This hospital really scares me. Staffing is stretched thin. Help hard to come by if you need a nurse. I got yelled at by a male nurse. This was after I had been ringing for 20 minutes. He told me that I wasn’t the only patient on the floor! The problem was that my IV had a very annoying alarm that went off if there was a problem. Try listening to that for 20 minutes while you wonder what is wrong! The ER there is a joke! They do nothing and charge a fortune to the insurance companies. I was there once with a friend. She was on dialysis and had no urine output. This should have been quite obvious but 2 CNA’s tried to Catharine her! I could go on with the horror stories but it would take me all night to even start. By the way, forgot the man who went in for a simple procedure and got a serious case of MRSA. Of course he had to stay in hospital and be treated for it at his expense! They have rubber gloves at every room entrance but many staffers don’t use them. Oh! One last comment. I was in hospital for 5 days. My bed was never changed. I was never bathed and I had to ask 4 x for a clean gown. A CNA brought one in and dropped it on the bed. I was hooked up to too many things to put it on myself. I called my husband and he came back to help me. The gown didn’t come until after he left so he had to make another trip! Management! Get it together. I have so many more stories I could share, especially about the hospitalists!!!!! People talk to each other about their experiences. Anyhow, try Mercy Hospital. It’s not that far and a lot better than Baxter Regional.

They don’t know what they’re doing, I’d rather see REAL doctors than go to this hospital again.