Aurora Sinai Medical Center Hospital

Many of the nurses were temps and "shift "
changes were often!

I was surprised to have a private room. My only big frustrations were that sometimes it felt as if I were being ignored. There were times that I had to wait for my IV to be changed, and the alarm would ring from 5 - 50 minutes. And it wasn't a quiet alarm. I found it easier to try and do as much for myself as I possibly could. I was anxious to leave the hospital and return home.

With the exception of my night shift nurse who ignored my nausea from the Morphine and the night shift Nursing Assistant who smelled like a tavern, the rest of my experience was perfect.

The hospital staff did not seem especially aware of dietary restrictions of the gastric bypass patient. Education for nursing staff would be adviseable. I spent much time discussion restrictions with nurses and they seemed genuinely interested. I believe this hospital is in the process of formalizing a program for gastric bypass and this would help to maintain a consistent level of patient care.

The operating room personnel and day surgery personnel were terrific. The nursing care once I got to my room was absolutely horrible. They managed to take my blood pressure and temperature when they were supposed to but anything else was not administered. I had to go to the nurse's station to ask for my pain meds, no one offered me anything to drink, breakfast food tray that was sent up to me the next morning shouldn't have been sent...it was the wrong food..we aren't supposed to have any food. A few minutes later a nurse came by and asked if I had ordered a Kosher breakfast...I said no I hadn't. I was to have been given an antibiotic drip bag on my IV...that bag sat on the counter outside my room..it was never hooked up. My IV bag of glucose had run out and blood backed up into the IV line..I went out to show them this..the nurse I talked to said that she couldn't help me as she wasn't the nurse assigned to me. I had to wait 10 minutes before the nurse assigned to me came to fix the problem. It is very frightening to me that this is what medical care has turned out to be since all these hospitals have been taken over by corporations. It is absolutely pathetic and unless the patient knows what they are supposed to have, I fear that plenty of mistakes have been made.