Park Ridge Health

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Amber Messina

Terrible experience 3 different times. 1st time i took my son there for an allergic reaction from several bee stings , it was his first time ever being stung.....i first took him to urgent care in fletcher and they Sent him straight to the hospital. They didnt do a thing for my son , they said he was fine and sent him home. As we were driving home my son stopped breathing in the back seat. I called 911 and an ambulance rushed him to mission. His eyes were swollen shut his mouth and tounge were swollen, it was very scary watching my child turn blue and stop breathing...and my son couldnt talk to me to tell me he couldnt breath because he is autistic and his speech is very little. Thank god mission hospital helped my son live and thankyou to the ems guys....they were in shock when i told them that park ridge had sent him home.....now the second time... i took my 18 month old daughter there for 105 temperature and vomiting and breathing very fast.... doctor never tested her for anything and took a guess that she may have strep throat....sent her home with an antibiotic and cough medicine with codine....come to find out she is wayyyyyy to young to have cough medicine with codine in it.... i took her to her doctor the very next morning and she tested negitive for strep throat but positive for RSV , she had phnomna in her left lung and a right ear infection but yet hours before that the er doctor didnt pick up on any of it...just took a wild guess and sent us on our way.....my daughters oxygen was low her feet were a bluish tent at the doctors office. They were in shock that the er didnt do anything for her. No tests no nothing...just sent her home with medicine she cant even take....she had to get a breathing machine so she could get breathing treatments every 4 hours.....kinda scary that they did this twice with 2 different children.....oh yeah when i was in labor and told the hospital that my water was broke...they sent me home and said your water is not broke, you might had peed on yourself....are you freaking kindding me.....so 7 days goes by and i still leaking clear fluid. ...i go back to the hospital and they say no its not your water.....my obgyn shows up 2 hours later and says lets do an ultrasound. .... sure enough no water....my water had been broke for a week.....i was rushed to mission and gave birth to my baby girl at 30 weeks.....she had lung issues and developed a lung infection from where my water had been broken for so long......all they had todo was an ultrasound to check on things unstead of telling me i was freakin pissing on myself....i mean really, come on now. I could have gotten steriod shots to help my daughters lungs....but no...no one would listen to me and my daughter was born with 2 collapsed lungs and they had a hole in one of them ..... we xould of possibly preventes that if they would have just listened to me....that was my 4th child...i knew something wasnt right but since im not a nurse or doctor i guess i didnt know what the hell i was talking about..... dont go here. Dont waste your time........ oh and they told my father in law that he wasnt sick and he needed to stop coming to the er.....6 months later my father in law passed away. .... please be aware. ...and if you call to make a complaint they dont care....they will listen to you tell thwm what happened and tell you well we will have a talk with the doctors and nurses. ....they even hung up on my husband when he called about our son when he almost died....misson hospital nurse was in the room when they hung up on him....her mouth almost hit the floor....she felt so bad we were treated like that.... please beware if you go here

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homer simpson

A 72 year old vet fell hurt his back and was in extreme pain. So we called 911, they gave him some Fentanyl and took him to park ridge ER, did an X-ray and said he had no broken bones and gave him 5/325 mg of hydrocodone and a prescription for more and wanted to send him home. I advise them that he lived alone, was still in extreme pain and had lot of steps getting into his house and he still could not sit up or stand so how was he going to take care of himself. The nurse’s response “he does not meet our criteria to keep him”.so I started to ask again how will he be able to take care of him, he can’t even get to our car! She started in again about the criteria stuff, I just held up my hand and asked her to stop, she was getting very perturb at this point and I did not want to argue, I just want what is best for my friend. My wife and I were in contact with his daughters all during the duration and into the wee hours of the night, 1 lived in California and the other up in West Virginia so they could not be there quickly. A short time later men entered ER room #8 and introduce himself as some kind of supervisor and asked if there was a problem. So I explained to him my friend was still in extreme pain and could not even sit up how was he supposed to take care of himself in that condition? Again the supervisor started in with not meeting the criteria stuff and also mention they could increase his pain meds. I asked “so you are going to dope him up enough so he can get around and what happens when he falls again? The man’s voice became gruff and started in wit the criteria stuff again, I interrupted him by saying I was not going to take him home in that condition his face got red and stated “I guess we will have to call DDS then! I told him good, I thought that was a great idea, then he could explain to them why they wanted send him home doped up and alone in that condition. I asked him what’s the problem was, he has insurance and he can’t walk. The supervisor left the room. A short time later a nurse came into the room and told us that they were going to have a physical therapist come in a do an evaluation on the patient. So my wife and I left to take care of things that needed to be done. We got a call from 1 of his daughters a couple of hours later and she told us the therapist visited her dad a said "the patient should not be moved and should not be sent home alone." Well it don’t take a rocket scientist to figure that one out, I wonder how much it coast for them to get a therapist to come in late on super bowl Sunday night, tell them this man is in a lot of pain, can’t move and it won’t be safe to send him home. DUH HA! It’s all about $$$ And yes I have more similar stories to tell about park ridge.

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Phillip Henson

I ent to the er yesterday afternoon, and had the worst experience Ive ever had at an er. I saw the PA Terri, and she had no idea what she was doing. I have a rare lung disrder and I went in with shortness of breath and chest pain. I even brought in a chest ct with contrast I had the day before. And she dint have enough sense to even look at it. As she was asking about my past medical history, there were several things that that she didnt even know what they were. So after being there 3 hours she comes back and tells me that they have done everything that could be done for my shortness of breath and chest pain and that this was an emergency room and wanted to recommend a local pulmonary dr. But I guess she didnt listen to anything I said. I now have to go to Emory university to be seen by infectious disease specialists and also pulmonary. So now I am at emory university Midtown hopital admitted. I was in impending respiratory failure. So if you ever have a PA Terri, please, please, ask to see the actual medical doctor. She is going to end up killing someone because 1. She doesnt listen to the patient, 2. She she isnt very knowledgeable or even capable of knowing what to do. The hospital made a huge mistake and took on a h uge liability by hiring her which is so sad. All my other visits to this er have been nothing but the best I could ask for. But PA Terri with end up killing someone soon because of her lack of knowledge and arrogant bedside manner Thanks Terri for your stupidity which landed me admitted to a hospital. Park Ridge, please ,please, get rid of this huge liability.