Saint Vincent Hospital

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Michael Barr

Unbelievable! My fiance takes my sick daughter to St V two weeks ago after a couple of weeks with illness that was not letting up. They end up in fast-track with a overly confident PA. My daughter has symptoms of flu (fevers malaise).My fiance was not conviced that it was just a flu/cold. She urged the PA for further testing to which th PA told her she would not be running unnecessary tests. She is treated quickly and given a script for a prophylactic dose of antibiotics. I revieved the "transition of care" paperwork noting that they decided to give my non-sexually active daughter a pregnancy test. (remember they will not administer tests that are not necessary) Fast Forward another week. This time my daughter wakes up with extreme pain in extremities. They take the ambulance in to the hospital fearing something serious. After arriving, St. Vincent again take them to fast track. This time my fiance tells them that our daughter has been in serious pain since she woke up and that she administeredand adult dose of ibuprofen (800mg) an hour ago and it hasnt touched her pain. They brought in tylenol. After this response from the hospital we made arrangnments to immediately leave this facility. On our way to Hamot Hospital the staff of St Vincent called to tell us that we need to get to another facility quickly and have them call for the test results because they are "critical". That day my child was transferred to Pittburgh for a very serious illness. If St Vincent would have done the testing and/or a proper medical evaluation, examination and testing they would have seen all of the warning signs that we so readily apparent after her CBC showed 110,000 white blood cells. We could have dealt with this earlier and maybe without the severe pain and panic. This is not the first time a Physicians Assistant or Nurse Practioner has come up short in the care of my loved ones.

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Michelle Peck

Went into the E.R. last night with my daughter, who had a terrible migraine. She is 19 years old. Her blood pressure was 136/94, so she was in obvious pain. We got into a room within 20 minutes after triage. An ER nurse came in by the name of Megan that had the personality of a door knob. Asked her what was wrong, said she would let he doctor know, and see what tests he wanted, all in about a 30 second time span. She was given a gown to put on. The stretcher had no blanket, no pillow to lie down on. No one offered her anything to drink. We waited. After about an hour and 15 minutes went by, no doctor, significant pain, bright lights on, banging doors, conversations from staff about goig out and getting drunk the previous weekend outside our door at least kept us occupied for awhile. We decided the tests and waiting for who knows how long for medications would be best managed by going home to sleep. I am an RN. It saddens me how much quality of care has gone by the way side. My daughter changed into her warm clothes, we walked to the desk told them we were leaving without being seen. She had college classes the next morning and waiting into the early morning hours for something to ease the migraine was not worth it. No apology, no promise of a doctor coming in, no nothing. It felt like the staff was feeling relieved about having to see one last patient. We were given the ama paper to sign, without even being given medical advice. That made no sense to me. SVHS, you need desperately to improve the way you treat patients. If my insurance gets billed for this you better believe you will be getting a call from me. You cant bill for something you didnt do.

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Rasna Sahni

I went to Hamot for 3 out patient procedures its because I did not have a choice because the surgeon and my pain doctor used hamots out patient as part of their practice. The rudeness of staff and lack of doctors knowledge I had a very bad experience. I almost died when my pain doctor didnt check my meds and gave me an sedative which gave me life threatening reaction because the seductive reaction was due to my medication I was on . How on earth a doctor skips the medication list before the procedure? On top of that the nurses were humming and laughing while trying to find a vein in me to start an IV bag . They paged the attending anesthesiologist who was right there on the nurses desk but he walked away instead of helping and never responded to his pager to help the nurses or me his name was Dr Steven Raj . Thankfully somehow the Iv bag was half in and half dripping all over me . As soon as the reaction symptoms resided I singed off and came home because I didnt get the right and responsible treatment. I Truly Hate Hamot its nothing about patient care its all about corporate and bringing money in . Saint Vincent Rocks and now I am transferring all my doctors to Saint Vincent affiliate so I know I would never have to go to Hamot .

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Robin Leech

I had my baby at St Vs in April,2014 because of the bad reviews n word of mouth about the Womens Hospital. Im writing this now because the same baby,who is almost 2 now had to be taken to the ER n I chose "UPMC" Hamot. She was admitted n we spent 3 days there. HUGE mistake, the nurses n staff were great n did their job but the rest of it was the worst Ive ever dealt with. Unfortunately we went in on a Friday,right after their cafeteria closes for the whole weekend. So all my family(of 7) had to eat was take out,vending machines of junk food n a little room of a few drinks n some crackers/bread. And ordering in was too expensive,so I did the best I could with very little food.The sleeping was horrible, because yes, Im NOT leaving my baby. The whole time I was thinking, I should have gone to St Vincent, they took such good care of me when I was there, my baby received the best care,seriously, the whole experience was wonderful with them. So no more of this garbage with UPMC Hamot..St Vs I wont make the same mistake again and ill just bring my whole family to you and your wonderful staff.

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Jessica Clark

I went to there womens hospital to talk about fertility treatments for my husband and I, we were young and the doctor didnt take us seriously AT ALL the doctor was a woman and she looked right at us and said "so what, do you want our blessing or something" she was VERY RUDE! and should NOT be a doctor...she acted as if us having a child would take money right out of her pocket, but hello lady we were two working adults! Im also furious that it cost us 250$ for the appointment because it was a fertility appointment and not paid for by insurance and we got nothing out of the appointment other than a long wait rude words and wasted money that money would have been better off being thrown in the trash instead of being spent just to be disrespected by that woman *I often consider going back there and demanding an apology from the doctor that was so rude . But things worked out for the best I adopted a little boy and I couldnt be happier but when Im ready to have my next child I for sure will N.O.T use them! I advise no one else does unless your looking for rude doctors and harsh words.

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