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| - Their ICU nurses were great a few years ago when my mom was there for weeks--really top notch. The ER is another story completely;they have a great new Trauma Center, so I think if you're in an accident or get shot, this is a good place to go. But when emergent services for non-trauma are required, they are underwhelming. I experienced that first-hand when my mother had to be admitted through the ER--getting them to understand that she was in terrible pain and needed to be examined promptly was a chore. When she began to choke and regurgitate the liquid they gave her to drink, I had to tell the nurse who was standing at bedside watching passively, "DO something! Help her!" It was bizarre.
As for myself, I hadn't gone to the ER for about 30 years, but today, exhausted after over a week of increasingly worse asthma, coughing, lack of sleep, I wanted to avoid a 2:00 a.m. 911 call, I went to the ER, thinking a breathing treatment might help.Their automated vital sign equipment was malfunctioning and they said they couldn't find a stethoscope or manual BP cuff.I asked for, but wasn't given a copy of the Patient Information sheet they had me sign. I was left to wait in their nearly-empty waiting room for over an hour and a half without any contact from hospital personnel, coughing and wheezing like a steam engine the whole time.
My suggestion would be, if you need attention in their ER,hit a lamp post first in your car and complain of neck pain. That way, you will be a trauma patient, and quite possibly, you will also be able to get any needed emergent medical care for your other condition(s) while you have their interest.
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