This review is to acknowledge a few of the staff on 3 west. My daughter was clearly an addict upon admittance and was treated as such, for the most part, during her stay on 3 west. The illness however that brought her to the hospital this particular time had nothing to do with addiction; she had fallen ill with a permanent debilitating disease. While I was fighting tooth and nail for my daughter to be treated as a patient, not an addict, there was one nurse, Tia, who showed above and beyond compassion. I could have jumped up and hugged her when after 3 weeks on this ward she walked in with hygiene supplies and asked if there was anything else she could get us. As time wore on, some nurses more than others did treat us better. There are a couple more names I wish I could remember that I would like to acknowledge . We were in that ward somewhere around 2 months. Throughout it all the social worker, Charmaine and the one PCC , again wish I could remember her name, were our saving graces. Thank you too all of you who put aside first appearances and helped my daughter in the initial days of the fall of life as she knew it.
Posted Date : 08/09/2018
Anonymous
The Emergency Room has ridiculously long waiting time. I went there with severe abdominal pain which turned out later on to be kidney colic due to the large kidney stone. I have waited 3 hours in the waiting room to be even looked up at. They only called me in upon my getting sick right there in the waiting room and vomiting like crazy. The addimitting staff in unfriendly and void of compassion. The most of the other staff are slow and make you wait for even uncomplicated procedure for hours. Our medical system is sick. No wander that we don’t get a better care with more and more spending each year for the medical system. All the additional funding goes straight into nurses pockets with wages and additional benefits. I am not impressed but I am affraid that other hospitals are not better.
Anonymous
My daughter was born there in may of 2013. The staff were very helpful
It is a training hospital so there are quite a few residents around. During birthing we had at least 6 ladies attending to us in our room and they were very helpful. Have also been back to the emerged for paediatrics. Rather slow at night but they are helpful as no clinics open and we still get what we need
Anonymous
Never use the jim pattison birth unit. They can cancel your care up to 37 weeks if they choose and you end up having a complicated pregnancy. If u are taking courses their for knowledge that gets cancelled also. So they do not prepare you effectively for labour and you could end up with no support at 37 weeks if they feel like dismissing you because of complications. Also the midwives are not listened to by all the doctors in the hospital but everyone listens to actual doctors always Safe yourself and see the obgyn doctors and ask for natural labour
Anonymous
I was referred to DBT at this hospital. I’ve never been there because they kicked me off the waiting list because I didn’t reply to a letter I never received and didn’t know they were sending to me. They didn’t bother to let me know I wasn’t on the list anymore, either. I only found out when I called them because I was wondering why I hadn’t heard anything from them for so long. When I tried to get back on the list, they told me I had to have borderline personality disorder.
Anonymous
My son had to go there when he was 3 months old and they were great and helped lots they have a very good kids department there