University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center
| Category: | Hospital |
| Address: | 7601 Osler Dr, Towson, MD 21204, USA |
| Phone: | +1 410-337-1000 |
| Site: | stjosephtowson.com |
| Rating: | 3.9 |
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Shaheen Mohajer
My wife was admitted when her water broke 2 months before due date of our son. If I would have know how horrible the doctors and NICU would be I would have left and gone to GBMC down the road. After 4 days of bed rest and monitoring, my went into natural labor. The doctor tried to explain to us that she was not in labor and schooled us on what labor is which is the progression of cervix and since they hadnt measured her cervix four days prior she was not technically in labor. Mind you my wife was having contractions every 8 minutes. We think he was trying to pass her to the next shift since it was close to 7 am and he wanted to go home. From this conversation and about two bags of saline that they pumped into my wife, she finally gave birth at 6 am by the absolutely jerk doctor. Now we had another patient with them my son. For two weeks he spent time in the NICU. Since my son had no acute dangers being premature thankfully, he basically was abandoned. Whenever we would visit, we found him in the same direction which further led to me to believe was the cause of him having a flat head and having to under go a helmet and physical therapy for six months because stiffending of his neck muscles. When I had a discussion with the director of NICU he tried to pass it off and say that my son was on a 1-4 Nurse to Baby ratio because of his condition which were just for a feeding tube. Basically he undermined my observations of Nurses being on computers playing solataire, ignoring babies, my son never being shifted to a different direction in his basket and throwing away my wives breast milk which she so diligently pumped saying it was too much. I would love to hire a lawyer and take action but I feel like at a loss because my family will spend more time on this issue then we have with Physical Therapy and suffering. My attempt at this review is to warn other parents not to choose this hospital. It left nothing but misery and still dealing with the outrageous bills left. My sister who is a director of impatient pediatrics and ER at another local hospital was also concerned with the lack of care she witnessed when visiting my son in the NICU. Again the NICU director undermined her observations with well that is not how it is and you should have said something then. Our only concern at that point was to take home a baby rather complain to the very people that had my sons life at their hands since we couldnt be there around the clock.
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Julia Zhang
My child was born in this hospital, I am very unhappy with this hospital. The second or third ultrasonic screen operator told me my baby had daddy walker syndrome which is a very serious disease. And she called her supervisor to confirm this result. We almost abort this child if she is not 8 or 9 months old(I can not remmeber). Before doing anything, we went to the Johns Hospital in downtown for second opinion. The specialist in Johns Hopkins told me she had 20 years experience and asked me not to tell her anything before finishing the test. After the ultrasonic test, she told me she was very sure there is no problem. We told her the result from st. joseph medical center, then she double checked again and confirmed there is no problem at all. After the baby was born, we had the baby get a MRI test which shows she is healthy. Now the baby is 5 years old and she is very smart. There is nobody say sorry from st. joseph hospital. No punishment for the ultrasonic-B operator. She pushed so hard on my wifes abdomen in the test which caused birthmark on her head. I am very angry with this hospital and the lawer told me it is hard to sue this hospital because they did no hard, but it made us almost abort the child and we have so many unnessary test like MRI and ultrosonic test. We are just angry with this hospital.
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jujubeespmud
My 88 year old Mother was brought to St Joe by ambulance. Normally the ambulance drivers would not transport her here but because they did not have any cardiac beds at Union Memorial or Good Sam, we asked she be transported to St Joe. She was triaged promptly and received a room where she stayed for a week. We did have to wait a fair amount of time for a bed, but once she was on the floor, she had two nurses and a tech getting her assessed and into bed. I never had to ask for anything. The nurses, techs, room service, meal service and transportation people were extremely kind, compassionate, very professional, and efficient. The Attending Physician, Physician Specialists, PA, Social Worker, PT and OT, and Palliative Care Physician was excellent! Each one had a great bed side manner and was genuine and caring. Also, the cafeteria was experience was very good. You couldnt ask for better food and service from the people here. Truly impressed and blessed to have had such a wonderful experience here. By far the best in the business. We didnt know what we were missing when we went to other hospitals and we have unfortunately been to several in the past few years. There is truly something special about University of MD St. Joseph Medical Center. Thank you for the wonderful care you have to us!
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origelsa ligu
The doctors service is always great at St. Joseph. I delivered there 8 months ago, I got admitted as soon as I showed up in the Emergency and everyone was so helpful, nice and very very professional. the nurses were amazing, and my doctor also. I would give them 6 stars if it was possible, based on my personal experience, but then, yesterday I had to drive someone there that was in severe pain, screaming and crying from the second we stepped in for hours to come and even though i asked if we could anything else to speed the process a little bit due to her pain, nothing was done and we were waiting in the wait area for more that 30 min! We thought her appendix was about to burst and still no one rushed anything and other people were called before her (which in their defense they were there before us, but no one was in pain, no one was screaming or crying, so I am sure no one would have minded if she was seen first) Other than this, when she was admitted, the staff again was extremely helpful, supportive and professional. I would definitely would go back there, always, but I wish they were a little faster with patients that need care asap.
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Mohamed Mansour
This is a pretty-looking hospital. It was bought by University of Maryland in its war with Johns Hopkins for domination of the Baltimore-metro area, and it has lots of shiny, expensive equipment. I would only come here for heart operations or specialty appointments. Everything else is abominable. On one hospital stay, we waited 2 days before seeing a doctor. During another hospital stay, we were eventually discharged 4 days later because the sole doctor in the unit was so overworked that she couldnt see my father at all. The nurses, to their credit, were very nice. For hospital visits and doctors visits, the billing department forgets/disregards our secondary insurance, processes only the primary insurance and overcharges us every single time. It takes phone call after phone call to (if Im lucky) correct the mistake. This time, Im paying the erroneous final bill I will ever take from St Joseph (Ive been disputing it for a full year and Im tired and want it done with before it gets sent to a collection agency), and Im switching all doctors visits to GBMC.