here for 9 hours without being looked at by anyone.!!!!! Other then that almost 10 hours of not feeling like I mattered to anyone everything else was great the doctor was nice both my nurses where nice. They even helped me to the car. So at the end of the night things went good. But that was after something was said. I dont know if I will ever come back to this hospital I have been there twice and was un-happy both those time. I dont even know how this hospital is still running. I was going to call management but every time I did the auto service hung up on me. So I gave up. I hope the patients that stay here get treated a lot better then the ones that go to the ER...!!!!

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J Breazy

Worst hospital ever didnt save my dads life and jus "gave up" on trying 12years ago my dad was in a car accident and we received the call to go to the hospital I made it there before my mom did and they had a new security at the desk I asked if my dad was there and she looked it up and told me oh yes room whatever go this direction and let me in she wasnt supposed to have let me in and did by mistake he was still being "worked on" and I wasnt supposed to c that when I turn corner I saw all the ends talking and smiling and knew it was his room I ran to it and saw over ten nurses in his room him with tubes and everything at first he looked OK then I realized he wasnt he was breathing tho I could see him very clearly breathing wen the Dr came in I kept asking him "is he OK" " tell me my dads OK" no one would tell me and the Dr ignored me I started telling him "he has this that and the other wrong with him please tell me hes gonna b OK" he then stopped turns and asks me "he has this wrong?" "Yes he has this wrong" I said and tells me and Ill never forget the words or moment ever the rest of my life "Im sorry I cant tell u your dads gona b OK, your dad not gona b OK Im srry" and then tells the nurses "jus shut it off we did everything theres nothing else we can do" as cold as could b said and jus walks out of room they then shut off his machine and with me in the room I watched him take his last breath and screamed please keep trying every person in that room was frozen and couldnt even look at me jus all looked shocked as I ran to my dad and told him dont leave us please daddy and looked up seeing none had moved a muscle and had to push them but of my way as I ran out of that hospital crying they pulled the plug with me watching and Ill never forget the drs words and watching my dad take his very last breath as they gave up on trying to save him