Stamford Hospital

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A Private User

Hmmm.... Where to begin. I thought this hospital was disgusting and most of the staff was not polite. My family and I always go to Greenwich Hospital. Now thats a hospital where they care for you and the place is impeccable. 1st time at Stamford Hosp: my husband got food poisoning or dehydration (who knows because they didnt even know). The nurse took his vitals put him in a room and gave him 2 bags of IV fluids. No meds for nausea or pain! No blood work...nothing! Left him in there for 4 hrs. No one came in to check on him. May I mention we hadnt even met the doctor! after about 6 hrs. A doctor came in and asked if he was better.... Obviously after 6hrs of whatever he had...it was getting better. So the doctor said to go home. We literally saw and spoke with the doctor 40 seconds. 1 week later we get a bill for almost $7,000! I was in awe .... What services were they charging for! 2nd time: I accidently took my medication twice and started feeling like something was really wrong. I tried sucking it up but eventually the ambulance was called. All I remember is that they made me feel like I was some kind of an addict or disturbed person...they treated me as if i had done it on purpose. Outrages!!! I go to get help and I get judged for making a mistake anyone can make and many have made. I got a bill for $6,572. Ill never go there again...I rather take the 10 min ride to Greenwich.

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Shay Sez

My closest friend just delivered her 1st child in this hospital, and to say that it only compounded previous horrific experiences is nothing but a fair and accurate description. We will call my friend Kay. While Kay, in excruciating pain was forced to the toilet and had a nurse kneeling between her legs with a cup telling her she was going to sit there until the nurse collected her urine. The nurse told her she would administer a catheter if my friend could not produce urine. That was only the start of a degrading, humiliating experience that broke my heart to witness. After what equated to a nightmare of a delivery and treatment fit for the dark ages, I walked in the room to see my friend struggling to get up to use to restroom with tears on her face as she gritted her teeth and tried to move the IV tower with her while the nurse stood and took notes. I came in the room and assisted her and asked the nurse why she hadnt helped. She said, and I quote, " well she should go in there and clean up." My friend had asked for another sanitary napkin and mesh pantie as she was bleeding heavily. The nurse informed her that she was going to finish her writing and then "would see about grabbing that for her." As I took my friend into the bathroom to try and help her, we both cried. STAMFORD HOSPITAL is a shameful, pathetic excuse for a medical facility.

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Dianne Farley

BEWARE!!!! Stamford Hospital and Tully Health will be the LAST places I go for any health concern again. Due to their inept radiology department I am paying half again as much for my long term health care. The radiologist missed one of the three polyps on my thyroid during my first sonogram. The doctor who performed the biopsy two weeks later found all THREE polyps and reported it in my records at that time. In my six month follow up sonogram, the same radiologist did note the appearance of the third polyp HOWEVER did not refer to the doctors notes (as I requested) when she did her write up. When the insurance companies requested information on the thyroid polyps, the radiologist, covering her rear did NOT report THAT the third had been discovered earlier and claimed it was a new one. NEXT - I am sent to Tully for a Lyme test. Its my second Lyme attack. I test negative? At a Connecticut health institution. REALLY? Never again. As anyone who has had Lyme knows, the critters leave a trail and one will always test positive. IGENYX is THE ONLY LAB that can do a true Lyme test. DON NOT TRUST STAMFORD/TULLY when it comes to Lyme!

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Katie R

Im shocked to read all these reviews, and to see no one from the hospital has responded. I came here 2, maybe 3 years ago, ER visit. When I was feeling better, I just left. No one seemed able to communicate and they sat me in a chair that was screened off and there was dried droplets of blood on the floor (not mine). My bill was $5,000 and the physicians bill was over $1,000 - a seperate bill. They offered me financial aid and told me to contact Hector Reyes. After weeks, or maybe a month of making phone calls everyday, it was clear that no one by that name worked here. Stamford Hospital did everything they could to prevent me from receiving financial aid (lists and lists of notorized paperwork and letters from people that knew me) but I called them everyday. I was originally told the physicians bill would have to be paid in full. After about 6 months of me submitting the proper paperwork and making regular phone calls, they comped the whole bill. The full fee was waived. It was all a very bizarre experience. Im sad to see so many awful reviews, I was hoping to go back thinking maybe they had changed or improved a bit.

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Angela Buitrago

Had a real bad experience that literally put my husbands life at risk a few weeks ago and a supervisor from the hospital advised me to write a letter to Mrs. Sara Sanders which I did...Big surprise today when I got the answer from Kristin Ruocco...Its unbelievable and frustrating how just to cover themselves they lied in your face...and were putting basically our lifes in their hands??? Stamford Hospital is not about the how big and fresh are the rooms in the new building, its about what Drs and staff are doing to take a good care of the patients. Very very sad that a persons health/life has become just a business and a source to get money from insurance companies, the sensitivity and passion to save lifes and help others is not longer important what really matters for you guys Stamford Hospital is the money!!! Attention community avoid to have a bad experience instead theres Greenwich Hospital which I heard is amazing or even Norwalk Hospital which I also heard they have tremendously improved...Our health/life should be something to really think twice before putting it in a unprofessional and unethical Drs.

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Pedro Soto

I had a toothache and applied benzocaine for the first time ever to the site. I then passed out twice and had a seizure. This is my first time ever experiencing anything like this. I am an otherwise very healthy mid-20s male. The people were very nice and the service was quick and attentive, but it felt like the doctor wanted to get me out ASAP. There was no proper diagnosis of what happened and why it happened, the doctors seemed to ignore a few critical details i asked for like the possible interactions that benzocaine may have (OTC Orajel) with THC, and did not recommend a follow up or ways to treat my concussion that i had from passing out. Now Im paranoid because I dont have any answers and am searching second opinions as to what happened and why. I received a CAT scan and blood work that showed everything as normal, so none of this makes sense to me. I know doctors arent supposed to know everything, but providing some type of closure would have been appreciated. Im hoping this was a one time freak accident, but I have no type of confirmation.

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