The ambulance could have stabilized him during the ride. I thought I was doing him a favor getting him somewhere as fast as possible, but I should have listened to what I was told. Take it from me DO NOT GO TO NORTHRIDGE FOR AN EMERGENCY! TELL THE AMBULANCE TO GO TO NORTHEAST GA!
Last time I was in the Emergency room a few years ago for a hurt arm they put me & my two younger kids in that same room with a young woman who had strep throat so bad she couldn't talk. They didn't treat me seriously, just treated me like I was just there for pills. Even when I refused to take the prescription several times! Even the young woman's mother in the room with me couldn't believe how the doctor wouldn't stop trying to give me a pill prescription as many times as he did.
I am sort of new to the area (originally from Atlanta, lived in Gainesville for a while before moving to Commerce) A family member of mine works at a nearby hospital. They warned me when I moved here NOT to go to Northridge in an emergency. I didn't listen. BIG MISTAKE! My husband had an emergency, so I drove him there (it is less than two miles away) I won't say what the emergency was for personal reasons. In fact I won't go into any gory details, but my husband could have died from it. He was in pain so bad he was in tears.(it is rare to see my husband shed a tear) The woman there (I did not see a man, just woman, not that it matters, but they were NOT FRIENDLY) they acted like we were bothering them. When I rang the bell no one was in a hurry and they acted like I interrupted their quilting bee or afternoon soaps.
My wife had to come in with a sprained ankle and torn ligaments, foot was swollen the size of a softball, screaming in pain. She also had fallen into a large patch of poison ivy during her ankle accident. We get in and after waiting and x-rays etc Dr. Sam G Amporful prescribed her ibuprofen for the pain. We explained to him that she was in excruciating pain and this is not something that just goes away, she also is a stay at home mommy of two, so he changed the prescription to tramadol.. I tried speaking with him to get something that might actually help the pain and he was very rude and condescending. We are not drug users trying to get pain killers, heck we don't even smoke or drink. Horrible experience, this is a serious foot injury. She won't be able to walk without crutches for weeks. Don't go here, just go to Athens. I'm so upset and my wife is in severe pain.
Every experience we have had with them was horrible. They are dirty, nasty, and if you have tattoos and piercings they will treat you like your just coming in for pills. Not everyone, including my boyfriend and myself, use drugs. When we come to the ER it's because we have a serious issue and need emergency care. I hope anyone who needs to go here will see this review. Please be careful. The staff may be friendly like all the other reviewers have said but they apparently don't have any sense at all. Why would you put a sick person and another person who has some type of bacterial infection in the same room together? It's crazy and it needs to be stopped!
The staff at Northridge are rude and do not respond quickly.
I came into the hospital because I was having throat spasms and a painful swollen lump under an incision from a lymph node biopsy that was pressing on my windpipe and making it hard to swallow. The doctor walked in and the only thing he wrote down was the name of the friend who came to the hospital with me. The dr didn't even know how to spell Billy. He proceeded to completely ignore anything I had to say about my surgery, my results, or past medical history, and immediately told me I was just over anxious and got rather annoyed with me when I tried to continue to tell him things he needed to know to treat me. He ordered a CT scan anyway and while I waited I could overhear the staff in the hall talking about me in a very unprofessional manner and stating "they hoped my results would hurry up and arrive so they could get me out of there". I do have cancer, I did have a surgery, and there is fluid build up but the doctor didn't even take the time to listen to me to know that. However, even in the instance that this was not true, and it was simply over anxiety about my incision site, how does that make any difference in treating me? Anxiety is a very real psychological disorder and what you feel while having an anxiety attack feels just as real as something that is really happening. Treating me any differently because you think I'm just anxious is extremely unprofessional and can cause serious psychological harm to a patient suffering from anxiety. If I didn't think there was a serious problem, I would not have come to the hospital and wasted my money, energy, and time dealing with it. I do not recommend coming to this hospital, I don't even think they should be able to call it a hospital.
Another complaint: a while back...My boyfriend was in the Emergency room because he hurt his foot at work. They put him in the same room to be checked out with another possible MRSA patient. Ridiculous! My boyfriend has CML (leukemia) and has a very low immune system, he told the nurse that he can't be in the room with him and they did nothing! If he didn't think his foot was broken he would just leave and find a better hospital. This hospital is a JOKE!
New update: This place is a joke! I would give it less then a star if i could. It's very sad that this hospital is running!! I had to get my 3 year old daughter to the closest Emergency Room. Unfortunately that was Northridge in Commerce. Her symptoms where... Right ankle was swollen and painful(she never fell or hurt her leg), she had a rash on her bottom down her legs that looked like horrible horrible brusing, no bites nor was bitten, throwing up, rash on face. The idiot docor named Robert Mitchell looked at my daughter for a quick 2 minutes and said it was chigger bites. He ordered a steroid shot and blood work. Thank goodness it was shift change. I knew the last doctor was wrong in his diagnosis so a new doctor came in to check her. The new doctor ordered an x-ray immediately and in the end diagnosed her with facial dermatitis (face rash) and a sprained ankle.
Two days later I had to rush her to Athens Regional Urgent care because her eyes and right wrist began to swell horribly. They rushed us to Athens Regional and she was immediately diagnosed with Glomerulonephritis due to Henoch-Schönlein purpura. Meaning, my 3 year old was having a HORRIBLE reaction to a virus and the blood vessels in her legs, bottom, lower stomach, and feet were swollen and bursting causing the brusing. Her Kidneys are inflammed because of this. She had every symptom pointing to this and just because "Dr." Mitchell couldn't figure it out he decided to give her a BS diagnosis.
Do NOT come here for a medical emergency...go to NORTHEAST GEORGIA!!!!! You have been warned!
We sat there waiting and waiting while the ONE intake lady was with one man who did not appear to be in a life threatening situation whatsoever.(I think he was telling her his wrist was sore) After a near altercation between me and these woman who refused to get off their fat arses to help my husband while I waited to give his insurance info to the intake lady (who I never got to see because she stayed with this one guy forever) before they would even take him back...We finally jumped in the car and drive to Northeast Georgia where they treated him like it was an emergency.(it turned out it was life threatening and he was hospitalized for several days) NEVER AGAIN! Next time we will call an ambulance to Northeast GA. In the time we waited (wasted) we could have made it to Northeast GA anyway. He could have DIED waiting.
Long wait times when no one is here. And nurses laugh while your in pain.
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