If you reside in the Los Angeles area, chances are you have been a patient at Cedars Sinai Hospital in West Hollywood.
For years, the medical facility was considered to be one of the best hospitals in the country – but unfortunately – the quality of health care and community services has dropped to a new low in recent days.
Some are now saying that Cedars Sinai is the worst hospital in Southern California!
No wonder.
Patients have complained that when they were rushed to emergency, they were forced to languish in the waiting room for hours on end without any personnel tending their medical needs.
In the “old days”, however, that was simply not the case.
Volunteers usually strolled about the waiting room and kept tabs on the patients to ensure they were not overlooked. But, that professional touch went out the window long ago.
Once inside, patients are often left on a gurney for hours on end in curtained area – unable to go to the bathroom (or even request a juice or glass water) until a staffer happens by – so incompetent are the nurses and doctors at this facility.
Patients have also complained that when they were assigned a room (it was cleaned and ready to “go” within a couple of hours of their arrival) they were forced to wait hours on end in a cold makeshift curtained-off area because the Nurse on duty neglected to file out a report that was necessary to send them on to the comfort of their room upstairs.
Once upstairs, the incompetence and negligence usually continues.
Though Cedars-Sinai used to be an ultra-clean hospital, today it is quite different story.
Patients have stepped on used needles dropped carelessly on the floor by thoughtless nurses for instance.
Even though medical reports may have determined that a patient is low on white cells – and susceptible to infection – beds are often left unchanged for a couple of days and trash is left to build up in the restroom.
Worse than that, patients are often forced to stretch out next to trays laden with half-eaten food and stale drinks next to their beds because housekeeping neglected to do their rounds and a thorough clean-up.
A video of one example is posted below.
Patients have noted that many of the nursing staff – and housekeepers – do not speak English very well, either; consequently, there are a number of communication problems.
It appears that in order to save money, Cedars-Sinai has hired unskilled non-union workers, to the detriment of the overall health and well-being of the patients.
In spite of the fact monitors are meant to inform the nursing staff about any potential dangers in the room (a patient may have stopped breathing, or may be experiencing a heart attack, etc.) Nurses often ignore their signals!
What’s the point of having them if staff are not going to respond with due diligence?
If a patient calls for a “charge nurse” to complain, they usually get the run-around.
On occasion the "superior" acknowledges that the nurse was remiss in their duty (and promises to take disciplinary action) but - sure enough - they turn around and commit the same unprofessional conduct themselves down-the-bumpy road.
And then, there is the issue of medical care.
Parents have been admitted and charged thousands of dollars in medical fees - only to find themselves discharged without any resolution to their ailments.
A trek to another hospital usually establishes that Cedars-Sinai nurses and doctors are guilty of Medical Malpractice.
Bottom line?
Cedars-Sinai is an inferior medical facility run by incompetent unprofessionals who don’t know the first thing about medical care.
Who the Hospital hires says it all in a nutshell, if you ask me.
Tattler readers may recall that I recently posted a report on one doctor at the hospital – Mario Rosenberg (with a dubious reputation) – was brought up on charges of insurance fraud in the past.
‘Nuff said!
Avoid this hospital like the plague.
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