Patient-375
No Medical Care and None of His Prescription Medications for 8 days at Sunrise Hospital
Patient-375 went to Sunrise Hospital because he had a stroke. Extremely bad experience, leaving the patient and his wife shaken and fearful of hospitalization. No doctor was assigned to the patient. Placed in a
shared room with an individual who was mentally unstable, moving about the room and yelling profanities loudly which brought hospital personnel to try to calm him and get him back in bed. Patient's wife had to contact hospital administration to try to get her husband moved to a different room, but he was moved only one hour before his release.
Patient-375 went to Sunrise Hospital because he had a stroke.
His wife posted the following comments:
Our experience can best be described as abysmal (extremely bad).
The hospital "forgot" to assign an attending physician, so my husband languished for 2 days with virtually no care at all when he should have been released.
I had to discover (for myself) there was no assigned doctor.
Eventually, I had to demand to see hospital administration in order to get released because there was NO DOCTOR to take care of the task --- even though there was no medical reason for my husband to remain hospitalized (just like many other patient stories, including Patient-374).
In addition, my husband was moved to a shared room with an individual who was mentally unstable. This man moved about the room yelling profanities loudly which brought hospital personnel to try to calm him and get him back in bed.
Then the cycle would begin again.
My husband was attempting to recover from a stroke.
When I asked that my husband be moved to a safer room, I was told by the nurse, "If you think this is going to get you a private room, it is not."
We are not indigent. We are full-paying patients, but even if we had been there without the ability to pay, this was an unconscionable remark.
The hospital proceeded to leave my husband nearly a full day surrounded by this other man's psychiatrists, social workers, etc., although there were empty beds up and down the hallway.
Where are the HIPAA laws?
My husband and I were privy to EVERYTHING about this man's condition, as well as his private information since all that divided us was a cotton curtain --- when all sorts of exams and information were extracted from him. Is this legal?
Only after I finally complained to hospital administration was my husband moved --- about an hour before the administrator arranged for his release.
Although I realize this review will do NO GOOD WHATSOEVER, this hospital stay left my husband and I shaken and fearful of hospitalization.
Extremely bad experience, leaving the patient and his wife shaken and fearful of hospitalization.
No doctor was assigned to the patient.
Placed in a shared room with an individual
who was mentally unstable, moving about
the room and yelling profanities loudly which brought hospital personnel to try to calm him
and get him back in bed.
Patient's wife had to contact hospital administration to try to get her husband
moved to a different room, but he was moved
only one hour before his release.
Patient--375 went to Sunrise Hospital because he had a stroke. Extremely bad experience, leaving the patient and his wife shaken and fearful of hospitalization. No doctor was assigned to the patient. Placed in a shared room with an individual who was mentally unstable, moving about the room and yelling profanities loudly which brought hospital personnel to try to calm him and get him back in bed. Patient's wife had to contact hospital administration to try to get her husband moved to a different room, but he was moved only one hour before his release.