Frederick Memorial Hospital

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Samantha Barbon

I unfortunately had my baby here. WORST PLACE EVER. From the moment I got there we were having issues. The intake nurse had me strapped to a heart monitor and naturally fetus move, well my son moved away from the heart monitor and she FREAKED out and called 4 other nurses in there and told me my baby is having issues, when in reality he was perfectly fine, because all he did was ROLL OVER. The nurses helping me with the birth were friendly, but the days after were a nightmare. The pain I was in the next day was shooting high and I had to hit the call button 14 times before anyone even responded, then it took them 20 minutes to come to my room. By the time I was done crying in pain I didnt even want to look at them. The birthing center SUPERVISOR came to my room, called me the wrong name 3 times after being correct and asked me about my c-section...I had a natural birth. I asked her for more ice packs and she sat there and fought with me and told me all of the reasons why I apparently didnt need them anymore. I told the nurse on the last day that I was feeling a lot of nausea and she looked at me completely dumbfounded and said "Oh thats just horrible, have you done anything that could make you feel this way? What have you eaten?".. Well I just had a baby and I feel sick, help me. This place is horrible and they should either re-staff the entire place or just shut down. I have never heard anyone say anything nice about it and I know I probably never will. If youre in there because youre dying, you will be nicely asked to sit in the waiting room for 4 hours before they even care to look at you.

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Donna Grady

ER...poor care. Girls laughing and carrying on...oh, I mean the nurses, joking about someones bladder and other jibberish. The extent of this nurses care was to hand my husband an ice pack. It is a useless design that is barely cool, let alone will ever numb an area and have an effect. Thats all she did! Didnt even get him onto a gurney for comfort (he was in a wheelchair that had too short of legs for him to rest his baseball size ankle up on) or to properly position his ankle so the ice could be even be applied. Didnt look at it, nothing. She wrote down that he had just taken a naproxen tablet for pain/swelling. The doctor moseyed in and asked a couple of questions then had an xray tech come. Dr.came back for another 38 seconds and said it looks like there may be a bone chip but hes not sure. He has someone come and give my husband crutches but forgets about wrapping it. Then he forgets about the prescription for swelling/pain. The nurse comes back in and give him another dose of naproxen right then, 40 minutes after he took some at home! Not good for kidneys! I should have caught that and spoke up again as I did the last 4 mistakes or forgets. Then I requested a copy of the xrays and figured I had to take him to an orthopedic, since the ER only decides something is not broken. The nurse hands husband discharge papers and mentions the ortho "on call" or we can get our own. I said so we talk to him to find out whats wrong with the ankle? She looks at me and says Well, its sprained." Wow. As were leaving, a diagnosis. Poor poor care and unprofessional nurse.

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Jared Bosley

Horrible and CONCERNING experience. We brought our 3 year old son to the ER with severe abdominal pain and vomiting TWO nights in a row. BOTH times we were told he was constipated. We never saw a doctor, no sonogram, CT scan, or any other exams were ordered. The nurse practitioner preformed an internal rectal exam...with her finger...to determine he had "constipation. He was given laxatives the first night and and an enema the second night. He was promptly discharged both nights. I called the nurses station on the pediatric floor the third day to report that we were concerned about the severity of his pain and his vomiting (every 20 min). I was told the doctor reviewed his file and was not concerned and that it was to be expected that he would be uncomfortable for a period of time. WE TRUSTED FMH WITH OUR CHILD!! He was NEVER constipated! We believed the practitioners and our 3 year old suffered both unnecessary and traumatic pain for FOUR days! After day four we went to INOVA LOUDON (5 stars, highly recommend) where we were immediately seen by a DOCTOR and told that he was NOT CONSTIPATED and never was. After a sonogram, blood tests, x-rays and DUE DILIGENCE it was determined his small intestine had "telescoped" into his large intestine in what is called intussusception. Which we later learned can be FATAL if not treated in a timely manner. FMH failed our child and betrayed out trust. THANK GOD for the wonderful staff at INOVA. Enter FMH at your own risk!! Do NOT bring your children here!

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Valeria,Elick Nina

Had a Horrible experience and believe me I have been to many different hospitals, so far this is the worse!!!... went to ER for a pretty bad acute Urinary retention with my bladder about burstsout and they had me waiting for an hour on the waiting ,besides they did not seem that concerned when I was about to passed out of the pain or when I went to tell them I couldnt hold the pain any longer, the check in lady said with attitude that they did not have any beds available so I just had to wait!... when I was moving around the check in area cause I couldnt stay still due to the excruciating pain, a nurse came to tell me to just move and stay on wating area!... after they got a bed "available" they took me in, I had to wait another time for nurse and doc to see me and took 4 tries and two different nurses to place a a foley on me, btw my bladder was about 800 ml full!!.. after probably two hours with foley, they were sending home with instructions to follow up with my urologist the next day and sent me home with 2 prescriptions one antibiotic and one pain med with ANOTHER patients name and information, when I called in this morning, they said in my chart there is only one prescription in my file.. For the love of God what is going on with this hospital?!!...Never again, I rather go to the next nearest city hospitals next time.

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SomeNavySEALs

I recently cut my foot on a large shard of glass and found that the dreaded FMH was the only place open at 10pm that i could be treated. After doing some brutally basic first aid on myself (duct tape and paper towels) entered the "emergency" waiting room and was made to wait for two and a half hours to go to the ER. This time was spent actively bleeding. They gave me something that looked exactly like a puppy training pad so I wouldnt get blood on their floors. As my friend said while I was texting him during the TWO AND A HALF HOUR wait: "Wonderful -- now they can treat a patient like a dog AND a child... Innovation." So after that wonderful adventure of cheap seating and stained linoleum, they put me in an Emergency Room... For another hour. Then a nurse casually came by, cut my blood engorged home-made bandage down the side and said, and I quote verbatim, "Wow, its a bit meaty under there" then taped my bandage closed so I could keep waiting. Just before 3am, a doctor finally gave me the stitches I had needed. Thats FIVE HOURS of unattended, gaping injury held together by duct tape and medicinal anger. TL;DR: Its better to take a sewing needle and a bottle of vodka to your gaping, down-to-the-muscle-fat-hanging-out-from-under-the-skin-flaps injury than bleed to death in a FMH waiting room.

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