Frank R. Howard Memorial Hospital

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Samantha Autumn

I have been to the new hospital twice now, and both times the worst part of it is the nurses and lack of care, and the judgments they pass on you. My nurse told me before all my tests where even done that "If you cant figure this out maybe you should see a acupuncturist or a back specialist." How rude! Im in there for something very different and serious. And then, because I never ask for them, my boyfriend reminded them I absolutely needed something to be able to sleep as I havent slept in 2 days being completely sick throwing up and in pain. They decided to give me pain pills, and "Only 16 of them, and they cant be refilled because we dont want people getting addicted." Thats not something you need to say to me, if you look in my chart youll see I have never been addicted to anything in my life. The stigma of living in willits and "you must be a drug addict" needs to stop. If you cant prescribe medicine to someone why are you even there? As well as the negligence from the nurse when i promptly told her I prefer the IV in my other arm and she ignored me and stuck it in my bad vein, that when I left the hospital didnt realize was still oozing blood, and a lot , and now really swollen.They bothered me for a half an hour to give urine, made me carry my own IV to the bathroom above my head on the side that I told them hurt, and then when I came out and asked where to put it, she looked straight at me and looked away ignoring me letting me stand in the hallway with piss in one hand and my iv in the other. My boyfriend had to come out and ask me if he could turn my own urine in for me because he could see me distressed from the room, and none of the nurses paid any attention to me. This hospital is not good, only the doctor was nice, and respectful towards me, but every single nurse Ive had is always rude and leave me in the room for over an hour without ever checking on me. My heart beat was almost 130 the last time they checked, me saying I was dehydrated and they just let me go with a prescription for the pain pills they didnt want me to get addicted to. Id go anywhere else if you need a sense of urgency and care for your health and life! This was such a terrible experience!

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Jesse Ferrer

I had stomach problems for months. Turns out its hp pylori ... The first time I went to this hospital because the pain was unbearable. They were really nice and took care of me. I asked the doctor please I just need some pain meds until I can get through the hp pylori. I told him how difficult it was to get pain meds from. The clinic. I started smoking marijuana for the pain . I had to go in the emergency room again recently and they were very rude. I have never been to every single hospital in the world but these people I had to deal with were just plain rude and like the comment up there very judgmental . The doctor on duty was sarcastic and was trying to catch me in some sort of lie about my pain. When it was obvious from constant vomiting and high blood pressure and sweat I was in extreme pain . The doctor told me it was cyclic from smoking marijuana. Its actually cannabinoid hypermesis syndrome from chronic smoking. I am a chronic smoker only because of the pain Ive been dealing with. Its not just my stomach I still have. A work related injury to my shoulder and last October I almost lost my foot and had to learn to use my foot in physical therapy . So I tried gettin pain meds to get through this. Never have I ever had a prescription drug problem. And I havent smoked weed since I was in high school Im 32 now.in 15 years. And I explain all this to the doctors I been seeing here in willits and they are extremely rude . Im not a sensitive person either. This long rant needed to said. I understand their is a prescription drug problem but to tell people they cant have pain meds and to quit smoking marijuana what the hell are people supposed to do??

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ThisIs MyName

This is a joke of a hospital. I have never been to a worse place for treatment until i went here. I have severe asthma and could not breath all I was asking for was a refill on my inhaler and some kind of antibiotic so I could at least breath but instead of acting professional about treating me it took almost 4 doctors/nurses to listen to my lungs and tell me that my asthma was acting up, not to mention how they kept insisting on giving me a pregnancy test and a drug test for no reason and even when I told them they could test me for whatever and that all I wanted was to be able to breath they never even tested me but they did treat me like I was stupid and below them. Then after finally coming to the conclusion that i was having asthma related problems, they asked me what I thought they should do about it and what medicine i thought I needed and even then waited until they were going to release me before giving me a breathing treatment. My primary doctor even told me they were unprofessional and should have taken me serious BC my lungs were very constricted and i was barely getting any oxygen. They were supposed to give me my first dose of antibiotics while I was there to get me started but instead just sent me out the door with my prescriptions that i couldnt even start till the next day. I hope no one else has to go thru what I went thru BC I swear this hospital either needs to be shut down or needs a whole new set of doctors and nurses.

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Andrea Piazza

My wife had a burst appendix and had emergency surgery and shes still alive and we think that was good. She was taken to the emergency room several times because of this and no one caught it until the last time for some reason. I waited for 5 hours in the waiting room and NO ONE told me she was even still alive until I went to the nurses desk to ask if she was alive and found out the doctor had gone home. The waiting was horrible but understandable. Not being told she was still alive and in recovery was cruel. When she went in she had a wedding band my mother designed, when she came out it and a small cross as well as a watch were gone. She remembers someone removing them before surgery. We asked for it immediately and were told it was locked up. Now we are told theres no record of it. I cant replace that ring, my mother is dead. Now they tell me there is no record of it so they wont do anything. BE CAREFUL others have had this problem with them.

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Christy Saint Arno

Omg I cannot give this place enough stars!!! I havent been to a whole lot of hospitals... But the few I have been to have never impressed me! In fact, most of them, up until I went here, have been terrible!! This place is GREAT!!! They REALLY helped me when I was in crisis!! I had just got in a car accident and totalled my car, and was stuck here from out of town... And I didnt have my medication that I take every day, which I cant go without! They dont normally do what they did for me, they really went above and beyond, and I will be eternally grateful to the doctors and nurses and staff that helped me during this terrible 2 weeks of my life!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! They literally saved me in so many ways... I cant express how thankful and appreciative I am, and will always be, to this hospital and their amazing staff!!! God bless you and thank you!

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