Memorial Hospital of Tampa

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Hospital wouldnt do anything to lower my blood sugar and they literally threw me out . Ive been in the 200s for days now and cant hardly eat anything cause almost everything I have at home has carbs and sugar in it. Carbs turn to sugar. Im disabled and cant get to the store to buy some salad and sugar free stuff so I just have to be hungry. It was 256 yesterday and 238 at the hospital the lowest I can get it at the end of the day is 139. The highest it should be after a meal is 140. Thats with eating. My blood sugar is high eating or not eating . I cant even drink a protein shake . It has sugar and carbs. Without medication to lower it Im severely restricted. I woke up with it at 149 and I ate one thing and it was 236 my kidney was hurting I have nausea and vomiting and headaches and my heart is cutting up and the guy nurse wanted to help me and take a scan on my insides and check for a kidney stone cause Im bleeding and they literally kicked me out the hospital for some reason. I wasnt once rude or anything. You might find it hard to believe but its true. I couldnt believe it. I dont mean security or nothing like that but The nurse wanted to help me and he went and asked someone at the desk and they told him no to everything he wanted to do and had a nurse come unhook me from the IV and told me to leave and didnt even check my heart and Ive had chest pain and my heart been messing up most of the week which consistant high sugar damages your kidney and messes with your heart. Ive never been kicked out of an ER before. I am not a rude person like that. I just talk to them like regular and even joke around and be nice . I passed so much blood this morning it made me weak I was shaking and sweating and then I cant eat behind it to strengthen myself because of my sugar being high and cant even take my iron supplement because of the extras it has in it so what does that leave me with? Oh well . It ought to be interesting to go sit for four hours or more in the waiting room tomorrow and still have to wait for a blood appointment and still have to wait for another test after that to see about the diabetes so thats like a week worth of appointments to hopefully try to get help to get it lowered . If they dont drag it out more cause its a ghetto health clinic... So yeah. I wouldnt never go back there again.

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Rob Bryja

in July of 2014 I went to the Memorial Hospital ER because I had lost over 30 lbs in 45 days, was extremely fatigued and was having Night Sweats every night, they ran a couple tests on me, did some xrays and discharged me all in 5 hours time stating I "Should follow up with a Doctors office soon because my symptoms could possibly be from something serious".. to which I replied, I thought thats what I was doing when I came in here?? I guess this is because I had recently lost my job and my medical insurance. Two days later I was admitted into Tampa General where they did all of the appropriate tests, including a TEE (where they put the camera down your throat) and realized I may not make it through the night prompting them to call in an entire surgical team for an Emergency Open Heart Surgery that Sunday (which is a day they normally do not have surgery in TGH). They saved my life by replacing both my Mitral and Aortic Valves with St. Jude Mechanical valves, and without insurance. They then had their social workers file the necessary paperwork to qualify me for financial assistance through Hillsborough County and everything was taken care of. To this day I am still receiving debt collection phone calls from Memorial Hospital, going to this hospital was not only a waste of time but it literally, almost killed me. I just cant believe they would have the nerve to be so negligent and instead of writing the $8,000 bill off and apologizing, they continually harass to collect their "Hard Earned Dollars"... All I can do is tell my Real Life Story, and recommend to everyone ...DO NOT GO TO THIS HOSPITAL.

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Adam Carstensen

Its a filthy establishment with broken counters, cabinets, and doors missing handles. It looked like they recently filmed an episode of "The Walking Dead" here. The floor was filthy and the walls looked like a cheap hotel in the barrio. I had to stay up all night before this procedure, so the following comments may be slanted due to that. When you first come in, you get sent to a tiny, shabby billing kiosk where they interview you and take your billing information. I felt more uncomfortable in this area then Ive felt in a long time, and Im a war vet. If I didnt know what I was there for, I could have been easily convinced I was getting a black market kidney. I came for an EEG which was administered by a very nice nurse, but he had to do it in some kind of administrative office because his normal area has been claimed for something else. The nurse couldnt figure out how to open the door to the new pseudo EEG area (the handle was missing), so we walked around looking for another person for a minute until I noticed that the door he was trying to open (by pushing) was missing 1/2 of the locking mechanism and we just pried the door open. I get set up in the middle of this office area after I get my head sanded down (ouch), and out of nowhere, people start showing up to going about their normal business day. The whole process was not impressive. I decided when I left that I wouldnt go back for any reason, thinking "I need not be so frugal as to use a seedy hovel like this." After getting the bill ($1400), I felt deeply wronged. Im saddened by this establishment.

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A Private User

Recently my mentally ill son was re-admitted to Memorials Psychiatric Ward as a result of being discharged too early from his previous admission. There had been little change in his psychotic suicidal behavior and he was getting worse. When one of the social workers called me for consultation about his pending discharge, I expressed to her my concerns for the severity of his condition and treatment plans; and let them know I was unable to care for him at my home since I would be caring for an elderly brother under Hospice; therefore, she suggested placing him in a facility that could care for his mental needs. However, two or three days later, a social worker named "Susan" called me to let me know he was being discharged that day to my care with no regard to our previous discussion. And what was really disturbing to me was that my sons condition had not improved at all while under their care and he.was not yet stable! This would never have happened in a more competent and professional hospital, and especially those hospitals with a compassionate and caring staff of professionals! So please, do not ever trust this hospital to give good reliable and compassionate service to those who go there expecting to get help. Instead of giving him the help he needed, they added even more stress upon him by discharging him too early again, a second time," something he did not need or deserve! Shame on them! Ms. Yvonne Parker regarding son, Stephen C. Snipes

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