Inova Alexandria Hospital

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Jessica DeSiena

For moms to be- BEWARE! We had a pretty bad experience at this hospital. First there was no point to preregister, we had to do all the registration over when we got there. I labored from 11:30pm to 7am when our son was born. I arrived at 3am at 6cm, it took forever for nurses to come get us and check us in. They missed my vain on one hand and my hand swelled up with the IV fluid after one nurse stabbed me several time trying to find a vain. The fluid in my arm hurt more than the contractions. I was bruised for days. I had requested the epidural but it took nearly 2 1/2 hours before I actually received it. Thank god the anesthesiologist was the best at the hospital. I was terrified to do it. But that part was great. 40 mins later the midwife came to check and when poking she broke my water. I still think this was on purpose. Soon after they told me we needed to start pushing. (Why do the epidural at all???? I wish they kept me informed of the progress. I didnt get answers and assumed too much.) they told us that most women push for an hour to four hours. This seemed crazy to me, even when I was half awake. I tried napping every chance I got. My body was so exhausted I couldnt keep my eyes open. Which is not the kind of birth experience you read about in books or online. There was only a nurse and my husband in the room while I had to keep pushing at every contraction. Sometimes I think they added some other drugs to sedate me. Maybe my body was just that exhausted? Ill never really know. There was no doctor. In fact the only doctor who entered the room other than the anesthesiologist was after everything was done and the midwife needed a second opinion on my stitches. Which was another debacle. Because they forced me to push for so long, I tore. I tore up and down. And now I have dangling parts of skin because the stitches didnt work. Even after stretching the perineum for a month prior. Thank god my son is healthy and came out with no serious injuries. Although it took all weekend to get a circumcision. To find out later that they didnt give us the right instructions and the skin reattached. If you choose to circumcise, have a urologist do it. Not this hospital or P&M. I wish we were taken better care of while under this hospitals care, but we werent. Never again will I be delivering here. Or will I let my friends. This is a very personal review but I need other mothers to be, to know. It was my first child. I hope you have a safe and healthy birth experience.

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Mark Ward

Before I went to this hospital I checked out the views, most was great and some were not so good, but being close to my house I decided to go to this hospital for having chest pains, on and off a week or so w high blood pressure .. The waiting period was only a few mins, but when I was in the on the bed inside the ED a nurse came in and I thought she was going to ask questions on what was going on or ask how I was feeling, instead she grilled me in front of 3 health care employees on why I went to ED 5 months prior in another state at another inova in Springfield for a totally difrent problem that had nothing to do with why I came to this one, I couldnt believe what I was hearing, then when she started to draw blood instead of asking how are you feeling, or what are your symptoms , it was what kind of pain meds are you taking at home, I said none.. So the whole time I was there was like walking into a police station analyzing every word I was saying and asking questions that had absolutely nothing to do with why I was there trying to proof I was a druggy.. When I was hospitized in another hospital that same week for heart issues/bp 200-100, this is absolutely unacceptable, the rn also let me know that a patient came in before me with the same issues I had and had died next to my room. That made me think if Im even at the right hospital. I thought to myself shes breaking the hipa . Why would a nurse tell anyone that? Wow.. Unreal. Instead of the Dr keeping me for observation he informed me that I should go to my heart Drs on the eastern shore 4 hours away, when in fact my Heart Drs said that night I should go to the Closet ER. Oh and by the way I have insurance. I was VERY VERY disappointed with the dr and the nurse actions.. For the night 7/24/2015.. I will never step foot at this hospital as long as I live..

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Robin Evergreen

If I could I would give this INOVA hospital system an absolute ZERO rating or a negative star. I had an infection in my finger and it was swelling and becoming more painful by the minute. The hospital took a dozen blood samples, asked numerous times if I were diabetic and ran a GI test... remember I had an infected finger. All I needed done was to have my finger lanced and drained of the puss and abcess. I was admitted over night only to be put on IV antibiotics and yet not a single doctor looked at my finger. I was on a no food or water protocol waiting for a doctor, at 6pm the next day and after giving more blood and IV antibiotics I was told Ithe doctors had left for the day so I got dressed pulled out my ivs and started to walk out AMA(against medical advice). The nurses werent at fault but come on... I was there to get my infected finger taken care of. They wanted me to sign an AMA walk off paper to which I refused because they were testing me for liver enzymes, diabetes and GI problems of which I have none.... and never address the issue I was there for in the first place. Needless to say, my finger infection had spread to my palm and my thumb now.....if I get a bill from them my lawyer is going to have a field day. So if you go to the ER make sure you demand to get only the tests you need and have your ailment issues talked about before signing anything. Im off th DC general now to get this infection drained....... PS . infection from working on a car and banging my knuckle on rusted metal, some old petroleum pruduct or road dirt. Lucky I didnt wait another day for this doctor since I might have lost my finger. I did receive a call from a doctor at home 2hrs after I left.... but too little too late after asking ever 1-2 hrs where is my doctor all day before walking out.

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Rich Devoted

I went as a supporting girl friend and I am happy to hear that my boyfriend is better now but the process was the issue at hand. My boyfriend was almost like a test patient to how much they can do in order to keep that bill tab going up. He came in with symptoms that were definitely scary and concerning but I feel they used fear mongering and scare tactics in order to run plenty of tests that ultimately Im not sure if he needed them. Since I am not a medical professional I can not make that call. My boyfriend got a CT scan, Spinal tap, X-ray, Several blood work, throat culture, given morphine, Ibuprofen, Tylenol and the amount of IVs and antibiotics are countless. In the end it was only a viral infection. That is only part of the issue but for each action the physicians wanted to take the nurses would use statements as "were going to do a spinal tap because if you have meningitis you could die", "were doing a CT scan because if fluid is built up in your brain you could die", "were injecting a some antibiotic into your stomach to prevent blood clots in your leg because blood clots can form for laying down so long and travel to your heart and you could die. Its the number 1 cause of death in the hospital". Ultimately I wanted my boyfriend to make it out of the hospital okay but I was not pleased with the hospital experience at all. Not to mention, the hospital wasnt that clean either, it was dust everywhere. A formal complaint will be sent to headquarters. Its best to either go to another location or just go to Virginia Hospital if you can make it.

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