Bothwell Regional Health Center Hospital

I had a good experience. I went into surgery on Friday and came home on Sunday. Other than the shower/bathroom being too small for an overweight person all was well.

My first impression was that it was looked "rinky dink" and outdated- and was concerned about the quality of care I would receive, but after my surgery was over I had no complaints about my care- I was pleased.

With the exception of the "Bathroom situation" I stumbled through - I found almost all the other things appropriate.

Overall Bothwell Hospital was an exellent place to have WLS, the staff was great and treated me with respect and care. If I had to do it all over again I'd pick Bothwell any day!

I've always been happy with Bothwell. I've had several surgeries there and have no complaints at all.

I had a wonderful stay at this hosptial. The nurses were fantastic. Candy, Christin, and Kristina are the best there is!!

I felt that it was very clean, well equipt and efficient staffing for my needs.

The bathrooms are very small not big enough for larger people and the rooms in general are very small.

The Surgical staff was excelent. I was given good care and they were actually concerned for me. Once I was on my floor though that changed. It seems the staff is more interested in punching the time clock than treating patients. I rarely asked for anything since my wife was there to help me. When I did ask it took a long time to get help. The nurses don't like leaving the station. On the evening of my surgery my I V came out. I was on a moriphine pump for pain and the I.V. was my only relief. It took over an hour to get someone to restart my I.V. I had trouble getting them to give me meds that I must have. They are pysichiatric meds so they just didn't consider them important. I had to forcefully explain more than once because they don't seem to write things down or communicate between shifts. My doctor saw me and ordered a morphine injection before I left to go home. I had a 2 1/2 hour drive home and he wanted me to be as comfortable as possible. No one wrote it down. I was refused the shot when I asked for it. All I had to come home with was oral meds I picked up at Walgreens. It was not entirely helpful. I can't say enough about the surgical staff. They were excelent. It was the rest of my stay that was so bad. I don't like to give anyone this kind of review. It's just my surgery went very well. I didn't need or ask for much. My wife and I took care of most things. But someone else may not have an easy of time. They might require much more care. I'm just not convinced they will get it. UPDATE: In fairness all of the complaints I have above stem from poor communication of the nursing staff. My Dr. has told me that when he left my room abruptly one morning he did so to address that very issue. I guess he didn't like the lack of detail and incompleteness of my chart. This problem has been sternly addressed and I've been assured the issue is solved. Since I can't change my experience I can't change what I originally wrote. So I'm giving this update instead. Also in fairness this hospital was new at being a Bariatric Center of Excellence so there may have been bugs in the system.

The nurses were great. They took time to explain everything they were doing and why. I found them all very compassoniate.