Sunrise Hospital reviews, news, patient stories and images
Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas, owned by HCA Healthcare.
Get the facts to help you make informed decisions.
Helping you make informed decisions
This website provides news, reviews, patient stories and images to help Las Vegas residents and visitors make informed decisions about Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, located at 3186 S Maryland Parkway, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Internet is a big place, and there are a lot of fake reviews and misinformation which make it difficult to make informed decisions about whether Sunrise Hospital is the right choice for you. Estimates show that up to 42% of positive reviews are fake.
We are bringing together information that is posted in the public domain and presenting it in a concise, organized format.
Except for the information about Patient-1 (which is posted here with their permission), all of this information was found in the public domain.
We hope the information on this website will help you make informed decisions about whether Sunrise Hospital is the right choice for you.
HCA Healthcare Owns Sunrise Hospital
HCA Healthcare owns Sunrise Hospital, The corporate headquarters are located in Nashville, Tennessee, and the CEO is Sam Hazen.
In 2024, HCA made nearly $5.8 billion in profits and spent $6 billion on stock buybacks to make its wealthy shareholders even richer.
If HCA can afford to pay its CEO $23 million in compensation and $6 billion on stock buybacks, it can afford to treat all of its workers with the respect and dignity they deserve."
The Frist family is the largest shareholder of HCA Healthcare. Thomas F. Frist Jr. and his immediate family saw their personal wealth increase from $7.5 billion on March 18, 2020 to $15.6 billion on March 8, 2021, an increase of $8.1 billion or 108 percent (more than doubled their net worth during the first year of the pandemic), according to an analysis by the Institute for Policy Studies.
- Learn more about how COVID-19 was a big moneymaker for corporations.
In a March 9, 2021, report by the Institute for Policy Studies, they estimate the combined net worth for the extended Frist family at $22.37 billion. The list of family members includes: Thomas Frist Jr, his brother William Harrison Frist, his daughter Patricia Frist Elcan, his son Thomas F. Frist III, and his other son William Robert Frist.
Lawsuit against HCA's Mission Hospital
This is one example of HCA's view of whether quality care is necessary.
In December of 2023, Medicare notified HCA that conditions at the hospital “posed immediate jeopardy to patients’ health and safety.”
- An immediate jeopardy finding is the most serious sanction a hospital can receive. Mission faces a Feb. 24 deadline to provide CMS with a plan to correct deficiencies or lose its Medicare and Medicaid funding, which would threaten the hospital’s financial viability.
In a lawsuit filed against HCA that same month, the North Carolina Attorney General, said his office had received "hundreds of complaints from patients, physicians, nurses, and others about the quality of care since HCA’s takeover of the six-hospital system in western North Carolina."
In the Answer filed by HCA's lawyers, they bragged that "HCA never promised to provide quality health care," The contract to purchase that hospital was “silent as to the quantity or quality of services required.”
“The contractual language, as well as the underlying negotiations, demonstrate that Mission’s Hospital Service Commitments are not promises to meet subjective healthcare standards,” as stated in the filing by HCA's attorneys.
Well, this case sums up HCA's position regarding whether quality care is necessary.
Important tips about Sunrise Hospital
We are providing facts about Sunrise Hospital and comments for you to consider to help you make informed decisions about whether Sunrise Hospital is the right choice for you and your loved ones.
- Sunrise Hospital is rated only ONE STAR by Medicare (out of 5 stars) which tells you a lot because Medicare has patient data.
- On Yelp, Sunrise Hospital has more than 750 reviews, with an average rating of 2.1 stars (out of 5 stars). That says a lot.
- If you are thinking about going to Sunrise Hospital, read the negative reviews. It is estimated that approximately 42% of positive reviews are fake.
- If you must go to Sunrise Hospital, DO NOT go alone. Take a family member or friend who can watch over you and speak up to ensure you are not ignored or mistreated.
- Sunrise Hospital employees joined the Union. They are asking for better pay and better working conditions due to "a crisis of severe turnover and burnout."
- Search for news articles and social media posts about Sunrise Hospital. The media rarely tells you about bad patient experiences at Sunrise Hospital, but you can find a lot of information on social media.
- If you have previously contacted the media about a bad experience at Sunrise Hospital and wonder why they will not help you, learn how corporations control the news. The media will often decline to publish -- or are prohibited from publishing -- a news story about big corporations due to pressure from those entities or the secret rules about protecting them.
- Sunrise Hospital has armed guards and metal detectors and an intensive security process. You will have your picture taken and wear an ID badge, and you might be patted down (even if you arrive in an ambulance or on a gurney).
- Some health insurance plans (for example, Health Plan of Nevada, and Sierra Health and Life Insurance) force you to go to Sunrise Hospital. That is the only choice they allow. Why do you think they do that?
- Read about the $200 Million jury verdict against Sierra Health and Life Insurance for refusing to pay for lung cancer treatment.
- If your condition is not life threatening, consider going to a primary care doctor or Urgent Care.
- Most importantly, take pictures and videos of everything and record conversations. Nevada law says
you can record "in-person conversations" if at least one party consents (that one party can be you).
Joint Commission on hospital accreditation will be evaluating Sunrise Hospital
The Joint Commission will conduct an unannounced survey of Sunrise Hospital to evaluate the organization’s compliance with nationally established Joint Commission standards.
The survey results will be used to determine whether, and the conditions under which, accreditation should be awarded the organization.
Anyone believing that they have pertinent and valid information about such matters may request a public information interview with The Joint Commission’s field representatives at the time of the survey
Information presented at the interview will be carefully evaluated for relevance to the accreditation process. The request must also indicate the nature of the information to be provided at the interview.
Help the Joint Commission conduct a thorough evaluation of Sunrise Hospital.
To submit your story to the Joint Commission, go to the “Report a Patient Safety Event” link on the Joint Commission website.
Baby suffered catastrophic brain injury at Sunrise Hospital
We are posting Patient Stories. The story about this baby with catastrophic brain jury is provided as Patient-2.
Young mother dies after being discharged in unsafe condition
We are posting Patient Stories. The story about this young mother who was discharged from Sunrise Hospital in an unsafe condition is provided as
Patient-3.