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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I too was taken to TVRH (The Villages Regional Hospital) in December with a life threatening heart difficulty. The procedures in the ambulance were skilled and they even took along three firemen, just in case I needed chest compressions. When I arrived there the doctor saw me immediately and continued to read the results of the information that had been relayed to them second to second from the trip over. They were smart, all of them, and kind and immediately told me they thought I had an electrical problem with my heart and called my cardiologist and regular doctor. I was placed in a room, a little room with the nursing staff looking at me and my already wired up self as I awaited a regular hospital room. I was admitted, in fact stayed for eight days over Christmas, not the optimum time to be hospitalized but I had dedicated and very experienced nurses in critical food and some of the worst food ever offered to a human.
I thank them all, I had 12 doctors see me during that time and only two had the same shade of skin as me, but I don't think they cared and I certainly didn't and I hope they didn't think I was hard to understand because sometimes I didn't understand them, but thank God it was not ME taking care of THEM.
The director of nursing was my nurse on Christmas Eve and Christmas, she told me she doesn't have little ones anymore. They were so good to me and each man and woman who cared for me treated me like I was their family member.
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I too have been a patient at TVRH...admitted via the ER...during "high season" and twice. The 1st time I could have complained because I was LOW person on the triage list BUT that said---they'd had multiple accidents coming in plus multiple cardiac and stroke patients coming in via ambulance. Do you think their families were thinking those patients in the ER waiting room should be 1st? It put a perspective on my issue for sure. It would take a lot for me to criticize our hospital since I'm not working in those back rooms in life/death scenarios. Of course my issue had a "potential" of being life-threatening, ultimately but I'm trusting those doctors and nurses took that into account as well. I've appreciated the care I've been given, both as an out-patient and in-patient!! I agree with the one OP who stated many of the folks who go to the ER might have considered going to Urgent Care instead! The ER isn't supposed to substitute as a clinic!