Greater Baltimore Medical Center (COE) Hospital

There is nothing negative that I can say about my stay at GBMC. The staff made feel at ease and were very sensetive to my needs.

All of the nurses from the operating room, recovery, Surgical ICU and Unit 48 were great. I never had to wait for long to have a nurse respond to my needs, they were on top of things. The only issue I had is when I was in the SICU, my surgeon ordered a medication from me that I take regularly at home to be given to me daily, i was in the SICU for 10 days and was only given it once, not sure if it was a lack of communication or what, but my surgeon was very upset when I told him that I only received it once during my entire hospital stay of 19 days.

There was an abundance of staff and they were very professional. Only a couple of staff members were unpleasant. This hospital is huge. I would recommend GBMC to anyone.

Staff deserves huge accolades. I was impressed

Most of the staff was amazing. I particularly would love to call out Cindy Smith, RN and Nick who was a PST. Nick will be doing an externship in Dr. Mo and DVR's office, so hopefully we will all be seeing him. He was so amazingly helpful, and compassionate, and he really knows his stuff. Some of the overnight nurses can't be bothered. But, overall the care was outstanding. The good ones far outnumbered and far out shined any of the less than able or caring ones. I would highly recommend GBMC and Dr. Moein for any patient considering gastric bypass surgery.

My entire interaction with the hospital and staff has been wonderful...if a hospital experience can be wonderful, this is it!

The staff was extremely helpful and nice.

The only real complaint was that the
"transport team" moving me from SICU
to reg ward first came in with a big wheelchair. that would have been fine but there was apparently a bed shortage on the ward I was going to and at the
last minute they needed to move me and the bariatric bed I was in: OK fine:
until the bed would not fit out the icu door or onto the elevator: thru cramped
and sharp cornered hallways. To get
the bed on the elevator they literally had
to remove two large plastic boxes hanging on the end of the bed: So
where do they put the boxes? On the bed
between me and the siderails. Here I was 24 hours out of surgury being wheeled in a bed hitting every possible
obstacle in the way. I kept saying get me the chair or at least let me get off: I will walk. When we finally got to the right
ward the bed would not go thru the door.
It took nearly an hour to be moved down 1 level of the hospital. I never did find out exactly what was going on. They
were too busy discussing ways of getting
the damn bed moved. Very poorly organized move.

I was ignored at night, the pain med was not given to me until 6 hours later when the morning shift came in. I would hit the call bell someone would answer and the nurse would not come for hours. The daytime nurses and aides were awesome and always there for me but this particular nurse at night in unit 48 is nt recommended for anyone.

I had a great hospital experience there.