Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital

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Cheeky Lamb

If I could give this place an infinate amount of negative stars I would. Every experience here I have had has been just horrid so I now only go to Drs Care, or the ER past Target that is absolutely amazing. So my first experience here, my son was only a few months old and was diagnosed with RSV. He had a temp of 104 and had trouble breathing. We were here 3 nights. I had this horrible nurse that was supposed to come every so often like every hour and give breathing treatments. She never came and when she finally did my son was gasping for air and I said "Arent you supposed to come every hour?" And she snapped at me and said she other people to care for. All the other nurses hadnt missed a treatment. She then proceeded to talk about me in the hallway. I found out the right people to report her to and did promptly and said she wasnt to help my son anymore. The next experience I gave my son a bath, (years later) saw his testicals were very swollen in the bath. My husband was working out of town and I didnt know what to do it was late at night so I took him to the ER. I get there and this little petite woman with grey curling hair was checking people in. It was crowded and I waited an hour, and my son was 3 and autistic. He couldnt handle the amount of people and there and waiting. I went up and asked her if we could wait in the car if she could text me when he could be triaged. She said no she couldnt that she would be with me when she could get with me. Meanwhile my son started crying and throwing a fit it was too much for him. 3 hours later we were finally checked in to a bloody room, with dirty pads around, from a previous person. I had to ask someone to clean up the blood. They missed a lot of areas. Meanwhile the stupid c$@$ that checked us in with apparently no life came back to tell the nurses at the nurse station how out of control my son was. Then the doctor came in, asked me if I knew what an emergency was. That less than a 1% percent chance my son had a real emergency. He made me feel guilty for having to call the lady in to do an ultra sound. She was an amazing sweetheart I was practically in tears when she came in. Come to find out, my son was in the 1% emergency. The dr had to schedule surgery right away at the childrens hospital in Charleston. I didnt get home until 3 am. It was a nightmare- and I have never been treated so poorly by any hospital. A bunch of pricks working there. You all need to train your staff that they should run their mouth with people right there that can hear them even with the door shut. You also need to fire the little judge Judy lookalike at the front desk. If it wasnt illegal Id slap her yappy mouth off her face.

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Phyllis Greene

I went to the emergency room on Saturday night. They really wasnt busy. I had a severe UTI. The nurse that checked me in had me pee in a cup to get the test started. I sat down and the nurse took me on back to a room. A nurse came in introduced herself and told me to take all my clothes of and put on a gown. I didnt understand that but did it. She came back in to set an IV line. I asked her why was that need she said standard. My mom came back to the room and she was also surprised that I had a gown on. A nother nurse came back said they were in middle of change over and the doctor would be in, in a few minutes. She wanted me to pee in cup to send to lab. I told her I already did that. A few minutes later someone else came in wanted me to pee in a cup. I asked her did they loose my pee I had already did that. A few minutes later a nother person came in wanted me to pee in a cup. I told her the same thing. Then the doctor came in and saked me whats going on I told her I had a UTI. She asked how I came to that. I told her I had bought some strips over the counter and did my test a few days ago. She looked at me and said "SO YOU DIAGNOSED YOURSELF". She pressed my belly and left the room. My mom said she was really rude! Within 10 mins. this Emergency room tech came in and pulled out my IV and put no pressre on it. Blood everywhere and he put a bandaid onit. Then I asked him what was going on he replied I was bieng discharged. I told him i didnt even get my results back he replied they much be neg. cause he was told to discharge me. The nurse came in when my mom went to get someone cause my arm was bleeding and the nurse came in. I was upset asked her to do something to my arm and she started crying it wasnt our fought we didnt do that. I told her I wanted to know if I had a UTI or not She daid yes I wanted to know where was the doctor and she started crying again andsaid she did the best she could and she was tired of being fussed at. She handed me my discharged paper with 2 precriptions and left the room. I left went to my doctor on tuesday and I was told I still had a really really bad UTI changed my meds cause what I was given was mainly for a sinus infection. I will never go back to that hospital and I recommend NO ONE should go there. They are the worse I have ever experinced and the Hospital want ever talk to me about this.

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Michele B

The absolute worst hospital I have ever had the misfortune to go to. I moved to South Carolina in June 2013, during the move I threw out my back being as I have chronic back issues I went to the ER to obtain help and get a referral for a local doctor and pain management specialist. They refused to help with my new injury which was later found to be another blown disc in my back other than the original issue. Tonight I went in for extreme swelling in my feet and was advised by the doctor her feet swell too (mine do not) and it is normal for the area (I find that hard to believe for someone who is rarely outside and never on their feet more than an hour a day), that I need to drink more fluids and consume less salt. I dont eat Salt and I drink fluids all day. I was given a breathing treatment for wheezing, a problem I had no complaint about and x ray to make sure I did not have pneumonia, which I also told her I did not have. On neither of these visits did they draw blood to determine if I had an infection and they dismissed everything I told them because clearly they know my body better than I do. My feet are so swollen I cannot put on shoes, my toes are red and at times turn purple. I will never visit Waccamaw Hospital again! They are unprofessional with their attitudes and ignore whatever you tell them. I have a doctors appointment with a new primary care in 7 days and will have to wait for that to find out why my feet are swelling. I hope I have a heart attack before then so I can sue the pants off this hospital. As for the bill, I will NEVER pay it because I did not receive any service for which I went to the hospital for! I was not looking for any pain relief, just an answer to why my feet are swollen. I had a sewage backup in my kitchen 3 days ago, my feet began swelling the day after and the water was ankle deep. This they would have known had the doctor not spoke over me when I tried to tell her. If you are in the Myrtle beach area go to the hospital in North Myrtle or go down to Georgetown hospital. Waccamaw is the absolute worst for patient care and they do not seem to care they just want to get you out the door!