Hunterdon Medical Center - Not a good look
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I believe more of these stories will pop up whether you are pro or anti msm.
In florida it was found out that people with 2nd homes are accessing a path to vaccination and in the last 24 hours a story of how a media member from Mexico gained entry into Florida and got the vaccine.
My brother would have died there in October had my sister and I not acted and did all we could to get him transferred out to another hospital. I'm just a businessman and my sister is a nurse and we both had the same thought when we went to see him - this place is a nightmare! Walking into their ICU unit, no nurses with patients, only two visable and talking about their boyfriends not watching their monitors. It was like a ghost town yet lots of patients in their beds getting no attention. Then we talked to the doctor who was the only Doc on the floor and he had no idea of my brother's condition and tried to fake it and told us he'd probably go home the next day. He was right but it would have been in a body bag. He refused to cooperate with us and the whole time we spoke to him he was fiddling with his mask and there was an entire box of new masks right next to him but he wanted to retie his disposable mask? The guy was clearly on the spectrum and didn't care about my brother or us. A few hours later we found a nurse practitioner who helped us and we had him transferred to UPenn who said he was within hours of death if the treatment he was getting continued. UPenn is marvelous by the way and saved his life (Major embolisms in both lungs and now he has heart damage too). Hunterdon Medical is a death trap. Do not go there!
We also talked to a Doc a few months later who used to work there a few years back and he said do not take your loved ones there. Pretty damning stuff. Not surprised at this article at all.
Also heard there was a minor revolt at Mo Memorial when a few Execs got in line in front of the nurses on the first day and that got squashed immediately by the rank and file.
We also talked to a Doc a few months later who used to work there a few years back and he said do not take your loved ones there. Pretty damning stuff. Not surprised at this article at all.
Also heard there was a minor revolt at Mo Memorial when a few Execs got in line in front of the nurses on the first day and that got squashed immediately by the rank and file.
112, we should have a beer sometime....you're stories are not the outliers and I could share a few myself.
How is Morristown? Always gets good ratings from what I've seen. A relative of mine had a surgery there and had a great outcome, so I am predisposed to a good opinion of them.
EVERY hospital has those stories, unfortunately. HMC is a good community hospital, and a decent ED for the region. That said, for intensive care, I'd rather be at a large academic hospital.
The chicanery with the vaccines is disgraceful, but really has nothing to do with the quality of care provided.
Put it this way. I used to live in Hunterdon County, less than five miles from HMC. When we needed emergency or hospital care, we drove straight to Morristown.
Morristown has a great cardiac program, and great clinically and overall. In North Jersey, you are not going to find a better hospital for care.
So many things wrong with HMC on so many levels. They are fortunate in that they are in a wealthy part of the state, have a large endowment, but they need to merge with RWJ/Barnabas, Hackensack/Meridian or Atlantic Health yesterday. You can't survive as a standalone hospital in this day and age. Either you are financially distressed and not an attractive candidate to acquire, or you are in an affluent area where the community and board are stubborn and trying to hold on to something (Doylestown is another good example).
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Morristown is a great hospital. Not sure if true today but earlier in the pandemic (last summer) they had the highest survival rate of Covid patients in the state.
this sounds like malpractice. as for the nurses, thats the crop you get these days. hospitals are actually mandating you CANT see a patient over a certain amount of time per day
Nurses do great work by and large and deliver a high % of health care services to patients. My intent was not to disparage any hard working nurses. If you saw the level of service at this ICU you would have noticed it and the folks there also did not seem real happy either (Docs and nurses). It was astonishing how disconnected and short staffed that they were. We heard a few other horror stories from other patients relatives in the waiting room as well that would make you cringe about the level of care there. Not a fan of this community hospital at all.
Two quick stories that we experienced. I was in the ER once and laying in bed, there was a monitor next to the bed and the screen had the names and protected healthcare information of every patient in the ER. I quietly mentioned to the nurse...joking that it was a pretty big HIPAA violation.
Years ago, my daughters friend broke her upper arm (compound fracture) in a fall at their gymnastics gym....took the kid to the ER and the orthopedist tells the parents that he can't do anything about it and if they didn't airlift her down to CHOP in Philly, they would have to amputate her arm. Fortunately, they did.
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Morristown memorial is a great hospital, I drove up there from Montclair to check myself in. Mountianside in Montclair is as bad as Hunterdon medical that 112 talked about.
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