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Originally Posted by rivaridger1
No, as evidenced by these posts, as well as previous posts, The Village Hospital ER is uniquely horrible. I've personally experienced the tender mercies dispensed there more then once. Never again. Since both TVH and Leesburg are under the same management, it sounds as if Leesburg, based on this last post, is being dragged down to the same miserable level.
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The Village Hospital ER is uniquely horrible.
You have no idea. Kings County ER in Brooklyn---we averaged about 5-6 gunshot wounds and 8-9 stabbings each night. There were 2 trauma OR's just off the ER that were in use 24/7. The waiting room consisted of church pews, 2 wide and 16 rows deep, yet people were sitting on the floor. The average wait if you didn't have a critical condition was 17 hours. The ER docs spoken very little English, and were usually busy studying for some FMG exam. As a 4th year medical student, I basically ran whatever section of the ER I was in. Sound bad?---Not really, since it was 10 times better than Methodist Hospital or Brooklyn-Cumberland
The main problem at TVRH ER is inefficiency. It would take a good ER director less than a month to straighten out the problems I saw there, including some personnel changes. The one time my wife was there, it was medium busy. She had to stay an hour or so on a stretcher in the hallway, but they started all the lab tests and CT scan. She was admitted and in her room in less than 5 hours. The nursing care on the floor was excellent, as was her hospitalist. Again, and I've said it before, TVRH has 37,000 ER visits each year---where would everyone go without it? And what would the other local hospital ERs look like with that additional load?
As far as all the anecdotal horror stories that get posted on this site go, I'm sure the people relating them believe that is what happened, but many of them make no medical sense whatsoever. And with all due respect, like Judge Judy says, "If it doesn't make sense, then it isn't true"