Egotistical French elitists who hate anglophones. Booking staff leave voicemails of date and time of appt but no means to contact them if you need to make a modification.
Posted Date : 25/08/2022
Gatineau Hospital is a medical facility located in Gatineau, Quebec. It provides a wide range of medical services to patients in the region, including emergency care, surgery, maternity services, and specialized medical treatments. The hospital is known for its compassionate care and skilled medical staff, who strive to provide high-quality healthcare to all patients.
Visiting hours at Gatineau Hospital are from 11am to 8pm.
Yes, you can bring flowers or gifts for a patient at Gatineau Hospital, but please check with the nursing staff first as some units may have restrictions.
Yes, Gatineau Hospital has a cafeteria for visitors and staff.
You can find contact information for specific departments at Gatineau Hospital on their website or by calling the main hospital line and asking to be transferred.
Egotistical French elitists who hate anglophones. Booking staff leave voicemails of date and time of appt but no means to contact them if you need to make a modification.
Posted Date : 25/08/2022
This is absolutely the worst hospital ever. My teenage son was confined to a room in ICU (typically known as the intensive care unit with specialized level of nursing) and not permitted to shower or go to the bathroom for 5 days as the nurses pretended they had to check, double check and triple check if he had a hospital acquired virus; seems like it should have been a simple matter of trusting the results. The nurses repeatedly threw a collection of empty cardboard bottles into the room for my son to pee in, and then failed to collect the bottles until I complained for hours to various nurses, staff, and administrators. The bottles kept leaking urine onto the floor because the nurses had not prepped them, and no cardboard container is meant to hold urine for 3 days. The place is filled with petty and small-minded nurses and hospital workers that don't speak English well, don't listen, and don't care. Doctors came into the room without introducing themselves, nurses kept forgetting to feed my son meals so I was left to find food for my son. Nurses left medical waste littering the room from blood draws and IVs and bodily waste. The nurses on the floor took over 1 1/2 hour lunch breaks leaving a huge gap in the day where no nurse was available to assist patients or their caregivers. The hospital psychiatrist Dr ElAlami came into the room without introducing herself and spoke to my son privately, she then invited me back in and asked my son if he wanted a nice long stay in a mental institution. When my son said he wouldn't like that, she gleefully said she was a psychiatrist and planned to go in front of a judge and have him committed because he had said no. I pointed out that this was not ethical and that she was bound to communicate transparently and without coercion. The psychiatrist did not have the faintest clue as to her professional obligations under the Quebec Code of Ethics of Physicians. After I made repeat complaints to the hospital, I was told someone would get in touch with me. Instead, I didn't hear back until I was advised that the hospital contacted DPJ (Child Protection Services) claiming I was neglecting my son because he had attempted suicide due to the stress of covid. If calling child protection services on me wasn't bad enough, the hospital also called me up trying to intimidate me into committing fraud, by insisting that I lie about my address in order to simplify their processing of paperwork. When I refused and pointed out that this was fraud, the hospital moved to extortion saying that they would send my son's health care charges to me instead of processing them if I refused to lie about my address. If your ambulance is routed here, insist that you are no longer ill. This is not a hospital, it is like something out of a One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. This hospital should be condemned, and the staff who take no concern for patient well-being should lose their licenses.
Posted Date : 14/02/2022
After reading some of the reviews, I had low expectations for the service. What makes it worse is that I don't speak French. My experience was the opposite. I was treated very well by the staff. My radiologist was especially kind and responsive to my concerns. She went above and beyond to help me help me understand the whole situation about my hearing. THANK YOU MELANIE POIRIER FOR YOUR PROFESSIONALISM AND KINDNESS! ZIYAD HWAITIflag
Posted Date : 25/08/2021
worst service we've ever seen and had , soiled myself as nurses wouldn't pull pic line out or help me to the washroom . food was cold and horrible
Posted Date : 20/10/2018
Anonymous
Your emergency department is the epitome of incompetence, and you have some outright liars in it, too. I was told that I was called for evaluation three times while there – horsepucks! I was listening attentively and didn’t hear my name called once. People kept coming in with kids with the sniffles and weren’t even triaged, just taken in right away. The was one lady therewith a bandaged arm who’d been waiting 9 hours and still hadn’t been helped. Then an ambulance came in, and everything stopped. By this time, my leg felt like it was on fire, and I knew from the incompetence of the staff that I’d not be seen til at least noon next day, so I went home. And I couldn’t even get some money for a taxi, because the only ATM in the place was broken.
You will be overjoyed, I am sure, to know that the only way I will come to your nest of incompetence and prevarication, is unconscious in an ambulance. The emergency department is short-staffed, but I bet your paycheque doesn’t notice.
Anonymous
My husband had lung cancer so he had to go to the hospital often. The staff was very good with him.
Anonymous
Superbe expérience avec tout le personnel. Une petite nouvelle àl’inscription p-e qui se plaignait d’être écœurée de sa job et était un peu perdue, mais autre que ça j’ai été traité comme une reine par les médecins, les infirmières, les auxiliaires, les préposés, àl’accueil et au triage! Vraiment une belle expérience malgré le malaise que je vivais àce moment! Mon conjoint a pensé la même chose du personnel! Belle équipe CISSSO Gatineau/gynécologie/ maternité! Bravo!
Anonymous
From the moment I walked into the hospital for a colonoscopy , to getting my hospital card, to being shown to the right floor…. Helpful every step of the way. I’m anglophone with some passable french and found everyone to be incredibly kind, spoke enough English to make anyone feel understood . My nurses were great and my Dr. (Dr. Dido) had fabulous bedside manners and made me feel heard and comfortable. Thank you to the amazing staff.