California Hospital...negligent Nurses & Doctors endanger patients! Malpractice runs rampant!

Where is Michael Moore when you need him?

Before a patient dies at the hands of negligent nurses and doctors, a Government agency needs to investigate the slip-ups at California Hospital on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, and take immediate action - including disciplinary measures - to ensure the incompetence does not rise to charges of manslaughter.

Last night, for instance, patients languished in the halls for hours-on-end suffering severe pain and undue hardship before being attended to.

Those who were promised admittance were also forced to perch in crowded uncomfortable quarters – in some cases in filthy back rooms, tiny closets, and bizarre crawl spaces – before they were eventually transferred to a hospital room upstairs twelve or thirteen hours later.

In contrast, Hospital staff are quick to search down patients sprawled on the floor in pain here-and-there-and-everywhere about the hospital environs, to ensure they secure a copy of the patent's insurance carrier so that payments may be collected.

A definite lack of communication and shoddy professionalism added to the chaos.

For example, one nurse failed to give one patient crucial pain killer for a severe physical ailment, on the grounds that she was waiting for a doctor’s orders.

However, if the patient hadn't spoken up, the treatment would not have been forthcoming.

For good reason.

No one informed the doctor the patient was in pain, so the request for a prescription was never filled, for obvious reasons.

Food - when it arrived bedside - was usually cold, tasteless, and served up late in Styrofoams "take-out" wrappers!

The servers usually dragged their feet, tossed down the trays with little concern about the quality, and - more-often-than-not - gave the impression they would prefer to be sailing or some other such thing.

In the event there is ever an outbreak of food poisoning - or sudden unexplained infections among the patients - it would come as no surprise given the lackadaisical attitude of the Nurses in charge.

Meanwhile, on the 9th floor, patients were shocked to witness student nurses botch their attempts to place an IV in one patient’s arms – not once, but at least three times (totally obvious to the pain and discomfort they were inflicting on the patient).

And, when the instructor took her turn to show them how the task was professionally accomplished, she made a mess of it, too.

The patent's arms - not only ended up bruised - but also scarred once gaping open wounds finally healed.

Patients come to the hospital to be healed, not injured, God Willing.

Should a hospital allow a student nurse to practice on a patient with low platelets with a bleeding disorder?

If they think so, they need their heads examined.

And, their license to practice medicine at the California Hospital revoked, for sure!

An overhaul of the Health system is desperately needed, so I trust that the next goal of President Barack Obama will be to achieve that end in his next term as President (?).

Amen!

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St. Mary's Medical Center...Hospital mixes up blood samples! Dr. Steven Ho & Dr.Jeffry Dayton malpractice!

 

Patients at St. Mary's Medical Center in Long Beach were quite shocked and taken aback when a nurse in the Emergency Care Unit  reported that their blood samples tested positive for marijuana.

How could that be?

One startled patient informed personnel right away that there was a gross error!

"I haven't smoked any marijuana in over twenty years!"

When a patient in the next bed was overheard confiding to a Nurse that he smoked one or two joints a day, it was obvious to the individual who allegedly tested positive, what occurred behind-the-scenes.

The technician who drew the blood - and tagged the samples after-the-fact for processing - must have switched the blood samples by mistake!

Instead of investigating the issue to rectify the error, the Nurse in charge of the patient refused to open up an investigation, or even strike the erroneous blood test from the patient;s medical file.

In fact, when the patient asked for the name of the President of St. Mary's Medical Center so they could file a complaint, the staff in the emergency department claimed they did not know the individual's name.

And, get this, they denied having any knowledge of any contact information for the head of the Hospital they were in the employ of!

It not only stretches one's credulity, but smacks of an outright cover-up, undertaken in a deceitful and dishonest effort to mitigate damages arising from the negligent acts of the employees at St. Mary's in Long Beach which rose to the level of malpractice.

Unfortunately, there are other glaring problems at the hospital which warrant a review.

Patients have complained that on occasion they were placed on NPO (food restrictions which lasted two days or longer in some instances) pending medical procedures to be performed at the facility.

Once the NPO status was lifted, however, nurses neglected to update the computers; consequently, patients were left hungry until the glitch in the hospital's procedures was resolved.

In one instant case, a Nurse served a dinner after the patient brought the problem to the employee's attention. However, instead of delivering a hot meal with nutriional value after the forced two-day fast, the incompetent technician threw together a cold sandwich with a small container of cold juice.

In addition, patients have been forced to endure hardships because quite a few of the Nurses don't speak fluent English.

Patients complain that there is a communication problem at this hospital which has continued to be unresolved.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, it should be noted for the record, that St. Mary's has hired a few quack doctors bent on running up huge charges for services rendered, who have demonstrated their lack of concern for the safety and well-being of their patients.

Reports have filtered out that once doctors at St. Mary's have billed insurance carriers to the max, they have proceeded to discharge patients in spite of the fact the individuals are still suffering pain and hospital doctors have neglected to properly diagnose and treat their patients.

Dr. Steven Ho is a particularly bad offender in this regard.

His negligence rises to the level of malpractice which warrants disciplinary action in fact.

For good reason, I have issued this consumer alert, to warn residents in the neighboring communities to avoid St. Mary's Medical Center like the plague.

News at 11!

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