Community Hospital North - ER

I have been in Community North twice since Halloween, 2008 for surgeries due to a perforated colon. The nursing staff have been outstanding, as have the support staff. Keri from the colonectomy department was a great help. Pros: The nursing and support staff; the Colon staff Cons: None that I could see more

Our insurance companies are paying Community Hospital to hire unsocial, noncaring staff. Who is going to make sure that everyone get's treated fairly, not made fun of, and get's the treatment needed? For a two week period ranging from the Emergency Department to Inpatient to Surgery, my insurance and my co-pay's paid for me to suffer, listen to what was going on in all the other patient room's, being made fun of because ""The Community Staff thought I should not be in that much pain"" and called names. It is time for the people and the state to ensure that the treatment given is fair, not prejudged based on your last visit, and one more thing to say the least appropriate healthcare based off of an individual need. While being a patient an aide informed me of a paper generated out of Indianapolis based off of ss number and name that show''s all hospitals every visit to doctor and what the diagnosis was. That form is only used to help the staff make fun of you and call you a ""medicine seeker"" if you have made too many visit's to the hospital in their eye's. Now this does not count if you are an employee there or you have brought your family for care. You should have heard what the nurse said about the room next door and the fact that lady had Medicaid. I would rather die than be taken somewhere like that again. They need to not think about a new building and invest in some new staff. Just because you may have sought out a medical degree, does not make you any better than me. I just chose another career and maybe the Medicaid lady was disabled at birth and can't pay for better insurance. She obviously qualified or she would not have it and me knowing her insurance really is none of my business!!!!!!! Let's put healthcare back to caring first!!! Pros: There was one nice nurse Cons: Prejudgement, payment by insurance to hospital to be treated poorly, no one to make change more

I had to go to the hospital for what I thought was something simple. It turned out to be really bad. The hospital saved my life more

I went there one night because I had a horrible sore throat and it was starting to swell and my stomach hurt really bad. I was disagonsed with a stomach ulcer and to a 120$ prescription of Protonix. Three days later I felt WORSE! I went to my family doctor (5 hrs north) and it ended up being a horrible case of strep throat. I had to drop all my classes for the semester (1600$ gone), pay for a useless prescription, and spend a week without doing anything because I was in so much pain. On top of all that since the doctor ""stood by his diagnoses"" they told me I still had to pay for the visit. Cons: misdiagnosed more