Thursday, May 26, 2011

Quality of care at Wheaton Franciscan-All Saints hospital







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kkdither said...

Wow. Says a ton for our services here in Racine. Lousy newspaper, dangerous health care, failing schools, high unemployment, corrupt politicians, lawlessness everywhere.

I was at my favorite shopping place, wal-mart, yesterday. A man (of some color and ethnicity) and I were chatting in the long line. He made the comment that he would like to leave this city... his words were, in a hushed tone, "This town has turned so ghetto."

May 26, 2011 at 3:46 PM
jedwis said...

Let us not forget the falling value of our homes, high taxes, and now... really lousy weather.

May 26, 2011 at 3:54 PM
SER said...

I believe the nurses do a good job, they get stuck working many hours due to management will not hire enough or treats them so bad they go somewhere else.

May 26, 2011 at 4:04 PM
Toad said...

I voted the care was questionable, and the Administrations responsibility. It seems to me they have too many "new borns" not surviving?

May 26, 2011 at 4:46 PM
Sassa said...

I never had a bad experience in that hospital. Their care was excellent in every case. I wonder what happened to those who think the care is bad. I know I've heard one 'baby' nurse saying how many babies are born deformed to 14 and 15 year olds. I don't think it's mainly the hospital's fault for most of those babies who didn't make it.

May 26, 2011 at 5:05 PM
Huck Finn said...

Oh Sassa. Hmmmm, let me give you some reasons. I had a heart attack right before my senior year at RIT. I was sick as a dog that entire school year. All saints did the angioplasty for that in August of 03. When I came home after I graduated I went in with chest pain. The Dr., Doctor Tierni, did a half-assed cath because he saw me as a deaf paraplegic on medicare. He left the vein in front of the left ventricle 80% blocked and sent me home. I found this out from one of his associates I saw a week after the procedure. This Ass gleefully told me that they (the cardios) called the vein, "The Widow maker." because it killed people. Two weeks later it closed off and I went into cardiac arrest. That I'm still here says a lot for the ER doc that no longer works there. He got it open to 80%. Sadly I died several times on the table and spent a week in the coma unit before a week in ICU. Add in another week of cardiac ward, the bills, the loss of heart function from the blocked artery, and it really screwed up my quality of life.

Fast forward to 2008. My sister slipped into a Coma at home due to brain tumors. Her left eyelid didn't shut due to the swelling. Staff, as in the nurses charged with her care, placed dry gauze against her eye. DRY GAUZE. Anyone can tell you how gauze wicks moisture. You want me to describe to you what my sister's eye was like after a week? Hey, but she didn't suffer too long, the asses were tube feeding her and as she wasn't shitting, they pushed the glop up her throat and she aspirated it. The entire time that week, they NEVER moved her like you are supposed to so bed sores don't develop.

Two months later I had another heart attack and Aurora walk in was closed, so I went to St. Mary's. What a horror story. Ever left on a commode with a thin seat cutting into your ass for 45 minutes? Ever get dropped from a lift sling because the wrong sling was used with the wrong lift? Ever sit suspended in a lift for 35 minutes while the straps cut into you because the Aide didn't have permission to lower you on her own and wouldn't give you the control so you had some relief? How about not being able to read all the different girls lips and needing them to write me? It was such a chore, the floor nurse accused me of faking my disability! lets not forget that she then used the lift with the DEAD battery even though they hadn't plugged it in over night and KNEW it was DEAD. WHEN I SAID IT WOULDN'T WORK, SHE YELLED THAT SHE KNEW HER JOB AND I DIDN'T. Well guess what? The lift stalls while I'm still on the bed, so she dragged me off of it. Naturally I dropped four inches and was too low to get on the commode. She solved this by putting her arms through my arm pits, clasping her hands and yanking against my sternum. Uh, I had just had bypass surgery and my sternum was broken. Wanna guess if I screamed in pain? I hadn't cried in 25 years and I was crying to my buddy John to get me the HELL out of there.

My little sister has non-hodgkins lymphoma and needed a biopsy for the mayo clinic. get it done here right? THEY DID IT WRONG AND SHE NEEDED IT REDONE AT MAYO. My family doesn't believe in lawsuits. None of us sued. Glory be, after not hearing a peep from All Saints for years, I get blind sided with a $10,871 bill from a collection agency three months ago. As I've gone through the billing, I've found the doctors NEVER billed medicare properly. Ya think it's too late to sue em?

Sorry Sassa, your and my experiences differ just a wee bit.

May 26, 2011 at 7:22 PM
kkdither said...

There are some wonderful individuals working there, but just like Unified School District, the bureaucracy eventually eats them alive.

I can't even tell you the shit I went through here with health care for my mother. I can't tell you the number of times I put a very, very urgently sick woman into a car and drove 45 minutes to St. Luke's in Milwaukee because their care was superior. From the phlebotomists to the record keeping, to the billing department, to those who are supposed to keep vital supplies available... failure, failure, failure.

I worked at All Saint's for about 18 months, cleaned up the records in the department I worked and then got the hell out. What a mess.

I kept receiving an errant bill ($30) a couple of months before my died. I paid it, but they kept billing me. I must have talked to the billing department 20 times. Every time I called, they assured me they would take care of it. Last week, I got a notice from a collection agency that the bill had been turned over to them. It has been over 2 years since she died.

May 27, 2011 at 7:05 AM
Tender Heart Bear said...

Huck I just had a full hysterectomy surgery done at All Saints. I had no problem with the nurses or my doctor. This was back in November. They all were real good to me and I have nothing bad to say about them. I am on medical assistance too.

I am really sorry you had such a bad experience with them. I know up in Shawano the doctors are like that. They were like that with my Grandma and she was 80 years old. They didn't care about her but then I stepped in and I told the doctors off.

May 27, 2011 at 10:05 AM

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