Three Rivers Hospital of Three Rivers, Michigan:
We have used your 'services' a number of times. Each one has left me at a
loss as to why I bother. The last trip in, a very tall ER doctor badgered me
as to “who makes your GP's other diagnoses for him”. A woman doctor lied
“you have to go through the emergency room in order to be admitted at
Elkhart General”. Bad enough to be little else than a way station on the way
to a real hospital, but you made us incur additional ER costs and additional
time waiting at a facility who verified that what you told us was patently
untrue.
At Three Rivers Health/Hospital on other occasions, for both of us:
- Your admitting physician told my wife “you will not be eligible for
a transplant because you are an alcoholic” when she was admitted for
pancreatitis.
- Sherry shipped to Henry Ford for liver abscess.
- Sherry shipped to Borgess with gastrointestinal issues and emergency
surgery.
- Sherry shipped to Elkhart General for dangerously low potassium.
- I was given an ass chewing by an admitting drone for driving myself
in for treatment instead of waiting for an ambulance after an accidental
Insulin overdose. (wrong bottle, 50 units instead of 5)
- I was asked whether I knew your dye for a kidney x-ray could cause
kidney failure on being admitted for the procedure. (your Nephrologist
said afterwards that he didn't realize that they still used that dye)
- While waiting for the kidney x-ray, I felt my blood pressure going
up (this was why I was there). I was told that you would be happy to
check me into the emergency room for a blood pressure check. A $1500
blood pressure check?
- My daughter was brought in by police for a drug overdose while
visiting. Your physician treated her and booted her out telling me that
she wasn't held even for observation because: “she is depressed because
she misses her kids” (her 'kids' were abandoned 8 years earlier with a
man who was not even their father. One was an adult by the time you saw
her and the other in high school) and “she is depressed because her
mother is sick. (Sherry had been ill for almost 4 years. This was the
first time she had seen Sherry in that time and was only here because
she was no longer had a home in Jacksonville.) She has since returned to
Jacksonville and continues to deny drug addiction fed by weekly trips to
emergency rooms to get them. She is living on the streets and never
talked to or saw her mother again.
If this were a chronology, you would appear many times here each one with
some observation as to how inept and ineffective you are. I finally quit
bringing her there and opted for the further away but much more
hospital-like Sturgis hospital. Even when minutes or seconds count, they
were still a better option.
You are a pointless organization. You could be replaced by an urgent care
office and an ambulance.