Wood County Hospital

Reviews 3

MA

Matt Bunker

This hospital needs to find a better way to restrain people who are under the influence or being disorderly. I understand the tax payers do not want to be responsible for the stupidity of others, but this hospital continues to call the BG police department over and over and over again. Just this past Friday, they called the police multiple times on disorderly drunk subjects, even though they had given warnings and soft restraints. This is an ongoing problem with this hospital, and has been for years. But calling the police over and over and continously having people arrested is not the answer. The hospital is in a college town and is just that, a hospital. They need to learn and seek better, more effective ways to restrain people until they sober up. They are a HOSPITAL, and drug/alcohol problems in a HOSPITAL should be treated as such, medical, detox issues. Either they need a detox unit, or HARD restraints, both, continously having these people thrown in jail and burdening the local city police is not the answer and is not a very customer-friendly way to treat even intox. patients. You view yourselves as a business or a hospital? It is also the responsibility of the hospital to find the funds to purchase said restraint and detoxification means, or at least transfer patients to a rehab inpateint rather than a jail. It is the 21st century, and being a small town hospital having the convinience of the local police nearby is no longer a valid excuse. LEARN how to restrain your patients until they sober up. Dont sit here and whine and complain to the police over and over and mark up peoples criminal records by having them arrested because you still have not figured out or perhaps, worse, dont care to figure out better and more humane ways to treat your custo---patients. It is a college town on top of that, so this hospital should be most familiar by now with intoxicated subjects. There is a better way to restrain and sober-up your patients than simply doing the most convienient thing and having them arrested because you as a HOSPITAL just cant handle them. Cant afford it financially? Figure it out. WCH is a great hospital with much potential for future expansion, and their cancer center is probably wonderful. The times I have been there, with the exception of once in 2011, the staff has been first-rate in service, and extremely kind and courteous to me, understanding my conditions, concerns, even cracking medical stories of my medical history. I know they also do not appreciate the stupidity of drunk and disorderly clientele and patients. I really have a great respect for all the staff, doctors, receptionists, nurses...everyone, and they do not deserve at all what they go through with unruly, uncooperative subjects, especially when they are intoxicated their own poor judgement. I also look forward to seeing how the hospital continue to expand in the future, and its wonderful support of the community and the university. The people and the care are timely and first-rate, and I greatly appreciate the many times they have taken care of me and brought me back to healh. But this is an issue that needs to be resolved. Such draconian methods and means such as I have highlighted should no longer be applied in the 21st century of care, including, in some cases, banning patients, of course, only in some cases. There are better, more modern means by which to handle such patients, instead of putting them in the criminal justice system, when they could be sobered up and sent on their way probably within 24 hrs. or not very long if beyond that, if not less than that amount of time. More bed space and funding for it would be another solution, perhaps.Thank you, and, like I said, I have enormous respect for the hospital and staff, and gratitude/thanks for the quality of care and service I have recieved in the past from the hospital. But these are issues that need to be resolved. There are better ways to help even unruly, intoxicated patients than calling the police and having them arrested and a criminal charge applied. Thank you.

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Rae Phone

GO IN FOR A SPRAINED WRIST COME OUT IN A BODY BAG. I went there for a routine check up and was told by Dr.Lemon that I "HAD" to be tested for syphilis, even though I exhibited no symptoms and knew I didnt have it. The test cost me around $600 and guess what? I DIDNT HAVE SYPHILIS. So I called the hospital and got rerouted half a dozen times to speak to someone about my bill. The woman laughed at me and said I should have disobeyed the doctor and thrown my biohazard sample in the trash can on my way out. "After all what was the doctor going to do to you if you didnt have it done?" Apparently all necissary medical tests are in fact optional and up to you as a patient to know what you need. When my kidneys began failing, I was rushed to the Wood County E.R. (before we knew what was wrong) and they first told me I didnt have a fever even though it had been a consistent 106 at home and I had just been dragged in by my mom through a negative 40 degree parking lot. Then I was informed that I had diabetes (Im 57" and 130lbs with no prior history) oh no "I think Im in the wrong room" waited an hour then got "we dont know whats wrong so heres some vicadin for the pain" I came back a few weeks later and after immediately attempting to prep me for surgery because I had apendesitis (during which three people tried placing an IV, the last of whom appeared willing to tear my arm off if it wouldnt go in, and I lost about an ounce of blood through my arm, seriously it looked like someone had been slaughtered in my bed) oh wait no I didnt need surgery so sit in this bed for a few hours then they told me "were sending you home, we dont know whats wrong but most times people come in here they leave without us knowing whats wrong. Heres another prescription for more vicadin" and sent me on my way.

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Rachel Krist

I was rushed by ambulance to the Wood County hospital after having shortness of breath, intense pain in my side, and extreme dizziness. While the ambulance staff were very nice and attentive to my situation, the hospital staff pretty much neglected me. They gave me an EKG (figured since it was normal that nothing was wrong with me) and then basically had me wait 40 minutes before giving me the pain medication. I needed to get up at one point to throw up (at which time I was writhing in pain) no one bothered to help me unhook myself even though I was the only patient in the ER. I had to undo everything and stumble to the bathroom with no help from anyone there. They then figured since I was throwing up I had indigestion. One of the doctors suggested I might have gallstones but instead of giving me an ultrasound to find out, they just send me home with some aspirin and nexium (which I threw up afterwards). I had a similar situation happen to me a few months ago in which my parents rushed me to Southwest General (in Cleveland) where they ACTUALLY TESTED ME and found out I had gallstones and did surgery later that day. The Wood County hospital didnt even bother doing any of this. Sad excuse for a hospital that shouldnt be in a college town where there is potential for a lot of accidents.