Advocate Lutheran General Hospital

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Olena Fomina TurboCharging Your Growth™

Advocate Lutheran General Family Birthing Center Tour Review I was so delighted to attend the Labor and Delivery tour at Advocate Lutheran General recently. Our tour guide who is also a nurse at Lutheran General as we learned - Sara Peiken was great, highly professional, educated, very knowledgeable, detailed and so very well thoughtful about every aspect of the tour, entire process of Labor and Delivery at Advocate Lutheran and questions that we all had for her. I was specifically impressed how far and beyond Sara went to include every important and possible detail about Labor and Delivery in one hour and a half tour. Our tour experience started with a friendly and detailed email reminder about our upcoming tour. Then, tour started strictly on time and ended on time as well - so professional! We had fast-paced yet very broad classroom introduction into Labor and Delivery process at Advocate Lutheran where Sara covered all the necessary and important topics concerning Family Birthing Center, what to bring and the process of labor and delivery at Advocate Lutheran. After the classroom introduction we were able to tour Labor and Delivery unit, Postpartum Units - both in older and newer parts of the building, Nursery and even take a sneak peek view of the C-Section room from the hallway as it was sterile to come in. We also attended cafeteria and visitor waiting areas. Sara also went ahead and had extra resources for us available to pick up to learn further about our Labor and Delivery preparation at Advocate Lutheran. Sara also stayed longer to answer any other questions from the audience and was so very kind and helpful in giving us advice and all possible options for our Labor and Delivery experience at Advocate Lutheran! We have attended several other Labor and Delivery tours and while others also had some great experiences, Sara’s tour was the most prepared and well-explained. I highly recommend to attend the Family Birthing tour at Advocate Lutheran to get deeper introduction about your choice of delivering at Advocate Lutheran General. We are also considering taking some of the Birth preparation classes taught by Sara and her colleagues at Advocate Lutheran General!

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Elizabeth Marquez

I went to see Mehul Sekhadia, D.O at the Pain Clinic because of his great reviews and experience. I was so hard to make an appointment because I could not get a return phone call. I only got a call back when I went through the web page to request appointment. Second, once there the staff and nurses in this office are very rude and seems like they do not like their job. Third, and this is what made me write this review. Dr. Skhadia was very nice when he first met me. I told him my issue with low back pain due to failed back surgery that radiates down my legs and so forth. He explained what he thought was the cause of the pain (which I knew) which was still nice. He then told me he had the perfect solution for my issues, a spinal cord stimulator. He said it was the newest and latest version and better than others in the market. I interrupted him and said I also knew about this procedure and that I was not interest because I suffer from anxiety and thought that would make it worst by having a battery in my body. He said that anxiety would go away after a while. I have suffered from anxiety for a long time and take medicine for it that by the way he didnt bother to read after they make you fill out about 4 pages about your medical history and medicine you take. Why ask to fill out if they dont read it. This is the part that made me feel like I was just a means for a sale. After I expressed that I did not wanted that procedure, I lost his interest. He suddenly seemed as if I was wasting his time and didnt offer any other alternatives. He said, ok well you let me know what you decide, read the brochure, I HAVE TO GO DO A PROCEDURE. Good bye and walked out the room. I dont know why a doctor who took an oath would act this way. I was not begging for a hand out. I have very good insurance and maybe that is why he was try to close a deal with me. Pain is hard enough to deal with and then to find a doctor who shows no empathy just make things worse. I never write review but this is just too much and maybe it will help someone be prepared for the sale pitch from this doctor. I apologize for the long rant.

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meerim marat kyzy

August 16. 9.30 PM i was trying to hold big man who was dizzy, and he falled on my leg. I thought my leg is broken. But it wasnt swolen and i didnt see any bruth SO EVENTIALLY IT WASNT BROKEN. But anyways i put icebag on my leg. I went to sleep. At 3 am i woke up because of crazy pain.I got some pain relief medicine and fall a sleep. In a morning i decided to go to hospital because i couldnt walk and was crazy pain. The closest one was Advocate Lutheran General Hospital. My girlfriend told me that she was there and they werent charge her any money,she has been applying for Charity Application Form, beacuse she wasnt working and she didnt have any insurance as me. So me and my girlfriend came to the emergancy department, the guys even didnt suggust any whilechair. They were busy, talking to each other. And i blurrly walked in, i set down on registration, and nurse got all my information and he brought me whilechair. And i have been sitting on the holl for another 30 minutes waiting for Practitioner nurse with freaking crazy pain on my leg, i was gonna cry. She took me to one room, and disapeared. And another doctor came he just touched my leg and he said we need xr, they did 2 peace of it. And my husband arrived as soon as he could. He was with me inside the room. And nother woman came in, and she said she needs me to fill up the Charity Appl Form now, but the other nurse told me i have 2 weeks to do it. No! Now i need it! Ok. AND YOU NEED TO PAY 1200$ AS A DEPOSIT, NOW. AND SOON YOU WILL GET A BILL 300$ ONE PEACE OF XR, SO I GOT 2, 600$ ALSO SERVICE 900$ . AND DOCTOR CAME IN AFTER HER, SHE SAID YOUR LEG IS NOT BROKEN, U NEED TO BUY IBOBRUFEN AND PUT ICE ON YOUR LEG.! WHAT? I CAME TO HEAR THAT? NO CREAM? ANY PRESCRIPTIONS/? I HAVE BEEN DOING IT! I KNEW THAT MY LEG WASNT BROKEN BECAUSE I DIDNT HAVE TEMPATURE AND SWOLEN LEG. SO WHAT CAN I DO? TO WHOM SHOULD I TALK ABOUT IT? ABOUT DEPOSIT 1200$, AND ABOUT CHARITY PROGRAMM..HELP.PLEASE

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Anuj Bahl

What a nightmare this place is! We were forced to stay here because my dad went to the ER and its our local hospital. Sadly he has terminal cancer with serious other issues that arose from the cancer. Were still here after over 5 weeks and weve been to almost every floor of the hospital and dealt with hundreds of doctors and nurses. Since nurses effectively provide almost all the care, thats what i am basing my review on. The nurses here range from caring and very good to abysmal. Many are here just to collect a paycheck and its obvious. They cut corners, half ass their work, and act bothered anytime you need assistance. Theres never a time for when doctors will visit or tests and surgeries will be performed. Theyll give you an approximate time and itll be 6 hours later. This is literally just a factory for treating sick people. They move them in and out. The more the merrier. They keep adding wings and additions because they make a fortune providing Sub-par care. I realize I might be a little biased, but many friends and family that came to visit felt the same way. Many rooms are woefully outdated and depressing. Little things like turning the heat up in a room for a shivering cancer victim takes hours. This convoluted place doesnt even have temperature controls in the room or accessible by nurses. A work order needs to be sent it to change the temperature. And every review agrees that the waiting times in the ER are ridiculous. My dad was in extreme, unbearable pain and sat in the waiting room for four or five hours before he was seen. I would never use this facility again in any capacity.

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