St. Joseph Hospital

Megha Mahajan

Worst hospital... I went to city MD due to abdomen pain and they recommended to go to Joseph , as they suspected it's appendicitis. They said it is very urgent that I should to go to hospital immediately and get a CT scan, Get operated the same day if that is the case. So my husband drove me there immediately. We mentioned this to the hospital and showed the paperwork. This was around 2 :30 pm. My husband had to leave as it was almost time for our daughter to come from school . We also have a 6 months old daughter, so my husband was unable to come back to hospital. I went there for CT scan only, but they admitted me and I was still in pain so I slept. They didnt tell me that their CT scan machine is broken before admitting. I woke up and asked the status but they were so rude n kept saying it will take some time. I was too weak to get up and when I said " excuse Me " to call, but no one responded, even though the nurse was nearby , I could see her and she could too . I kept saying that I have kids I need to go back home. I should have left . I wish I would have , as I landed up with a bill of 7000$.. Even though the nurse was near by but she kept ignoring. Around 8 pm I woke up and had strength to get up so went to the counter to ask. Still they said it will take time. In the meanwhile they did bunch of unrelated test . Around 9 pm they did the CT scan. Around 11:30 I was discharged. They didnt even do my sonogram since I came for abdomen pain. the hospital doctor said the blood work was fine even though my liver numbers were very high. They said my CT scan was fine n there is no mention of the gall bladder. I went to my doctor with that same report and he said my liver numbers are high so I may have gall stones, so went for sono to Lenox hill for sono n it showed multiple gall stones. It took just few minutes for them to do this. Now crazy hospital has sent a bill for 7000. 7000 for what I don't understand? Such a bad hospital, this hospital should close down , bad hospital, worst service, broken machine s in emergency, charging people for nothing, performing all sort of test just to make money. Never ever go here. I wish I can give negative stars ..

Anthony Heinlein

Have a five-star surgeon that only caters out of this hospital, finally give up on schedule and surgery after going back and forth to this hospital for over a year, either they would not forthcoming on what was needed for testing, or they wanted me to deal with my insurance company when I gave them to insurance companies to work with, they have a billing department to deal with that themselves it's what they get paid for, did they also want me to do the surgery myself it was for a gallbladder removal. So after that one year of being hassled to get a gallbladder removed, the surgeon finally backed out and told me I had to look elsewhere which in my book brings them down to a one-star as well for professionalism. But I'm not going to be that hard on the surgeon it was the hospital given the whole problem, so eventually had to take an ambulance to Plainview hospital over the gallbladder it was hurting that bad, was admitted spent 6 days in the hospital and finally had to gallbladder removed. As far as St Joseph's hospital, never really had the experience of going past the pre-surgical but that professionalism definitely sucks! I will never in a lucid mind and able body go to this hospital again over the treatment I received, I do not recommend this hospital for anybody just because of that

Joe I

Worst emergency room triage I've ever seen or heard of. An emergency room is not, "first come, first serve" Called and left a message

diana carolina lozano

I got in a car accident and I was brought into this HORRIBLE HOSPITAL. Nurse Felicia was extremely aggressive putting the IV. She tried once and did not say a word and left. She left while my arm was bleeding because she could not put my IV. When the other nurse came back, she said” nurse Felicia asked me to give you the IV”. That’s one thing. The other thing is that I waited more than 5 HOURS for nothing. They took an X-ray the doctor came and said X-ray is ok. After 2 hours, When the PA came, I said when can I leave, then he said I haven’t gotten your X-rays back then I told him the doctor already came to just to say they were ok and he said I will discharge you. I never received and took a look of the X-rays. Nobody came to check and at the end when nurse FELICIA came to take my IV out, once again she was super aggressive and non caring. Definitely THE WORST HOSPITAL IVE EVER BEEN TO. Stay away from this place. Terrible patient care, terrible service