Greater Baltimore Medical Center (COE) Hospital
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I had my RNY on Dec 8,2011. The hospital, staff & nurse's were excellent. Best experiance I have ever had in a hospital.
I would reccomend GBMC to anyone
GBMC was absolutely wonderful. They have an entire unit dedicated to barriatric surgery. The nurses are very attuned to what you are going through and what you may need. The entire staff treated me very well. When they told me I'd be going for a test or procedure in the morning, that is when I went. The transport people were courteous and friendly. My only complaints would be the beds in this facility (3" mattresses on a metal slab) were absolutely horrible and there was never adequate hospital gowns. All of the people in this unit are overweight (why else would they be there?). Why would the laundry people even send a medium sized gown. When I asked for a larger one, I was told, 'they never send us enough of the larger gowns".
Let me start by saying, my mother has been employed by GBMC for almost 35 years, my father passed away (of cancer) at GBMC in 1984 and my daughter was born at GBMC in 2004 and spent 47 days in the NICU. I had VSG surgery on 3/1/2011. Everything went fine until the PACU. For some reason (I think it was because they didn’t have a room for me) I was in the PACU, awake and alert most of the time, for 5 hours. This surgery was scheduled for over a week, so I don’t understand why this was the case. My wife/family was only allowed to see me for 5 minutes out of every two hours. When I finally got to my room, I immediately began asking to walk. Four hours later I got to walk only after asking/demanding again. In the next 18 hours I was reluctantly allowed to walk 2 more times. At one point I mistakenly knocked the oxygen tube off of my bi-pap machine and couldn’t reach it. I pressed the nurse call button numerous times with no response. About ½ hour later I called the hospital operator to be transferred to the nurses station for unit 48 and was able to talk to someone. All I needed was someone to reach the oxygen tube. This situation was very disturbing, thankfully I was not in distress. This incident happened at around 7pm, so shift change may have had something to do with it. The next evening my Dr. was going to discharge me so the rn started removing my iv when the PA realized I had yet to urinate on my own. She told the rn, who was over ¾ of the way done removing my iv, to stop in case they needed to give me more fluids. The PA was telling me I need to drink more, and specific stuff that directly contradicted what I was told by my surgeon and the info I had learned in the COMP program. I urinated within about 30 minutes and was allowed to go home.
Because of the statement in the first sentence. I have always and continue to have a loyalty to GBMC. The hospital was very clean, even though a week later I was in the er and there was dirt/dust in the lights of the er exam room. All in all, I continue to have confidence in GBMC, but I was very disappointed in this stay in general. My wife is scheduled for RNY surgery on 4/5 and I can just hope her experience is better than mine.
GBMC is a top-notch Medical Center. Staff is well-knowledged and courteous. Very clean. Will definitely tell others of my positive experience there!
GBMC seems well equipped to handle bariatric patients with over-sized wheelchairs, scales, etc. The staff are obviously accustomed to bariatric patients and sensitive to our needs and feelings. I've had 2 different surgeries there and had good experiences both times.
