Coastal Carolina Hospital

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Jenny Reese

I wish I could give negative stars. I arrived at this facility and was impressed by how clean and just beautiful it was. The receptionist was kind, and informed me there would be a little waiting time. I waited four and a half hours. I was triaged after two hours. When I finally got to a room, Dr. Folks came in and asked for a description of my symptoms, before I could finish he was half-way out the door. After about a half hour wait a very frustrated and hurried nurse came in, gave me and IV and medicine. I had one diagnostic test, for pelvic pain. I was told by Dr. Folks he could see no reason for my pain and would discharge me after a pelvic exam. I told him that I would like further diagnostics to determine the cause, he refused. The pelvic exam was awful, he crammed the speculum into my body and was rough with the manual exam, had it been under any other circumstance I would swear I was being assaulted. Im still sore. Ive birthed a child and am no stranger to these types of exams and have never experienced anything like it. After that he gave me some ibuprofen and sent me home. In the same condition, worse if you count the soreness after the pelvic exam/sexual assault I received, as when I arrived. The only positive was the nursing staff. They were knowledgeable and kind, but couldnt serve as much of a patient advocate because of the physician (Dr. Folks) they were working under. Sorry for the graphic description of a very personal type of problem, but I think people should know the level of "healthcare" they provide. This experience was beyond unacceptable, it was nearly abusive. When I spoke to the charge nurse after the fact she was rude and condescending. Telling me that I was given all the care they could give considering how many people were in the ER. WOW. Just, wow. If you have a problem and need emergency care, go elsewhere. Hell, ask a neighbor or some dude off the street to help you out, youll probably get better results.

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Staci Fair

This hospital is by far the worst place I have ever been, and the worst I have ever been treated. They violated my rights as a patient by holding me against my will in the emergency room. I was neither suicidal or homicidal. I was lucid and non-violent, but I was experiencing side effects from a medication. I was the one who called for an ambulance as I knew I could not drive. I sought medical treatment but was treated as an incompetent. They made me put on a paper gown which I had to wear for 4 days straight. I had to lay on an ER cot for 4 days in a small room. They forced medication injections on me even when i verbally refused. The doctors were screaming insults about me throughout the entire ER. They forced me to be seen by other doctors and released my information without my consent. The medications they forced on me caused me to have convulsions and seizures, which they did not treat. They laughed at me as I had a seizure. The doctors were Dr. Cecace and Dr. Gentle. They also withheld my daily medications. After the incident I called the hospital representative and was met ubruptly with an attitude and given no apology. On another visit my daughter had injested a medication while I was at work, my husband took her to the ED. When I arrived I was terribly worried but SUR/PRISE, they would not let me in to see my daughter. They told me it was my fault because I had did this to my daughter. I was absolutely floored because I would never hurt my child. I also called the hospital and ER manager and was given a rude response that it was their right to refuse me. My patient rights were violated so badly on more than one occasion. I hope the doctors and hospital get sued and go out of business!

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Morgan Burns

If I could give less then 1 star I would. I just moved here to South Carolina from New York. One night I woke up with the WORST pain in the side of my face. I could barley open my eye. I wasnt sure if I had a bad tooth or what was wrong but it was so unbarrable I took myself to the closest hospital which happened to be Coastal Carolina Hospital. When I first got there, the woman behind the desk was chit chatting with the girl in front of me for over 15 minutes even though myself and others behind me in pain were waiting her assistance. Once she got me checked in, there were about 4 people ahead of me in the waiting room. She told me it was first come first serve. I waited in that waiting room crying for 4 hours and they took in everyone that came in after me!! I asked several times why that was happening and they just kept saying "theyre cleaning a bed for you now." Then 5 minutes later they would call in someone else. I have never been treated so poorly. After 4.5 hours and everyone getting help before me - including the 5 people that came in after me - I decided to leave. I told the receptionist that I was leaving and why. After I left, still in serious pain, the receptionist had the balls to call my cell 20 minutes later asking if I was still in the parking lot because she can get me in now. REALLY!? Needless to say I had to deal with the pain all night and when I went to the doctor the next morning I ended up with a serious infection which required me to start antibiotics right away. I will NEVER go to this hospital again and dont recommend it to anyone!

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Felicia Jordan

Horrible! Checked my niece in around 8:30 PM, left at 2:00 AM without seeing the doctor. My niece who is visiting from NC in because I thought she had strep throat (throat "sizzles" when she swallows, head ache, and stomach pains with a low grade fever and her sister currently has strep). While checking in, the triage nurse asked "what did her doctor say?". I didnt call him, what would have been the point. Then we sat for 4.5 hours before being called back to a room. One person took his sick elderly person home because he had already sat there for at least 3.5 hours and he elderly man and wet his pants. I watched 3 others leave because it was taking too long. One person left after being called back and stated they never saw a doctor. The nurse called a patient...no answer. She went back and came a called another name...no answer. Did not come back. Then about an hour or more later, a man comes in, from I-dont-know-where and asked that they remove his bracelet because he has not been seen.yet. They tell him, "theyre waiting on you" Really!? You hold a space for someone for more than an hour while others wait, most in visible pain. After being called back into a room, the nurse comes in and do the EXACT same thing the triage nurse did and says the doctor will be in to see us and the patient next to us in a few minutes. One hour later, with not a doctor in site, I left. The lady with the child in the next bed stated she had been there for 8 hours. Absolutely horrible.

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