Category: | Hospital |
Address: | 5000 W Oakland Park Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33313, USA |
Phone: | +1 954-735-6000 |
Site: | floridamedctr.com |
Rating: | 2.2 |
Working: | Open 24 hours Open 24 hours Open 24 hours Open 24 hours Open 24 hours Open 24 hours Open 24 hours |
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Sherry Bender
Great ER Dr. Isaccson - however, that was the only good thing at this Hospital. There is virtually no communication between the team of doctors once the patient is admitted. Ive found their is so much expertise and egos ~ that there is NO room for any common sense. They appear to be extremely understaffed, especially with direct care of the Patient Care Techs (CNAs), almost all whom are cold, and nasty. There is little if any help from anyone when you need it. The food is extremely unhealthy and mostly fried (and expensive for the family). They make many, many mistakes throughout ~ from the Doctors through the kitchen. This hospital doesnt even use moist toilets for patients, so that the CNAs must use wash cloths to clean the patients bowel movements, even when patient is considered ICU, (as my father was, after their poor care), although not on the unit. Even if you get to the Medical Director of the Hospital-- you are poo-pood. The lead Dr. overseeing the case does not visit, leaving a family practitioner to handle the case, who leaves everything to all the other doctors. More than anything else, the attending Dr. Mendez repeated "We cant keep him here forever", than the amount of time he spoke about my fathers pertinent medical issues. He was Discharged while his chest x-ray noted "increasing pulmonary vascular congestion" without it being addressed at all for 4 days. I had to make a Kepro appeal to save his life. On the 4th day after the chest ex-ray evidencing pulmonary vascular congestion, the Pulmonologist Kumar put him on lasix. When I asked why the wait since the x-ray, he said "the cardiologist should have done it", however the cardiologist was already off the case, and not called back for consult (as he should have been). It was an extremely bad experience and harmful for my father, and the Discharge was horrendous and incomplete, and erroneous, listing many incorrect medications... Essentially, its a nightmare, and unfortunately for my father -- he was just sent back there :( In fact, if the hospital had followed reasonable medical protocols, my father would not have to return to the hospital within one week.***** I am now making an edit to this entry 2 days later - - This hospital could not be more despicable, and theyve went way over the pale!!! I am my fathers health surrogate, and had been asking about his medications, lab results and x-rays since Sunday night. I was promised call-backs from nurses that never arrived. Then, today I learned that this hospital discharged my father, without giving me or his wife any information about his status, labs & test results, or medications, AND PHYSICALLY FORCED MY FATHER ONTO A STRETCHER, WITHOUT HIS BELONGINGS OR HIS WIFE. My father was crying for his wife, and my step mother was crying because they physically forced her husband away from her, and onto a stretcher, taking him away before she even had an opportunity to collect my fathers personal wheelchair and belongings. They left her there! both crying... and with no information about his status, x-rays, labs, or medications... AND, this is despite that I made a Kepro appeal the moment I heard that FMC was physically forcing my father onto a stretcher.. This is most heinous, CRIMINAL action a hospital could have taken. RUN from this hospital, never allow yourself or a loved one to go near this horrid, criminal hell-hole.
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Efelin Williams
Hello. I am a current patient in the Florida Medical Center. I was admitted on Monday, January 25 via the Emergency Room. The ER staff was very efficient and my diagnoses was quickly found and I was treated and admitted to a very NICE room in the Hospital. During my stay here I met the most efficient, dedicated staff I have ever experienced, whether as an inpatient or an outpatient. There is, horwever, one big problem, and because I am trying to stay calm despite the chaos, I choose to use some humor in all of this to maintain my equilibrium. Well you all know about the Affordable Care Act and how the government is trying to keep healthcare costs down. Well, believe it or not, I am anxiously awaiting transfer to a Rehabilitation Center since Friday for continuity of care. The hospital Dr., appropriately discharged me on Thursday, January 28th. Today is Frbruary 1 and I am still hanging out in the hospital, waiting to be transferred somewhere. You see, the room is very nice and I have privacy, but who is going to give me rehabilitation to restore my health so that I can return to work? And since I am an Independent Contractor, who the h--- is going to pay me for loss time at work because of the negligence of the hospital staff to send off the appropriate documents to the insurance company? Is this situation a one time oversite or is this a method used to hype up the cost of the patients Hospital) stay? Believe me, if I were a slacker it would be my pleasuee to hang out here with these pleasant, hard-working, dedicated people, but I have to get well and return to work so I do NOT end up in the system. I have a life, Bills to pay and people to help. Will someone please GET ME OUT OF HERE before I develop bedsores, adhesions and hospital-acquired infections that can be deadly? Before going on this website I dialed "0" with an effort to get the phone # for an Hospitalist. When I CALLED the # I was given Brad, who took all my information then told me I would have to pay to use his service. Thats when I finally decided I NEED to get out of here; and I am not leaving AMA because.....if I get sick afterwards, that could be used against me. I feel like a well-fed caged animal, but I NEED to go to the rehab and go on with My life. HELP ME PLEASE! Efelin 02-01-2016
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Ellen Taylor
DO NOT USE THIS HOSPITAL!!! I was brought into the ER on a non-emergency basis at the request of my doctor for a transfusion to treat very recent post-surgery anemia. I was expected there & arrived about 8:20 pm on a weekday. After the initial work-up with vitals & getting an IV started, I was basically left to myself for 9 (!!) hours on a narrow gurney, unable to turn, make myself comfortable, or use the bathroom; I was forced to use a bedpan. I could elicit no information as to plans or status, & didnt see the ER doctor until 3 a.m., who seemed "iffy" about what was planned. The ER had become considerably less busy by that time, yet my husband & I were virtually ignored. We were shown neither kindness nor compassion, let alone any attempt at keeping us informed of anything. Transfusions were started at 5:30 a.m. & I was admitted to a room on a floor where the unpleasant, sullen attitude of some of the foreign, heavily-accented aides made my stay absolutely miserable. They appeared resentful at being asked to carry out the duties for which they were being paid and made their displeasure known. In short, this is a poor excuse for a health care facility which doesnt reflect the least bit of compassion and tolerates this same deficit in most of the staff I encountered. The standouts, however, were a couple of excellent RNs whose caring I very much appreciated. BEWARE THIS PLACE!!!