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administration is horrible. Don’t help actual essential workers. Just tell them what to do once they become VP.
Billing is atrocious. I paid all dues for doctor visits last year in 2021. They just hit me with additional fees from the same visits an entire year later, claiming that hospital fees and doctors fees are separate. I’ve never in my 20 years have been charged in this very shadey manner. Even my insurance company confirmed that the hospital should refund me for overpayments. You will get the run around from hospital to clinic and no one will return any calls. Even in person we were redirected , from cashier, patient representative. I contacted the state dept of financial services to complain and was advised to contact the states district attorney.
My 97 year old father-in-law was seen in the ER on Mon. night. The doctors and nurses were terrific, friendly and competent. He was diagnosed with a UTI and at 5:30 A.M. was admitted to a room. Despite my wife’s persoanl appearance at the hosptal at 630 and subsequenmt calling to the nurses’ station, she has received ZERO info on her dad’d mediacl condition. Despite repeated assurances that a doctor will call, no one has. This is Oct. 2022 in the US, not 1930 in a Third World country.
How can a Hospital supposedly with Jewish root. Refuse to give Jewish workers off for the high Holidays and to let them use vacation time. Instead choosing not to pay their religious employees for a federally recognized Religious holiday.
My whole experience at Maimonides was horrible
I didn’t know and wasn’t aware to what extent Maimonides neglect to patients took from A-Z still no diagnoses but especially the ratio and the stress that the medical professionals have within the environment that leads to t maltreatment and rude care which can lead to death of patients and not being there on time
I had one nurse give me meds to give the patient which is illegal as a visitor of the patient and the nursing manager yelled and called security and denied the nursing ratio
We have every right as family members, and caregivers to be in the loops of the communication and medicallly entails
It’s very sad to what this hospital became
In the future I will never send anyone or use this hospital myself even for an emergency I will travel longer to get better care from quality medical professionals who knows there stuff nobody should have to wait longer or unaware of how the patient is being treated
It’s way more stressful on the caregivers and family members
When we tried to transfer hospitals they didn’t allow and support us with our own decision even the medical proxy
My experience at Maimonides was life saving. I went in after having a seizure at home. They brought me in and to make a long story short the staff and the surgeon who tended to me were swift with their care, patient with me ,kind to my family. They completely removed a brain tumor without side effects , discovered that I was diabetic and when all was said and done I was discharged with all my needs met and without any issues.
please visit the skolye rebbe on 18 ave he will share his story how his rebetzin passed away at age 54 in Maimonides by neglect
Sitting in L&D waiting for a room for over an hour, and still waiting. When we asked a nurse how long it might take her response was ” as long as the rooms are full you’ll wait” wasn’t encouraging…
I recently had surgery at MMC. They were great with the battery of tests to find that I had a tumor over 15lbs on my ovary, that had fractured several ribs. During my pre-op week, it was a nightmare. I have back problems, in addition to the tumor, etc. and the bed was agony. After 4 days, they switched the bed, which was just as bad. The night before my surgery, I spent in a chair. No sleep. There were several mentally ill patients on the floor, yelling and singing all night.
I requested numerous times, a vegetarian diet. I could not eat most of the time.
Post-op, I was in a better wing. I still had food issues. I was having problems with the catheter, 1 nurse said no problem with it. I was in a lot of pain. Another nurse checked, and said the bag needed to be changed.
I had to keep a careful watch on the meds, several mistakes were almost made, if I hadn’t caught it and demanded they check again.
When I was released, I was not given any details in what to expect, and what to do at home. When I went to the Surgeon to have my staple removed, he said he he did not need me to come back for a follow-up (really? you tell me I was a textbook case, with double surgery, ask me to sign a release so you can use my case , etc. and you don’t want to check on me?). I requested him as my gyno, and the truth comes out. I don’t have private insurance, so he didn’t want to see me again. I had post-op issues, thankfully my primary is knowledgeable and was able to treat me.
What happened to the “oath” you took? Guess it is money over health of the patient.
Hi
my grandmother was unfortunately a cancer patient a few weeks before she passed away and had severe pain; she was screaming from pain. She had to wait for 29 hours in the emergency room before being admitted and taken care of.
No training, just throwing us on different units with higher level of care…
Are there positive developments Re: the fiscal, managerial and clinical crises at Maimonides hospital? I haven’t seen any postings since September 7. It was concerning to read elsewhere that Mr Felder suddenly reinterpreted the situation as a “smear campaign” against Gibbs . The campaign is to rid the hospital of this model of managerial incompetence and documented greed,among the other horrible perpetrators and situations. This is not a smear campaign. It is a campaign of TRUTH! That Mr Felder chooses to consider the complaints of patients and family members who have suffered, and dedicated,but badly mistreated staff,(only a fraction of the stories have been listed in this site) who suffered under Gibbs’ direction, or lack thereof, or influence, is very worrisome. In Elul, or any time, we must be very careful not to be חשד בכשרים. He should not be regarding the complainants and we should not be regarding him.
This story goes back ten years, my daughter was giving birth to her fifth child , she was a healthie mother when she came into the hospital . She had an appadoril but instead of the medication going were it’s supposed to go it went into her brain . In this case they give you a medication to stop the swelling in the brain we were waiting for the doctor to come and administer the medication . It took an hour for him to come, in the meantime she went into coma , never recoverd , passed away a few weeks after.
An employee died Friday and was left over the weekend at 1301 57th st clinic when he was found. The president didn’t even announce any condolences. They want the incident swept under the rug.
I escorted a family member with pneumonia there. She explained to the nurse that she was allergic to one of the antibiotics, could she please have any other one than that one. 48 hours later, she had not gotten any medication. As she deteriorated, my family tried desperately to get her treatment started. Nurses said they needed to talk to the doctor, we were not allowed to…Hours of shift changes… and nurses saying they are too busy. Finally, I found out they put ‘refused’ under her medication order because she explained she was allergic to one specific antibiotic. She was nearly gone (could barely talk and couldn’t move) by the time I begged and pleaded just hard enough (I guess) and got a nurse to give her antibiotics based on her initial (chart) order for it. She only survived because I advocated for her. Then, they told her she had lung cancer before she left. She didn’t -as an outside doctor would later explain -it was just the pneumonia showing on the scan that they had pointed to. A scan for pnuemonia that it took them 4 days to get around to reading. At one point, she developed a fever and a nurse said ‘thats not a problem, I have a code to deal with, that’s a real problem’. How anyone survives there is a mystery to me.
my father was a patient at maimonides for years, i practically grew up there. My father recently passed away, but there was one incident that still brings me to tears every time i think about it. My father had to fast for a certain procedure, but he was supposed to be getting IV fluids the whole time, My father was crying to me how hungry and thirsty he was, and weak, and i went over to the nurse who said hes already getting fluids, and i cant do anything else, so i went back and told my father, they said you’re already getting fluids , theres nothing else that they can do for now.. He continued crying to me, so i went back to the nurses station and asked another nurse if it makes sense hes crying for food and water, if hes getting fluids, and she said no, so she came to the room, to check on the fluids, and said that it was never hooked up, these are antibiotics. I dont remember the exact amount of time that he went without the fluids hooked up, and i dont want to exaggerate, but it was definitely a full 24 hours, for sure more, but i dont have an exact number. my father that has suffered almost his entire adulthood, and never complained, was crying to me. truly heartbreaking, and completely avoidable.
I was taken in to Maimonides for an appendicitis. After hours of waiting in the ER and watching someone with an ear infection being treated before, I finally saw a doctor only when a prominent askan intervened. After the doctors knew they had to operate on me, they chose to wait till the next day for this emergency procedure. Over night, my appendix ruptured which caused me a lot of unnecessary pain and discomfort, had they operated quickly. I ended up having to stay at the hospital for 2 weeks instead of just 2 days. Total malpractice!
While waiting for a procedure, 2 union reps were conducting union business directly in front of patients. The 2 union reps were focused on gaining membership support in their fight with hospital management over a $2 per hour pay differential.
The staff had to fend off the union reps to care for patients. The union reps continued to pressure their members to act in support of the union position and fight with hospital management.
All this was conducted in full view of patients. Its obvious to this observer that patients are just the means to an end. We patients are just an inconvenient part for the union and hospital to extract money from the patient and their health insurance policies.
I watched the union reps with great interest as they demonstrated more energy and vigor than any of the attending staff that was actually part of delivering health care. They continued the rallying cry for action, health care workers portayed as the wronged party, readying the troops for full scale war with management over money. Lost in all this was of course any respect for patients or patient care.
Sadly, I wonder what Miamonides himself would have thought about all of this.
Is this what our first class health care has become? Can it be saved from itself?
Our nurse herself confessed that she has given up the battle for what is right.
Are doctors feeling the same way? What about the hospital admin?
It was ugly to see behind the curtain but I am not surprised.
We are here at Maimo for the wonderful Dr and his handpicked staff.
That said, I would not recommend Maimonides to anyone.
Are the complainants directly contacting the Departments of Health and article 28? Are the complainants filing lawsuits?These emails alone , as persuasive as they are, have not as yet forced the resignations or firings of Gibbs, Antonides and Press. There were problems before they arrived, but it is criminal now. They have caused grievous harm and cannot be permitted to get away with it. What was good , and may still be ,about Maimo was its top notch doctors, but many are no longer there and others will probably soon be gone as well. To save at this point, is to rid Maimo of its toxic, incompetent, trio, and those who collude with them and perpetuate malpractice and unfairness. If not now, when????
My Mom was hospitalized in MMC around
October 2018 for some mantels stress
She was diagnose wrongly
Then was moved to the main hospital when we came to visit her with me day she wasn’t at her room when we asked we were told that she is in ICU
No one called us to tell us what happen we found out later that some nurse put her feeding tub wrongly and it leaked to her lungs where the other patient in the room notified the nurse sedation that she is chocking
To make long story short she was transfer after 90 days because of the requirement of the insurance and on that day we found out when the surgeon came that she has a bed sore the size of a football and as deep as to her bone
This hospital management should be accountable and should serve time for the amount of abuse that patient and their family went through
Hi my grand father was taken in to Maimonides over a week ago and he was the for one week and now hey transferred him to a different hospital you cant believe how bad they took care of him he is a old man nobody took care of him ( not showing him not change him ) and they wanted cut of the infection with out asking others what by that point did we take him out took him to Manhattan and the first day they cleaned him and the washed him and changed him ( what they still doing almost every day )
and the r taking care on him and keeping updated the family and not doing stupid things to ask more call his oldest sun who takes care on 347 451 2614 please don’t give over from who you get his number or who told you to call him but he will send you proof of everything ( btw did he had ones when Maimonides lost one of his grand suns bloodwork what you cloud also ask him about the main you should see a lot of results thanks
When my mother had a stroke several years ago, she had to wait several hours in the ER room. she eventually received a room that night.
in late dec 2021, she had covid, difficulty breathing. when hatzalah came, i told them i didnt want her to be intubated (due to i heard multi stories). the hatzalah rep told me to “chill”, took her to MMC. she was given all the protocols that were used in march 2020, that clearly did not work. she died 2.5 weeks later. my mother was a sociable working individual, who did alot of chesed throughout her life. 2 weeks later, she looked like she belonged in respite.
when i asked the doc questions regarding her status the night she was admitted, he told me to google the info and actually walked away from him bc i was asking him basic 101 medical questions. i asked the nurse the same questions. she said she will get a covid specialist to call me. they never did until AFTER she died… this place needs to be shut down bc it is a death camp or they need to have extreme changes…
1) On March 4, 2020 (prior to Maimonides having had their first covid patient so you can’t blame covid here) I was admitted to the Labor and Delivery triage at about 4:30am. I pleaded for epidural several times. After the switchover of shifts between 7-8am, at 8:30am I asked my new nurse for epidural once again. She nastily responded: I work here for 9 years. Nobody ever got epidural in triage and YOU are NOT being the first! I waited for a room until 9:45am. About an hour earlier I was told that there were rooms that were empty but they were waiting to be cleaned up = lack of staff.
1) I had a baby in November 2019. I had been newly approved for medicaid and didn’t yet have my insurance card. Maimonides “decided” that I didn’t have insurance. Since I had complications I was in the hospital for 3 days. Every day 2 witchy ladies from the finance department came and harassed me (remember, I was sick in addition to having just delivered a baby) about my billing information. After discharge I kept on receiving bills and then collection letters about paying the $28k or so that Maimonides claimed I owed them. At a certain point I forwarded the bills to Medicaid, asking them to please take care of this payment to Maimonides. The response from Medicaid was that the hospital was already paid! I still receive multiple letters after sending a copy of that letter in to Maimonides billing department. It took over 18 months until the harassment stopped!!
3) I’ve visited and volunteered at Maimonides many times and have never seen a Patient Escort in Maimonides. In other hospitals, patients are not allowed to leave without being pushed in a wheelchair to the hospital exit by a Patient Escort (even in the case where my husband and I were both there to take our child home after an outpatient minor surgery).
4) On Saturday, August 20, 2022 my grandfather, L.R., pulled out his feeding tube during a semi-conscious state of illness. The doctor said:
a) there were no technicians on staff to take a sonogram to confirm they can put it back in
b) He (the dr) was not capable of putting it back in, and needed a senior doctor but there will be non on staff until Monday.
My grandfather waited 31 (thirty-one!) hours without food or medicine to have his feeding tube put back!!!
This was already after having been without a feeding tube for 18 hours just 2 days earlier because he was scheduled for a surgery, which was cancelled by Maimonides due to an emergency unscheduled surgery that took precedent. (I understand surgeries can be postponed due to emergencies, but you need to take into account the number of hours the patient was without food or meds in such a short amount of time).
Also during this past week, he was provided with food only through the feeding tube. When my mother reviewed the results of his swallowing test that was part of his file, she saw that he was approved for pureed food 3x daily. Only after questioning the staff why he was not being given the pureed food per his test results, was she asked “oh, so you want us to give him food?” and they started giving him meals the following day. Have you ever heard of a person preferring a feeding tube over oral meals?!? And if so, why wasn’t the option presented to the patient or his family?
5) October 2018 my sister was to be discharged after having a baby and was waiting for her husband to be pick her up. She was in middle of eating lunch when a nurse walked in, cut the baby’s alarm, handed her the discharge papers and walked her to the family lounge on the maternity floor, telling her she can wait for her husband there. She did not have a car seat with her, did not have an escort or a method of transportation to get home, and she was discharged! Total carelessness and neglect on the hospital’s part!
Thank you for bringing issues like these to the forefront and we are hoping for improvement so that we don’t use Maimonides only due to convenience, but that we should start ‘wanting’ to use them due to the level of care.
I have been admitted to the labor and delivery department last year July.
Immediately after admission I was told that there is no room for me while countless of other patients were taken to their rooms even if they arrived after me.
I was left in triage without anyone to talk to for six and a half hours.
I was in extreme agony and they did not provide epidural or anything else.
Only IV fluids without a decent bathroom.
Whenever I needed the restroom (from the IV) I had to walk through the floor in my open gown and embarrassingly use the public restroom.
They did not call my doctor for no money.
Just a student did a favor to come check on me once.
Inhumane conditions.
After 8 hours I finally got a room with epidural.
But the doctor still didn’t show up.
At the time of delivery I had severe tearing. The doctor didn’t bother messaging the area at all to lessen the complications.
Months after I suffered plenty pain and consequences in result.
I am now pregnant with my next baby thank God but I have switched my doctor who is affiliated with a caring hospital facility.
Goodby Miamonidies
My daughter just gave birth this morning and there was no a/c in the labor room. She was given a fan which didn’t do much to alleviate the discomfort everyone in the room was dealing with.
I had premature twins in Maimonides, . One baby got 2 units of old blood in a blood transfusion. The baby got very sick from a very bad blood infection as a result. They told me the baby is dying. I made arrangements with columbia presbyterian hospital to transfer the baby. Maimonides did not approve or allow my baby to be transferred. They told me that they only transfer babies with heart conditions. Bottom line: my baby had a severe heart condition which Maimonides failed to diagnose. The 2 units of blood could have killed her. In addition they were giving her meds to close her ductess, which kept her alive, due to the heart defect.
The other twin had third degree burns all over her body due to iv of sulfur glucamate that went into her skin instead of in the vien. She needed lots of skin grafting to be able to use her hand and foot.
WHEN WOULD HATZALAH STOP TAKING PEOPLE TO MAIMONIDES HOSPTAL! HATZALAH IS ENDANGERING PEOPLE’S LIVES BY SENDING THEM TO MAIMONIDES HOSPITAL!
This story happened circa 27 years ago. At that time I was still living in Vienna, Austria, and was visiting in the US, where my parents were residing. My father was cancer-stricken. One night, he had a seizure and became unconscious. We went with Hatzolah to Maimonides. Luckily I was able to reach a nephew (a grandson of my father), who is a Hatzolah member in Boropark. Even though he tried very hard to animate the ER personnel, where some of them were known to him, we stayed the whole night in the Emergency Room with mostly nothing being done. In the morning we requested a transfer to a Manhattan hospital (don’t remember if it was Mount Sinai or NYU) and had to force said transfer as we were refused the OK and paperwork. We left on our own responsibility, with the help of our nephew. During that night, I witnessed the arrival per Hatzolah or other ambulance of at least 8 to 10 old people, most probably from the old age home nearby. They were dumped in the ER with NO ONE ever going to check after them, at any given time. I heard them groaning with their voices becoming weaker and weaker until nothing was heard anymore. I believe they all passed away that night, in that emergency room. Needless to try to describe my horror and shock in this night of hell, while witnessing all the above. Even more, because I was used to the European standard of hospitals. Maimonides, a medical center of hell, was a far cry from any standard at all. Not even fitting for a third-world country. I am now residing in Lakewood, NJ, and can be reached at:
My uncle was admitted to mimonides hospital shabbos morning a week before shvuois. He was doing well on moitza shabbos and Sunday morphed his brother went to visit the brother was told that the patient has signed out. We were looking for him all over until Monday morning when shomrim and police were notified they found him in the morning at mimonides. He had died and they discharge him to the morg a d refused to tell the family because it’s personal information. It goes without saying the pain they caused.
In my line of patient advocacy I assisted an elderly person to relocate from California to his NY family. He arrived with Hatzalah Air to Maimonides Hospital. He went from walking and functional , albeit fragile, to kidney failure and on dialysis in a week. I was told by a Physician that the emergency room doctors gave him an overdose of Lasix for water retention and killed his kidneys! Unfortunately, instead of him enjoying his family in old age he is living the consequences of medical neglect from Maimonides.
I have been a patient a number of times when I lived in Brooklyn. I disagree with all the badmouthing. Where was the family when patient was in ER for 36 hours. Perhaps there where no beds available ? That does happen. Was the patient given medication and oxygen if needed? What were the circumstances ? Of course every hospital has problems snd quite likely manpower shortages. Was patient triaged? Again why was family not advocating for patient? It is human nature to always remember the bad and not acknowledge the good. Bosses do it all the time .
My wife had a D&C done in Maimonidies a few years ago. (This story happened way before Covid which is the new way to not have to take responsibility for issues). Before the procedure the anesthesiologist came up to my wife and pushed some papers in front of her saying “sign these for me” (with out telling her what she is signing as the patient rights requires by law). When my wife asked him what am I signing he barked at her “so don’t sign” and stormed off. A different nurse Ms. Sokul happened to pass (she was not part of the team that was supposed to do the procedure). My wife remembered her from a different time. When we told her what was going on she took the time and effort to explain to my wife what to expect. (5 star rating for her service).
A few days after the procedure we got a automated call from the hospital asking about the experience. We decided to say the the truth but the system didn’t give more then a few seconds to share the story before hanging up.
Less than a year ago my wife gave birth to a baby in Maimonides. One night I took my daughter to the nursery so that my wife could sleep thru the night. When I got to the nursery my heart sank I saw 2 nurses running the whole show of about 40 babies. The nurse gave me these painful looks when I gave over my baby. She looked so overwhelmed and the sound of crying in the room was from many babies. I had no choice because I knew my wife needed the rest. I went home with out telling her what the situation was in the nursery and was worried all night for my baby and the nurses as well who were obviously being abused by their superiors by not supplying enough man power.
I discussed this topic with many friends and all of them said that if not for the fact that the hospital is local they would’ve never used that hospital.
First of all thank you for under taking this long overdue campaign. Here’s my experience of giving birth at MMC. It started with arriving to the hospital at 8 pm for an induction due to decline in fetal movement. and was put in a tiny hot triage room till 3 in the morning! to which the induction was finally started(7 hours after arriving to the hospital with decline fetal movements!!) once put in a room there was a nasty nurse who put in the IV causing my hand to get all red irritated and blown up, when I expressed my concern about it she said it was normal even though I knew it wasn’t due to previous IV experiences and was then ignored for the rest of her shift. on the next nurse’s shift she kindly switched the IV making it a lot more comfortable. when I was transferred to a delivery room my monitors were taken off for a while, and while I was being wheeled thru the hallway we passed the nurses stations where the nurses are supposed to be monitoring the monitors. And when my nurse saw me she said “oh. that’s why there is no heartbeat for a while.” BH I had a greet doctor and the birth went smoothly. Once transferred upstairs things weren’t much better. it was very chaotic and noticeably understaffed. There was no-one answering the call buttons, At one point my 1 day old baby choked on some fluid from birth, my husband ran into the hallway to get help BUT NOT ONE NURSE BUDGED!! finally a secretary heard and came running! Later that night I asked my nurse for a sleeping pill before I went to sleep, and she WOKE me up at 3 in the morning to give me a SLEEPING PILL. At 6 in the morning I was woken up by the nurse to feed my baby, but the baby never came. 4 hours later after asking again they bought the baby already fed!
thank you again for your campaign I hope to be able to use Maimonides in the future with a better experience!!
I was overdue with my youngest son, and I came to the ED in the huge snowstorm in the beginning of Feb of 2021. The Dr’s put me on the monitor and thank G-d everything was fine. They sent me home because they said there were no labor rooms available, so I should go home and get a good rest before coming in the morning to be induced. The midwife from my Dr’s practice told me she would call me in the morning to give me a heads up about an available bed, and I should come shortly after her call. She called and we left Flatbush in an Uber, as he city was buried under snow, and we arrived at the hospital a little more than an hour after her call. Once we got there and I was set up on the monitor and checked by the Drs, they said there were no labor rooms available and I should go wait in the lobby…in the lobby? My husband and I sat in the front lobby until about 1/1:30 pm until a room was available? I was 42 weeks pregnant, and all you can say is sit in the lobby … seriously? I had already been back and forth to the hospital a few times and then sent home, but you couldn’t provide any better care?
I had extreme shortness of breath. Oh my God. They never gave me an IV, they gave me a chest x ray and no treatment I basically was just continuing to use my emergency inhaler. And it took almost three months for insurance to go through.
My wife was rushed to hospital mid term pregnant, with severe abdominal pain. We were told right away by the urology team that it was most probably kidney stones but they hadn’t seen it clearly. But then the regular doctor told us it clearly was not kidney stones. We spent several days trying to gain clarity, but the two team continued contradicting each other. They also have a very old system of getting drugs to the patients, causer her to get morphine later than needed which caused her intense pain. It reached a point in which the the regular doctor started claiming that it was a neurological issue and she is ordering a neurologist. We asked to be discharged, and later ended up in another hospital. In the first 30 minutes of our stay in the other hospital they found the kidney stone on the scan!
My grandmother passed away a few weeks ago in maimonides
A few hours before she passed away at 8:45 PM I came to visit her and I was told by the nurse that she is there still on shift from 7:00 in the morning
I have no idea how long she was working on shift afterwards but she looked quite drained
Don’t believe your lying eyes and ears. Yes, all hospitals have problems but how does that justify the horrors at Maimonides? We definitely need them to shape up and not just have problems because everyone does. I’ve used different hospitals and it’s incomparable, it’s like comparing boot camp to a sunny beach.
My little newborn son reportedly turned blue in the nursery, but I was never given a straight answer to what actually happened. every doctor contradicts the other one and the attitude is like why do you really care about your son just dump him and get another one, just please don’t bug me.
When my wife was in labor and dehydrated (which is really painful btw), it took about 5 hours to get her epidural because they pricked her in the wrong place. that’s not a problem will just prick you again and again!!!
When my wife than pneumonia she waited 6 hours for a diagnosis because there was only one Dr. reading X-rays. I heard this from Dr. Yodfat from the Schwartz group. Understaffed and underpaid. It’s a place for criminals.
I had a horrible experiences at maimotitties. Nurses are mean and so are doctors. Ignore me alot.
my sister, who is expecting her first baby was recently hospitalized due to severe dehydration and quick heart rate. She was so weak, she couldn’t even lift her hand up. The nurse on duty was so nasty, no words can be enough to describe it. She literally beat my sister, and yanked her all the while yelling at her that she’s lazy and can’t undress herself. she tore her clothes off her, cursing her the whole time and then left her laying in the room completely undressed!! without even a hospital gown, with the door opened… this is how she laid for a few hours while being monitored. She is so shaken by the experience…
I can go on and on about the horrors of mmc, the filth and negligence, the nastiness of the staff. when my baby was hospitalized with difficulty breathing due to respiratory illness, nobody came in ever to check on him when his machines beeped with low oxygen saturation level. after a few such times, i learned how to adjust his oxygen mask on my own to bring the levels back up…
I have many stories to share about the horrors and neglect and maimonidies hospital. to put it in short, whenever we needed the hospital services we always contacted an askan because the situation in this hospital is dangerous, and without his pull i dont want to think what could’ve been.
I suffered from excruciating pain and could not walk for a few weeks after giving birth to my first child because the nurse during delivery was extremely nasty and impatient and yanked my foot, tearing a ligament. I couldn’t sit, stand, lay or move for the first week, and then suffered from pain and difficulty walking for many weeks after. Also, during my next pregnancy, that ligament acted up again, disabling me completely, to the point that i was in so much pain i couldn’t sleep.
I had many horrific nightmares in this cursed hospital, where negligence, lack of staff, filth and nasty nurses/doctors find their place.
After giving birth to twins, i had both babies wheeled into my room because there were 40!!! babies in the nursery with one nurse, and the nurse felt my babies would get better care by me… at least she was honest! but i was somehow expected to take care of two crying newborns a few hours after giving birth…i shudder thinking back.
Where do I begin? My grandmother a”h was left in the ER for 3 days after a heart attack. My mother was left in the hall for 12 hours with severe pain from cancer, with no painkillers! When she had been there previously, a nurse emptied a catheter bag in her bathroom, from another room! There was also the time her roommate…ah…defecated…all over the bathroom. No one cleaned it. I could write a book. There’s a reason the Klausenberger Rebbe said the Malach Hamaves waits at the door.
My baby was hospitalized twice this winter both times due to a respiratory virus that caused him to have difficulty breathing. Both visits to the Emergency room and hospital were horrific, I have no words. During the first time, we were left in the filthy, quarantine room in the ER for 36 hours! with no tissues, nothing, not even water to make a bottle for the baby. I was also not given a crib so i couldn’t even leave the room for a minute to use the bathroom or try to find water to make him a bottle. We were officially admitted to the PICU upstairs, but because there was no room there we were kept under horrendous conditions…. nobody came down to monitor the baby unless i called my pediatrician, who had to call in to the hospital to have someone come down and check if the baby’s oxygen level can be lowered. We had many askanim try to help but there was just no room upstairs so we had to stay there, with nobody batting an eyelash in our direction. The second time we came in this winter we were put into the same quarantine room again, and this time the nurse on duty was highly aggressive, and extremely gruff with the baby, treating him like a prisoner, as opposed to a sick infant. When i remarked about this in the survey after the visit, i was called later by an administrator from the hospital that there was a mistake, and my baby’s nurse had in fact been a nurse that only works for adults, never worked with pediatrics yet. Also, my baby required oxygen via a BiPap ventilator, which is extremely uncomfortable mask that goes over the entire face. He was given a mask that was too small on him, and cut into his lip and eyes painfully, He screamed and whined, for almost twenty four hours like this, and the nurse on duty claimed she couldn’t find a better mask. Eventually a nurse had pity on the poor kid and said this was unacceptable, and found a mask that fit him in five minutes. I am only 24 years old but had at least 8 terrible experiences with Maimonidies, I can almost write a book…… I always left feedback in the surveys after each visit, but only once received a phone call with an apology.
My mother was brought into Maimonides Hospital recently not in good condition from a nursing home and was inserted an external pacemaker while trying to get her to a stable pressure/ heart rhythm. The Trauma ER ran tests her labs and realized she was brain dead yet alive with the aid of this external pacemaker plus other meds. Being a religious Jew there are a lot of end of life questions having that pacemaker keeping her alive. We were told its inhumane by the attending ER doctor to keep the pacemaker in and she was rejected by the CCU because she was brain dead and not viable so they keep the CCU only for viable patients. We told him we need to speak with a rabbi and we will see from there. Being on Tisha B’av most rabbis are in synagogue leading Kinnus. We spoke with a rabbi out of state and was willing to speak with the attending. The attending was rude and dismissive and wasn’t willing to listen to the rabbis requests. We called another organization and was referred to a Rabbi Lesser who spoke with the cardiology dept and they checked & confirmed that she was 100% reliant on the external pacemaker. In front of me the cardiologist said you cannot remove the piece and asked what is your policy for a patient that was refused the CCU and only offered a bed in Medicine where the external pacemaker is not brought up and removed from the patient and the attending said we don’t have one and asked to speak with the cardiologist on the side away from the family. He was visually agitated with the situation and came over after speaking with the cardiologist and started playing with the meds and all machines. The ER Attending showed up within a few minutes later with a sono and showed us her heart has stopped and called her death. We were watching all along a growth in her blood pressure and he came over and did something that stopped either medications or adjusted the pacemaker in her neck neither with our consent. Who was inhumane and uncompassionate?
We were treated as annoying nuisances and never as humans caring for our parting matriarch. I have a family member that works for a reputable hospital in Manhattan and was appalled by what me, my older kids, and family watched and lived on our saddest day of the year for all Jews now added to by this experience.
My mother was one of the sickest patients in the hospital. They didn’t seem to care it was just getting worse and worse. We decided to transfer her to a different hospital. When the hospital Heard about this plan they kept on telling us there no such a thing and it can’t happen. We didn’t think it should be so complicated. the hospital where she was going to sent a ambulance to transfer her. As soon as they arrived to the room to transfer the Machines they. They sent them out of the hospital and did not let them enter again. This story repeat it a few times. We had to go throw Hell until we got her out. Today she’s healthy and happy enjoying her life we still agree that she would never of made it if she would stay there. What a disaster of a hospital
I went in to Maimonides Emergency room with my 6motnth old that was having a trouble breathing. They took a chest x-ray and sent me home saying everything is fine.
I was so worried so I drove to NYU emergency room they diagnosed her with a double pneumonia and admitted her right away.
The next morning Maimonides called me that they reviewed her scan and I should come in urgently as it dangerous for her to be without oxygen!
She was long in the care of NYU where she recuperated and was discharged shortly.
What type of hospital is this???? What type of care is this??? Who takes responsibly for such neglect!!!
Total lack of consideration. Rooms are hot and stuffy. Everything blamed on shortage of staff. You can wait hours after requesting anything.
Went to Maimo ER for severe flank pain. I was seen and treated well by the Medical Resident and the ER attending. The ancillary staff however are ill trained, ill mannered, belligerent and rude.
When I was getting my EKG, the transporter opened the curtains and told the Aids to hurry up, I was completely exposed. He yelled at me when i told him to close the curtain, “Don’t be speaking to me like that”, On our way to PreOp he left me in the hallway while he went spoke to his friends for more than 5 minutes, just laughing and joking. No apologies, nothing, rude and obnoxious.
Several incidents!
I had a renal stent placed, post-procedure in the Ambulatory unit the surgeon spoke with me even though i was still under the influence of the Anesthesia. Once in the chair, I was accused by the nurse of “giving her attitude”. I had been motioning to her with my hand because my throat hurt after the intubation. I was placed in the chair, developed severe post procedural pain and was ignored by my nurse for quite a while. Another nurse medicated me. The resident came up to explain that my ureteral stent had to stay in place for a week or so.
Several days later on a Friday I called the Dr Payims (Urologist) office, (took quite a while to get a human being). I was feeling very sick, I left work early and went to an Urgicare. My blood pressure was dropping. Low blood pressure is a sign of sepsis. I was diagnosed with urinary sepsis and placed on antibiotics. Dr. Payim called me the next Tuesday. During the phone call he informed me my Ureter had been PERFORATED and that is why he left the Ureteral stent in. I WAS NEVER TOLD THIS AT THE TIME OF THE PROCEDURE! Instead they crossed their fingers and hoped all would be well.
My scheduled appointment to have the ureter removed, I developed a severe nose bleed on the way to the Urology office. I asked the receptionist in Urology to let me sit in the back because I had a sheet over my nose covered in blood. Her response “no, all the rooms are filled”. I sat off to the side, I asked somebody to help me. Eventually somebody came over asked a couple of questions and walked away. THE ANCILLARY STAFF COMPLETELY IGNORED ME. I finally walked into the back and felt faint leaned against the wall, the Chief of Urology walked past and ignored me, even though I had a sheet on my nose filled with BLOOD. I went in to a clinic room on my own and finally the surgeon came in.
I have many stories to write. One recent episode within the past 6 months that bugs me beyond.. and everyone’s encouraging me to sue maimonidies hospital. Well! I am in the process of dealing with lawyers on this. My husband had to go through an emergency operation. Within 1 hour after the procedure, calls in 2 brothers not related to my husband, but know him well, they got to speak to the surgeon and got ALL the info regarding my husband’s health and operation. Exactly what the surgeon did, what happened, how my husband was doing. Even how much urine he passed. Then within 48 hours of his procedure when he was still in the icu and he was only allowed one visitor which was his pre-assigned visitors the nurses allowed two foreign guys to walk into his room without patients prior consent.
I mean in all honesty. Patient privacy has gone deep down the drain in maimonidies hospital and we are very disgusted and distraught about this. When has this become an allowance to give out private patient details to any random caller… maybe I don’t want anyone to know my situation? NOT MAYBE!! BUT DEFINITELY!!!! we didn’t need any random guy other than patient next of kin or Dr dealing with patient to know private info because the next thing that happened was that the random car publicized in the streets how much urine the patient let out after surgery. DISGUSTING!!!
Being that we live a very private life, this definitely is wrong. But irrelevant if one lives a private life or not! Patient privacy should be TOP PRIORITY like in all other pra times and hospitals. And patients privacy to visitors especially in icy after surgery should NOT be allowed random visitors without patient consent.
Last August I took in a healthy elderly woman for a feeding tube. Other than the start of dementia she was perfectly healthy. No diabetes, no hypertension, no heart disease. She was completely independent, walking by herself, without the aid of a walker or cane, to and from the bathroom. We went in on Monday morning for a Tuesday, procedure. Discharge should have been on Wednesday. She was admitted to the sixth floor and a Chinese PA was in charge of her. SHE WAS NOT GIVEN ANY IV FLUIDS FOR THREE DAYS!! I was begging them for it. They told me its not good for the heart and lungs. On Wednesday, her potassium was so low that they pumped her with so much potassium she lost all her muscle strength. She has not stood up again ever since !!! When she was discharged on Sunday we had to take her to the rehab because her aid could not handle her alone. She was now a two assist patient. The pharmacist in the rehab called the admitting doctor on the floor and asked if they are trying to kill the patient “BECAUSE THIS AMOUNT OF POTASSIAM CAN KILL A HEALTHY PERSON”!!! She is disabled ever since!!
I checked in with hatzolah on a shabbos morning, with pain in my back (kidney stones). I was 14 weeks pregnant. My heart rate was irregular. I asked to call my OB, she never showed up. I hung around in pain for hours, somebody finally gave me morphine, did a sonogram of my kidneys, & basically ignored me. The place was BEDLAM. They took care of the drunks, & dope addicts, but left me hangings. After a few hours they send me home with a CREATININE level that was elevated. Talk about medical care!!!!.
Its. Long story I had a kidney stone that was blocking my ureter, & needed emergency surgery.
Total negligence on Miamonides part..
I’m thankful for giving me this opportunity to share my experience with all.
I had an exam in the cardiology dept in year 2020. I was literally traumatized thinking I was in a prison as apposed to a warm hospital room. The room looked disheveled. No Air Conditioning and extremely run down. This place desperately needs a major renovation.
It badly needs to improve!
back in 2015 i went to visit my uncle which was in ICU a couple of times. once we i got there with my mother, we went to his room, but we didnt find him there. we asked couple of nurses till we finally located him in a different section, not in ICU when we asked WHY we were not told a reason. They simply took advantage of a single man to transfer him without notifying anyone, and given any reason . a couple of days later i went again to visit my uncle with a cousin of mine, the machines didnt stop beeping, the numbers were very low,
we went to call a nurse she came for a second and left. when we got really worried of his situation we went again searching for the nurse, we told her that we dont like what we see, she started yelling at us, that we think she is our privately hired nurse, but we are not paying her to be a private nurse, ( in truth we were just very concerned, after several minutes we realized some changes we again went looking for a nurse but didn’t want to come, finally unfortunately when the numbers were really bad the nurse came and then another ten people showed up trying to revive him but, unfortunately he passed out . I remember after this happened that same nurse came crying that we should forgive her of what she did crying and crying, next time dont do it, you wont have to cry.
BTW while being there they needed a certain size for a trach they want looking in there cabinets but couldnt find the right size the nurse said to check the other department, the answer was they asked already they didnt either have……
My Mother A”h a holocaust survivor was a patient with pneumonia in the winter of 2007 or 2008. She suffered from depression as well. We never left her alone in the hospital. Her room was freezing there was no steam we had to being a winter coat to cover her. Early one morning , a nurses aid came to wash my mother and told the lady that I paid privately that she had to leave the room while she was going to wash her up and change her linen. She was outside her room and she heard my mother screaming later that day my mother had a very large black and blue mark one one side of her back. The Dr’s were baffled as they did not see anything prior on her back she was there a few days already. The nurses aide hit her very hard on her back. They kept asking me if she fell at home and I said not at all. We took very good care of her and being that my mother was suffering from depression and was 85 years old she could not speak for herself.
I was a patient in Maimonides Medical Center already. On November 5th, 2021 i found out i had an infection in my lower spine called Osteomyelitis. On November 6th 2021, Nurse Shynee gave me Vancomycin in my picc line for the infection. I started to itch badly and cough. I told her to get the doctor immediately! because I am having an allergic reaction to the Vancomycin. At 5:50am I said to Nurse Shynee I am taking my epipen, you have 5 minutes to get to the doctor. she said do what you need to do so I took my epipen to save my life. Nurse Shynee said the medicine room doesn’t have an epipen or benadryl on the floor. Nurse Shynnee said i has to paige the doctor. The time she paiges the doctor and the doctor puts in the order for my epipen. I could have passed out or worse, so i used my epipen to save my own life. Within a week of coming home from Maimonides Medical Center a woman called me and introduced herself as Paula Ioannides, vice-president of Maimonides Medical Center and she apologized for the negative experience that i had. Then she informed me she is going to investigate the incident and get back to me in about a week. Paula called me back a week later and told me she spoke to the Nurse’s supervisor and she said there was no evidence of my horrible experience. I was angry,disappointed and shocked by the results of her investigation. I said “OH MY GOD ARE YOU KIDDING ME” and I didn’t want to hear anymore of her nonsense. The I hung up
I gave birth to 3 children in Maimonides and 3 children in manhattan hospitals. The difference in care is incomparable. In manhattan hospitals the nurses were so much nicer, so much more courteous, so much more professional.
Around 4 years ago, my niece was hospitalized in Maimonides’ picu. I was taking a shift at her bedside when my other niece, the patient’s 13 year old sister, came to visit. She stood next to her intubated and sedated sister and softly spoke to her, telling her how much she was missed at home. The nurse suddenly barged in and started yelling that she was waking up the (intubated, sedated) patient. My niece was silent, but after the nurse left she continued speaking and singing softly to her sister. The nurse ran back in, furious, and threatened to send her out if she continues “disturbing” the patient. The 13 year old innocent girl was traumatized by the incident and refused to visit again. I think this story speaks for itself.
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I have unfortunately spent quite a few Shabbosim as a patient in maimonides hospital. I don’t have to go in to detail what it’s like being alone (my family doesn’t live nearby) for so many hours. It can get very depressing and lonely. But I knew I can always look forward to an amazing visit Shabbos morning from the most incredible woman, Mrs Esther Friedman, otherwise known as the cholent lady. Esther made her rounds every Shabbos morning bearing Cholent, fresh cut up fruit, and pretty napkins to brighten up the room. She also came bearing so much more than just those items. She came with an ear to listen to my stories. She came with a smile bright enough to light up my room.She came with a heart big enough to carry my pain. Her warmth made all the difference in those lonely, long, painful Shabbosim. And I personally know of so many other patients whose Shabbos were transformed by her brief visits. Yet since Covid, maimonides hospital has not allowed this wonderful woman to continue her life saving work! On behalf of all the others who wait all Shabbos for the warm food and words she brings, I beg of maimonides hospital to make changes not only in the physical care they provide to patients in their most vulnerable moments, but to their emotional care as well.
It was the summer after Covid when I went to visit a friend of mine in maimonides on Shabbos. As a religious Jew, I am not allowed to carry a mask on Shabbos , so I set out knowing that all hospitals gladly provide masks to visitors. Upon arriving I noticed another religious woman entering right before me who also wasn’t carrying a mask. The moment she entered security guards bombarded her, “ where’s your mask??” She politely explained that she was unable to bring one due to religious reasons, and requested a mask. The guards yelled at her that they don’t have any and that she must leave. This smart woman calmly responded “I find it hard to believe that in the entire maimonides hospital there isn’t a single mask to be found”. The guards angrily went off to check again and surprise of surprises, found a box of masks, yelling at the woman to put it on outside. The incident portrays blatant anti semitism and an institution that does not protect religious rights cannot continue to exist without radical change.
I was an 18 year old girl spending a few hours with an elderly woman in maimonides when she needed to use the restroom. I pressed the call button to get a nurse to help but no-one showed up. For 20 minutes I repeatedly pressed the button and went out into the hallway checking for help to no avail. At that point I just helped her on my own, but she could have fallen or hurt herself, not to mention what could have happened had I not been there.
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I am a 21 year old who volunteers for a number of Jewish organizations who provide hospital respite for pediatric as well as adult caregivers. As such, I am familiar with many hospitals and with many departments within several hospitals. I can clearly say that the treatment in maimonides hospital is severely subpar to the treatment in any other NYC hospital. The nurses are nasty to patients and caregivers, the rooms and public areas are dirty, and there is a general negligence towards helpless people. There is open anti semitism as well. I would like to thank the leaders of your campaign for finally bringing this colossal problem to the public’s attention and for advocating for change.
I was sleeping over at a 99 year old women’s bedside in the 7 West ward. In middle of the night her oxygen started dropping and the machines started beeping. I watched in horror as the numbers went lower and lower, 80s then 70s. The machines were wailing and NOT A SINGLE STAFF MEMBER CAME IN. When it reached the 60s I frantically ran to find help. I found a nurse next door and when I asked her to come she ambled in with a “whatsamatter” dripping with attitude. Had I not been there I shudder to think about what would have happened.
My mother, a Parkinson’s patient, had a scheduled surgery appointment for early in the morning. After the hassle of fasting, we arrived and they made her wait till 3:00pm! Every time we asked they said soon, or they don’t know.
My father went to Maimonides for pain in his abdomen. He sat in the hospital for hours until they sent him home undiagnosed. Months passed where his pain progressed and his doctors couldn’t figure out what the issue was. Test after test finally led them to believe he has hepatitis c.
A while later he went back to the hospital in excruciating pain, had trouble breathing and couldn’t even keep down water. After rushing him through ct scans and X-rays and a bunch of other tests they came to the conclusion that his appendix was ruptured and had been ruptured for MONTHS and was decaying inside his body. The residents at the time compared it to his initial ct scans and determined it was ruptured when he first came in and that he in fact did not have hepatitis but instead was SEPTIC.
He was admitted immediately for emergency appendix removal. He had a pace maker which made sedating him very dangerous and he under no circumstances was he allowed to be sedated aside from his surgery. The first night in the icu, his nurse sedated him when his chart said he can’t be.
His sepsis ultimately became impossible to treat, and his body was too weak under sedation to fight, which caused his lungs to collapse. One by one his organs began to fail until he was put on a respirator.
Ten days later he was dead. My 51 year old strong as a bull father died from a misdiagnosed ruptured appendix and neglect at the hands of horrendous incompetent staff. Dead at 51. Dead when his only son was just 13. Dead before he got to meet half off his grandkids.
In 2014 my mother was hospitalized in the MICU in Maimonides. She was in serious condition. One day my father had come to visit my mother. Due to stress related to my mother’s hospitalization and possibly having caught what my mother had, he suddenly started struggling to breathe. He was lying in the hallway of the hospital, passing out. My sister who was with my parents begged the head nurse and the nurse on duty for oxygen and they refused to provide it. She called Hatzalah for help but they said the hospital doesn’t let them operate in the hospital – it’s against protocol – so they sent a message to someone in the hospital to come to help. It took 22 minutes for the hospital (she timed it) to actually respond to Hatzalah’s message. They brought a wheelchair, but not oxygen, even though he couldn’t even get up to sit down in it! Then my sister had to wait more time for them to get him a bed. Finally he was taken to the emergency room, where he had to wait hours to be treated.
When I came to visit my mother in the hospital a bit after that, she looked like she was in terrible pain, writhing and croaking in agony. She couldn’t talk because she was intubated and being weaned off sedation. We kept asking the nurse what was wrong and she was clueless. It took hours for the staff to pay attention to what we were telling them and they realized her catheter was not connected properly and she could not urinate. If we would not have been there, nobody would have taken care of her. We felt like we had to be at our mother’s side round the clock so that she gets properly taken care of. There were many times we considered moving her out of Maimonides but she was too sick to be transferred at that time.
I went to labor and delivery for preterm labor and when I asked the nurse to unhook my IV bag to use the bathroom, she got so angry she threw the whole bag and hookup around my neck and yelled at me to go to the bathroom!!!!!! This was while I was in immense pain from contractions!!! The rooms were also filthy! There were used needles on the floor!!!
I gave birth in Maimonides on a Friday morning in august. There was a heat wave and I was going to be in the hospital over shabbos. After an extremely painful birth due to a delayed epidural (I was screaming begging for one and for hours they kept telling me that there’s only one anesthesiologist and they can’t come until they’re ready) I was desperate to relax in bed with my newborn. When I got up to my room the AC was broken. In the middle of a heat wave. There was already another woman in the room so they brought me to the second bed. I was still in a wheelchair since my epidural hadn’t completely worn off and couldn’t walk yet. They couldn’t fit my wheelchair near the bed because the room was so cramped. They made me get up and walk to my bed before I had any feeling in my legs back. When I was finally in bed they told me that since the room is so cramped they can’t fit the baby next to me, I’ll have to get up and walk to where they found a spot to park him. I asked the nurse when I would be able to shower and She told me that the shower is down the hall I can go whenever. There was no shower in my room. I had never heard of something so ridiculous as making a new mother shower down the hall as if this was a summer camp. I could barely walk, let alone wander around the maternity ward looking for a shower. The bathroom was so tiny that I couldn’t close the door. My knees would bump into the wall when I sat down. I complained about the broken AC to so many people and instead of moving me to a different room they all just said to relax and they know about the issue. Just for the record it was never fixed. Thank god I was able to leave after one night I would not have been able to stay another second.
While I understand that many people from the community have a lot of negative feedback, I do not.
In the past 4-5 years my husband was in the ER on various occasions 5-6 times. He was admitted on one of the ER visits for observation and diagnostic testing and discharged the next day. He underwent an angiogram, two surgeries; one a major surgery for which he was hospitalized for 9 days, the other for 4 days.
He received excellent medical care for each and every episode. I was present with him every time. This care translated from the triage, to the the support staff, to the nursing care to the doctors.
I had been a patient in Maimonides many years ago, had taken my child to the ER on several occasions, and I have nothing remarkably negative to report.
I know a great many of the Boro Park Jewish patients (and other predominantly Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn) have been brainwashed and brought up thinking that if you aren’t receiving care from a Park Avenue doctor who has privileges at a Manhattan hospital, you aren’t receiving first-rate care. If for whatever reason these patients end up in Maimonides the attitude is-“I’m receiving shoddy care”. Also, a hospital is not a 5 star hotel–and the nurses and ancillary staff need to be treated with respect and dignity, not to be ordered around like they are second class citizens or slaves.
I know that the nurses and ancillary staff work very hard. I’ve seen it for myself. Yes, they are very likely short-staffed and there’s only so much time in a workday to be able to get a certain amount accomplished. I agree that there needs to be more hiring of staff.
Don’t you think there could have been a more professional and businesslike manner in which to approach this and come up with a viable solution if the hospital is bleeding money and there’s mismanagement? BTW, have you done an across the board study of the NYC hospitals and compared the results? The medical industry has changed by leaps and bounds altogether over the years. I have heard successful specialty doctors saying its more lucrative to be a plumber than a physician nowadays.
One important advantage of Maimonides as opposed to the Manhattan hospitals is that if a patient needs to be hospitalized over Shabbos or Yom Tov, this hospital is very “Shabbos friendly”. Not so in other hospitals which I spent with patients over the years. All I remember each and every one of those times was that I asked Hashem for forgiveness for every time that I unintentionally violated Shabbos and Yom Tov. True, this has nothing to do with medical care, but the Maimonides staff is extremely attuned to our cultural sensitivities.
A Town Hall meeting….. what is this, a mock wedding at a once very popular wedding hall that couldn’t manage to book an event for the evening, with free food and entertainment to a draw a crowd? And your lineup of people, namely your keynote speaker….. puleeeeze, he’s in it to push his own agenda. He’s not even a Brooklyn resident for all his adult life. If he has complaints, let him go fix Good Samaritan Hospital in Rockland County where he is a resident. If you want to know what a lousy hospital is, check that one out!
Furthermore, if you want to run the full blast campaign, which you have for months now, how about some transparency on your part. Why are you running an anonymous campaign???? Why does your organization not have a name, or the voices behind this all? Why have you had millions of dollars worth of ads and publicity to promote your cause without any way for the average resident of the community to know exactly who is spearheading all of this. Why have you only been open to community residents voicing complaints?
I’m not saying that there’s no political agenda in Maimonides–there obviously is. However, I strongly disagree with the way you are going about this.
I have been on the fence to express my views, but there are two sides to the coin, and I feel you should know that there are many Jewish community residents who need Maimonides to serve this demographic area.
So please drop the proverbial boxing gloves, and act like civilized adults. Divrei chachomim b’nachas nishmo’in.
When my grandma was in the hospital during the last year of her life my mother was staying with her. My grandmother was 102 and my mother was also an old lady of 78 years old. My mom was trying to ask the nurse at the nurses station at the geriatric ward for some test results and she refused to be polite. She told her she is not allowed out of the patients room or she will have security escort her out! My mom is the most gentle respectful person. I watched her many times in such situations She is always polite and quiet and respectful. She called me to tell me she was afraid of the nurse. She felt impotent there was nothing she could do.
My father was taken to the hospital by hatzalah for a silent heart attack that they we found out through blood work they left him in the er in the halls not seen he had to go to the bathroom no one answered no one cleaned him a cardiologist came over and confused him with another patient we were finally admitted to find out he also has an undetected urine infection they put him in a room that was sooo hot with a heater on high he was negetive for covid in the er with an over night when they saw he was warm they did a rapid that came pos they tried so hard to convince me he had covid no dr came to see him aftet that they didnt treat him for thr heart attack i spoke to infectious diseases dr about my dad they said i was right he doesnt have covid but he was already a tagged as one no one came in i brought him wed night sat morning some nurse walked in played with some stuff my brother questioned about what he was doing he called security on my brother and lied that my brother was agressive soon after my father passed my father was stable until this nurse came in and he did something and didnt like my brothers questions an hour after i came to ask that nurse questions to see what was done in the last moments that caused my father to pass he called security again and like 20 cops showed up to show us out all because we had questions apparently a family is not allowed to know anything in maimonides its a cover up they get paid to tag them as covid and kill them it wasnt covid it was a silent heart attack
My grandmother was admitted for UTI and was supposed to b discharged within the week. Nurses had to b called by the family to change her position.she cought pneumonia ended up being intubated. Team extubated her too early and had to reintubate her.while being there,I met up with the next room patient family who experience d EXACT same story.obviously the Respitory team have No clue what they’re doing. Both patients died shortly after. I’ve spent much time with a diff family member at Columbia Prysbeterian Hospital under Respitory care and NEVER experienced anything like Maimonides care. I will never again allow family members to b admitted to this filthy understaffed unqualified dump calling themselves a “Hospital “
My father ע”ה was admitted to Maimonides 6 years ago with a respiratory infection. He was 93 years old and had a heart condition. His sats were about 80 when they should have been about 100. He was put on oxygen which brought the sats up to the high 90’s. Several days later we were told that he was being discharged. I asked them how they could discharge him if he’s 93 with a heart condition and can’t breath fully on his own. They offered to send him home with an oxygen tank. My wife, who is an RN and a nurse practitioner, told them that they had no right to discharge a patient in this condition, who cannot breath on his own. The doctor on duty said that he was breathing nicely, pointing to monitor which showed the sats at 98. My wife removed the nasal insert for a short moment and the sats dropped to 80. Despite what he saw, he still insisted that he was breathing nicely and my father was forcibly discharged. Within 3 days he coded and lost all brain activity and was נפטר a week later. I don’t who was calling the shots but whoever was, and forced the discharge is a guilty party in my father’s death.
First of all thanks to all of you who started this whole save Maimonides. It’s about time something gets done!
2.5 years ago, when I was in labor with my first baby, I was totally ignored and not even given a room in the triage. We had to beg and plead for someone to have pity and make us comfortable in a room but all they did was yell; ” You have to wait in the waiting room till a room becomes available for you!” (I saw lots of empty rooms) They made me wait for 3 long painful hours…..
1 Year ago, before giving birth to my second one, I had a nurse stick in an IV line for me and right away I felt something was wrong. It was really hurting me and when I moved my hand the pain worsened. When I told the nurse about it some 15 minutes after she put in, she said; “It probably hurts from the prick. You gotta give it some time.” every time she came into the room I reminded her of it and asked her if she can take it out and try putting it in another place. But she refused to do so. After 5 hours, the nurses changed shifts and when the new nurse came, she finally took it out and pricked in another place.
I also want to make you aware that when a patient comes in to the labor and delivery department, they are asked to fill out lots of questions and really stupid ones too… (for ex. what’s your occupation? How many births? Etc.) Can’t this wait till after the baby is born? I mean I’m in labor, How can I think straight now?
My brother was having severe abdominal pain and was taken to Miamo ER on Friday night. The next morning my father walked to the hospital where he found out that the appendix needed to be removed. Surgery was scheduled for 8 am. Needless to say the surgery did not happen at 8. He was finally taken into surgery that evening. He was neglected all day with no one coming to check on his appendix which was in danger of rupture. All day long he was told of emergency surgeries that warranted his surgery being prosponed. He and my mother spent all shabbos in the hospital. They could not leave the room because the were “about” to do surgery. No food or drink was offered. Complete mismanagement and neglect.
Mu mother in law was brought into the ER in critical condition. She waited 24 hours for a bed even though she was a chemo patient dying of cancer. The staff was horrible and could care less about the patients. Her stay ( she died less than two weeks later in the hospital) was the most undignified experience anyone can have. She was in terrible pain; the staff was called by family members who were with her and they kept saying we will be there soon; it took them hours to look in on her. When she needed help going to the bathroom the nurses told her to go in the bed. When they needed to dress her expecting she would be discharged the nurses said its not their job. They told her son to dress her. How cruel and despicable. Family (her sons)had to change her linens and wipe and clean her. Unfortunately she did not die with dignity. She was reduced to having her sons have to wipe her and clean her. This is Maimonides in a nutshell.
My mother was in the hospital and the resident who claims that he graduated from England and finished his residency in England and is just redoing his residency here insisted that my mother had a pacemaker when she didn’t insisted that my mother was on coumadin when she wasn’t and insisted to do a stress test on a 93-year-old woman who was there with no contraindications and when she was discharged gave a prescription for Coumadin even though it was not necessary we contacted our primary doctor and he said that she definitely should not take Coumadin the cardiac nurse said that she was called in last minute after doing a shift the night before and instead of taking care of four patients she was taking care of eight patients on the cardiac unit
Killed multiple friends of mine. Not much a hospital, rather killing grounds. Ignore patient until he no longer needs care. That’s how they work
I came to Maimonidies with my elderly father and he was seen in less than 10 minutes, given a bed in emergency room private cubicle about 5 minutes later, was seen by the emergency room doctor before he even had a chance to change into a hospital gown and was seen by a cardiologist in less than a half hour. He was taken for a cat scan an our later and it was interpreted 15 minutes after he got to his cubicle. In the meantime the nurse asked a volunteer to go to Bikur Cholim room to get a snack for my father…and for me!! He stayed in emergency room bed for about 6 hours and then was transferred to a regular floor for the night. A minor surgical procedure was performed the next day and he was home 24 hours later.
By his next hospitalization he was in a hospital near Monsey…………. oy!!!! A week of horror stories………… until he transferred to Columbia.
Maimonidies was incredible….. This was all a few years ago.
Very long wait in an cramped understaffed ER at night. And bad service in ER at day
I gave birth to my first baby in 2021. He was taken to the nicu due to respiratory distress. We did not have a great experience there. There was very poor communication between the drs and us. One of the things that stands out to me is that my baby failed his hearing screening a few times and no one bothered to tell us!
The discharge nurse handed me an envelope to follow up with an audiologist. That was how i found out! When i asked the dr. why no one told me, she apologized that someone was supposed to tell me!
I have pictures of the garbage overflowing in my mothers room. When I questioned the nurse why she threw a used syringe in the garbage pail she said no room in the sharps.
It goes back quite some years… I was scheduled for a D&C due to a miscarriage, before and after surgery they let me lay on a stretcher in the hallways rather than in a decent hospital room, it was embarrassing BEYOND!! Finally someone stepping up to the plate!!
My mother Miriam Leiner died 7 years ago of pancreatic cancer in maimonides hospital.She wS fully awake on Friday morning in July but was feeling weak. Her nurse demanded her to get out of her chair despite her weakness. Later in the morning she seem to have a crisis. While a team of about 10 were working with her headed by Dr Dimitri,, there was a loud roar of laughter that came from them. A FEW minutes later our mother died.!!
Signed,
Joshua Leiner Berel Leiner, Herschel Leiner and Leah Goldstein, children of the deceased
My wife waited 3 hrs for someone to bring a BEDPAN…and the NASTINESS was indescribable…like it would be a CRIME to ASK for ONE!!!!!! and I can fill up 10 pages of the horror we suffered,,,,
Five years ago, my mother waited all night long to be seen in the emergency room. She was very very ill. But she got so frustrated she went home without having been cared for. This is Maimonides. It’s about time things change. It’s about time we as a community say we will not put up with this.
I am sharing my story because as an employee of Maimonides for the past many years, I have seen how the hospital has deteriorated. I will describe my day in detail and what has been affecting us…. I started my day early in the morning which I walked into an old and dilapidated building that is not maintained, dirt on the floor, if you throw a piece of garbage in one of the staircases, I bet you that you will see it again the next day. I tried to walk up the stairs so I can lose weight and be healthy. Then I was up in the unit which they have recently hired many new colleagues so it was a lot of new faces with different experiences. At about late morning, I experienced a malfunctioned air conditioning unit problem, causing me to sweat and being tired. I tried to take it easy by drinking more water and walking to another part of the hospital which the air conditioning blasting off and keeping other co workers wearing #onemaimonides hoodies. I would then contact facility per our protocol. The lady sounded irritated and dull on the phone, almost like “here we go again, another same phone call about temperature.” Then lunch which the cafeteria has recently been upgraded to a different vendor so the quality of the food has improved but then the grill station, which has the best fried chicken around this area, has a long line of people waiting to be served. The guy behind counter can only do one order at a time. We looked at each other rolling our eyes and shrugged our shoulders. Oh well, we only have one hour break and should we spend the next 10 – 15 minutes waiting for fried chicken? Maybe not, I thought in my head. I need to lose weight anyway so I went for the salad bar. The lady at the check out counter has a small pocket-sized bible hanging off her shirt pocket (I really wonder if anyone could read such a small print) and I always watch her carefully to make sure she charges me correctly. Sometimes they are so distracted and busy talking among themselves. Now comes another suffer, the air conditioning in the cafeteria is broken again! Sure, I will eat in the heat and go out for a walk later but oh no, I was disturbed by little flies wanting a share of my food. I waved my hands around the food to get the flies out of my food. I looked around and I saw others doing the same….. to be continued
If you are Over AGE 72 they look at you with big shocking eyes and ask”
Are you SURE you want your Mom to be treated????????? “she’s more than 72 No????”
It was such a nightmare having a Mother who was a vibrant energetic contributing member to society in a tremendous way {and I don’t want to be specific and give away her identifying details} But she spent weeks in the hospital whisked around from room to room {wherever her room was needed by some other YOUNGER patient she was transferred to “ANYWHERE because THERE WAS NO DR. WILLING TO TREAT A PATIENT that might not get them the best RATING!!!!!
And she was rushed into the ICU as she OBVIOUSLY needed emergency care only to be KICKED OUT {NO better way to say it} the VERY NEXT DAY, because her bed was probably needed and she was not going to be an easy success story for them to pat themselves on the back for ALL their wondrous deeds in bringing back their patients to good health!
they should all be put on TRIAL for abuse and Neglect while collecting almost $100,000 from her insurance!!!!!! T H I E V E S !!!!!!!!!!
I waited 15 hours!
Hatzalah took in my dying mother in law to the emergency room and 3 days later she walked out all healthy ,that’s my honor story .
Just to lighten up a little
But truth be told I was at a prestigious hospital once and I asked the nurses there why mamanadies has such a lousy nursing staff ,and in all honestly they told me the better doctors go to the upper manhaten hospitals, therefore the better nurses all go there in hopes of finding themselves a good doctor to marry ,they said it would not make a difference to them How much you would pay them this is where they want to be .so we are left with the ones those hospital rejected
Until this hospital becomes a hospital that the better doctors want to go to ,we dont stand a chance of having good help for the patients regardless who is going to run this hospital,anyone tells you different is lying to you.,
You just improve a little all around and that’s not going to do it . you need to become the best in one part with top staff whatever it takes even if that is a loosing properstion and then the next and so on next etc .like take a decent heart department which it is and make it the best staff, service cleaners,care ,meals feeding ,and that’s the only way it will change
I had my first child there in 2007. My wife was laying in the hallway for hours. They had no place to put here. When she was ready for labor, they had no delivery room, so the baby was delivered in an operating room. She was then placed not on a floor where they put new mothers, but where they put sick patients. My wife had nowhere to shower after a delivery, and had to go around searching or a shower. When my father-in-law complained, the patient rep literally stuck out his tongue behind his back. I saw it. It was only after getting proteksia involved that my wife was changed to a normal room. Actually the experience with my second child that was a preemie, and was in the NICU was better. I have since had 5 other babies born in Columbia and Cornell. Great experience.
Almost 7 years ago, right after the zman the first day of sukkos, my baby choked on a piece of hard plastic. It was stuck in his esophagus. Thankfully it didn’t cover it entirely, so he could breathe, but it could have moved and the situation could change every minute. They brought the baby in as a code 1, and then we sat around and waited for about an hour. Finally, the resident came. We were then told that there is no one the hospital that has the experience to dislodge the piece from the esophagus of a baby, because it is quite deep, and can harm the esophagus when it is being extracted, and the doctor that can do it is away on vacation. They then called for a doctor from Methodist, I believe, or another hospital that they are affiliated with, to come over. We waited for about another hour, and finally this young green doctor comes, and he was even more helpless than the resident. They then told us that we will have to go to Manhattan, and we need decide fast to which hospital we want to go to, because the plastic can shift any minute, and then it will be too late Ch”v. This meant we would be stuck in Manhattan over the first days, and we left a whole family at home with a neighbor at a moments notice. We were panicking. Suddenly at the last moment the resident took the chance and pulled it out. He was shaking, he said it was the first time he did such a thing. We were back home about an hour later. It is incredulous that an institution that is supposedly called a hospital has no one experienced to be able to take care of a choking baby.
This is not a hospital it’s a butcher place
my grandmother was in the hospital and an mri was ordered. the doctor came back with the mri results saying that she has a brain tumor and needs immediate surgery to remove it. my uncle who was with her at the time, said it doesn’t make any sense and she was transferred to a different hospital where they redid the mri and the doctor said that my grandmother is perfectly fine and there’s no tumor .
I was 9.5 months pregnant with my first child. I came in for severe cramping which o was told was nothing. They put me into an emergency unit covered by a curtain where my water broke.
Thy didn’t even offer me a room or anything. They took me to a labor unit where I was again covered by a curtain. This is my first child, and I was already 6 cm at least. Screaming of pain. It took them 4.5 hours if not more to get me an epidural.
They gave me morphine but that lowered her heart rate and then they rushed me into the labor room where there was blood on the damn floor ! Post labor was even worse. They didn’t care for my child at all! I had to fight w the nurses to let her come home with me because they told me she had high level of billy Rubin which was later confirmed to be false because mt doctor called in.
I don’t suggest this hospital by any means.
And the pediatric unit? Don’t even get me started.
I’m so damn sick of this place… I work there and I’m definitely leaving it’s a sh*thole. How can they spend so much money on advertisement, marketing, and a new building but can’t even upkeep the ones people work in, or hire enough essential workers.
Screw the administration at this place. They just wanna work us all to the bone and take advantage of us.
Also sick of these mofos outside handing out damn garbage treats bags and flyers… why u gotta give it to us we work there! U shouldn’t have to convince us…
I came to the hospital to give birth. I had terrible back labor and I begged for epidural. They told me there were no beds available. They made me wait, in agony, for hours. I magically got a bed when I used some “pull” from a doctor. During the hours I spent in triage, I heard 2 nurses chatting about how much they hate working in the hospital and how underpaid they are. I had a nasty nurse during labor that was all snappy and rude. Thinking back, 2 and a half years later, I still cannot believe that a nurse in a delivery room can be so incompetent and lack basic manners. Her way of “encouraging” me was by being sarcastic. Would you believe that when I was open 9 she actually left the room and said she’ll “be back in a minute”. I was left all by myself and that’s when things started moving. I needed to push. I started screaming for a nurse. Can you believe that a woman giving birth was left alone by the nurse? Someone who was literally in the advanced stages? How dare she leave a vulnerable woman in that state? Someone in the hallway heard me and went to get a nurse. I had the baby a few minutes later. I’m still traumatized from this birth. I promised myself to never go back.
I went to Maimonides because I felt like I couldn’t breathe. I just had gotten over covid. After 4 hours of waiting, they finally did a CT scan that showed I had several blood clots in my lungs. As well as pneumonia (which they didn’t even tell me) Hour 7 finally rolled around and they told me I would have to be admitted for a Heparin drip immediately. By this time I’m sitting in a chair, in a crowded covid room, and I didn’t have covid anymore. They said there were no rooms so I would have to be admitted to the hospital and sit in this chair with a wait for up to 2-3 days for a room… The drunks in the hall had stretchers to lay on nicely. I sat there for an additional 6 hours. They never brought the Heparin drip. They never even check my vitals besides upon arriving. I complain to patient services, nurses, doctors. I even recorded all the conversation so they couldn’t backtrack about the negligence that they were doing. After making a massive scene they gave me a blood thinner pill and sent me home. This hospital is the epitome of what trash is. I could have died waiting and no one would have ever known because I was never even checked on. Being a mother of 2 very young kids, one with special needs, I was furious. I filed multiple complaints to where the hospital said that their legal team would look into it and of course after weeks they said they were found in the clear. I should have sued and I probably still can, but getting my health together and myself better was the main priority instead of wasting time on these poor excuses of healthcare…. 2 months prior to this I had went to Maimonides for excessive bleeding after I had my son. You guys… They put me in an exam room that had blood all over the floor, looked like a crime scene in the bathroom and had pee specimens out. I was disgusted, I took pictures, I sent them to Maimonides through Facebook, called patient services from the room and of course only then, 2 hours later, did a hazmat team come in and clean the room. Filthy, unprofessional, and down right neglectful. Never again will I step foot into that place.
My memory is $100,000 in debt back in 1995, than years of frustrations and deep depression for next 5 years, hiding from collection services and stupid, completely unethical, uneducated medical residents, and careless doctors. Never going forget it. Nurses where great. Nice to pations, hard working people, I thank you all of those nurses. If anyone ask me for recommendations, most probably I would recommend NYU Langone hospital instead of Maimonides Hospital.
Attitude in Maimonidies is we are doing you a favor. From the second you cross the threshold.
From the guard at the front desk to the nurse at the the nurses station – it’s you shouldn’t really be bothering us.
It should be, and is, at many pther quality hospitals “waht can we do for you ? It’s a pleasure to serve you!” We are paying their salary and the patients and family whoare in disteress should bve shown caring, respect and that staff is more than willing to help accomodate any request if possible.
i was admitted to the hospital for an infection on the foot . I was told i would need an operation , but first they need to do an MRI . i was in the hospital for 3 days when finally 2:30 am they came to give me the MRI . I asked the tech how busy he was they need to do this in middle of the night . His answer was the request just came thru and it was quiet for last 24 hours
Yes. What number of ‘Orthodox Jewish’ Boro Park residents are there on the board?!!! Yes, here you go… NONE! finally, 100% of the board, including the absolute best-paid hospital ‘rotten’ officials should be changed with Boro Park residents, millions of dollars are being raised from us the Boro Park residents, none has such an interest in this neighborhood hospital better than us Boro Park residents! The time has come, we would sort of a change, allow us to create history because the people/patients of ‘our’ local hospital must hold votes for the new administration, period! Maimonides is that hospital we -the Boro Park residents care for, it is in our best interest, it is the doctors we sorrow, it is the officials from top to bottom whom we would wish to alter, at once, we are going to not rest which we are going to prevail!
Thank you SaveMaimo.
I am an unappreciated undervalued badly treated healthcare worker and plus my family have been neglected patients and victims of some of the atrocities that take place here due to its complete mismanagement and ultimately corrupt administration.
Your response to the “open letter” was on target and I don’t think many people got to read it yet but I’m planning on making copies and handing out and hanging it wherever I can for the public to see. It’s something that needs to be publicized so that every person from the basic citizen to highest levels in government to see it and take action against ultimately violations of civil rights against patients and employees.
Maimonides is supposedly a “nonprofit”. However the person that makes the most money is the one on the board that’s the least qualified and happens to be the “President and CEO”, it would be lol what a joke if it wasn’t scary and harmful to others.
If they can withhold from the board something that ultimately benefits and will help Maimonides and the communities it serves what else is disgraced fake fraud Kenny and his very few insider elites hiding from the board members and the public for their own benefit and personal power??
The people stationed outside the hospital pretending to be Maimonides employees and handing out pastries are annoying and harassing staff.
I recently did a search to figure out what was going on at Maimonides. The fifth search entry came up about a surgeon who was sleeping with a doctor in training and had a “love nest”. I was shocked and looked him up. He still works there. I find it all strange that someone who sounds like Harvey Weinstein is being paid by Maimonides to work there.
My Father was a patient in Maimonides 3 times over the last two years. In September, 2020, he was taken into the hospital with Hatzalah ambulance for a leg infection which turned out to be a severe case of cellulitis. The conditions of the emergency room, right before Covid became a pandemic, were horrific! There were at least 4 rows of patients on the ER, no privacy and no staff cleaning up after patients. My father was placed on a gurney and was subjected to a multiple hours wait until he was even seen by a doctor. The patient on one side of him was actively coughing and spitting up all around him, the patient on the other side of him was completely soiled and needed to be cleaned up. However, the ER was severely short staffed and these patients were neglected as well. The ER had limited supplies like gloves or masks, not to mention a chair for family members. Patients were not treated with dignity or given some privacy. All of this, while my father was burning up with fever and starting to hallucinate. Finally, a beleaguered physician came and addressed my father and ran tests. My father was hospitalized for at least 2 weeks. My Dad was fortunate to have round the clock family members who were willing to stay with him and advocate for him while he was unwell and couldn’t advocate for himself. But then, the hospital insisted on these arcane rules where he could not have someone with him over night. And even during the day, if it was after the official visiting hours, we needed ‘protektzia’ and pull form someone who was well connected to the hospital to allow one of us to remain with him for longer during the daytime hours. I cannot tell you how much stress and aggravation that caused us! The 2nd time my father was hospitalized was that September, 2020. He was admitted due to to septic shock and respiratory failure. Thank G-d he didn’t have covid and I must say that he did receive good care while in the ICU, but sadly the ER was still in pretty bad shape. Also, my mother, who was so worried and anxious, could not have peace of mind while he was hospitalized alone and if it were not for the “Welltab”, she too could have been hospitalized due to anxiety!Initially, the staff did not even allow the welltablet to be placed in his room,but finally they relented. In one instance, in the middle of the night, my Mother actually had to call the Nurses station directly to alert them that some machines by my father’s bed were ringing wildly and he needed emergency attention asap!! However, once again, only due to the ‘pull’ we had from a family member who is well connected, we were allowed to have someone in the room with my Father until midnight and then again at 10 am. These times are so arbitrary and random! These rules are of no benefit to the patient or hospital staff. How many times was it that our family member who sat by my Father’s side alerted the overworked nurses to potential emergency situations?? At least 3 times! These nurses had their hands full! Covid was rampant and they were extremely understaffed, exhausted and stressed. My heart goes out to those patients who did not have family members by their side supporting them and taking care of them. How many of them coded? We know that a lot did because these nurses were constantly running around on the floor with their crash carts. Finally, my father had to be admitted to Maimonides again in October of 2021. Sadly, the level of service did not improve by much. Again, my father was treated as an afterthought and not like the paying customer he is! The staff were short tempered and irate and again, seemed understaffed! The stress and anxiety of having him hospitalized again was almost unbearable, especially due to the poor treatment he received previously. Thankfully, once again, our family friend with connections, helped make things better by pulling strings and helping get our father discharged faster.
We are very distraught by the declining service and treatment in Maimonides. They are definitely due an overhaul and review.
Wow, barely able to find proper wording for this.
New new low, even for Maimo standards. They are targeting Jewish employees especially the religious ones. What a flamboyant disgusting disgrace this is and how much lower can you go?!
Two of my siblings work there sadly. They have NOTHING to do with this campaign and are A-political in general and I encouraged them to leave several times because they are phenomenal individuals and healthcare workers but they are on the quiet and shy side and just tend to do their own thing and not listen to me.
I’m trying to get the targeted emails from them from their managers and so on and other some discussions that were overheard and messages of disbelief and shock from their non jewish coworkers. If when I’ll do I’ll post it all. Until then, I trust them because their pure goodness and usually never vent, complain or discuss any work related stuff with me.
People, including them need to start litigating and standing up for their rights. Enough with current Maimonides Bully Elites who speak so “professionally”…..
What a shame and disgrace.
The central air conditioners on gelman pavilion don’t work. The room is 81 degrees and only gets hotter during the day. How are patients supposed to get better in these conditions.
I was burning up with 105 fever, which I knew because I had my own thermometer. I stood by the door of my room to get help because no nurse or dr had come to check on me. When I finally got a nurses attention, she told me that I wouldn’t be upright if that was the case. She proceeded to storm off.
During recovery of my second baby in maimonidies, I repeatedly asked for my baby from the nursery and was IGNORED. I wan NOT given reason and was not allowed to see him even when I GOT UP and WALKED to the nursery in my WEAK state. A full SIX hours later a nurse gave a weak explanation that he was waiting for a hearing test since some of the machines were broken. They then told me he “failed” his hearing test . The nurse begrudgingly admitted the machine was probably also broken. (he later passed at the audiologist)
All throughout my stay I asked for nurses and was repeatedly ignored or told a curt answer like ‘they are too busy’. I even went to the nurses station and was still not answered until hours later. My IV was put in terribly and causing significant pain. When it was taken out (after begging for 12 hours) it was swollen, black and blue and gushing blood.
My exclusively nursing baby was given formula in the nursery without my consent or prior notice (they had some excuse- but still they should have told me). This is a violation of state law!
After giving birth to my third child this past Feb 2022, I waited for nearly 8 hours to be transferred to the post partum care unit.
At around 8am they said I would be transferred shortly and would take my baby up first so he could get the necessary checks done. I asked if they were sure it eould be soon as I exclusively breast feed my babies. I was assures it would be very soon. Every 45 minutes I asked and was told, “should be any second.”
5 hours later I was transferred, my baby was bottle fed and I had a difficult time establishing nursing in the hospital.
I need to begin by saying that I’ve had terrible experiences and wonderful ones at MMC, however the severity of the bad are beginning to outweigh the good.
Not long ago, my MIL was brought in unconscious after undergoing one of her immunotherapy treatments to treat Stage 3 breast cancer.
About 12 hours later, I relieved my husband and BIL so they could go get something to eat. And when they return, at that moment a resident asks if we are family members and then proceeds to tell us my MIL is going to die and needs to be made comfortable. She gives a half smile, says “good luck” and walks away. I’m in shock.
Shortly aft A few minutes later the resident neurologist comes to check on her as she just woke up. He had an amazing bedside manner and was very kind but didn’t read her file. He says “great, you can go home now and enjoy a lovely day.” I asked if he read her file and when he does, his face dropped. He called the chief neurologist and chief oncologist to see her. They too were very kind, one spoke to her in her native tongue and was able to get her to smile. Both CLEARLY didn’t read her file and say she can go home. Again I mention they should read her file, and after that they ask me to call my husband and BIL back.
It is crazy how understaffed and how even the current employees hate working there. Of course no normal person would want to take a job at this place. So, they are forced to hire the worst of the worst.
They are making a “Stop by and say Hello” Wednesday! Seriously?! It’s such BS.
Their newest thing is “listening”, as if they care….Enough with the listening and talk, talk is cheap and their “listening” it’s pure crap. Everyone I spoke to says they “listen” and so on and act as if they care but literally do NOTHING! It seems like the deaf can hear better than the uppers.
Time for serious change and real action. Enough with the bandages and time for real healing and fixing.
Much more to come!
It may take some time but all communities are uniting, not against Maimonides or it’s Union Workers but against its horrible, negligent, borderline criminal elites and “heads”.
Their psychiatric Department is horrible, I saw abuse of a Jewish girl patient. She threw a bowl of food down(bec. she wasn’t well), and they had these strong men come & tie her down spread eagled to a bed. Another patient had her ribs broken when she didn’t co-operate.
Was in hospital 15 days August 2021. Was brought by ambulance and was in emergency room about ten hours before admitted. Was given ct scan, sonogram, ekocardiogram, blood draw and ekg. I was next to another patient with a disturbingly loud machine and when I complained about the disturbing noise I was nastily told too bad. Though I felt confident there was expertise behind the examining in the emergency room, there were extensive stretches of time I was being ignored. After admission it was a torture chamber. Some staff was nice, some were animals. Was so weak I could hardly move. One arrogant condescending intern told me I would be discharged day after surgery when I was unable to even sit up and when I said I can’t even move, he cruelly said “that’s the way its gonna be” (however surgeon kept me in hospital 4 days longer til I could sit up and surgical cuts all closed up). One indifferent and lazy technician took blood from wrist where there are many nerves, instead of normal place inside of elbow, puncture was sharply painful for 10-15 days. After surgery one technician wrongly turned me on bed to take blood pressure so as to pull on surgical cuts, I almost screamed with pain. Air condition was freezing, I needed eight covers on bed. Nurse said I need catheter to measure urine, was painful and caused infection not healed a year later (still under care of urologist for that infection caused in hospital a year ago). Had that painful catheter removed within 24 hours. Patient in next bed watched tv all night, couldn’t sleep and staff did nothing. Needed endoscopy after admitted to determine if I would need surgery. An examining intern asked if I had pain where she pointed. I said pain was constant. Took what I said to mean pain was not from stomach where she pointed and she refused to schedule endoscopy til I told surgeon later that constant pain meant yes from stomach; that idiot intern caused delay for three days which in turned delayed the needed surgery three days. After surgery I needed physical therapy. Five days after surgery physical therapist came to evaluate me – while I was literally on my way out the door being discharged! Called one of my doctors at given Maimonides office number, a year later that call still was never returned! Surgeon and some of the nurses were wonderful, have to give them credit. But too many policies and practices were painful, cold, cruel, inhuman, mechanical, indifferent, unresponsive and rigid; I hope responsible people at acting and at decision making levels are fired and banned permanently from the health care industry; some (not all) are the dregs of the industry, their attitude is inadequate for a zoo; much too much, being in Maimonides was horrible and low class, it was torture. Learn and apply how Langone, Columbia, Cleveland, Johns Hopkins and Mayo manage hospitals, establish culture and atmosphere, build reputation and treat people.
I was in the hospital for 4 days recovering from surgery and my room wasn’t cleaned even once! The bathroom included.
I had two babies there and both times were an horrific experience, the 1st one was born erev shabbos and I was hollering for someone to help me, nobody came. This is after they forced my husband to leave with the promise I would be cared for. Shame on that garbage dump!
I am an employee in Maimo and noticed construction on the 3rd floor of the admin building. I asked the workers what they were doing and they told me that they were enlarging and redoing an office for the newly hired chairman of anesthesia Dr Mark Kronenfeld. So while the hospital is hemorrhaging money and can’t pay the nurses or get AC for the patients, somehow they have the money to build a new beautiful office for Dr Kronenfeld.
A nightmare the treatment poor the staff unprofessional needed a blanket the response was sorry no more. Needed help with bathroom. Typical response was not my job I am not your nurse. the emergency room was like a market gurney everywhere could not move the rooms were disgusting unsanitary smelled like urine garbage overflowing blood on the floor I would not recommend this hospital. You need major improvements proper staff training
It’s very painful and beyond sad most of the stories people are sharing here and I heard that in private the stories are even worse and that some are just to traumatized and others don’t even know where to start sharing their horrid experiences at Maimo.
Please read to the end before jumping to conclusions.
-No Hospital is perfect.
-Hospitals in general are a very sick and complex place for all parties involved, patients, families and employees in all departments especially those dealing with the patients and families directly.
(that’s in no way making excuses or defending the neglect and so on.)
Having said that, a few close friends and relatives work at Maimo in different positions in different departments and I must say they unilaterally agree that it all comes down to systemic failures throughout their “world class care” and complete mismanagement and incompetence throughout many different departments, STARTING FROM AND MAINLY FROM THE TOP which trickles down and makes its way down to the management and managers, all the way down the ranks until the “union workers” and patients and innocent people suffer due to other peoples self centered selfish egotistical incompetent behaviors and attitudes.
Let’s be crystal clear, the “union workers” suffer and are neglected just like the patients and in many cases even worse because they are unable to ultimately do their job and calling and help their patients.
It is not even possible to hire so many incompetent rude doctors, nurses, PCT’s or techs etc., the healthcare professionals that go to school and sacrifice years of their lives to help people don’t all of a sudden decide “you know something, let’s neglect and be mean to people”, or “we went to school to help heal and be there for the sick and needy but….never mind, let’s make the sick and needy peoples life even more difficult etc.” Does that even make sense? Then what can possibly be some answers to why there are so many uncaring, rude, mean etc. “union workers”?
Remember, “union workers” like the PA’s, RN’s, PCT’s and so on are NOT part of the Maimo administration and get looked at and treaded by the administration the way some of you get treated; like an item or thing to be used for their own gain. Many of them never worked in healthcare or with patients and are not empathetic caring people who have dignity and value humans. To most heads the main thing they value and care about is money in their own pockets and their egos. Many of the elites and managers at Maimo are snowflakes due to what I just mentioned; no dignity but their own ego and self only so they melt and have no clue how to lead others or get things done in an orderly manner bringing all the crap together as a team for the “union workers”/healthcare providers/“hero’s” in which ultimately lead to patients and their families and all to be treated and served properly with care in all aspects, no need for “world class care”, just basic human care to start!
Some big issues:
-The managers can’t communicate between themselves, different departments can’t communicate with other departments. There is almost no collaboration whatsoever.
-People in management (starting from on top) just care about themselves and maybe their departments because again they think it’s a reflection of themselves and do not see or care about the bigger picture as a whole. They don’t believe in what their doing or have purpose other then again, themselves; which in healthcare is a no no. If you only care about yourself the sanitation department is hiring, you can let your personal issues and problems out the the garbage bags and throw them as hard as you wish, but you can’t treat humans like garbage advertently or inadvertently.
-Its nor their fault but many of the new interns and RN’s and so on, lack basic people and communication skills and are not properly supervised or trained. (Again that’s a leadership and management issue)
Change from on top is way overdue…
Enough for now!
Bay kou. bliye, pote mak sonje.
Bondye beni ou
A mi hermana la tratan muy mal
El doctor no se preocupa y da la medicina equivocada
Hospital caliente y apestoso
Nada sin trabajo y sin suficientes trabajadores
Hasta en mi país te atienden mejor
我父亲上周死于这家糟糕的医院. 只有一个好护士是犹太人. 我发送私人电子邮件详细说明所有发生的事情
My husband was having an over 6 hour long surgery that we didn’t know he would survive. I was waiting in the heart surgery family waiting room. You could not possibly n design a more uncomfortable room for a long wait in a stressful situation. Lethality literally a glass box so no privacy even though you have to be let in by staff (so if you leave the waiting room you could be waiting a while for someone to let you back in) and the glass box has nothing but hard plastic chairs around the perimeter. No couches, no recliners, no armchairs, not even a rug. As we got to the early morning hours I wanted to move a chair over so I could put my feet up and find that most of the chairs n are WELDED TOGETHER so you cannot do anything to improve your comfort. I ended up literally stretching out on the floor. There’s a kitchenette in the waiting room that’s not only not kosher but has nothing n it. A sink, a microwave and an EMPTY mini fridge. Not even any coffee to be had.
My husband had a pretty decent experience in the cticu but that could have to do with the fact that we have connections with people at the hospital who could get us information or move things along if need be. Now he was moved to a regular ward and I’m already alarmed. The nurses work hard that is clear, but I could overhear them talking about their overwhelm. He hasn’t been there long but I worry when its not visiting b hours and a family member can’t be there to help him or oversee things and keep things moving. My husband can’t speak right now because of a stroke and he therefore cannot advocate for himself or even just yell out. So if he rings the nurse bell and no one shows up, which happens plenty, he just has to sit.
I too have had the experience of going to the hall to look for a nurse and finding no one around even though his room is right outside the nurses station.
Maimonides was not our first or even 3rd choice but my husbands condition was so dire when he came in that he wouldn’t have survived ba trip to a further hospital. That’s the biggest thing maimonedes has going for it. That its in the middle of the community it serves. But they are taking that community for granted. I do not understand why they are building a new ED before fixing the ac problems. Yes the building is old. So what? The old should not be more than a issue. When old things stop working you fix or replace them, you don’t just say it’s old.
My husband is currently a cardiac patient. He was in the icu such was actually very good. But now street just one day on a regular ward the problems are popping up. The nursing button gets answered by static and no one can hear when I respond. My husband can’t speak and if no one is there someone really needs to show up to see what he needs but if they can’t even communicate by the nursing button how can that work? My husband is not cleared to have full liquid but they havnt given him thickener with his lunch and nurses had to go running around to find a packet. And like so many others I have to ask WHAT IS UP WITH THE AC??? the room is in the 70s at least. A patient rep got him a fan but said if certain hospital officials come around they need to put it away because officially they aren’t allowed to use fans. Circulates germs they say. Fair enough. But then FIX THE DARNED AC!! My husband will be there at least another week. I’m glad he’s in the cardiac ward where the medical care is still very good unlike other departments. But things that affect the hospital as a whole will still affect him.
Hi,
My father dictated his recent experience with Maimonides to me, with the request that I submit it:
This past winter, in November 2022, I fell down a flight of stairs in my one-family home.
I was transported to Maimonides ER by Hatzolah in excruciating pain.
Once there, the xray technician proceeded to take xray of me.
After taking xrays of my back, while I was lying flat on my back, he insisted that I turn over on my side, which I was not able to do- due to the severe injuries on my left side.
He proceeded then to roughly move me, with no consideration at all to the agony I was in, later finding out that my injuries included: 5 broken ribs, broken shoulder blade and a punctured lung- all on my left side.
The technician showed no care or concern at all to the agonizing pain I was in, and was extremely tough and rough with me, while moving me around in order to take the xrays.
I am normally a person who can handle pain, and would rather suffer in silence than create a commotion. However, the pain was indescribable and his rough and wild handling of my body just exacerbated it, that involuntarily, I started screaming, causing a commotion of staff who came running to see what happened.
It was only then, that he backed off and became more gentle.
I would imagine that an x ray technician who works in an ER would be trained on how to deal with an injured person, in a gentle and caring manner.
This awful experience in Maimonides Emergency Room, is a part of the trauma I experienced that I can never forget.
Let’s hope no one else has to suffer at the hands of Maimonides personnel ever again.
I appreciate your work in trying to improve the services at Maimonides. We hope that our local hospital can indeed become one that we can trust.
Signed,
YF
My father was admitted March 26 2020 to Maimonides at the beginning of COVID
2 days later by March 28 2020 he was DEAD. we heard from other yiden that where around him at the time that he was simply neglected, he was put in a room and left at the same position he was put in. people who knew him could just not believe how he was just left to die with no treatment whatsoever. He was a healthy person NO medical issues fully active person not obese and in just 2 days he was gone. we believe it was neglect
If there is a massive protest by the different communities served by MMC ,surrounding the hospital(not blocking ambulance and pedestrian access to the ER and permitting patients and
Medical staff a path to enter at the main entrance and the discharged patients and the deceased to be brought out of the hospital)with politicians and community members invited to speak, and media alerted, this will force the state and city authorities to respond. At this point, short of voluntary resignation of Gibbs, Antonides and Press, and the Board, there is no choice but to force them out. At this point there is no issue of massering, it’s Al Taamod Al Dam Reecha.
Someone explain how can MMC open another ED under the horrible leader of Marshall? Someone explain how can MMC open another ED when they can’t financially afford to manage what they already have? Where is the money coming from? What is Northwell involvement? Who owns the site ? Who is paying the rent? How will it be staffed? All incompetence! Trying to expand is good only when you have a strong mother ship. This venture at this times truly shows the lack of leadership and disconnect of Gibbs. He continues to promise community things he can’t appropriately deliver. That’s incompetence!!
What are the qualifications of the people currently running Maimo?
Is being an obedient puppet, subordinate and hiding behind words and spin and reading talking points and not answering questions part of the qualifying factors to get a boss job here at MMC?! Wondering?! Because Kenny and some others do not have what it takes to lead or even run a supermarket. Maybe a supermarket he can run! It’s time for regime change and a restart because like this is just simply not working or functioning in anyway shape or form….
They write we provide ”world class care”, are you serious?! how out of touch and delusional can people in charge be writing something like that, that’s so misleading and bogus and a flat out lie?! It’s mind boggling at best. It’s more like they provide “world class negligence/horrific care”
Wake up people! Ask Gibbs why the new hire for operations? Another high level VP. Is it because the banks know you are incompetent?
Start telling the truth about the financial state of MMC. What is the future? A state run hospital after you go bankrupt? Starting talking people are listening!
Mistreatment is not the only word. Patients and staff are mislead!! Where are the answers to the questions ? Why hasn’t Gibbs responded? Too many lies to cover up!
Staff still being pushed to hand out flyers! Staff being bullied – if they don’t they are placed in a position for retaliation .
Why does the board allow this? They are incompetent like Gibbs!
Let’s redefine words and play the victim while victimizing others! Sound familiar?!
“Transition”NOT Recession when in reality there is a recession. How about this, “We’re getting Attacked” or “Not Professional” when in reality it’s, We Are Getting Heat and getting exposed in a public manner and people are speaking the truth and finding out more and more dirt daily and we are scared and don’t like that and are feeling pressure.
(The heads and corrupt individuals are the ONLY people that feel attacked, why? because their scared, their being exposed, their incompetence and lack of leadership and careless attitudes for others or for humans in general are being shined on for all to see. The truth is painful and it hurts, yes, so you can feel attacked but claiming your being “attacked” is only for those who fear and hate the truth! So be it!!!)
Watch their actions and listen closely to part of many other parts of their toxic thinking and dysfunction. They want it to “LOOK” like a Manhattan hospital, not “BE” like a Manhattan hospital. They focus on stuff like “diverse” meals when they can’t even be organized in simpler ways like making sure patients get fed and get basic nutrients after getting to their room after waiting two days in the ED, or the food being served is actually for the patient and being fed to the patient (if need be), is just minor and tiny examples from many many other bigger real problems and examples.
I’m sad to say this but Maimonides is less organized and more rude and non-functional and run worse than a NYC DMV!
There are some that are amazing and try and actually do work their tails off like a woman named Ingrid, she is kind and amazing and gets things done but, one of the main issues from my view point is her boss and mainly her bosses boss etc.
Repeating amd doing the same thing you’ve been doing especially the “Quick Fixes” etc. is 1, a losing formula and 2, it’s all just for now and is only TEMPORARY just like everything else at Maimonides (if you as an individual really want good quality care for you or your family then, transfer someplace else, to a more honest and functional place. Don’t stay at a place where the only thing that matters is money in my pocket only and the “Titles” you have and not the people you work with or the people in your care!)
If you can’t deal with and get right the BASIC FUNCTIONS OF LIFE (not just in business or healthcare etc.) like Communication, Kindness, Care for others to even stuff like honesty, integrity and transparency than it’s time for a restart and hard reset!
From the cleaning crews, patient transfer, engineering issues, broken and not enough or updated equipment or lack of and insufficient supplies or lack of and unqualified and untrained staff or the whole blame hateful toxic work environment or the fact that MMC is constantly bleeding money, and so on and on….NOTHING WILL CHANGE IF THE “BASIC FUNCTIONS OF LIFE” don’t exist.
The Elites at Maimonides in ways are similar to government in many ways, do as I say and not as I do or it’s like saying “the Biden presidency and admin is the most efficient, honest, transparent, liked administration in history!” Lol
That’s how Maimo is being dragged into the ground more and more. They are almost completely detached from reality and focus on the dumbest things.
It’s almost entirely on the heads of Maimonides Medical Center or Health (or whatever you want to call this hell hole)
They MUST STOP CLAIMING AND SAYING THINGS THEY ARE NOT AND LITERALLY GASLIGHTING THE PUBLIC (slash, Flat out lying and twisting as well) AND SHOWING THOSE AROUND THEM PERSONALLY AND EVERYONE ELSE THAT THEIR PHONY FRAUDS.
What’s that saying, something like, The patient is running the asylum!
We shall continue this later or another time. There is so so so much more to write and expose sadly…..
At a visit to the emergency room, my blood work was mixed up with an old, sick, homeless guy. When the doctor came to me with results after waiting there for over four hours with no care and updates, he started subscribing to a list of problems and recommendations that didn’t make sense to a regular healthy young guy. I have to stand up and ask to get dismissed without help after being there for 5-6 hours.
My wife gets hostilities a lot while pregnancy for hyperemesis and dehydration; we had twice the unhearable experience that the doctors and nurses in MMC mixed up her medication and caused her hardly reaction and medical emergency.
One story was: when we got admitted to the hospital. We told the team that she is allergic to Raglan Med., which is for nausea and vomiting, and she was given a warning band for that. But in the coming Morning, when I left the room for a while, she wasn’t feeling good. The nurse brought her medication without saying what it was; she was too weak to ask. She took it with confidence that the doctor should give the right thing; a few minutes after she got drowsy, she lost her vision and got terrible headaches. Her eyes started rolling up and down, in the middle of this situation I came into the room, trying to come her down and help her, it took almost a half hour till it got batter, this was a crazy story that happened about ten years ago, and still didn’t forget.
The other one was about the same, happened three years ago, when the nurse gave her a medication that she took already 2 hours before instat of the one she was due for.
I will post my story shortly, but I almost died because of the discrimination, neglect, unethical behavior and mannerism of staff and leadership and being tossed out to next level of care before addressing my issue. I also almost died and it’s all documented. So I need to know if this is a coalition to expose and remove toxic corruption and leadership along with poor staff, or a coalition to save mmc to protect the stories and leadership to save hospital.
What’s to be said. Gibbs is a coward. He had influenced staff against the community. Instead of dealing with the allegations against him, he enlists in PR team to fight back against the community. He targeted staff and pushed them to choose a side. Then his PR team has the nerve to place an ad in Jewish news paper depicting a member of the community using MMC for care. What’s to be said. It was fake not a real picture. This act of insensitivity , lack of respect and out right mocking of the Jewish community will not be forgotten. What’s to be said His PR team don’t even live in this state. Incredible disrespect shows how out of touch Gibbs is which shows his incompetence.Just step down and stop engaging your staff to pick a side and make the community the enemy. What’s to be said .You are the enemy step down
I was right after birth and needed to use the restroom urgently. I pressed the nurses button for over an hour and no response. I was in tears. Thank goodness my husband came and was able to call the nurse for me.
The hospital was severely understaffed and the nurse admitted to me that she was not managing since she had over double the amount of patients she normally has.
My friend who gave birth the same time as me told me she waited around 5 hours in the waiting room before being admitted into a room. She was in agony and all she had was a hard chair to sit on. This is not acceptable!!
My experience with Maimonides was horrible and a trauma when I look back. It happened when my wife gave birth to my oldest son. she was diagnosed in the middle of the pregnancy with IUGR, and the babe was taken out by the 30th week weighing 1.5 pounds. I don’t have to explain the challenges I went thru, but what made it even worse was the fact that he was kept in Maimonides NICU for three months. They literally made me feel as if I have no rights over him and gave me a hard time almost every time I came to visit (which was twice a day…). The climax horror of the experience was when I came to visit on a Shabbos night, I rushed almost two miles to be able to visit him. During the changes of shifts, visitors (who only included parents…) were not allowed in. I saw that I am pretty tight and I will come very close to the shift changes so I literally ran to get there on time. I (thought
I )made it by five minutes, I arrived five minutes before shift changing. I came to the front desk, and they told me they wont let me in because they will change in five minutes shift. I started begging them and promising that I just want to see him, hold his hand, kiss him, and leave. but there was no one to talk to. I am not the type that losses it so fast so I held my self from crying, but I couldn’t really hold myself. I went from one person to the other begging them, let me just see him, I walked a almost 45 ins to just “SEE MY SON”. but nothing doing. B”H that my son is now doing very good and the story is a story of the past. but by my next child, I payed a couple of thousand of dollars cash, to just go to a Manhattan doctor. I was in Kollel at the time and didn’t earn an extra dime, I was literally not making ends meet, but one thing was clear to me Maimonides “NOT AGAIN”.
So what really is the end game MMC is playing. For more than 1 year dealing with consultants and needing to benchmark performance data. Sounds ok accept the TRIO wanted benchmark low so meant less staff. They told all chairs admins all department that you are over staffed. That meant no hiring Now it’s a hiring frenzy. All because of incompetence! Or maybe not. Maybe the end game is to hire so many staff and then can’t afford it. So a bail out comes from the state. Think people !
MMC goes on the brink of bankruptcy and the state takes over and MMC is then part of one Brooklyn. Think about it!’n
I have delayed commenting, and can not relate my personal experience with Maimonides in detail, due to the deep trauma it evokes. But neither can I stay silent when I see how Maimonides is publicly unashamedly running a countercampaign trying to silence the voices of those who have been mistreated, showing they have no intentions of improving the current state of affairs. Thank you SaveMaimonides campaign, please continue, you are truly saving lives.
My 90 year old father (with dementia) was admitted during covid for an unrelated infection. Despite no medical reason, for 3 days he wasn’t fed a thing other than an IV glucose – the doctor admitted this to us. They sent him home missing his false teeth, and wrapped in a sheet because they lost his pants, but by then it made no difference.
He passed away less than 24 hours after they released him…
this past peasch a friend of mine found herself in the hospital for an emergency procedure. She had almost no family here. I was asked to take a shift and stay with her for one of the yom tov afternoons. I live on 18th avenue and 61street. I walked the 45 minute walk to hospital. I had the name of my friend and her room number. I was refused entry into the hospital because my friends first name did not match her legal name.
How is it that a hospital that services the jewish community, and knows that a phone call can’t be made to find out the legal name, because its shabbos or yom tov, can’t have listed under the patients names their nicknames or other names they go by.
I tried speaking with the clerk in charge, but it didnt halp, so I left, walked back home 45 minutes.
My wife caught a hospital acquired infection there.
November 2015: when my son was born. I had gone on Saturday night because I had consistent leaking. They refused to admit me, saying I that’s not how your water breaks. Sent me “walking” for 24 hours. When I came back I was in complete distress with excruciating back labor. However I came during a shift change, and no one would help me for over an hour.
When they finally did, they spent another good hour stabbing me all over saying “I don’t have good vein’s”. They must have stabbed me at least 6 times before they found someone who could come find “a good vein”.
Then they left me for hours waiting for me to dilate, insisting that didn’t matter, cause they were going to do anc-section anyone based on his position. Hours, I was there, no staff, no nurses, no dr had even seen me yet. Eventually I asked them to fix the catheter, cause it didn’t feel right, my husband found someone to come look, and they said I was leaking meconium. This is several hours in, I still have not been seen by an actual dr. They now insisted they needed a specialist from peds but again, hours went by, I fell asleep, only to wake up freezing, I begged for a blanket, (more). As soon as my husband walked back in the room, all the machines started beeping and suddenly I was being rushed for an emergency C-section. A full 12 hours after walking in the doors. That was the first I had seen a dr. I spent the next week in the hospital with my baby. I wasn’t allowed to touch him, he was in the nicu, they tested him for drugs insisting he cried like a crack baby. Without my consent. (Later I found out he was actually allergic to the formula they were force feeding him) there were tons of little Tylenol tubes all over his crib when I went down there to see him. I was horrified. At some point someone from HR sent flowers to my room, due to all the “complications” by the time I woke up, they had been stolen out of my room… it o my gets better from there, but I can’t keep typing. It was a full week of torture.
My father was in hospital for a stroke. They put him in a room with a Covid patient!
Came to the ER not feeling well the first nurse on shift was very nice and did her best however I never met the second nurse and laid there for eight hours. The cat scan tech came two times to escort me and had to leave me because the nurse who came on duty never placed an IV so the resident offered to do it then I went another four hours laying there not seeing a soul. I got frustrated and threatened to walk out with the IV. The charge nurse came over and removed it and look who’s just coming back from lunch? The nurse who came on shift that I never met. These young new ER nurses do not work together. The ER needs better strategies to combat an influx of patients. It’s entirely possible if they plan and execute. And one more thing before I leave this thread. It turns out I had an aneurysm and no one called to tell me. Isn’t that nice?
My daughter was about to give birth when a nurse tested her for covid and turned up positive fyi she was totally asymptomatic and was probably false positive on the rapid she yelled at her you should go and have your baby at home they where extremely nasty to her she is so traumatized that she is refusing to go back to miamonodies
Thank you for this site. As an employee I can speak up without retaliation. The hospital is in shambles. There is NO leadership at all. They do a few town halls and don’t give us real
Information. Please please do something. I wish I took the VSP like many of my friends. If I knew how much of a decline this hospital would go I would have taken it. It really a very toxic place now. Please help
My father was admitted to the ER inFeb of 2021 during Covid prior to vaccinations being widespread. He was in the ER for 2 days until they sent him to the ICU.once in the icu his kidneys were failing and the Dr refused to give him dialysis. We fought for a few days until they finally agreed and his levels improved, however he started to have difficulty breathing on his own so they intubated him. They were supposed to try to extubate after a week but none of the drs remembered and they decided to transfer him out of the icu to a regular floor while he was on the intubation and dialysis. The reason they gave was that there was no beds available and they had to make room for the Covid patients . He was transferred to a regular floor without the icu care he needed. The reason given was that there was nothing left to do for him and again I had to persist to do dialysis again because he improved the first time. At that point he was there 2 weeks and got an infection from the intubation so they had to place a trach. I complained a number of times that he needed Icu care and was not getting the care he needed. The hospital refused to give the ok to transfer him to another hospital. I was
There with him for 7 weeks and the care went from bad to worse . Staff was rude and non cooperative or kind. They didn’t follow through with treatment plans they were supposed to . My father ended up passing away not due to his illness but due to bedsores and other infections he kept getting from the lack of care. I live out of NY and during that 6 week period i flew home for 2 days to regroup and every time I returned my fathers situation declined. The second time I left I receive the call that he passed away. That place killed him he would have probably survived if he received the care he needed
I’m an ex employee of Maimonides who took early retirement because my boss retired and her replacement has and had no clue of the running of the department. I’m talking about a financial department that is the heartbeat of the revenue income that is generated for the hospital. Since I’ve left together with another coworker the revenue stream in the inpatient and outpatient arena has decreased drastically. We were both in management positions and was privy of everything that is going on. We both worked there for over 20 years and it was so difficult to watch how everything deteriated and meanwhile the big shots are still getting these high salaries and we didn’t get a raise in over 6 years. People are being hired without experience and knowledge and getting away with it.
I no look like but me Russian jew and there allot of peoples hating but especially jew peoples. I hear coworkers talking about jew people like they dirt. We work with a good jew person and other workers talk not nice and always say to “your people” this or that in a very not nice derogatory way. I very not believed it but I see with my own eyes and good I no say nothing
Very sad
I was in labor and delivery and there was this nasty Chinese nurse who would demand I pull up my mask even though I wasn’t breathing. If my mouth was covered, that wasn’t enough. She made me cover my nose too 24 hours in to labor. She was very unkind.
Can’t write my legal name just the name that people know me by because of fear of the MMC mob coming after us and using gang like “unity” to unify against people like my group that has nothing to do with this SAVEMMC campaign.
There is allot going on there that will be coming out slowly but truth will prevail. This has nothing to do with the Jews. I’m glad the Jews are also finally waking up. I’m Roman Catholic and my parents are Italian immigrants and there’s a collaboration of many different ethnic diverse groups that are bonding even closer and coming more and more together to take action in many different directions. There’s much happening behind closed doors not just by this SAVEMMC Campain but rather by previous employees and others as well.
Also, my Neice currently working there (not for to much longer!) tells me there is now To many Agency individuals that don’t give the slightest care about patients or the hospital. Many are just there to fill ratios. How many times are meds not given but marked as it was given?! How many times is patient care neglected?! Way to many, as I’ve seen the past few years before I retired and I hear from my friends and relatives that work there.
I am grateful for whomever set this site up so there’s a place to share and speak the real unedited truth!
Arrivederci, for now!
Stay tuned, much more to come!
My father was in the hospital on a weekend
He needed medication on a sunday..we were told by the nurse that the pharmacy closed at 3 pm.so he can’t get medication. Does that make sense.after me giving them a hard time and calling the doctor .we got it after many hours.the nurses were nasty.
My baby was admitted for a virus and dehydration. Later a baby who had another virus and was coughing a lot was admitted to my room. I asked to switch rooms because my baby catches every virus and has been admitted numerous times. My complaint fell on deaf ears and 2 days after discharge my baby became sick again and lo and behold was diagnosed with the same virus as the other child.
I had a baby in Maimonides in July of 2021. I have to say that the L&D nurses were fantastic and very caring. My son’s birth was very traumatic, partially due to my provider, and partially due to a medical issue. When my son was born, he wasn’t breathing and was taken to the NICU. Thus began a three day battle of trying to get my son released into my care. At first I was told I wasn’t allowed to see him post-birth, and I ultimately had to wait more than 12 hours to see my baby. For two days, I tried desperately to understand why my son was being kept in the NICU. Nobody could explain it to me, and the NICU doctor simply refused to speak to me or my husband. Even my pediatrician attempted to contact the doctor, and it took almost a day to get a callback. When I finally tracked down the NICU doctor two days after my son was born, he told me my son has muscle issues and needs an MRI urgently. They wrapped up my tiny six pound baby and stuck him alone in an MRI machine. Turned out he didn’t actually need an MRI and he is perfectly healthy. Ultimately, we finally got our son discharged about an hour before Shabbos only by threatening legal action. When we took our son to see his pediatrician on Sunday, he was horrified at the physical marks on my newborns body. He was covered in black and blue marks, needle marks, and bruises. It was horrifying. (I won’t even mention the nurses in the NICU, some of whom were truly horrible. At one point when I came in to see my son, he was wailing hysterically. When I asked why, the nurse told me it was because he was hungry, and why wasn’t I producing more milk for him. At another point, another nurse bumped into the milk I had just pumped and spilled it all over the floor. Instead of apologizing or acknowledging it, she (thinking I was asleep) cleaned it up and then yelled at me that I wasn’t trying hard enough to produce milk for my son and was starving him. This was all part of their campaign to force me to formula feed, despite that my son was adequately fed.)
This is an update I posted on my mother’s tehilim chat on May 26, 2022
Today’s update
Unfortunately my mother ended up in the wrong hospital. It has been one issue after another. Yesterday they tested her stool and found blood in it. The dr planned a Colonoscopy and endoscopy for today. This morning no order has been put in for the procedure. The whole night and morning she was bleeding out. Her hemoglobin dropped alot and she needed two bags of blood. This was on top of the 2 bags she received on Tuesday. They refused to give her blood until they had consent from my mother. This was already the 4th or 5th time she had a blood transfusion since she was hospitalized. They told me there’s no consent in her file. I said she got blood while she was in the same room she’s currently in. They still refused to give her blood. While the nurse knew my mother was bleeding she still gave my mother Plavix (a blood thinner) this made the bleeding even worse. Such incompetence.
In the end my mother had her procedures and now waiting so far 6 hrs for a CT scan that will hopefully happen soon. They don’t seem to concerned.
We reached out to Refuah Resorces and asked for help in transferring her to another hospital. They agreed that we should transfer to a Manhattan hospital but unfortunately they don’t have any resources now. (I guess they need to change their name) and told me yo call a different organization that’s based in Monroe that has more connections.
My Brother inlaw called and Hopefully they will be successful in getting my mother out of this incompetent hospital.
On the bright side. My mother is Alert. She told me “I don’t wish this on my worst enemy”
From the bottom of mine and my siblings heart we all thank you for your tefilos and please continue to daven for our mother.
Thank you so much
It is a horrible hospital. Dr Shahabuddin Ahmzd M.D. ,who os still on staff there forgot to close my sutures after an inguinal hernia surgery under local anesthesia on July 5 1990 and lost almost 2 points of blood. Hospital staff told my wife to go to buy me food, but my father screamed loudly for fh to fix the mistake , and they did. I have a 6 inch long abdominal scar now and missed 2 months of work. It is the worst hospital on our city. The next 2 surgeries, one for cancer waa at Beth Israel, and a benign tumor was at Mount Sinai. I know of people waiting 2 days to get treated on theER. Close it down and save lives!
The “trio”is trying to strip Maimonides of its Jewish character and values in addition to all the other misery they inflict on patients and staff. Press seems to think that there are too many elderly on vents, too many elderly on dialysis, and too many elderly in the ICU. Maybe there are just too many live elderly to suit Press’s vision of a hospital / health care for the young only. Except that he doesn’t seem to care for young Ill either, based on the quality of care
“His” institution is providing. Why is this man in medicine if he hates patients!
Where are the answers? Gibbs had yet to answer! He had yet to meet with our elected officials Why? He is meeting with others, taking pictures and posting to social media. All pomp and circumstance! Then they monitor the responses and delete what they don’t like. Don’t you see this is to hide from the real truth! Incompetence! Instead of meeting with our elected officials they continue their own campaign to cover up their incompetence and lie to the community’s and staff. Staff and being pushed to hand out flyers. They are being bullied into it because if they don’t they don’t look like the support Maimonides. You see I know the real story. I was part of the safe staffing meetings to address safe staffing numbers that was to be reported to the staff to be enforceable. We the CNO doesn’t want to make changes for the better then there was a really lack
Of agreement because a VPstood up for the increased staffing. I think she will probably be in some sort of trouble. Just know then CNO said not pct ratios. See that us not caring about patients. When we say what watch experience is like thru don’t care. GIbbsPress Antoniades and his chosen puppet Rivka. All incompetent and out for themselves. Not for communities and families and staff. Not for doing what us right. It’s about what am I going to get after we year down the hospital. People listen People we must act!
My wife was admitted to they hospital. She spent over 2 days waiting for a bed. It was a mad house .I don’t think animals are treated the same probably better. She was there next to other people no privacy The doctor never came to see her until she was in a room. You had to fend for yourself. The staff was rude and hurried. They just left her there waiting and waiting. I had to ask for help. After my wife surgery is over we will not come back. It’s a meat market.
When will the truth be told. I work at Maimonides and live in community. So does many of my family. It’s convenient during sabbath and was for many years a place that did work. Now you can’t even recognize it . Bring back Tom Smith. He new how to take care of the community. All the staff had good things to say about him. Instead Maimonides puts in a CNO who doesn’t know she is doing. The care has gone down the staff morale has gone down and all anyone gets it more lies. The think we are stupid fools. We read and understand what is happening Gibbs you need to go and take your incompetent team with you
Our son was born at Miamonidies. My wife was in pain and wanted ice to ease the pain. I went into the corridor and asked the nurse for ice. She said they cant just give it ice. It cost money. Seriously!?!?!?!?
About 6 weeks later we were taken by Hatzolah to the ER there. The place was so diorderly. You couldnt get any help. You waited an entire night for nothing. I remember an old lady in the corner moaning and no one cared. They just walked by and ignored her. She screamed in pain. They didnt bother helping her. It was terrible
I was hired as RN in the ED. I worked other places and have recently resigned. This is the worst place I have ever worked. Patients are treated horribly. There us no room or privacy not to mention not enough experienced nurses or ancillary staff. The Leaders help as much as they can but it’s not enough. Patients are too close. Nurse has no room to work. I never seen a place that keeps bringing patients in from the WR to sit hours and hours in the hallway waiting for a doctor to see them. I go ask for my patients to be seen and I get told they were seen by a doctor in triage. Well this doesn’t help my patients. It’s us a mess. The doctors treat the nurses badly not all but some. We get harassed at time from them and the patients reps to get things done. How can I get things done if I have have over 10-15 on avg. The manager says they are hiring but everyone is really new. It’s too dangerous for me to continue to work there. Patients and staff are not safe. Those looking to save this hospital must really look st the ED and it’s environment and lack of staff. The care regardless of how
Much the nurses try is neglectful and unsafe.
Maimo is not a community centered hospital anymore. It is made up of multiple consultants telling the incompetent leadership what do. It is made up of important leadership positions being out sourced to outside companies. Do you think they care about the community of the future of Maimonides? They don’t. They are hear on contract . Ask Gibbs how many consultant are on payroll? Ask Gibbs how many departments have out sourced leadership? Ask Gibbs why did they lay off a leader in transport for many years to bring in out side leadership? Ask Gibbs why the pushed Tom Smith out only to replace him with an inexperienced incompetent leader? Ask Gibbs why? And why now? Ask Gibbs why really why the hospital is hemorrhaging on the verge of bankruptcy? Ask Gibbs why really why didn’t staff get paid? Ask Gibbs who was responsible? He will not state the facts. It’s because they needed to make adjustment with the banks of how many days cash we have in the bank to meet the bond covenants. Ask CFO to explain? Finance doesn’t mind telling people about it. Ask Gibbs Antiondes Press why the hospital is failing and needs a bail out? It’s because they are incompetent and dishonest. They all need to go in order for Maimonides to rebuild
I have been an employee of CMHC for over 20 years and I have to say the decline I have seen is not good for our patients. We work short most of the time putting patients at risk. We are in the middle of construction which will be a better environment for our patients but not enough staff. The administrator walks around pushing to move beds and put 3 patients in a 2 bedded room. Then our VP wants to know why patients fall . We put them
I’m an
Environment to cause them to fall. They have no where to walk and our on top of each other. Of course it’s about filling as many beds as possible as fast as possible. The focus is off patients and on money at the risk of patients. I am fearful to bring this forward because of possible retaliation. If things are getting reviewed thus should be a priority We don’t have the right about of staffing but get pushed to discharge and take admissions and transfers when we say we don’t have staff. The doctors don’t care. They would care in the past but not anymore. It’s a business that makes patients and staff unsafe but it’s all about money now.
My cousin was in the mental building because she was not feeling good. She was forced into a room with two other people and got covid. She came for mental problem and got sick. Why do they put 3 people in room only for 2 people? They must make extra money Someone should check it out
Yesterday yet again no air conditioning for patients and staff for hours. Leadership again makes excuses for it being an old building ridiculous How many times do you have the same problem with a permanent fix. Unacceptable. Gibbs it’s all you. Step down . The board needs to take action or there will be NO hospital left to bail out
Bring back Tom Smith CNO. He was pushed out because he supported the community and fought back for proper nursing staffing. He’s gone at look how rapidly the quality of care went down. The outcomes they preach have nothing to do with nursing it’s about medical
Outcomes not what the patient and family experienced day to day night to night at the bedside. I was one staff to be forced out with a voluntary separation. So they pushed out the top leader of Nursing and push forward a voluntary separation of experienced staff. Know look at the outcome. Mismanagement. I’m glad I’m retired. I was once so proud of maimo now I am ashamed and worry about my friends. Bring Tom Smith back
We all know the entire upper leadership team needs to go Gibbs Antoniades Press. They can’t make proper decisions to run a hospital. They blame lack of reimbursement but it’s their decision making. Staff are afraid to come forward for fear of retaliation but everyone knows every chair knows every department head knows the real reason why Maimonides is failing it’s because of them. They are the ones who refused to replace positions when staff left stating the hospital is over staffed especially with nurses and pcts. Requests for positions denied denied denied They caused the understaffing problem plus consultant after consultant cut cut cut so more and more staff leave. Do you think hiring over 200 in a short time period is good. It’s not. It shows the lag in hiring . They are the ones to be accountable
I was a nurse at Maimonides for a couple of years. I couldn’t take the abuse any longer. 3 patient assignments in an ICU with no help from any techs because they were floated to other units. Management did not care no matter how hard you’ve worked. You will break your back and nobody will give a damn. I seen Ken Gibbs ONCE at Maimonides, and never again. We were tortured as staff, as soon as I resigned I felt so much happier and the new hospital I am with is so much better.
Shame on you Maimonides, I hope you close down!
Another disaster .no ac in. Gellman building all floors. Disgrace patients abd stsfff suffer. Why is it not fixed we are tried of hearing it’s old building. It’s time to speak with DOH be prepared. They are coMing and let’s see the scripted Gibbs lie and lie
Gibbs, Antonides and Press must be removed immediately. They are not fit to run a medical facility and have caused long lasting damage to Maimo. They will not escape justice. Their legal team is not good enough. There is a department head who is guilty of reckless endangerment. He too will have to answer for what he did. The city and state health departments and Medicaid must audit services and finances immediately. The Board has not stood up for its community of patients or Drs. Northwell has been an incompetent entity since it became involved. There is no saving Maimo if the current administration remains. Maimo has become traif in many ways. Boycott and call in the media ,and the patients and/or their families, and Drs and other staff,who suffered ,should sue or bring criminal charges
Kenny G is so out of touch of reality and the people around him that he didn’t even know how many Years the present of NYSNA Nancy Hogans worked at Maimonides! “18 years” he announced, lol more like 33 Ken! You got a serious problem with numbers and live in an alternate reality boss.
Please please please save Maimonides!
My husband was abused in Maimonides some time March 2021.
He was beaten and pummeled by a night nurse, and came home with a swollen almost black arm. There is a video of him, being interviewed by a Moshe Frank of Crown Heights, also this video was taken by an Hatzoloh Medic in Crown Heights.
Previously to my husband, another person passed away in this hospital, and the son,was also interviewed by Moshe Frank.
On August 5 th 2021, my husband passed away in that hospital.
I have been told, that this Hospital, is called ‘ The Morgue ‘.
My papa at Maimonides hospital very sick. He had a fever and was put into a room the temperature was higher than his fever. Papas roommate died so we glad he alive.
I read some post here it’s heartbreaking what others people’s experienced but do not tink for one second it is only you and that you are special.
We are proud black family and my old man is a good happy papa even with that we get treated bad even for Brooklyn standard. I sad to say even our own treat us as if we in the hood and know nothing. Where they do that at?
I glad I get this information that there a place to share what going on inside for bringing change.
My daughter write better will write more in detail and see if she can attach video and photos.
Not everyone lucky as my Papa with constant visitors family to be there with him. if not that he would no doubt be dead long ago like we seen and witnessed others.
It about that time,
Mudzumu vha ni ite nga vhuthu
Aiden W
This post is for individuals fairly new to healthcare and new grads. If you chose a career in healthcare and want to make a difference and care for patients and stay a nice person and not get burn out a few months into the job then read this!
I was hired and left, like many others during training. The education department at MMC is mostly made up from people that are burned-out, sour, negative and people who don’t teach you but rather preach at you. After that, you start getting oriented by nurses who are fairly new and went through the same fake so called MMC training you just did. Most of the nurses that train you are so overwhelmed and under-supported that your basically on your own even during training already putting peoples lives and your hard earned license on the line.
If you don’t want to get started in the wrong environment and direction in healthcare and you don’t want to be mistreated by your bosses and colleagues while constantly being in a state of fear and feeling all alone then STAY AWAY because it’s a trap!
I’m from out of town and have never seen a place like MMC. The toxicity, rudeness and how staff and patients are treated are mind boggling.
Be the great healthcare worker you signed up to be and don’t be desperate to start your career off the wrong way at MMC with fake promises and terrible habits/ neglecting patients.
Speaking the truth is not an attack!
Stay calm and good and stay away from MMC! Unless of course there are measures taken and changes made to the shattered MMC system and aging place.
Gibbs claim that hospital is not understaffed they have good quality. It’s not true. Ask him why patients fall . It’s because there is not enough staff period. Ask him and he will read a script of untruths.
Where is Northwell Health? They will not step in because the finances are poor.
Ask why does a hospital bring in so many consults? Ask Gibbs how many consultants are on payroll? Ask why Spend so many millions on consultants? The answer is simple . Gibbs and clan are incompetent.
If you run a business and need multiple consultants you should sell your business and step down.
Gibbs you are incompetent so do the patients staff and community a favor and step down.
Ask the state why give money to failing hospital due to incompetent leadership? Replace the leader and set up third party oversight. Save patients save staff Savemsimo
My family work at Maimo and also me and me just quit working here.
No blame the workers, if you think you as patient is get bad treated just think this- the staff gets badly treated more. Is a very messed up and crazy place. They say “diversity”but they mean mainly blacks because Muslims are also hated here mainly by black uppers.
I more then happy I leaved to be gone! Other hospitals much much much better and good to workers and patients.
most ny hospitals murderd paitents inclded my uncle in maimonides in name of covid it should be a SHAME.!! i dont understand this campaign here all this ppl should be prosecuted.
its not about funding for murders!!
Where is Northwell Health in all this? Are they still involved? It was said they are renting space to put up new ED but who is owner? Why the secrets.
There needs to be oversight of what is happening. Many of know we are doing deals with. One Brooklyn what does that mean. We are not stupid. Gibbs step down or speak the truth like your website
The interview in hamodia by Gibbs is ridiculous. How do you say you are not understaffed because your outcomes are good. That is insane . Then say patient experience needs improvement. Who ever is writing your script doesn’t know how this comes across. Most are to afraid to come forward but staff don’t believe you . How is new ED being funded? How do you have money for staff? You think we can’t see the smoke and mirrors. It’s all going to come to an end. The state will appoint outside firm to oversee the incompetence. Why don’t you tell us about all the consultants you brought in and are still there collecting millions of dollars. Why don’t you talk about A&M and Deloitte managing finance . You listened to them and you and the COO denied hiring staff . You stopped staff from being hired. It’s a well known fact. You benchmarked departments unfairly. I was in many meeting and budgets were cut staff cut You benchmarked at very low percent so if percent of staff is low so
Is your quality. Wake up people
Please save Maimonides!
My grandmother needed one to one because she has dementia and is prone to fall. Someone was watching her but not a staff person. I asked the pct who was sitting with her why she can’t watch her. She said that are short staff so a volunteer is doing it. Why is there not proper staff?
My mom has hyperthyroidism but Maimonides kept her and diagnosed her with heart issues for over a week. Prescribed her heart medication she shouldn’t have taken and she could’ve died. Until she was later taken to Brooklyn Hospital where she was properly diagnosed and taken care of. My uncle had leukemia and they kept him at the hospital on a vent for a few weeks until they sent him home?? When he had cancer?
The personnel and staff are very curt and show lack of respect and empathy for the patient and those that come to comfort the sick . I talk from experience, visiting other medical facilities.
If you have no money how do take on new venture at old victory hospital and open new ED? How is that possible? Explain Gibbs! How do you staff a new entity and can’t staff your current hospital? It doesn’t make sense to many. Take your horrible ED leader and make him run another failing ED. Look at your current ED patients treated like animals. What are you doing about it?
What a show! Gibbs got the unions support- no surprise there- unions in bed with administration- don’t care about patients- they care about how much money they can make on the backs of staff- Gibbs needs them to petition state for money-don’t be fooled-Gibbs step down like a man and stop involving others-most importantly the staff-you are a coward-hiding behind staff and letting the unions do the talking-you didn’t answer the questions- tell why the staff why they didn’t get paid- it was purposely done because your deal with banks is going down and there must be so many days cash on hand to meet agreement for loan- tell the truth-your finance / payroll people are- the more you talk -the more unreliable and foolish you appear-unfit to lead-bye bye
Gibbs needs to explain where is the money coming from to open ED at old victory hospital. He put on good show to say the hospital had no money and is working with the state to get funding but how to you do an expansion venture with no money. People want to know. How to do you a new place when you can’t staff the hospital now Gibbs stop talking out of both sides of your mouth It doesn’t make sense. How do you afford it? Please tell
Yes, I had a bad fall and was admitted to the emergency room. I had spent two days in the hospital. It was total chaos, at least four resident doctors at different hours. One didn’t know what the other was doing. I was in excruciating pain for two solid days, and I’m not a stranger to intense pain with a very high pain threshold. Finally, I was so disgusted with the staff and the delays and the empty promises that I had decided to voluntarily sign myself out. Of course, against their medical advise. Why stay there with minimal care when I could suffer just as well in my own home.
There are so many issues at maimo, from lack of sufficient staffing, to poor patient treatment, to horrible communication, over and over and over again.
I know because I didn’t just visit there I was an advocate for my husband and I even slept there many nights. I had to run and go chase down test results that nobody seemed to know about, tests that should have been run that were not. Procedures were not explained well to the patients and one of the worst situations I encountered most recently was being told (actually being lied to) about his sudden need to immediately start dialysis with no explanation as to why It had to be at that moment. the hospital rep who came in and told us the doctor decided, and when i asked which doctor (since we had not seen one that day) and then she changed her story to the nurse said. No one took responsibility and she lied through her teeth.
When patient transport came to get him at 5-6 in the morning they grabbed at him and woke him up and said you gotta go now he said give me a minute and they went no can’t. How absolutely an utterly disgusting behavior..
Meal plan requests were not followed meals asked to be held while he was at dialysis were not held. This place used to be the pinnacle the one everybody looked towards and now is just a disaster.
As a student, I am worried about the quality of the hospital and the workers.
My niece works there. She is being bullied by the leadership to hand out flyers. It’s a disgrace. I look forward to here all the propaganda that will be told at its town hall meeting. My niece says it all fake . Gibbs has yet to answer where is the money why are banks involved in it management. The fish rots from the head!!! Why didn’t staff get paid, how much cash in the bank what’s to be done about loosing money??? MMC leadership should be ashamed and step down.
My father, who suffered from a stroke, was at MMC on Pesach, on what happened to be Easter weekend, thus only a few staff members were on duty. I spent the night at my father’s bedside fully awake and alert. At an early hour of the night, I watched a nurse enter the 4-bed room and drip something into the IV bag of each of the four patients in the room, then settling herself on an armchair in the center of the room and going to sleep. The nurse slept through that entire night, as did each of the four patients. My father passed away two days later. I have remained suspicious of “what” that nurse put into the IV bags.
I was hospitalized at MMC during a cold January. No doctor approached my bed for the first day of my hospitalization for pneumonia, which was diagnosed with an x-ray taken in the emergency room the evening before. It took a visiting family member to notify the hospital staff that I lay there untreated before antibiotics were prescribed for me. Furthermore, the radiator in the room I was in was cold to the touch during the days of my hospitalization. In other words, there was no steam in the room. I lay there on the bed covered with my coat over a thin hospital blanket. After a few days in the hospital, a nurse placed a fresh set of linen on the bedside table. As weak as I was, I was expected to change the bed linen by myself. Unpleasant to report is that a commode was not cleaned for the several days that I was hospitalized. With the first bit of strength that returned to me, I pushed it into the wash room, and there it remained uncleaned for the duration of my stay at MMC.
My father arrived to maimonidies talking coherently. His oxygen level was low and they decided to put him on a respirator. They transferred him to a private area and during this short procedure, he lost everything. He couldn’t speak anymore and he lost all his mental capacity. They took a live person and literally killed him.
This week Maimonides had a full page letter in the Jewish Press from the family of the Rachmistrivka Rebbe thanking them for their outstanding care while he was being treated there. I am sure that they treated the Rebbe with outstanding care, compassion and professionalism because he is a highly respected and revered Rebbe. Now the hospital needs to hire an adequate amount of highly skilled and compassionate staff to take the same good care of all the rest of their patients.
I had been admitted to the PICU at Maimonides with my children several times and once again each time the Nurses were GREAT!! As well the Doctors!
Which other Hospitals will let you get in with several Visitors after 9:00 pm!!
(I know you might not post this comment because it doesn’t fit your narrative but this is the fact)
My son underwent appendix surgery with one of the pediatric surgeons and they tore the major artery to the leg and he almost lost his leg. I had to transfer him to another hospital to save the leg. This surgeon is still working in Maimonides and the community has no idea… He could be operating on your child…
My mother went there when she had a small infection on her eye that should of been treated for right away but bc of there doctors/nurses negligence it got worse by the day I came with my family to visit my mother who’s days were unfortunately numbered but when I came to the hospital they would not let me see my mother bc of their 12 years and older policy here I was a 10 year old boy who couldn’t visit his mother for the last time, luckily there was a kind lady who worked for an organization in the hospital and took me to see my mother for a couple minutes and say are final good byes, I really feel like the hospital didn’t treat my mother probably that’s why she is not with us today and I really don’t appreciate there policy about visiting especially when there mother is about to pass away.
Executive management and floor management do not care for the staff at all. We are merely numbers to them, expected to work like robots or machines. It took bad press for them to start actually paying attention and hiring staff. To me, justice is finally being served. Attention must be brought to the toxicity and the toxicity starts at the top. What goes around comes around.
A 62 year old gentleman who lives in a group home walked for medical care and was told he had to have Covid Vacine. He told the doctor that he just got over Covid less than 2 months ago they insisted on the vaccine. He is now completely bedridden it is crying shame I think you have get rid of upper management including the CFO.
I do not recall all the details What I do remember was 7 years ago when I was with my wife having our first child my wife suddenly felt a strong need to “push” (the baby out) and screamed for me to get a nurse. I ran to get a nurse and was told to “SHUT UP” many people told me to complain but I didn’t know where to file a complaint…
Around 10 years ago, so I don’t know how relevant this is, I took my mother to the emergency room, on recommendation from an EMT.
The place was in a state of bedlam. Maybe 3 nurses running around trying to attend to all the incoming patients who were now beginning to be left in beds outside the partitions do to the overflow, with not enough staff to process it all.
We waited quite the long while before receiving assistance, but to me, still a teen at that time, I didn’t know that’s not what SHOULD be.
Two incidents of note stand out to me till today.
The first is, while the nurse (was there even more than 1?) was running around harried and frantic, the staff behind the counter (what exactly are they anyway?) were laughing and joking around, in a completely unprofessional manner.
While I understand they may not be medical professionals, and are just part of administration, there is what to be said about their raucous bantering, laughing, and games in direct vicinity of people and their family who are waiting in anguish and pain. It stood out deeply, and seemed wholly inappropriate.
The second was real abuse.
Toward what obviously was the end of the shift, there were ZERO medical staff to be found, presumably the one nurse I remember was finishing up any paperwork or whatnot.
As the new shift arrived, I took note of one individual from the many seemingly non-enthusiastic staff, who sauntered in slowly and delivered an audible, melodramatic sigh, and sat down. She wasn’t a nurse, I remember her busying herself with some sheets.
She sat down not too far from where I was waiting with my mother. She was still holding onto the sheets.
We were there by then for a number of hours and had still not been seen.
An individual who was a few beds away, who had been there for longer than we had, suddenly burst out, (he would do this every few hours), “is anybody here!? I’ve been here for 6 hours already”!
To my utter amazement this sighing, wiped-out staff suddenly perks up, “6 hours?! I know people who’ve been here for 24!”
I remember how shocked and repulsed I was by her attitude! I was doubly struck by the irony that while she seemed too overwhelmed to even have to show up for her job, she was disdainfully telling someone, who was clearly suffering, that he had no right to complain because he hadn’t been there for “24 hours”.
While shocked, I cant say I was surprised. It seemed to fit in with the general attitude and disarray that I had witnessed up to that point…
I was 36 weeks pregnant, I was in an Uber, the driver crashed into another car. I was pushed forward and in shock. I called my doctor in Manhattan and she said I should get to the nearest emergency room asap to be monitored. I got to Maimonides and after telling them what happened, they sent me into the ER to wait. Every little bit a staff member came over to ask why I’m there. I waited there for 2 hours until someone finally came to me and told me that I don’t belong there and I need to go to labor and delivery! When I got there they told me there are no rooms and I waited another almost 2 hours! When I finally got a room they hooked me up to the monitor bh everything looked okay but after a few minutes I suddenly started getting contractions. The doctor came in and told me I might be in labor. After confirming that I was not open at all, she said I may still be in labor. I told her if I’m in labor I want to get to mount Sinai to my own doctor. She got mad and told me I may be putting myself in danger if I leave. I told her I’m leaving anyway. On my way out the lady sitting by the front told me nastily that I’m going against hospital protocol and it’s at my own risk. (I did sign a paper)When I got to mount Sinai, I was hooked up right away to monitor and they gave me fluids because they thought I might be dehydrated and was causing contractions. Turns out I was dehydrated from my whole ordeal in the ER from stress and because I didn’t drink enough. I couldn’t get over the difference in how I was treated in the other hospital vs. Maimonides
My paternal grandfather had passed away during COVID he died a lone no one was allowed to say their good byes .
My maternal grandfather passed away after COVID, after everything opened up, after the vaccines were available to everyone and no one was really allowed to be there with him.
He ultimately passed away because he was given medicine he didn’t need causing his kidneys to fail.
My sister was pregnant she went into Maimonides they tried the balloon, they tried many other ways of getting her to open up, and ultimately needed a c section.
While the epidural was being applied they didn’t have any professional to give her the needle they missed 30 times and we still have the pics our attorneys wanted the medical records and they refused to release them.
Let’s bare in mind sharing details in a forum like this isn’t so practical but if you think that sounds bad the details that are missing make it a 100 times worse.
We can’t expect Maimonides to cure every sick patient and prevent someone from passing away.
We can expect them and hold them accountable for being so negligent that as a result the sick aren’t cured, patients pass away, and hell breaks loose.
It’s a shame that this hospital is staining the name of Maimonides the greatest scholar and healer of his time.
Where do I start?
In short, It started when I was in labor, was told I need to be induced. Was not offered an epidural(we’ll give it soon if you feel you need it) got pitocin and within minutes was in extreme agony due to unnatural, induced contractions. Went into active labor with my body going from shivers to sweat, then vomiting, rang the bell for a nurse to come but no show. I kept on pressing it but no one bothered to come or check on me. Finally, husband went to nurses station to call a nurse. They said he should wait in the room and someone will come. Someone did come…after about an hour. Then nurse called dr. Who comes to check me and says looks like I’m in active labor(really??) but we need to transfer rooms cuz this is a high risk room near OR reserved for emergencies. They made me walk across entire hallway, (didn’t bother bringing a chair)and in middle I got such a strong contraction I nearly blacked out. So I grabbed onto the nurse standing nearby and she pulled back saying”leave me alone”. Finally made it to the bed, was suggested I take an epidural, I said please ASAP I feel,like I’m dying from pain. Anesthesiologist arrived 30 minutes later when there was no way I can sit still for 10 min while receiving epidural. Everyone was yelling and screaming At me to stop jumping, anesthesiologist is trying to convince me to still get an epidural. I needed to defend myself and yelled at him”GET OUT!CANT YOU SEE ME JUMPING!?THERE IS NO WAY I CAN SIT STILL WHILE YOU GIVE ME AN EPIDURAL AND I DONT NEED IT TO GO IN THE WRONG SPOT AND KILL ME!!” To which he responded, “it won’t kill you, it just may paralyze you.” I said no thank you and he reluctantly left.
FAST FOWARD AFTER BIRTH… I wanted to breastfeed exclusively but they said baby has low,blood sugar, will need a prick before every feed and if levels are low, will need formula. I kept baby at my side, feeding often (was told she needs,to eat every 2 hours)to maintain good sugar levels. That night, after nearly 24 hours of no sleeping, I fed baby and tried to get some sleep but she didn’t stop crying. I knew she wasn’t hungry so asked nurse to take her to nursery but please please bring her to me the next feed since I absolutely do not wanna give formula. Sure np. 4 hours later after a refreshing sleep I wake up with a start! Where’s my baby? No one came, she didn’t eat for 4 hours?.(she was tiny-5 lb. and needed to be fed often…) ring, ring, ring…no reply(after 3 births, still unsure what the bells are for, since no one responds to them…)so I get out of bed, dash to nursery where there’s loud rap music blasting (just what newborns need) and spot my baby’s crib in the corner with a big note sayingBREASTFEED ONLY and my little newborn with a red face screeching her lungs out. I asked them to please Return to sender(me) and they say she needs a prick. Obviously, her sugar levels were dangerously low(after 4 hours of no food) and they said i cannot breastfeed her, she needs formula! Needless to say, I kept her in my room for duration of my stay but omg, never again.
So what’s to be done? The hospital needs new leadership the top needs to go Gibbs Press Antonyitis. All no good for patients and staff. They are proud to play ball with nj housewife never seen it but my friend says it’s trash so trash attracts trash horrible so what to be done remove Gibbs
My wife gave birth there. There were not enough delivery rooms so they took her to an old ER for delivery. After the birth, they wanted to wash her off and the water from the sink was ice cold as this room was not in active use there was no hot water. The nurse 19 year old wanted to wash my wife with freezing cold water a couple of minutes after birth. When my wife hesitated, she complained ” I will get a telling off from upstairs if you get transported to that ward not cleaned”. When my wife told her” but the water is ice cold” ,she responded ” well you have to be more easy about it….”
I’m not sure what the point of this website is. Maimonides hospital will never change.Never. The rot at this hospital is baked into the walls, the senior Managment there sucks the bloodlife of place like a parasite, money that should be used to upgrade the place and hire additional floor staff like nurses, and just for basics to help patients go to the executives for huge salaries, undeserved bonuses and lavish dinners at fancy restaurants. The patients are nothing to them. Nothing.
As our father was in and out of the hospital numerous times before his demise, the care and staffing became very apparent. There was one unit whose nurses and staff were top notch going above and beyond their duties in order to care for their patients. However the number one issue was the ratio of patient to nurse. At the time of my fathers last hospital stay, the nurse to patient ratio was a staggering 18-1. This was in an ICU ward. How does this happen. Life is not in our hands, but preserving life and quality of care can save lives. We cannot throw all the blame on the nurses who do the best with what they are given, but some of the staff assistants (who aren’t even nurses) need to be sent packing and replaced with competent functioning people. (just one example, about 1hour after my Father was pronounced, one of these assistants came in to take his blood pressure and couldn’t figure out why she was not getting a pulse. I asked her not to touch the body as he was no longer with us, but she refused to listen and kept on doing her thing).
The worst nurses on earth. Will starve you to death.
No one cares, no one listens. It reminds you of the Concentration camps.
Are you sure this hospital is located in the United States!
i came in with my father who was not feeling well. They took a test to rule out stroke and it was confirmed that it was negative by the resident. He then started to feel better and was ready to go home. They told us that he can not leave until the Senior Radiologist read the test. It was Sunday and no one was available. We were there 7 hours in the ER until finally we said we are leaving. This is unacceptable. How can there not be a Doctor available to read the MRI.
My mom’s hip broke. She was in ER 22 hours. No food or drink because she “might” need surgery. 22 hours with no food or drink for a 95 year old woman? Unconscionable. I tried to get answers to no avail.
Gibbs is a coward. Hiding behind staff. Forcing staff to give out flyers to promote hospital. Gibbs is a coward. Tell the truth that is what your website say. Answer the questions where is the money why are banks concerned why didn’t staff get paid you are the enemy to staff
I was 27 weeks pregnant with a kidney stone. First of all it took about 12 hours for them to get me pain medication that’s safe for pregnancy. Then they admitted me for monitoring. They put me on a fetal monitor for an hour and left the room. After an hour without anyone checking up on me, a nurse came in to the room and said the monitor wasn’t working this whole time and I need to be monitored for another hour. Right before discharge they wanted to give me blood thinner (seriously, blood thinner for pregnant woman?) because in the hospital patients aren’t mobile enough. It was a few minutes before I walked out and was free to be mobile again.
I delivered a baby at 7:15 pm. By the time I got to my room was a little after 9:00 and within a few minutes a nurse came to my room that my husband had to leave right away because ‘no visitors after 9:00’
My wifes Grandfather was a holocaust survivor, and was taken to the ER at the age of 86 with difficulty breathing. He waited 26 Hours in a side hallway outside the ER, until finally being admitted to the hospital. He remarked that the experience was worse than he endured in the war. The next time he went in, he contracted one of the infamous infections, and died within a week.
I woke up in agony at about 4AM. I’d been feeling unwell on and off over the past day or so, but had thought nothing of it.
I was in so much pain, and so nauseated. I was throwing up repeatedly.
My mother asked me if I thought we should go to the hospital. Worried that it was a false alarm, and not wanting to have to deal with Maimonides if we didn’t have to, we decided to wait till my gastroenterologist’s office opened, to get a quick consult. Every bump in the road was painful as we drove. My mother had to help me walk into the office. The doctor felt my abdomen and advised us to go to the hospital, as it was almost certainly my appendix. It’s a routine surgery, but speed is key to avoid complications.
When we got to Maimonides, we waited about an hour before being seen for an intake. I was barely able to speak, but I did my best. As the nurse asked me questions, I suddenly felt the urge to throw up; I told her so. The nurse just sat there, doing nothing, not lifting the slightest finger to help, while my mother looked around frantically for a shopping bag or trash can. She managed to get a shopping bag into my arms in time. Meanwhile, the nurse did not ask if I was alright, and did not pause to give me a minute to collect myself. Instead she continued to direct questions at me to answer, even as I threw up.
With intake complete, and when a stretcher was ready, she had some nurses take me to the ER. I was over 18, but still young enough to be taken to the pediatric ER, which is what one of the nurses suggested, as it is generally less busy and less chaotic. Her fellow nurse rolled her eyes and declined, not willing to be bothered to walk the extra few feet.
Instead I was brought to the adult ER. The entire place was full of screaming patients, and beeping machines that did not have to be on—staff had just neglected to turn them off, which added to the stress in the room. There was standing room only (just barely), so they pushed two stretchers aside and stuck us into a “triple parked” position. There were hardly any nurses around. Not because it was busy, but because they were busy drinking coffee. We saw nurses talking and laughing with each other. But when we tried asking them for assistance, they managed to disappear. One nurse came over to me, took my blood pressure, and introduced herself as my assigned nurse. She told us she’d be back shortly with pain meds. She never came back. When my mother tracked her down after an hour, she denied being my nurse, and claimed the name she’d told us wasn’t hers, even though it was on her name tag.
In the cubicle next to me there was a woman who was clearly mentally deficient, screaming about needing to urinate and defecate. We listened in shock as the nurses openly laughed at her, mocked her, and threatened to leave her to mess herself if she didn’t stop screaming. She was clearly frightened. This went on for hours. I know it went on for hours, because I was there for hours, 7, to be exact, during which time no one helped us. In this time I should’ve been taken for a CT scan, or at least given pain meds. I was not. I lay in the bed, in horrendous amounts of pain. My mother chased after the hospital staff, and was told I had not been assigned a doctor in all that time. Finally her efforts paid off, and she convinced one doctor to bring me to the pediatric ward, where I had been meant to be taken all along. The difference was night and day. The area was quieter, the nurses far more friendly. I was finally given some pain and nausea medication, and taken for scans.
They confirmed appendicitis, and scheduled my surgery to happen within the next hour or so.
An hour came and went. Then two. Then three. In all this time patients were coming into the ward, being taken care of, and leaving, while I was still waiting. My mother begged them to help. The meds they’d given had long worn off. If you have never had your appendix out, you cannot know how terrible the pain is. It is a mixture of agony and terrible nausea, and you do not know where the pain ends and the nausea begins. Because I’d been throwing up so much, I had nothing in my system. My mother begged them to let me at least have some ice chips or water, but they refused, since I was supposedly going in for surgery any minute. Any minute occurred at 2 AM, 7 hours after I was supposed to go in. We had yet another delay as they somehow managed to misplace my hospital chart in all that time. They found it, and finally I was brought in. Later on, one of the surgeons told us they also couldn’t find my surgery report in the system first, until they realized that it was cataloged under the previous date, proof that my surgery was supposed to be done ages before.
The surgeon spoke to me beforehand, telling me when I woke, the nurses would give me water, see if I could keep it down, then give me juice, and see if could keep that down as well. Until I did so, I could not go home.
In the surgical report, the surgeon noted that my appendix had been dangerously close to rupture, which could have been life threatening, and would also have meant more hospital time. The reason for this was the unnecessarily long delay before I had finally been taken in for surgery.
When I woke from surgery, the nurse asked me if I was in pain. In the first moment I was not. A few minutes later, however, I told the nurse I was in pain. She snapped at me, what did I expect?? I’d just had surgery! And she did nothing. I asked for water and was given some.
I had been in the hospital for almost 24 hours now. I had not had anything to eat or drink in about 36 hours, and other than during surgery, I had not slept in that time.
I was in a recovery room, with only one other patient there, a young boy with his mother.
My heart rate and blood pressure were high, which was part of the reason they were keeping an eye on me. Since I was hooked up to wires and monitors, I needed to request assistance from the nurse if I needed the bathroom, as she needed to unhook me, and also help me walk there as I was still weak.
I spent about five minutes in the bathroom. When I came out, the nurse brightly told me that I had just missed the doctor who was supposed to sign off and clear me for being released from the hospital. She had not thought to ask the doctor to wait a minute. Later, my mother told me that the nurse had lied, and told her that the doctor came while I was asleep.
I asked the nurse for juice, now that I had kept down the water. She refused, saying that she didn’t want me throwing up on her.
When they let my mother in for a few minutes, and I told her this, she managed to get me some juice.
While she was there, the nurse was giving me discharge papers and the like to sign. I was still foggy from the anesthesia. My hands were shaking and I could barely hold the pen. I asked if my mother could sign for me, because legally I wasn’t in a state where I could process what I was signing; my mother is my guardian and guardians are allowed to sign off. The nurse scoffed at me, mocking me and telling me I wasn’t a child and could sign myself. Then she told my mother she needed to leave the room, as parents are not allowed in the recovery. I asked if an exception could be made, as the only other patient in the room, the younger boy, was there with his mom, who’d they’d allowed to stay with him, even letting her lay on the bed with him to get some sleep. My mother had been there longer than these two, and she had not slept at all. She’d also been sent from room to room in a wild goosechase across the hospital, as staff kept telling her she could wait in a room, then coming in and kicking her out, telling her she was not allowed (There was also zero communication in regards to my condition. My mother had to go from person to person, multiple times, before she finally got anywhere).
The nurse snapped again, saying I wasn’t a baby and didn’t need my mother.
She made me sign the discharge papers, which attested that I’d received post op instructions (which I had not) that the doctor had been to see me (which he had not) and that I’d been discharged hours before (which I had not). My mother was sent out, and I was back to waiting for the doctor to deign to arrive to sign off. This was a process of another few hours, during which I was meant to be watched the entire time. The other patient had long been taken to a recovery room.
Meanwhile, the nurse asked a fellow nurse to watch me for a few minutes until she came back. The second nurse nodded, then, as soon as the first nurse walked away, this second nurse immediately followed followed her, leaving me alone. I needed the bathroom, but was hooked to the monitors. I called out repeatedly, to no avail. I watched as the nurses all sat in a nearby room, doing a holiday gift exchange, ignoring me as I called out to them, asking for help so I could go to the bathroom. None of them were watching me.
Fortunately, after some time one of the nurses finally came back.
Finally the doctor saw me, and finally I was able to be released.
I came home, and my mother had to help me remove the residue from the various sticky pads the nurses had plastered all over me at different points, and peeling off all the ones they’d left behind because they couldn’t be bothered to take them off. I was shaken, weak, and exhausted.
For months afterward, I was up at all hours of the night, unable to sleep, literally crying as I thought about my ordeal, remembering how I was treated as less than a human being. I was angry. Since then, I have been leery of stepping foot in any hospital. In an emergency, I am more likely to stay home, waiting it out as long as possible. It is not the wisest course of action, but it is the only one I see. I do not know that I could recover from another ordeal such as that one, and I am terrified of ever needing to go to a hospital again. Undoubtedly I am not the only one.
A hospital is not a business. And yet, it seems that Maimonides has forgotten this, and instead treats their patients as lesser, as hardly worth their time. The business of saving lives has, to Maimonides, become just that: a business. There is no compassion, no consideration. There is only impatience for their work to be done, and abuse of power as they treat patients however they feel like, knowing they will not be made culpable.
Maimonides has long been infamous for its cruel and often neglectful treatment of patients. The doctor who broke my mother’s water carelessly scratched my head, leaving a prominent ugly scar and bald spot till today. A woman I know had a scheduled procedure that was canceled three separate times, only after they’d made her come into the hospital, not eat or drink for hours beforehand, and prep her for surgery—one of the times, they canceled surgery when she was in the actual OR, because they’d neglected to ask questions beforehand regarding any medications being taken that may interact. A friend of mine had a premature birth and C-section. Post procedure, she begged a nurse for a sponge bath, so she could feel remotely clean, feel like a human being again. The nurse refused, saying that’s not the job of the nurses.
What is their job, then, pray tell? To make sick people feel like garbage? To mock mentally ill patients? To exchange presents while patients call out to them for help? What happened to do no harm? These are only a few stories. There are thousands of them. Everyone I know who has ever dealt with Maimonides has a nightmare story or two to share. So far nothing has been done, and many hesitate to do anything, as having a Jewish hospital has many advantages and amenities that would not be available otherwise. But this cannot be anymore. Something has to change.
I had a terrible birth experience we’re getting refused to believe I was in labor, after not being able to induce me because of induction back up for a couple of days….
You can contact me for details.
They promote themselves as a fantastic hospital but never give actual sources!
They send people to websites THEY MADE. So it’s propaganda.
Top10hospital.org is a website they made…. It’s a lie. There is not one website they promote that actually says anything they promote.
I was taken to the ER for suspected cardiac issues arriving at 7 PM on a cold January night. The ER was a zoo with 3 rows of patiens per cubicle aside from the many homeless beds that lined the hallways enjoying a warm place to sleep. The moaning and screaming from the many ailing peole was painful to witness. Kidney stones, labor pains etc.. Most including myself had their blood drawn and were waiting for their results . After many hours a nurse went from bed to bed politely asking to draw more blood as the first batch got “mixed up”! When she came to my bed I declined and when she asked why i said that I dont trust that these results will be mine or from the person next to me:) I asked her to discharge me and was releived to leave this dysfunctional place called Maimonidies.
Maimonides has a Mental Health Center (Psych ward) at 920 48th Street. It is run literally like One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest. The staff are rude, and the patients are not treated properly, forced to listen to rock n roll music all day, mostly neglected. An acquaintance of mine, an elderly very frum yid, is so miserable there. But there is no one to talk to. The administrator is a good for nothing that just lounges in the back room all day. This department should really be investigated.
I had my first baby at Maimonides hospital. I never reported my experience because I heard that this is a normal experience to have at Maimonide. But it was quite traumatizing, and I am grateful for this initiative for change.
I was in triage until I was at 9. Even at 9 they weren’t going to give me a room. The maternity ward was too full. My dualla was afraid to beg too much because the dualas are afraid to advocate for a patient in Maimonides because either they get kicked out of the hospital or they are given a huge attitude from then on. Anyways, my husband begged the nurses for a room when I was 9, but they told him to get back into my room. My husband found an empty room. When my husband asked the nurses why it was not being used, they said it needs to be cleaned. My husband cleaned the room himself and I was wheeled in. Since I was not in a room on time, I was unable to have an epidural which I desperately wanted. While I was having the baby and was hemorrhaging heavily, I heard the doctor frantically screaming that she cannot see anything. Apparently the lights above me were broken. As they wheeled me into surgery no one explained to my husband what was happening. My husband thought I was dying. The nurses were annoyed that he was crying? But didn’t think of explaining or calming him down. After the baby was born, the nurses were very lazy. It was Shabbos and my bed was upright. I was very uncomfortable, when I asked the nurse to help me because I wasn’t allowed to move it on Shabbos, she told me that the Rabbi told her that I’m allowed to?! Maimonides also didn’t provide spay or baby wipes on Shabbos. And the nurse refused to wet the napkins (which is forbidden according to Jewish law on Shabbos) for me so I could wipe the baby.
I used to work at MMC and can honestly tell you that most of the problems are related to the toxic management: they demand more and more out of workers while failing to reward them fairly. During many-many staff meetings I would bring up the fact that we had not gotten a pay raise in few years (while inflation was rampant). In response they would keep lying how the hospital has no money. Meanwhile in the past two years they built a huge new building next to the hospital. It is a crime what they are doing to their staff, especially considering that we were the ones getting that hospital through the pandemic (while everyone else was sitting at home collecting unemployment). So it is no surprise that most staff members absolutely hate working there. And it is unfortunate that the patients are on the receiving end of that.
Hatzoloh brought my husband in when he had a stroke. It was 5PM on a Wednesday. The Hatzoloh guys knew how to handle the ER and we were taken to a room and seen immediately , my husband was examined and sent for a CT scan immediately. Fantastic so far! Then Hatzoloh left. The hospital said my husband needs an MRI and there is only one in the whole hospital, so it could be a considerable wait. They wheeled his bed to a cubicle with a curtain and hooked him up to a monitor. And left us there.
We were in that ER, in that tiny cubicle with a curtain, from 6PM, Wednesday until 10:30 PM Thursday, when he was finally taken up to the Neurology Ward. During that whole time, it was clear that the nurses were overwhelmed and the almost non-existent aides were surly and nasty and unhelpful, and that NO ONE understood how to care for an elderly man with Alzheimer’s. Or to be kind to the horribly stressed, sleep-deprived spouses of said patients.
My husband didn’t receive necessary meds to calm him down, he was angry and disoriented and disruptive and kept attempting to pull out his IV and his cardiology monitoring leads. He wanted to leave, he wanted to get up and walk, he yelled, no one ever came to help. When I attempted to turn off his monitor, because the incessant beeping made him so distressed, and no one ever came to check it anyway, that’s when , miraculously, an aide caught me and yelled at me and said “Who do you think you are? You can’t do that” etc. I said, “Oh, please don’t be like that. The noise bothers him and we’ve been here for so long and I haven’t had any sleep for about 24 hours”. She stomped away to another section of the ER and deliberately avoided me after that.
When he finally totally lost it at 4:20 AM Thursday, and hit me with his cane, he then lost his balance and fell onto the man behind the curtain in the next cubicle. I went out and literally screamed HELP ME!! HELP ME! Only then, while the man he had fallen on and I were holding him up did someone come and help. It took 4 people to get the cane away from him. After that he was bleeding on his hand.
About that MRI we had been waiting for: They finally came for us at 12:15 AM Thursday. I prepared him by removing hearing aids, etc. and filled out paperwork. I was right outside the door of the room the tech was in during the whole MRI. NOT ONCE did he tell my husband to lie still or not move. Remember he has Alzheimer’s. Then we had to wait hours for someone to read the MRI. When it was finally read, it was inconclusive because it was “fuzzy” . Because he had moved.
When they returned him to our cubicle, they didn’t even push the bed in all the way. So when he needed a bedpan, I couldn’t get him any privacy. I was lucky to find someone to give me a bedpan, no one helped me with it and he had by then used up the last of the diapers I had brought. And the hospital doesn’t use diapers, so no one could help me there. I begged them to call over to Pediatrics – they must use diapers and my husband is very small and thin. But, no.
He was finally taken up to Neuro to be admitted at about 10:30 Thursday night. That’s about 30 hours in the ER with no help. By then, my daughter, a nurse, and her husband had come from N.J. to help, and sent me home after I had been up almost 48 hours straight.
On the Neuro floor , my daughter inquired about getting a companion for him, a one-on-one person to watch him, and was told they didn’t’ have anyone, but the nurses seemed very kind and competent and his room was right across from their station. And he was finally asleep from meds they had finally given him. So she left and went home to N.J. about midnight. I arrived at 9AM Friday morning, to find him half-naked, wearing mitten things around his hands, and totally a wreck. It was painful to see.
He wanted to go to the bathroom, but he couldn’t get out of the bed, and he had no diaper because they don’t use them, so he was just going to wet himself. He knew me right away and calmed down. On that floor , at least, there are more people to help, and we got him a urinal which he used. With me there with him, he was ok, and with me there to push things along, he got proper care and had lunch, etc.
But if I hadn’t been there…
At this point, I have been up for 48 hours straight. The ER is so understaffed it is pathetic. The two nurses who were there in the course of the stay were white and were sweet and tried to be helpful. No one there has any understanding of Alzheimer’s patients or what to do for them. There was nowhere else to move him, where he wouldn’t disrupt everyone else with his yelling and bad behavior. He kept trying to get out of bed by moving the curtain and going into the next patient’s cubicle. People were angry at us. He wanted to walk but was connected to machinery. And no one there understands what kind of stress I was under or what lack of sleep will do to a person.
The only people who ever came to see him where the Neurology people, who kept checking his neurological state. Finally one of them said they did get the results of the MRI and they were “INCONCLUSIVE” because the images were fuzzy, because HE HAD BEEN MOVING. They didn’t know if and when they would do another MRI.
My daughter and her husband finally came in from N.J. at about 3PM on Thursday, brought me food, tried to help. I have now been up since 8AM Wednesday morning.
Now the hospital is finally saying they will admit him to Neuro but there are no beds.
It took until 10:30PM to get a bed and move him upstairs.
Hi, we used the hospital by our first child it was horrible experience I cant even explain , we were told to go in to hospital to induce my wife , we came in they told us that no room is available we should come back in the morning 7:30 am we were on time and we sit in the waiting room till 4:30 afternoon , my wife cried a few times to the staff but there wasn’t to whom to talk , till my father and law called up liaison and they got us a room , there is horrible communication and no normal staff whatsoever , thanks god that there is other good hospital to go to , it would be a nightmare if I would need to go to that hospital again. I had a few children since by another hospital experience was much better it was actually great.
Hi, we used the hospital by our first child it was horrible experience I cant even explain , we were told to go in to hospital to induce my wife , we came in they told us that no room is available we should come back in the morning 7:30 am we were on time and we sit in the waiting room till 4:30 afternoon , my wife cried a few times to the staff but there wasn’t to whom to talk , till my father and law called up liaison and they got us a room , there is horrible communication and no normal staff whatsoever , thanks god that there is other good hospital to go to , it would be a nightmare if I would need to go to that hospital again. I had a few children since by another hospital experience was much better it was actually great.
There is a Dr who runs the Pulmonary Critical Care department.
He has a “custom” of not speaking to patients’ or the family about their condition.
Could you imagine deciding whether to put a person on a respirator and not getting a first hand look yourself .
HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF THIS DR .
I actually don’t know where these numbers came from? When you look at the NYS DOH website the numbers in a lot of categories are better than average….
Please do you’re research people.
Don’t be a sheep.
I had a D&C in July 2011, I was hemorrhaging and needed a transfusion. Was left alone in a recovery room , they didn’t allow my husband to be with me, while the nurse kept ‘clearing’ my IV line, which just meant that she was forcing the blood through my veins at a quicker pace. I begged her to stop and was crying, but they couldn’t transfer me to a room untill the whole bag was done, so she just wanted it to be over. I cried from the trauma for days and my hand hurt for months.
This is all a distraction for MMC. Community and staff what to know what happens with loosing over 30 million what about the rest of this year. All seem mismanagement ken Mike and oresss. All fir themselves now new CNO nasty a bully and the smartest she us not. So we want to know if here id the money going and what is happening with all the loosd
My family go a check because the killed by grandmother she was very sick but they never turned her so her skin got broken and infection this caused her to die if infections the new CNO didn’t care. The nurses are try but they don’t have enough people. Family must staff
I gave birth this new years (2022). There was no hot water on the entire floor for a few days (according to the nurses) I wanted a shower so one of the nurses said come I’ll take u to public showers in a diff wing. I was very weak after a harrowing birth, so I asked the nurse how far is it, I don’t have energy to walk. She exclaims loudly “what?!! You are not a cancer patient! You can walk!. I’m desperate at that point so I go w her. It’s quiet a walk finally I get there she leaves me alone (about 1 day after birth) and ofcourse there was no hot water either. The shower walls were horribly dirty stuck on used bandaids and hair all over. I wish I had my phone w me to take photos ) I had to walk all the way back by myself. Also. The shared toilet in my room was not cleaned once! Full of blood splattered all over. I get it was new years weekend but no excuses for tht at all. So unsanitary and dangerous! They’re concerned about covid and double mask but someone elses blood on the toilet seat… totally ok.
I had a baby this January and was put in a room with a broken heater. I was freezing cold together with my newborn; they did not let me send to nursery. I was treated with loads of attitude when I called a nurse for assistance to switch rooms or to get heat repaired. after 24 hours in shivering cold and when I saw my baby getting a cough all I wanted to do was to be discharged. The doctor had cleared baby and mom to go home but somehow things still took another 8 HOURS. (don’t forget during those hours me and my baby kept on shivering from cold). I must admit I was very happy with the doctors during the 9 months of pregnancy but this 24 hours in the hospital was too traumatic that I won’t be using them again.
Basic problem is they are rude , rude , rude,. The reason why we go there is because we figure our family could visit easier . IT IS NOT WORTH IT . DONT GET FOOLED BY THE P.R OF THIS HOSPITAL. THEY ARE RUDE AND DONT CARE ABOUT RELIGIOUS JEWS LIVES.
I came to the hospital with my wife to give birth to our first child. She was heavy in labor and couldn’t stand straight. The receptionist asked with a huge smile “Do you need a bathroom? it’s right there” i was standing there didn’t know whats happening my wife is in extreme pain and she is making fun of her. Anyhow, fast fwd 12 hours Later, we had a boy b”h, my wife lost a lot of blood and was very week, 2 hours after birth they wanted to transfer her to the third floor, she told them that she’s very week, but they said they need the space for other people, they started pushing her in the wheelchair, and then after 10 seconds she fainted in front of my very eyes, i was terrified, the nurse didn’t even noticed, i gave such a screech the whole floor came to run, they put her back to the room, they said she needs a blood transfusion, later, efter i went home they dumped her in a room with a few other people (at least with curtains) and left her there for 5 hours. They finally made the transfusion and put her into a regular room. I think it’s insane (for anybody and especially) for a woman after giving birth to her first child to get such treatment.
To whom it may concern
It is heart breaking to hear this
How about just filing a lawsuit
It won’t cost a dime
The hospital would have to give reparations to all of these patients survivors If you do not stand up for yourself nobody will
Class action lawsuit
I will help no charge
My email is
hgifts2004@yahoo.com
718 983 9210
I was in the emergency on July 15 2022. I needed different tests to rule out certain complications.
I was there for over 5 hrs before being released to go home
I was very uncomfortable and in great pain. About once an hour someone deemed to see me either to do a test or talk to me. I repeatedly asked for a pain killer which the dr had ordered but was not given
All in all it was a miserable experience
I was in the hospital for a bleeding ulcer & the nurse gave me Heprin, which is a blood thinner, I could have bled to death if I would not have asked her what she is giving me & stopped her!! She mixed me up with a different patient. I filed a report, but got nowhere!!
At 19 years old I was early pregnant for the first time. I was having stomach pains and fainting so hatzala brought me to Maimonides. After running some basic blood tests/ sonograms, the conclusion they came to was that the pregnancy was ectopic and I need to DNC immediately! Within 24 hours or I am dangering my life!! We quickly got in touch with the OB that I was planning on using (but didn’t even see yet because I was so early on) and he told me DO NOT listen to them. Leave the hospital and come straight to his office where he will help us. BH we listening to him. The hospital didn’t want us to go and made us sign all sorts of release forms and the nurses made sure I was fully aware of the risks of an ectopic pregnancy etc. I left. My obgyn took amazing care of me and our NONectopic pregnancy. Fast forward 8 months later I was holding a beautiful healthy baby boy in my arms! He is now 6 years old and no one can believe this insane story but my family was witness to the insanity and the Bizzare ness from that day. I hope no one ever has to go through such a thing
Care no good at this hospital.
Workers many black are bad to Asian peoples and not nice.
No respect and make fun of people no speak English.
I go to this hospital because close where I live. My whole family no like it
My brother works at Maimonides and my papa and child have been patient there. As a Muslim I must say it’s not just Jews that are treated horrible at Maimonides, it’s Muslims as well and people of religious or cultural beliefs. No value for human life only money
I’m still not clear on this.
Where was hatzolah all this time. Why didn’t they speak up.
They saw what was going on in the ER. Who is the head of the ER. Have him leave . Let’s hire someone who knows how to do the job.
It’s the worst emergency room. In the city.
Who is the head of rhe emergency room. He should be fired on the spot. Why is he still there? ,what is he doing for our beautiful community.
He’s getting a nice big fat check and doesn’t care about the rest. He’s supposedly head of hatzolah. Yes one thing he’s busy with is signing his name on all the covid vaccine brochures. Does he at all know what poison is in those vaccines. Does he know how many young people are dying suddenly from a heart attack. He’s part of the campaign for people to vaccinate.
He is probably pumped millions to advocate for Pfizer and rest of garbage.
My main question is
Hstzolzh saw what went on during covid. They didn’t even voice their opinion. Why were they do quiet? Didn’t they think this was all a criminal act.
I am so proud of the people who started this uprising.
All the korbonos are on heaven cheering you on.
My relative was rushed into the hospital.
They gave her a double does of her meds she was sleeping for 3 days straight… we weren’t sure she will wake up…
Was visiting a patient.
Patient requested help when nobody showed up I went looking for help for 15 I walked up and down the unit and there was no staff to be found… a whole unit without any staff for a very long time…
I gave birth 5 times at MMC, 4 times were nasty experiences. Only one was a pleasant and I was properly cared for. Twice there were no labor rooms available, no anesthesiologists available to give an epidural. After myd daughter’s birth I was brought to an overflow recovery room where 12 postpartum were lined up in a hallway with 1 filthy bathroom with overflowing garbage cans. When I was placed in the bed there was no pillow. I asked for one. They said they don’t have any. My husband quickly ran back to the delivery room I had just vacated to get my pillow because i was apparently in a Third World country where pillows are a rarity.
I went in to give birth with both my kids. When u check in while in heavy labor there’s tHis nasty lady sitting at the desk. She’s always on the phone and video calling and made me wait a VERY long tIme while I was having strong contractions. À
On monday afternoon 1:00 p.m. my son was sent to Miamonidies medical center er by his pediatrician with concern that he might have appendicitis. We got to er and were left waiting for several hours before someone even looked at us! Finally some resident came in and checked my son with horrible bedside manners as if he was doing us the biggest favor! He said he needed a sonogram to confirm…we waited another few hours for a simple sonogram wich confirmed it was appendicitis. They told us the surgeon will be in at 9 a. m. So will have to wait till then. At that point I was furious! It was 10.p.m. and after all this time waiting and being ignored I decided to transfer him to New York Cornell where my son was a patient for another medical condition. The staff at Miamonidies got hysterical and started giving me attitude, I was yelled at insulted, and made to feel like 2 cents!!! All of a sudden they knew I was there…finally and unwillingly they called Cornell to send an ambulance for transfer (as per protocol) at 1:00 a.m. the ambulance from Cornell arrived to transfer my son and at 5 a.m. my son was out of surgery at Cornell. This was after being examined in the er and a 45 minute MRI and surgery. They actually treated my son like human being with dignity and the service we deserved. Why does it have to be this way? Even if it were to be just a community hospital, never mind a jewish community hospital, where is the compassionate care and service every american citizen deserves? Why do we have to be made to feel like garbage and be so mistreated? I came to Miamonidies with my son for a simple appendicitis. It took 12 hrs. To diagnose and would I not have transferred my son to Cornell it would have taken another 6- 9 hrs. To have surgery. I’m asking you is this normal???? Why did it take 5 hrs. Including surgery to be treated at Cornell? We are being grossly mistreated and Miamonidies needs to own up!!!
I have a lot of medical issues And often end up in the ER. Because I used to live right near Maimonides, I used to go there on almost a weekly basis. One Friday night, my doctor thought I was having a miscarriage so I rushed myself to Maimonides. The doctor took one look at my chart and said that it was probably just a heavy period because I have PCOS. Refused to do so much as a urine test or check how much I was bleeding. In the discharge papers he wrote that I had been malingering. Later that night I ended up in NYU in Cobble Hill, where they did an ultrasound and blood work which confirmed that I was indeed miscarrying. They gave me a blood transfusion because my hemoglobin was so low and ended up doing an emergency D&C because I was losing too much blood. Long story short, Maimonides does not take returning patients seriously even when it can be something potentially life threatening.
I can relate to all the complaints above.
Horrible hospital shame on them! Cold-hearted team!
My husband a.h was given the wrong medication twice ! When I asked the nurse where do they get this list from they said on a website ??? Why didn’t they ask us – we were always there???
I’m not really sure what the purpose of this “blog ” is. There is no such thing as “save maimomidies” they are BEYOND saving. They should be shut down. No one should go there. They are staffed by cold hearted killers. Negligence and not caring one whit is their “mission statement ” . They are mostly Jew haters. On the rare occasion that someone doesn’t mistreat you there you consider it a “positive experience ” how tragic is that. We are so used to the staffs disgusting behavior that when they act semi human we celebrate. My family stopped going there and NYU is the way to go if you must stay in nyc
Maimonides should be shut and shuttered and sold to a private industry or to Ehrlich kind hearted baalei Chasadim like laniado hospital in Netanya. I have too many horror stories of disgusting mistreatment by the hospital staff in this place to list. It would fill a book.
Number one in the emergency room you are not a human being you are not a number the louder you scream the more chances you have to be heard
My father was taken in with a stroke several months ago basically his left side paralyzed
He was lying on a stretcher bed in a room in the ER he asked several times he needs to use the restroom a family member kept on going to the nurse saying the patients request
The nurse said I’m busy with other patients now and we are short staffed
45 minutes he waited to be helped he never made it to the restroom they had to change him
It’s a embarrasment and a disgrace when a person who suddenly became invalid is being treated worse then a animal they down grade the patients moral and self esteem
The management and admin at the hospital sucks. Granted some are good, compassionate people, but overall… Whenever there is a problem there is never a solution, they just sweep it under the rug and tell the employees to just do better. And they’re the ones getting the fat paychecks.
Many of us are a scared to sign the other site because if we are found out we will gave no work is there somebody to talk to we have to feed our families
My father only received good care because of good advocacy as I am a nurse myself and know the way things are supposed to go. For instance, if we requested a med to help with a certain simple discomfort, the response should have been, “sure, I’ll ask the dr if he can order that.” Instead the response was simply, “oh that’s not in his order list, sorry.” Since I know these things, I was able to successfully insist she request the med. I shudder to think what would happen if the frail patients are left alone to fend for themselves…
I am RN and recently switched from working at Maimonides to a real hospital and what a difference and sigh of relief it is. Is like going from Darkness to Light.
As former employee I must say I was treated like garbage. Scared of my manager and felt very alone. No support. No recognition for good hard work. I’ve witnessed staff and patients being treated much less nicer then sick dog, very bad neglect.
Like a Mafia place, everyone scared and no happy.
We hope pray for change.
As an employee at MMC I must say they have a thing for hiring bad management and “Leadship” that doesn’t know the first thing about leadership. They like to hire the cream of the crap and are making a desperate plea for workers now and as they do best and have done lately is hire the least experienced and least caring individuals in the field, people who barely know English just to fill spots…..
MMC is a sham and do their own “smear campaign” against themselves.
May justice finally be served.
Although there is a bidding policy in the Hospital and bids are required for purchases, very often many departments significantly overpaid for their purchases and bypassed the bidding polices. When supporting documentation was requested, we often found no evidence of compliance to the Hospital’s bidding policies.
Great hospital! Saved my life!
my wife had the baby 2 weeks ago we waiting waiting 3 hours and they told us that the doctor is on the way after 4 hours when the doctor came she told us that she was here the whole time nobody told her that we waiting ………..
After buy the delivery the doctor was lost nobody helped her she called she called for backup nobody came it was terrible never before Today I heard the news that the doctor left the hospital she can more ……..
SALARIES OF ADMINISTRATION at MAIMONIDES
CEO Kenneth Gibbs’ salary soared from $1.8 million to $3.2 million from 2019 to 2020 (and he wasn’t even in the office due to COVID).
REGULAR DOCTORS, NURSES, AIDES, : Low pay and work in chronically understaffed conditions. They cannot do their jobs because of their heavy caseloads.
WHY ARE THEY UNDERSTAFFED ? BECAUSE THERE IS NO MONEY LEFT IN THE BUDGET FOR THEM!!!!!!!!
A Maimonides spokesperson told the NY Post that the hospital is giving such massive payouts despite “depressed inpatient and outpatient volume as well as increased costs, resulting in a net loss of $64.6 million through Q2 2021, and an operating budget projection of a $19.5 million loss for 2022.” (NY Post)
How about employees being mistreated? Some do their jobs and others are lazy and get mad at the ones who are basically doing their job.
Mental health worker at MMC- OVERworked, underpaid. Caseload of more than 80 patients for individual therapy. No support from admin. Lots of blame on clinicians rather than administration acknowledging the problems such as wait times, weeks to get an appointment, turnover of clinicians. Told administration about lack of support and being asked to do above and beyond job description and nothing was done. More blame on individual clinicians “not doing enough.” The problem is systemic. You cannot give service if you do not have the staff and resources to do so. False promises, facade of services that we cannot provide due to understaffing.
I had the first surgery of my life at Maimonides Hospital in about April 1999. The pre surgery went very well. The anesthesiologist, the surgeon were excellent!!
After the surgery however, I was taken to the recovery room, where I was left alone. I had blood stuck in my throat, and found it difficult to breathe!! I tried calling for help, but no one was around!! I managed to stick a straw lying next to my bed , into my throat, and physically pulled out a clamp of blood!! I was finally able to breathe a little better!! I scared to go back there for any procedure!!!!
I walked in MMC March 13, 2020 when Covid-19 was just about hitting the news. I was in agony from a tooth infection, and I was hoping to get a oral surgeon to extract the tooth immediately. It was Erev Shabbos and I was waiting in the emergency room for close to 4 hours. When it was finally my chance to bee seen I was brought into a hallway with many chairs. There were about fifty chairs there and most were taken by people claiming to have symptoms of Covid. I couldn’t sit I was in way too much pain. So, I was running around there…. and then a “Doc” came to see what the issue is. The only thing he was able to do is say I’m so sorry… there is nothing we can do for you here.
Maybe a little morphine would help to ease the pain.
Just drug her up and everything will be alright was their strategy.
Seriously!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I gave birth in MMC 4 times only because it was the closest hospital to me, and it is where my doc delivered. I never had a nice experience there. nurses and other hospital staff were so rude. after giving birth once, it took a while for the epidural to wear off and i couldn’t move. Patient Transfer came and tried to thrust me into the wheelchair but they were unable to move me. They yelled at me so badly – yes you can move…. finally they brought a stretcher but they didn’t help me get on to it. i don’t know how they pushed me at the end but then when i got up to my room they just slid me on to my bed as if i was an untouchable object and left me there just that way and i wasn’t put straight. overall, nurses are really loud all day and night and they’re disgusting. if you try to call a nurse it takes them at least 10 minutes to come – average can be 20 minutes. and when they finally come you get massive attitude from them you’re not guaranteed you’ll get what you need.
i recently moved to NJ and gave birth in RWJ. they tested me for covid and the test came back positive. i asked the nurse , does that mean i’m on my own now? they said no, we’re here for you just like before because we need to care for you, it’s our job. we just need to wear different gear. i couldn’t believe the amazing care that i got there. the way they helped me off bed, i felt like a queen even though i had just given birth an hour before. Up in my room there I was not allowed out but nurses kept coming to check up on me and my baby so politely and when i called a nurse i never had to wait more than 30 seconds for one to show up. I was able to ask them to change my baby and they did so graciously. I could not believe that i was so stupid in Boro Park sticking to MMC when i knew it was a horrible hospital.
P.S. as a girl, i remember visiting some older patients who were not well. I saw them feeding a man pureed food thru some kind of squeeze thing and they were being so rude. they were stuffing it and when he couldn’t handle it they yelled at him. I was young, but not young enough to be allowed into the hospital to visit. And this story still spooks me.
It’s sad that this hospital has gotten away with such kind of treatment for so many years. and it’s only because ppl were using them anyway because they were local. How did no one take a stand and come out against them loud and clear.
1. I have personal knowledge of Maimonides by having a family member who worked in Management for 25 years.
2. My father, A’H, was brought in by my mother during Yom Tov several years ago. When I found out on Motzei Yom Tov, and rushed over, he was gasping for breath. I asked the nurses to give him oxygen. They ignored me. Only after I threatened them & made a scene, was he given oxygen. My mother told me that he was gasping for breath for over 10 hours before I got there, and no one had done anything for him. He was perfectly fine until this. Subsequently, he required intubation, and he was nifter several months later, never regaining consciousness. This was directly caused by Maimonides negligence to not giving him oxygen when he was clearly in distress for hours.
3. Maimonides has for at least the last 20 years, and accelerating rapidly, made a decision to abandon the Jewish Community. Doctors who are Religious are deliberately not accepted into Maimonides. Instead, much less qualified foreign medical students are accepted into Maimonides various disciplines (such as Medicine, Surgery, Cardiovascular, etc.).
4. None (or practically none) of the Maimonides events are Kosher. The hospital itself is no longer kosher, and neither is the Cafeteria. A decision was made that Maimonides should hire members of the “oppressed communities”, and all white staff members are mandated to take courses in “implicit bias”, critical race theory, and other woke and “equity” thought.
5. It’s no secret how many people would still be alive had they not been taken to Maimonides during the Covid era. Patients were put on respirators & “monitored” by inexperienced Doctors and nurses who did so from the hallways, refusing to enter the rooms for fear of catching Covid. Patients were left to die alone (no family members were allowed), often with no food, and no oxygen.
6. Even 25 years ago, when many of the Doctors were competent, the majority of nurses were uncaring, from minority neighborhoods, and were not kindly disposed to the Jewish patients.
7. Even then, and absolutely in the past few years, if a patient was sick and unable to fend for themselves, being left alone for more than a few hours, would often cause their deterioration. Monitors, and alarms were ignored, patients went unchanged, and weren’t fed; and weren’t given the care they needed.
8. Even as the Board consisted of Borough Park “Askanim”, the Board members were kept in the dark as to what was going on in the Hospital. Money was solicited from the Jewish Community, while the Hospital was veering away from the Jewish Community, and Maimonides was a third rate hospital, even by Brooklyn standards.
My very best friend works there as a nurse on nights and she constantly tells me how her co-workers do not care about the patients and the managers make 1 nurse cover 2 times what they’re supposed to. Where is the common sense? Where is the basic decency? Where is the city, state, and government to regulate the slaughterhouse that MMC has become?
My cousin went to Maimonides hospital (if you can even call it a hospital) with heavy diarrhea and dehydration. She had to wait 2 days to get a room. And 7 hours to get some IV fluids in her. They are overcrowded and understaffed because they want to line their own pockets at the expense of our health. Shame on all the staff.
I went to Maimonides with pericarditis and got a cardiac angiogram because the ER doctors and cardiologists and interventional cardiologists couldn’t diagnose a simple EKG. Shame on all of you. Never mind how awful the staff on the second floor are.
Methodist Hospital in Park Slope was taken over by NY Presbyterian.
Kings Highway Hospital was taken over by Mt Sinai Hospital.
Lutheran Hospital in Park Slope was taken over by NYU Langone.
The purpose of these takeovers was to improve the level of medical professionalism, nursing and financial administration. It’s time that a top notch hospital system take the reins at Maimonides Hospital.
I have a friend who works as a nurse at Lutheran Hospital and she says the care is greatly improved since the hospital was taken over by NYU Langone.
The staff is downright nasty. I was there over Shabbos with my first baby. The nurse’s station was right outside my door. I asked the nurse politely if she could please help me open up a light because it’s shabbos, and I’m not able to do it myself. She said she’s not available right now. (she was sitting right outside my door!). After 25 minutes, she came in and asked me which light I needed her to turn on. I really wanted to tell her, “never mind, I don’t need your help anymore!” but really I was sitting in the dark and did need her assistance, so I showed her and she grudgingly did me the favor and left. Also, I felt that everything was done with attitude and very not kindly.
i went in to give birth at maimonides about 9 months ago. i arrived in active labor, waiting to be admitted but there was noone at the nurses station. My labor was progressing but there was no one to talk to to even get me into a room or check me out. I waited over an hour until i called a doula to come down to the hospital. she had to go into the triage to find my midwife. i then had to wait another half hour until a bed became available just to have myself checked! when I was finally checked in a quarter of a room with curtain.. I was told im almost ready to give birth but it was going to happen right there because there were no clean delivery rooms available… after i gave birth I stayed there for hours until they transferred me to cot in another overflow room on the same floor so had to hear screaming and beeping nonstop….
When my father passed away in the Maimonides ICU, the staff yelled at me to get the Chevra Kadisha to come faster and get him out because they needed the bed.
Nothing like compassion and humanity.
Former employee and patient here. First off I’d like to say Maimonides gave me a chance when I was young and in trouble, gave me purpose, gave me a pension and turned me from child to adult. I have no ill will whatsoever and I am writing this without bias. As an former employee, the things I was told to do by upper management bordered on not only dangerous, but stone stupid. They would want to admit patients off necessary monitors to fill the beds as quick as possible. So imagine possible death and they won’t hook you up to a machine needed to save your life, for the purpose of $$$. I’ve seen soiled beds not cleaned, just do over the sheets and get the next patient upstairs. There are 1000 other stories I could name , it would take all day. Doctors are fairly sharp, nurses and PCT bust their asses every day and I believe a lot of them genuinely care. There are 2 main problems with Maimonides. And it all comes back to management and ownership. Management just seems to promote the worst people. I had 3 managers during my tenure, 2 of them should be nowhere near a patient or a hospital. One of them plays constant games like a teenager and has no desire to get anything done. The second manager was totally clueless, and mind you these are in-house promotions!!! I was a lower-level worker who knew more than the people leading me and that should never happen. My experience as a patient for multiple issues was fine, but only because I had knowledge of what doctors were good and I knew a lot of people personally who took care of me. If you’re a random individual you may or may not run into trouble. Honestly, Maimonides gets fixed 2 ways. Get the right management in there and sadly to say give the hospital over to someone outside of the “community”, otherwise it’s going to be a long road ahead
I have had personal and business stresses with maimonides. First the personal. We only brought My husband to this terrible hospital because it would take too long to get elsewhere. My husband was brought in to maimonides with severe breathing difficulties. Upon arriving no one attended to him. Hatzolah continued helping him because no one even checked him in or spoke to us. I heard the nurses joking when they finally graced us with their presence. “He’s got the big CA levefed or leave him dead. He’s going to die anyway” The nurse covered her badge and refused to give me her name. This was on Friday late afternoon. Anyway eventually he was stabilized but he was really out of it. they put him and admitted him in a regular room . the next day they intubated him. they said he vomited but supposedly suctioned it and got it all. However they were bringing him to the ICU and they knocked his respirator tube out of place. I heard sounds i never heard before come out of his mouth. from then on it was all down hill. My husband died early Sunday morning. They did not want us in the room to manage the final respect for an orthodox Jewish person requires after he leaves our world. I called and called to complain after these incidences. Records were not available to me no one ever called me back. I got absolutely nowhere. I Could not afford a lawyer didn’t know who cared or who to talk to. My husband who was am amazing righteous charity giving person died without the dignity and respect he truly deserved. i was left with seven children without my husband and their father.
Now for the business. Trying to continue what my husband did for people. I work for an organization helping people. I get Their records arrange for slides to be sent out, set up appointments. I deal with several Hospitals throughout the country and what stands out to me is the no response the no give a damn attitude that exudes from all departments and maimonides hospital personel.
Our experience with Maimonides has been miserable. Sadly, its one of the only hospitals in our area for REAL emergencies.
I do believe they need a complete revamp from leadership to even its own volunteers.
I have so far lost 3 family members to the hands of Maimonides, all 3 with no prior complicated health history. Most recent was during a routine surgery and bled out to death.
There are NO EXCUSES.
This hospital is a joke. No staff got paid yesterday no funds to direct deposit. They are keeping our money because they don’t have any money. It’s a shame we need our money
Someone in payroll told me they need to keep so
Much money in the bank because the hospital borrowed money maybe you can help us
My wife gave birth at MMC this past January 2022.
From the start it was an absolute chaotic disaster and this was when it wasn’t even as full as it usually is.
The room was dangerously cold, I know many people Friends and family who work there (Hindu, Asian, fellow Muslims and Jews) and they told me they called engineering but “there’s no one to talk to”….We were given the option to leave (and should have) but in active labor my wife couldn’t think properly so we stayed. I got her heating blankets and snuck in a heater. The staff came in with their coats on and ear muffs as to the coldness in the room. It was so unsafe that even staff realized it would be dangerous for a newborn to be born in that room so they switched us to another cold room but not as bad as the previous.
As labor progressed my wife wanted an epidural so a resident came in and poked her 4 times until a line was put in; however, a few minutes later her upper body started becoming numb and she couldn’t feel her hands. I went out to get help for her but the only thing I was told was to get back in the room. I went back into the room and her vitals started becoming wacky so I shut off the epidural, ran back out to get the nurse. After bugging out that my wife and baby may be in danger “I’ll come take a look” I was told in a passive aggressive manner.
Until today my wife suffers daily from spinal headaches due to being poked in her spine numerous times and it being inserted very wrong and careless.
After my wife gave birth to a healthy tiny girl we were given a room upstairs and they finally bought us our new baby but guess what; things drastically changed, neither my wife or I are Asian but they brought us a cute Asian baby boy…..we didn’t need to look at the bands to tell the nurse that’s not our child. We told her we had a girl plus neither of us are Asian so we’re not sure how this happened?! Her response was, “that’s to funny, I’ll go get your baby, remind me your name again?”
After speaking to many that work there;
1: they are not happy there
2: They told me and I’ve seen it myself that there is no one really to talk to to make commonsense of insane situations to get fixed and if there is someone to talk to nothing really changes or gets corrected or they learn from going forward.
They claim they provide excellence in care, delusional is an understatement. I doubt failed Wall Street crony Gibbs with his large unearned salary would ever seek care at MMC if he needed to be hospitalized for some reason or maybe he would because he’s the “boss”, just in title… There is no (or almost none) real honest hardworking caring human leadership at MMC, ask your staff, doctors, nurses, PCT’s, transporters and cleaning crews. The people working there are miserable, Face it.
Instead of constantly lying to the public and staff who actually know the “facts” and truth; admit there is a problem.
Nothing will change if nothing needs to change! If I’m bleeding and everyone is telling me I’m bleeding but I keep denying it and saying I’m perfectly excellent and nothing is wrong then I can’t be helped sadly.
Step one is acknowledging there’s an issue, which until something huge and or drastic happens will not happen and everything will remain status quo. There are many systemic problems that can be tackled but that can only start happening after step one.
G-d Bless
I came to visit a friend a few months ago ….while I was there ..there was a food tray near her bed so I started feeding her…after 10 minutes she started to choke and vomit all the food….I called the nurse quickly who told me she was not supposed to eat anything…..so why did she have a food tray near her bed ????? I thought after 30 years they changed for the better but 30 year ago I went in with Hatsola with crazy headaches when my baby was 3 weeks.old
..they made me wait in the emergency room for over an hour even though I vomited all over the floor….I told my husband to make a commotion so that I get help…..he started to scream at them that they are a bunch of drunks on drugs there….within 5 minutes they called the Rabbi who called a doctor who gave me a shot and was able to walk out within 15 min….it took a good scream to get them moving….I was told I could have had an aneurism
I had family member and myself admitted to Maimo .the treatment in this place is a disgrace. they are severally understaffed . They treat people like papers, not like humans. They poke fun at you for being Jewish an$ talk behind your back. I was on the maternity ward in December 2021 and heard two nurses curse out the jews there. Horrible hospital .it’s local so they get away with it
my 15 year old son was brought in via ambulance on a Saturday morning with severe abdominal pain. 2 hours later he was sent home being told it was gastritis and take some mylanta. no imaging was done- no sono, CT, MRI or anything.
after a couple more weeks of excrutiating pain ended up in NYU and it was an extremely inflamed gall ladder with very large stones- proper care administered, surgery was completed. Perhaps the Dr at Maimo should have done the job correctly and diagnosed it right away rather than being in pain for weeks thinking it’s something he ate causing gastritis.
Nothing is really necessary to point out after more than 40 years ago the holy Klausenburger Rebbe was against this hospital, when someone would call him regarding a patient in MMC, he would say first get out of that slaughter house & call me from there…
My father A”H was a Cancer patient, he was rushed into the disgraced MMC, just because we thought its something small like dehydration he’ll just get some fluid & get home, little did we know what we’re in for.
He came in Saturday night with my brother which I took over the shift after a few hours, upon arriving, my father was in the ER section for dying patients, anyone who I asked what’s the status just ignored me, until someone finally answered me after asking what kind of test they’re doing the response was everything… I still didn’t catch on the situation until I hear & see a nurse or so called Dr. yelling to my father in his face “Sir you’re Dying” – shame shame MMC for having such idiots.
I shiver when i remind myself what I experienced that entire night in the ER – patients were taking care of like chickens or even worse… after supposedly stabilizing the situation, which was handled with such coldness – barely even letting me stand next to my father, which was 8 years ago – much before Covid, he had to be admitted – believe it or not – a Cancer patient was left in the ER without getting a room & barley let in visitors – for 2 full days!!!! only after turning over the place with Askunim & his Dr. mixed in he finally was taken into a room Monday evening. Again, shame on u MMC!!!
Then, he was in the hospital for 4 weeks until his passing, I can write a book what he went through those final weeks of his life, which its very possible MMC made his death come sooner. any single small thing we asked for to comfort our father, was barley honored & if yes only after begging & begging & involving the esteemed rabbi Leser, which really saved us for the time being.
The worst was about a week before his passing, while waiting in the hallway during a Dr. made the round into his room, all of a sudden I see the Dr. in his face shouting: u should know you’re gonna be dying very soon!!! I ran into the room & gave a yell – Stop!! the Dr. came running out & slammed the door in my face – while I have no clue with what else she drove my father insane.
No explanation is needed or can justify these bitter & ugly behaviors.
Hopefully something will be done!
Hi I was a young women who had turned yellow and had very high fever. I was left in the emergency room for hours with no help and Noone doing anything to see what the issue was. Only hours later wen I got blood work back from a previous doctor I saw elsewhere did they see it was a very bad case of mono and finally transferred me upstairs. The noise level was crazy at night so you coudnt sleep and it took forever for Dr’s to come if needed.
Additionally they didn’t have a nursery when I gave birth and the baby was left with me from the second I gave birth it was crazy . I was a new mother and In tonz of pain cuz the doctor gave me a messed up episiotomy and I had to do everything myself. I couldn’t wait to b dismissed home.
After reading these horror stories (and I wrote my own) how can the city/state allow this hospital to remain open without totally revamping it with a sweeping change of administration? Basically the way any institution or business works starts from the top. As long as this rotten, crooked and self serving administration remains in power, the hospital will continue to function the same way. It will not help to fire a few abusive nurses or incompetent doctors. The solution is to start from the top and that automatically will shift the entire culture down to the rest of the staff.
My mother was a patient at Maimonides Medical Center in September 2021. We requested the ambulance to take her there since she was a former employee at Maimonides for over 30 years. They treated her like she didn’t matter. After her doctor performed a botched brain drainage, she never came to speak with us even though we asked her to and requested from everyone for her to come and speak to us about what happened. My mother never woke up from her procedure and eventually died.
I will never forget that neurologist who did not care enough about her patient to come personally to speak to us.
Horrible Horrible Horrible. I am scarred for life seeing the lack of care my father got in Maimonidies. He died due to their total disregard. Hashem should hold them accountable for their lack of care and outright medical neglect.
Ventilator was not put in correctly and the respiratory nurse could not be bothered to fix it. They know Jews don’t do an autopsy so they can get away with whatever mistreatment they want.
I was in the hospital for a MRSA lung infection in January 2020. I was not seen by a doctor in the 3 days that I was there and only deteriorated with each passing hour. My primary care doctor suggested that i leave the hospital and had i stayed there i would have not survived based on the report of the other hospital I went to.
Too many stories can you guys publish a book? Legit do not know where to start!
At the end of my grandfather’s life he was on the Pulmonology floor. there was a male nurse who was especially cruel. I would call him to come to suction my grandfather and he would get annoyed and then crudely suction him roughly and wildly purposely bringing him to the point of no return before reversing it. When we left that floor for hospice care I finally felt safe enough to report him. I believe it was to our doctor because until then we needed him as he was basically the only one doing the resuscitation on the floor. On second thought: He must have been more than just a nurse on the floor. A few days later I was in the elevator when this monster comes in.. suddenly everyone got off and we were alone he turns to me and says I know who you are and what you did and pushed the basement button, I kept his gaze trying to still my heart and to show I was not afraid…. he let the elevator door open by the basement but did not get off!! and then when the door closed he let the elevator be called up to the lobby where I got off! So yeah it was meant to scare me. Looking back I don’t know why I did not report him he did not have my address or name only my grandfather’s but I was too busy with my grandfather’s end-of-life care to realize the abuse and terror we were subjected to!
Abuse at Maimonides Hospital
My mother’s hospitalization was for a broken ankle. While in the hospital my mother was infected with a serious UTI.
My mother, a Holocaust survivor, at age 95 years, was moved from bed to stretcher by a single hospital aide pulling at her bed sheet and dumping her on the stretcher. My mother then complained, “everything hurts me,” the pain resulting from the throw of her aged body and the impact of her body hitting the stretcher. It may have been that moment of fear that made my mother call out from her hospital bed: “They are taking me away,” reliving the Nazi aktzia (roundup of Jews) in her hometown in Poland.
My Son was admitted to the emergency room with Covid in October 2020 . He was taken in by Hatzoloh & my daughter in law begged them not to take him there, knowing their reputation. (We also had very bad experience when both my mother & father were treated there.) They reassured her that it would be fine, & to put it mildly it was a disaster from the minute they left him there. He was laying on a cot in the hallway, shivering & in intense pain, could hardly breathe, and no one came over even for a second to look at him. We tried calling people who had a connection to the hospital, but it was no use. He was niftar a month after being admitted & as we watched him slowly die, after receiving the worst care.
We will never forgive them for the way he was treated. My only message is that no one should ever step into this hospital until & when there is a shakeup in the whole administration.
Last August I was scheduled for a procedure but my surgeon decided to postpone the rest of her scheduled surgeries because the equipment was malfunctioning during the procedure she was doing prior to mine which took three times as long as a result! She wasn’t going to have me go under for longer than necessary knowingly and there was no technical staff to fix the equipment as they only are there in the morning. She was assured she could have privileges the next morning to do my surgery eventhough it was not her operating day and she hoped she would also get a nurse in the OR that specialized in this specialty as the ones they had on duty that day were not and she was not comfortable doing an intricate, complicated procedure without staff that are specifically trained for this work. Turns out the powers at be seemingly did not like the fact that they were called out on the non-speciality nurses and malfunctioning equipment and the two empty surgery spots and by morning my scheduled surgery and her rights were suddenly off the day’s schedule although they were clearly scheduled the afternoon before! Luckily, another surgeon who was on the board had a cancelation and agreed to do my surgeon the favor since it was “his OR”. Thank G-d I had a doctor who cared enough to keep me from a prolonged surgery with subpar nurses and who went the extra mile to call in a favor from a colleague for me!
I urge anyone to stay away from this Hospital.
My husband was admitted numerous times to Maimonides Hospital in the last year for abdominal pain, frequent falls and high blood pressure. During those visits he had many MRI blood work and endoscopies, yet through it all Maimonides doctors failed to diagnose that he had Pancreatic cancer. This was detected only a few weeks before his death.
The quality of care during his hospitalizations was beneath anything I can describe. Maimonides Hospital is severely understaffed, and most of its employees are from foreign countries with an attitude and training that belongs to third world countries, not in what supposed to be a top American hospital. Management may be saving a lot of money by hiring such staff but we pay the price with abysmal quality of care.
I have been a nurse by professional all my life. I will list for you some examples of the below acceptable level of treatment:
1. After one of his endoscopies, he was bleeding and had black diarrhea for few days. Nobody took a notice of that, not the nurse aids, or the nurses, or the doctors. One of the nurse aids yelled at my husband, “Are you a baby that you make in bed”. Needless to say, his calls to be changed were never answered on time, making him lie uncomfortably hours at a time. At times I had to change him myself since waiting for hour for a nurse was out of the question. My husband bleeding continued for three days before I was able to get the proper attention of a doctor. By then he needed two units of blood and a repeat endoscopy to stop the bleeding that was not observed at the first time.
2. In addition, they placed in my husband’s room a patient with COVID that infected both him and me. My husband was tested numerous times before and during his admittance to the hospital, as each and every visitor who came to the hospital. Still, through gross incompetency, they managed to place a COVID free patient with COVID patients. That forced him to be put into a 10-day isolation with minimal human contact and almost no care.
3. Throughout his stays, there was never help available for even a basic assistance, not even to help him open the food container on his tray, so even when he was still able to feed himself, he could not eat.
4. His medication had to be checked as sometimes they were not even his.
As a RN myself I know that he was not diagnosed on time and was not treated professionally by the medical and nursing staff, most of which were poorly trained, had bad attitude and lacked the basics of compassion.
Again, I urge anyone to stay away from this Hospital.
1 night I needed to assist a friend in the Maimonides ED. I thought I was in a 3rd world country! On a scale of 1-10, the cleanliness was 0! Staffing was 0! Patient Privacy was 0! Care was a 0! As it is said ” The angel of death lives in Maimonides hospital “.
The hospital keeps on shortening the nursing staff in the Maternity floor.
This action is crushing the environment for the patients, nurses, and effecting the health of the nurses.
My trip to the MMC ED in May of 2021 was sudden and unexpected. I was nervous about being admitted Erev Shavuos, especially on a weekend.
The staff at MMC were upbeat, professional, and caring. From the first moment she came over to ED bed N58b, Dr. Cohen made me feel valued and heard, and kept me abreast of what to expect. She did the same for patients in the neighboring beds without any hint of frustration. I was later placed in G219-2, where nurse Erica Rosenblum made certain that all of my questions were fully answered that all my needs were met expeditiously and with dignity.
There were too many others to recount, but you should feel quite proud of the entire team. MMC provides a world class level of humanity and care.
Thank you again for your help.
Both my mother and father have been in Maimonides hospital in the last month of their lives . When my father was bought into the Emergency room and was sick firstly it took hours till anyone even came to look at him , he was laying on their uncomfortable beds With his feet were longer then the bed , he was in pain and it took a long time till he was even looked at , only after a few long hours and a few phone calls to people we know that can call someone in the hospital was he moved to a room , by the time he was put into a room he had a stroke and didn’t make it .
My mom was in Maimonides with a tube down her throat for a long time , if we weren’t next to her 24 hours a day she wouldn’t be tended to , we constantly had to remind the nurses to clean her tube , Dr would hardly come to see her , if they did they came and left very fast we could hardly get to speak to them . Nurses would take forever to come when called unfortunately my mom also died in the hospital .
We dread ever going to the emergency room beacuse it’s very neglectful and takes hours to be seen and cared for .
Unfortunately i use maimonides hospital many times ( leave a few blocks away). Have horrible exxpirence. Never would recomended these facility. Would like to talk with maneger. Please call me or sent by mail complain letter.
My heart goes out to all the patients and families written about. I would never step foot into this hospital again. I had my first baby here (almost 30 years ago) and never came back. I gave birth during the nor’easters in 1994. My window was broken and cold air was blowing in. It took a few days for them to fix it. I had an emergency c-section. I was supposed to be on IV and a liquid diet for 24 hours. After 4 days a nurse came in and was shocked to see that I was still on IV. My arm was twice the size. They also brought in a student to give me an epidural – his first time! My husband refused to allow him near me. Eventually the Chief of Anesthesiology came in and administered it. I have many more complaints from the 5 days I was there but they seem so petty compared to what everyone else wrote. BH my baby and I were healthy and walked out of there but I never wanted to go through that again and therefore found a new doctor and new hospital to deliver in. I don’t understand why people still go there.
When you invite a guest into your house, usually you make sure the foyer and living room are nice. You want to give a good impression. It seems Maimo never got that Memo and their ER leaves much to be desired.
2 bathrooms in the entire ER for 20+ beds. Not including the “triple parking” of patients and staff. (sanitary how?)
On any given night you can walk in and the place is a chicken coop. Screaming shouting all kinds of drunks lining the hall down to the pediatric wing. ( this is something our kind mayors homeless team should be addressing) it’s not hospitals fault if EMS keeps bringing them in. By this time staff is on first name basis with most of them and has to observe them.
Yes, we all know the covid pandemic through a wrench at the healthcare industry.
How about putting the ER on ‘diversion status’ once in a while to allow the staff to do their jobs? Most are good kind people who are simply stretched thin in a high pressure environment creating a pressure cooker between patient staff and family.
I’ve seen patients crawling on the ER floor, had a patient who vommited and no one came to clean up for hours until a family member started to take out the phone and video suddenly everyone woke up. Saw a patient who came in for abnormal labs but was left gasping for air in the hallway until a Jewish EMS guy noticed and put him on oxygen. Family member came in for peg tube replacement and doctor said “we just need radiology to confirm” radiology never showed up Dr. didn’t return calls wound up a 3 day stay. Once stayed with a paitent who sustained leg fractures after being hit with a car and when they were done with the bed pan called for a nurse, the RN reaction ? Why are you shouting?? I should hope they never have to use a bed pan but maybe then they will understand the discomfort.
Yes it’s true every business or healthcare facility has it’s horror stories and positive outcomes, and Maimo has had many success stories that everyone in the community knows and they are good at. Cardiac care, strokes and so on.
Unfortunately though the after sick visits seems to have terrible experiences.
The community is willing to help make a change. Will the hospital work with us?
My grandfather was 100% healthy and well, strong as anything but with dementia and living in Boro Park Center.
Family came every day to care for him, with a rotating shift so that there was somebody by his side at all times.
He needed to be fed and didn’t usually eat otherwise.
Comes Covid, no family allowed in and understaffed as anything he doesn’t eat.
He barely got any food and there was nobody there to feed him.
He got transferred to MMC (HE DID NOT HAVE COVID) and was plain starved to death.
Contracted some hospital infection, with no food and boom! that was the end, Maimonides killed another innocent person.
Sometime approximately 8 years ago, my mother was in the emergency room for chest pain, initially, she was hesitant if she should go to the emergency room, but she was persuaded by Hatzala to rather be safe and go check it out. When she was in the emergency room a nurse wanted to give her a few different medications, my mother asked her if she can see which medications she is going to give, but the nurse refused and said you have to cooperate and trust what I give you, my mother kindly said I refuse to take any medication without her knowing before she takes them what this is. The nurse called security and made up a claim that my mother was mental and needs to be restrained, My mother has no history of mental disability and there is nothing wrong with her mental health, security came and took away her phone, handcuffed her to her bed, and closed the curtain, at that point the nurse physically assaulted my mother, my mother was crying and begging why are you doing this to me, please let me go home, please call my son to come over here, she was there alone helpless. After everything unfolded and I showed up at the hospital when my mother was released, I was shocked and pained by what happened. I went to the 66th PCT to file a complaint against the hospital, the police dept was very protective over the hospital and tried whatever they can to persuade me not to press charges. Then comes Mr. Douglas Jablon to the plate, I reached out to him and he promised me that he would fully investigate which nurse this was, and he apologized to me, and since then whenever I followed up with him he promised that he was working on it. Nothing ever happened since then, he just wanted to make sure I do not pursue legal action against the hospital…… SHAME SHAME SHAME ON YOU MMC
My father (a dialysis patient) go admitted to the ER 7 years ago and 2 days after he got to a regular room he got scheduled for dialysis the machine broke down and it took 2 days to fix by the time he got the dialysis he got into cardiac arrest and this damaged him till he died a month later from other neglect that I have witnessed
The prep room before going into the labor room was a wreck and filthy.
I went in for severe dehydration while pregnant and they told me they take people in order of emergency and I wasn’t an emergency yet, so I was waiting for two hrs until I fainted. Suddenly there were approximately 10 doctors in the room and I finally got my iv fluids. Then when I was giving birth, the intern who administered my epidural gave me too high of a dose and my BP dropped very low and I started fainting so my hubby told the nurse I’m fainting …. If he wasn’t there I probably would of lay there fainted for who knows how long because my BP was very low …. Then they stopped the epidural and I started being in alot of pain but they couldn’t give me more because I was still numb till my chest and they told me I need to turn to my side … I told them I can’t because I’m still half numb and in alot of pain because I have severe contractions since I have pitocin and no epidural so the nurse told me she can’t help me turn to my side because her hand hurts …..that was just a little bit of the horrible experience I had there not planning on going back that’s for sure
I appreciate this effort. Despite all horror stories I’ve heard, I use the hospital for birth as my midwives chose that hospital to deliver at.
I’m not sure where to begin. With the multiple failed attempts to locate a single vein for IV, or the minuscule cubicle I was given where the bed barely fit? Perhaps the nasty nurse who had me use a bedpan after birth ‘because I’m too busy charting to help you use the facilities now.’
But better yet, I’ll chose to focus on the incompetent staff, the one who inserted my epidural. I told him I felt a shock to my brain and he told me to sit still and be quiet – not paying any attention to what I was saying.
The epidural was inserted wrong and I was paralyzed shortly thereafter.
Thank GD I had my doula to help me for the nurses couldn’t care less when I cried out in hysteria that I can’t move.
The stay only got ‘better’ with a slew of understaffed nurses who took forever to come when called.
When I was ready to leave, and the Dr had discharged me the night before, it took *5* hours!!!!! and multiple attempts of me begging to get out of the facility.
Maimonides can and should do better. As a community hospital they shoulder a responsibility to cater to the community.
My mother was hospitalized during March of 2020. She had Alzheimer’s and my family did not leave her alone. We had a private paid aide the entire time. My mom was scheduled for trache surgery and they told us that they will stop her feed and give her only iv. We called our aide to let her know what to expect. When our aide called us she told us they stopped the feed but did not give iv. So we called the nurses station. As we were on the phone with our aide the nurse came in and angrily yelled at our aide why did you tell the family everything… is that what the nurses do? How can we feel safe in this hospital. So as payback for our nurse telling us this nurse did not allow my aide to stay the next night. I can go on and on about different issues I had while my mom
Was at the hospital. I actually told the hospital chaplain when he saw that I was upset one time that this is a community hospital that does not help the community. This hospital has been always money hungry With horrible service.
I want to actually thank maimo for saving my life . I had low oxygen levels pneumonia all symptoms onFriday , Hazolo took me in to maimo , laid in hall way for 4 -5 hours . Finally nurse tells me after some blood work “ you’re fine you can even run a marathon in a little while your heart is ok” .
They disconnected the oxygen I went to waiting room I felt like I was falling through the floor first I hesitated regarding Shabbos, but then I realized the situation and called an Uber went home put on my oxygen, motzei Shabbos went to Lenox and I saw what a real hospital is like . After 2 weeks I was home recuperating and finally pushed it through bh. So thanks maimo for kicking me out , I probably wouldn’t be here today have stayed by maimo
So my husband was in the hospital , his last Shabbos in this world . Security was called three times to come harass us with all sorts of lies ! The aid under a nurse , not sure what you call them made up a story that we were in the hallways without wearing a mask ?? She lied through her teeth ! I never left my husbands bed side ! We were harassed clearly because we were Jewish !
I have been a patient at Maimonides many times over the years, as have members of my family. I have always had a pleasant experience and commend the staff for their excellent care.
In particular I was rushed to the Er by ambulance and was suffering a stroke. The quick work of the emergency room doctors and nurses saved my life. I was in surgery within 30 minutes and had the best care during my recovery. I’m now 96 years old and healthy thanks to Maimonides.
This past March, my 11 day old baby was brought to MMC by hatzala on shabbos becuase he was struggling to breathe. His complexion was purple, he was retracting and headbobbing and wasn’t waking up to eat. However, we were basically ignored in the ER for hours and hours until we were finally admitted about 8 hours later and baby was put on highflow oxygen. Even once in the PICU, when the wires would fall out or disconnect and the machines would start beeping like crazy, no one would come for hours to check what’s going on.
When someone came to the hospital to bring me some food, they were told they can only enter if they’re vaccinated! Every time my husband or I left, we would have to wait on a long line and go through a whole screening to get back in. At one point a nurse at the door asked me if I’m a visitor, so I said – no, my newborn is in the PICU. She YELLED at me – THAT’S CALLED A VISITOR!!!
6 years ago, I gave birth in MMC to my first child. I was starting to push, didn’t really know what I was doing, and the nurse started yelling at me that I’m doing it all wrong and that I have to calm down! BH my doctor realized what was happening and quickly got me a different nurse.
The nurse that brought me to my room after the birth was so rough and rude and didn’t give me the peri-bottle, any disinfectants or tell me anything about keeping things clean and sterile and disinfecting… I ended up with a really bad infection, which needed antibiotic treatment.
When I was 10 days overdue with my second baby, I went for a stress test and my baby’s heartrate was very bad, so the doctor sent me to MMC to be induced. I waited there for hours and then a nurse came and yelled at me that there are no rooms for me and I should go home and try again tomorrow.
After my second baby was born, the nurse didn’t flush out my blatter properly, so when they stood me up to transfer me to a wheelchair, I started leaking all over the place. The nurse got so mad at me and said – I already emptied your blatter! I ended up suffering with terrible incontenance for about 2 months afterwards because of that.
I had a roommate turn on a loud movie at 2AM, it played for hours…. no one said a word about it. I lost a precious night of sleep right after giving birth.
I’ve had 2 more children since then in a different hospital and the difference is indescribable!
At one time, Hatzalah stopped taking patients to Maimonides. That was a good policy. They should start it again until the entire greedy and incompetent administration is replaced by a professional, patient centered administration.
My story might sound insignificant according to the many that deal with the very ill but it’s important because it’s a different facet.
My son, age 5, has dental work there done under anesthesia. To my horror he woke up missing his 4 front teeth which was not scheduled to be touched because they were perfect.
I was told they were “a hazard because during surgery they could become loose and he could choke on them”!!!!!!!! This is deceptive and crooked on so many levels. Sounds like a third world country where kidneys get stolen.
Here it was as simple as being able to bill for 4 more extractions to fatten everyone’s pockets.
When I started putting up a fuss I was told that somewhere in the fine print I signed my name letting it happen.
Kudos to those who are taking the initiative to CHANGE things that are long overdue to make happen.
This is not a horrific tragic story ..this just shows how a new mom can feel while recuperating in the maternity ward…6yrs ago while being in the maternity ward right after my sons birth I was in a lot of pain in middle of night and wanted some motrin… I rang the bell 100 times nobody answered or showed up…I got out of bed and dizzily walked out there was no nurse in sight…I finally found one nurse all the way around the ward halfway sleeping …she seemed very annoyed that I bothered her !I politly asked her to please give me some motrin but for some reason after searching for a while she told me she was unable to find any!!!!!that is UNBELIEVABLE but i swear this happened!!!!!
As a paramedic, I’ve known about Maimos shortcomings for a long long time. I’m not gonna rip them for Covid because the VAST majority of us that actually treated Covid patients knew (and still know) that it was a geferlach affliction, where by the time someone who even had any inkling of cardiomyopathy, diabetes, or certain other medical issues that increased ACE2 receptors (even if they didn’t know about it) it was practically a death sentence. Covid compounded failures that were loooong present for at least a decade. I often wondered why people I treated wanted to go there. I’d say, “we’re gonna pass so many other decent hospitals, why are you insisting on Maimo”? I always offered options. Lutheran? Methodist? KingsHighway? Community? Victory (I’m an old guy) even Coney Island???? (Never Caledonian, that place was literally a funeral home) Nope…. Maimo. I never got a decent answer. I’m assuming these people were relying on the alte maimo of yesteryear. When cutting edge cardiac surgeries were being performed. The truth is I have a challenge for the community as well. Much like Hatzolah, where city failures prompted people to take up the slack and actually DO the job of EMS, why aren’t more frum yiddin becoming nurses and doing the work? Maimo, like many hospitals now are relying on traveler and agency staff who couldn’t give darn about patient care because they’re raking in huge $$$$ no matter what they do because the hospitals have NO choice but to hire them. Get 200 frum caring yiddin to become nurses and STAY bedside nurses (not run off to nurse practitioner school) and flood the hospital with CARING individuals. Same for the nursing assistants. We can yell and scream all we want about this but look to the hatzolah model for the remedy. We want quality and compassionate care? WE should do it. I recommend everyone pick up a book called Hospital, I forgot the author. It’s all about Maimo and gives some interesting insights.
Worst hospital ever they treat people worse than animals
My 3 year old son waited 4 hours in er he needed 36 stitches on his far head
We even had a plastic surgeon come to stitch him
They said it’s not an emergency and made us wait 4 hours
And they were verbally abusive
I had to scream and yell and finally they took him in.
It’s insane what animals they were
Everyone was so rude and they were raising their voices to a baby after he waited so long in waiting room with a major cut
This hospital should be shut down and re opened under new leadership
It’s such a shame how get get away with it
My mom had dementia. Covid regulations were in place. My mom had high fever, and stopped eating and drinking. I was afraid to bring her to the hospital. I knew they would not let me stay. This was a sure death sentence for her. I waited a few more days obtaining oxygen , IV, and antibiotic shots with the help of choshuve dedicated volunteers. After two weeks of this, I knew I had to admit her. It was no longer possible to care for her at home. Surely she will not make it this way. I was promised that they will allow me in to be with her as she was considered to be close to death. Each time I came, I had to go thru a lengthy wait and approval. Two days after being admitted I was called saying I should rush over, as her death is imminent. With all my children on a conference call saying Thillim I arrived at the hospital and again was made to go thru the same routine. Even being told that Know one called me. I eventually managed to push myself thru security, with the guard screaming at me. When I got up to her floor they took their time giving me ppi equipment. My mom DID NOT HAVE COVID. I told them she is dying and I want to say prayers with her. Finally the nurse walked me into her room, and I realized that my mom had just passed away. The nurse made a show of things, trying to convince me that it happened that instant, however I knew the truth. I was downstairs trying to be allowed up, while my mom passed away alone! It was painful to me that my mom lived 5 years in my house, I was up nights with her, etc. yet was not able to spend those last few precious minutes of life together saying prayers of comfort to her. The nurses were not busy rushing, to care for the patients. This was not a covid ward.(Though at one time I was told by one of the nurses that her test was positive. She later checked and saw that she was mistaken) They just took their time to get things together and walk me to her room. I still am pained that I was not there those last minutes.
My brother, a heart patient, was taken into the ER. While in the ER triage, he needed to use the bathroom.
He asked the nurses to help him get into a wheelchair, as he couldn’t get up on his own. The nurse started yelling at him:
“Get up yourself! Can’t you see I’m highly pregnant?!”
**It baffles my mind why she was even allowed to work- she was barely able to move!!!**
When he repeated that he couldn’t stand up on his own, the nurse YANKED HIM BY HIS COLLAR and got him up that way!
I, and a nearby patient’s family members, expressrd our outrage, but there was no one to talk to and no one to hold responsible.
I’d rather this post not go public.
I am quite shocked that no one commented on their crazy policy with admitting babies to the NICU if they have low glucose levels. My 5 lb baby was kidnapped into the NICU for a full week because his “glucose levels were low”. I had his pediatrician call in to say that he wants the baby out, and they refused to listen. There was no medical risk, (if you’d like the Science studies that I researched, I can send them. There are a lot of proofs and evidence against this “glucose testing” All babies are born with low sugar!!) and all my baby needed was formula. NOT IV SUGAR DRIP. The problem was that they refused to let me feed him when he was hungry – only every 3 hrs as per “hospital protocol”, which yeah, made the baby have low sugar! If you starve any human for 3 hours and then test their sugar, I can almost guarantee it would be low! In short, those 7 days were filled with nurses’ mistakes with the glucometer, doctors refusing to let me nurse him (because it’s not feeding hour!), nurses and even the head nurses refusing to let me see my baby – claiming I needed to rest. (They didn’t want me around because I knew more than them on the topic.) BH he was discharged at 8 days old, and to prove that there was nothing wrong with him, the doctor, mohel, and rav, all said he can go straight to his bris. It was 8 days of my baby being held hostage for no reason, that the only nice doctor was actually the discharge doctor, who told me, “Take him and run, before they find another problem.”
TWO STUDIES
Study # 1
I wonder if someone could do a study of how many highly qualified and competent candidates for jobs at Maimonides and were not hired, and how many candidates from very weak medical educational backgrounds were hired.
Study # 2
What is the median time between the time a patient gets to the ER and the time he/she is examined and given tests and xrays.
QUESTION
Why isn’t Maimonides declared a disaster zone and taken over by another hospital system as is common for failing hospitals in NY?
I once went on an interview for a job at Maimonides. The interviewers clearly were anti Semitic. They asked me a lot of questions about Shabbos and holiday observance, and made it clear that this bothered them. They did not hire me. I got a clear impression that they have orders from the top not to hire Jewish doctors or nurses or support staff. They want to preserve the culture of the hospital by hiring only people who are badly educated, uncaring, and from the lowest social spectrum. I am not a bigot and I know many wonderful doctors and nurses of all nationalities in the best hospitals. But the Maimonides HR department will not hire anyone who is good quality. They don’t want to ruin the horrid culture of meanness, apathy and ignorance by the staff.
Aside from the cardiac division the nursing care is DEPLORABLE. Cases in point.
My wife was required by doctors instructions to be weighed every day (she was under high dose diuretic). Nurses had to be HOUNDED every day to do it.
Wife was given insulin but then no food for over two hours despite complaining. Wife was going into shock and but for a random nurse walking into the room and realizing what was happening and running to get a sugary drink my wife would have (possibly) died.
On many occasions, nursing care understaffed or uncaring or overworked to treat discomfort or pain.
My wife was UNFORTUNATELY in Maimonides many times. The nurses do NOT nessissarily follow doctors instructions.
In the early days of the pandemic (April 2020), my mother and I were both hospitalized and came close to death. I survived, but she did not. The difference? I was treated in NYU but she was in Maimonides.
Instead of trying to help her get better, they put her on a ventilator after only one day. They did not offer her any treatments whatsoever. No experimental drugs, no ECMO, and nothing that might have helped her. They didn’t even prone her, which is standard for people receiving oxygen and actually helps.
Despite all this lack of care, she was actually getting better, until she got a bacterial infection from the tube. They continued not caring and not treating her infection, until she died.
The night before she died, they allowed me to see her. The room she was in was a tiny little office. When I asked about ECMO and other treatments, they told me that she couldn’t receive them because they were dangerous to her condition. Dangerous… to the woman on her death bed!
The doctors and nurses in Maimonides killed my mother with neglect.
Our Mom was in terrible pain, and there was an order for her to have an xray done immediately. When we were finally in a room at 7 pm, the nurse came in and very sternly told my siblings and myself that we are not to use the bathroom, and a few other none medically related instructions. She was verrrry rude. We left past midnight and hired an aide to stay with Mom. At 6 a.m. I ran back to the hospital to hear the results of the xray, and was told she did not have the xray yet. I was furious. I asked the nurse why she did not make sure the xray was done, and that Mom was in terrible pain still. She was very rude. She did give us the courtesy of replying. I tried speaking to anyone and everyone in that department, all to deaf ears. Her private doctor showed up at 7 and was shocked that the xray was not done…. he ran to the head of radiology and was repeating/ 12 hours and no xray, 12 hours and no xray. ONly after we made a real scene did they finally wheel her to radiology . Everyone on the floor was either rude, or didn’t give a hoot. Why should patients be scared of the staff??? it’s totally unheard of. People with no compassion should sell lumber or hardware. The have no place in a hospital near sick people. The nurse was only concerned that no one should use the bathroom, nary a care for the sick patient.
At around May of 2021 I was visiting my nephew in PICU I was put on the list of eligible visitors but every time I came there the security officer at the entrance (KUKA was his name) would make me hell to go up, he would tell me I wasn’t on the list and would have to speak to the case manager in the office, I would sometimes wait 10-15 minutes for the guy in the suit to put down the phone, he would ask me my name and then tell me you’re on the list, you can go up. this would happen over and over whenever KUKA was doing security.
I once decided to take a look at him and watched him pass thru multiple people with no questions, as soon as there was a frum guy his shenanigans would start, he would yell and degrade our people,
it made my blood boil!!!
I watched him do this on multiple occasions!!!
(He did it to a Asian guy that didn’t speak English so well, as well)
I have no doubt he’s a bitter bigot that was given a job in our community to harras and torture people in the community and nobody has done anything so far, and he’s still out there with a job at MMC
I feel bad complaining about Maimonides, when people on here lost their father/mother in this slaughter house. but i’ll share a story on hopes that something drastic changes with this establishment.
I was here on 8/27 2019 came in for a fractured ankle, ER was Chaotic to say the least, there weren’t enough rooms for patients, barely enough nurses to take care of the people that just came in, I was put in the hallway cramped between the rooms with a broken ankle!
The bed they put me on wasn’t big enough for my feet, And as people were walking in the hallway they kept bumping into my broken ankle, there was literally nobody to speak to, when I Finnaly saw a nurse I told her you have to put me in a room or put me somewhere else because people keep on bumping into me, instead of maneuvering my bed or putting me into a room she started yelling at me telling me to calm down and stop acting like a child, could you imagine the insensitivity of these people working in MMC, cold hearted nurses just there for their paycheck showing zero empathy to their patients, just a horrible experience
I am very grateful for the fantastic experience in MMC. I gave birth to 8 children in Maimonidies hospital, a beautiful experience each time.
My dear mother life was saved in Maimonidies hospital more than once and more than twice, numerous times.
My dear father , had hip surgery in Maimonidies. A highly skilled surgeon operated on my father, and at age 85 he regained his walking abilities.
My dear uncle underwent cardiovascular surgery in MMC. Saved his life.
No hospital is perfect. But I am grateful that a top hospital is available right in our own backyard!!!
I was admitted to the hospital for high fever. The nights were terrible. I was completely ignored. Luckily, I brought my own medicine and thermometer. My temperature was already at 105. I stood at the door of my room in an attempt to get a nurses attention. When a nurse finally approached, she yelled at me that if I would be so sick, I wouldn’t be upright. I was so sick and I eventually transferred to a different hospital.
I was brought in to Maimonides Hospital due to a gallbladder attack as the procedure was they took my information and it was stressed that I am allergic to penicillin. My husband went to daven Shacharis and came back to the hospital seeing me crying, I felt and looked worse than before and I couldn’t breath. I felt like I was dying. Let me mention I still didn’t have my red allergic tag on which was 3 hours later. My husband who is an emt looked at the medication they were giving me and without a second to spare pulled the iv out of my hand. He immediately requested I be transferred to a different hospital, which they refused so my husband signed me out. I ended up going to a hospital in Manhattan were I had emergency surgery for my gallbladder.
After a traumatic delivery in 2018, which included major family drama and my precious first born landing in the NICU, as a social worker myself, one would expect for a comprehensive care team to be sent in to ensure the emotional well-being of a first-time mom who had just given birth despite chaotic circumstances, but Maimonides failed to take action. With 4th degree lacerations and tears around the clock, with only my husband as my support, I managed to walk and/or wheel myself to the elevator and visit my son so that at least my plans to nurse him would not be dashed. There I found that they had been giving him formula, not asking if I agreed to this, rather than allowing me to decide or ensuring that I could be a escorted to nurse him. This trauma is something I cannot forget, and though I have worked through it much in therapy and since gave birth to a second, with a completely different experience, Maimonides failed us and this is something I will not forgive either. Amongst family I have so many additional horror stories including negligence many years back in caring for my great grandmother who ultimately died at the hospital as well as the more recent death of my grandfather who went in for Covid and died just days later. Shame on Maimonides —a local hospital that capitalizes on its convenience and location but does not deliver quality care and support.
I had a heart attack and Hatzala brought me to Maimonides. They stabilized me and tried to put in a Stent. The next dat Dr. H, one of the heads of cardiology and Dr. B, the doctor that did the procedure, came to Tel me that I couldn’t get a Stent since the artery is 100% blocked, they would treat me with medication and I would stabilize. They sent me home. 10 days later hatzala brought me back to the ER with chest pain, Dr. H came to see me again and told me that I would continue to have symptoms and maybe even another heart attack in the near future but but eventually the medications would cure the situation. I called a cardiologist at Columbia University Medical Center that day, sent him my records and the CD of the angiogram, they scheduled me for 2 days later and put in the stent. I never had a symptom since.
Three words will sum it up. What a disgrace. Dad was admitted on May at 11 a.m. the ER was jammed and had three patients per dock. By 7 a.m. the NEXT day he was finally seen by the doctor. Doctor ordered an MRI to rule out osteomyelitis but said he wanted to start with antibiotics because if they wait they will have to amputate. 12 hours later he finally got a room. No buzzer. No sink and the broken television served one purpose… to bang your head on. Food was not appropriate for a diabetic patient. All requests to get this MRI done ASAP were ignored. New patients kept on getting fed through the ER to the MRI suite. We were told there os ONE nachine. They should utilize the out patient lab after hours to attend to their in patients who are still waiting. A mere FIVE days later the MRI was done and inconclusive. This was due to the medication that was needed. A bone biopsy needed to be done. Nurses did not want to come into the room. There were wires and tubing all over the floor.
After testing positive for Covid I went to Maimonidies for monoclonal infusion. I was in the waiting room for over 3 hours, no place to sit, with Covid. When I was called in, it was another half hour wait in a corner with others, stretchers lining the place.(Remember, I’m positive for Covid?) Finally I was taken into a room. Waited another hour, no one shows up. I go out to the main area looking for the nurse who took me to the room, walk to the other end and hear someone calling my name. She has the infusion ready. I tell her I am in a room at the other end. What would have happened if I hadn’t come out just then. She said she would have put the packet back. We walk back to the room; she can’t find an IV pole to hook it on to. There is a hook on the celing. She stands up on a tall chair on tiptoes, and hangs it there. I felt pain in my arm, but there was no one to talk to and I couldn’t move anywhere as I was attached to the ceiling. (I was told afterwards that the pain was due to the force of the infusion coming from so high.)After the infusion was finished, no one came to disconnect me. After waiting awhile, I called the main number to ask them to send someone. Finally a nurse pokes his head in and I quickly say “this is done” before he disappears. He removed the IV and told me I could go. This is against protocal, whre I was told I would have to stay 20-30 minutes afterwards to make sure I was OK. It would be comical if it wasn’t real life.
I am sorry to say that my family had a horrible experience with maimonides hospital.
It’s something we will Never forget since we lost our father 3 months ago. They only let in 1 visitor @ a time and that was only after begging & crying to them & trying to get Askanim involved. They didn’t let us have a welltab either, it was a crazy, heartbreaking time for my father & our family, one we will never forget. I wouldn’t put my worst enemy in that place. I hope they close down very soon or they do a full 160 turnaround.
I’m sorry for this bad review but unfortunately this hit a very raw nerve in me.
Unfortunately , we experienced a traumatic loss in our family in Maimonides hospital . I have many errors to report but before that , I want to know why it’s kept under the covers about the horrible professionalism of the head of ICU?? Why is everyone afraid to talk against him ? Why are all complaints on deaf ears ??
Maimonides psychiatric hospital manipulates and abuses patients by threatening haldol shots and giving haldol shots for no apparent reasons.
If patients refuse haldol shots they are forcibly held down and given haldol shots. They try to get patients to get haldol shots in the bedrooms so it is not on camera.
There are a few nice workers but most of the workers in the psychiatric department are very cruel and moody and take their negative personality out on patients.
For the most part there is a very negative attitude coming from workers in the psychiatric department with a few nice workers who are the exception.
It is bad enough to be in a psychiatric hospital but the beds and furniture there are so cold and stiff and uncomfortable.
It is a very clinically cold environment and there is nowhere on the floors or in the rooms to feel comfortable because the furniture there is very uncomfortable making a bad experience a horror.
My father z’l was taken by Hatzolah to Maimonides with a low oxygen level due to covid. Being that no family members were allowed to be with him we worked hard and finally got a PA that was with my father z’l about 2 hours after he was admitted to Maimonides
When the PA came to the hospital- he found my father on a bed in the hallway of the emergency room. He had on an oxygen mask but the oxygen tank was empty and he was having trouble breathing. He was not on any monitor although there was a broken monitor right next to his bed. So the PA spoke to the attending Dr. there and told him about tank and monitor. That’s when the Dr. arranged for a room and working monitor and oxygen. Being that my father was still in distress- the Dr. arranged for him to be put on high flow nasal cannula which had to be initiated by a respiratory therapist. There was a delay from the therapist so that also took time. Some time after that my father was intubated.
In the PA’s opinion- the fact that my father was put on empty oxygen and not intubated right away might have been a killer. This would have given his lungs (and heart) a break.
My father went in to the hospital talking and up. He died less than 24 hours after being admitted
My dad went into the hospital unable to retain any food. It took them a week to realize it was from a hernia. We kept asking for him to be walked and not left on the bed .
He ended up having a hernia operation was discharged the next day
Never checked if he was able to walk and he wasn’t and still can’t walk one year later
BS”D
Psychiatric patients are manipulated and abused with threats of haldol shots that are given often and for no apparent reasons to dominate patients.
I was 2 days after c-section. There was no one there to help me with anything. I asked for Motrin I only got after asking five times. No one came to see how I was feeling or if I needed anything. I don’t think that there was even a nurse assigned to my bed. When I asked the nurse station for my nurse they sent me to five nurses who all said they don’t do my bed. Was a disastrous place to have a baby!
My grandfather got placed here, after breaking an arm, he’s 91, and when my mother and her siblings would go to visit him, they would give a really hard time, and then, when she would tell them that he wouldn’t cooperate unless they were there, they had them leave the building , and only let them come during visiting hours, despite the fact that they were family, and really needed more hours at his beside. The way they treated a 91 year old man was disgusting, and they out right lied to him, saying his assistant was something that he completely wasn’t. I don’t care how old a person, you treat and respect them like a human being!! Not some old piece of disposable trash!
They should be shut down, and deemed unfit.
My daughter was taken in with Hatzolah straight from an urgent care they suspected ectopic pregnancy .that was in the evening hours She was there for several hours did multiple tests but would not confirm an ectopic they said it looks like it is but that they didn’t have the best sono or whatever imaging they needed to confirm they basically told her to go home and to get in touch with her OB in the morning she then followed instruction and saw her dr asap he did a sono and sent her to STATEN ISLAND hospital the staff was appalled when they heard that my daughter was sent home from Miamonides that night to make a long story short she was rushed into emergency surgery for a RUPTURED tube
Surgery took way longer than expected they had to drain her she had couple of pints of fluid in her uterus from the rupture we are glad she made it that night it was a very close call . Totally irresponsible staff . Not a joke !
I waited in the hallway for 8 hrs before they moved me into a cubicle
Nurses walk by & do nothing some are actually rude
My baby was rushed by Hatzala to Maimonides last summer twice for breathing issues caused by different viruses. My baby spend a few days in the PICU and then on the main floor. The experience was TERRIBLE. Starting with the ER. It was overcrowded and was ran very inefficiently. The nurse who sits at the desk was so rude, and when she tried finding a tiny vain in my newborns body, kept on poking and poking him unsuccessfully, and yelling at the newborn (!!!). She was nasty to us and I finally went to the head doctor and insisted that he do it himself, which he got after one try. We waited for HOURS in the ER. (In contrast to NYU where we went after two very bad experiences at Maimonides- the difference is night and day!!! I knew it was bad in Maimonides, but until my experiences at NYU did I realize HOW bad miaminidies was).
Once we got to the PICU, there was no one to talk to. Most of the nurses were obnoxious and had an attitude towards frum Jews. They were low class nurses, and did not have the baby’s best interest in mind, only what is easier for them. It’s easier to ventilate the baby- why should we try anything else? I was there over shabbos, with a baby who was almost being put on a ventilator and they would not let my husband stay for shabbos, blaming it “on covid”. I was petrified to be there alone, to have to make a scary decision myself, and there was no one to talk to. And it was all done is such an unprofessional and rude way. They had no heart, and it was all about what was easier for them or “protocol”. For example, after a few days of no eating, they refused to let me nurse my baby or feed him a bottle even though he was on a setting that can really tolerate food. After doing some research, I found out that in other hospitals it was allowed as long as the baby was doing good and improving and not regressing. But I’m Maimonides- nope, they don’t look at the child, only the protocol it says in their textbook. The child they are treating is irrelevant- that would take too much thinking on their part and make their job much harder. So nope, who cares how the baby is doing. They were SO difficult. They saw the baby screaming, they saw his numbers were good- they are just so stupid.
In contrast to NYU (where we went to a few times as well and each experience was the same) – the baby is taken into consideration!!!
At one of our many times at NYU, when our baby was on a high setting they lowered it so he can eat because they saw miserable he was. They were professional. The docs and nurses really cared. They treated us with dignity and respect, doted over the child and worked to make him as comfortable as is possible in his situation, LISTENED to what the parents said, and had a goal to get the baby better!!!!
I had such bad experiences in Maimonides. You can’t even compare it to my experiences at NYU- it is different universes. The hospital is a terrible place to be- but the least the hospital can do is make it slightly easier by being respectful, polite, caring and clean.
I hope change can be made.
I had an amazing experience with my grandmother at Maimonides! She was constipated and in tremendous pain. One of the PA’s came to help her and did whatever she could to ease her pain and make her comfortable. We have a lot of hakaras hatov to the incredible doctor’s, PA’s and nurses at Maimonides!
This place is a nightmare!!!
Avoid going here at all cost!
My father had a stroke and was in the ICU. My mother and I were with him. They were so vicious they did not let me sit by my father..only stand!! They said only 1 chair is allowed.. I couldn’t believe how cruel a nurse could be! My father was dying! I got the main nurse involved and she allowed a chair
It was beyond horrendous after standing for most of the day
When my 6 month daughter was admitted for an asthma attack and HMPV to the hospital, she had good care in the ICU. When she got transferred to to the regular ward. Roaches were crawling in the room. We called cleaning and they never came. We were also put into a room with a patient who was coughing. We asked to get switched. They told us no other room were available. Finally, after a few days we were able to go home. As I strapped in my daughter into car seat, I got a call to come because the resident didn’t read the full report. They told us that she was not discharged and we should come back right away. We came back and were by a surgeon who told that we need to operate to correct a stomach issue. But we first we had to redo the test to make sure. They said they would the test in 12 hours. My daughter could not eat any foods. We waited and waited for hours and we were not called for the procedure. We asked for an IV the nurse on staff said he didn’t know how to put an IV so we had to wait for another nurse to come. They cancelled the procedure for another day. We then called radiology to find out why my daughter was not called for the test. Radiology said they only do these procedures twice per week. There is no communication between wards and different specialties. It was very scary. Doctors try to intimidate the patients.
You gotta shut this place down. They killed my father and they killed my mother. My mother was on the 6th floor in a regular room while she should’ve been in icu and monitored. They intubated her for no reason and she died 3 days later.
MMC almost killed my daughter. First child and I’m finally ready to deliver but my doctor is a no show. I feel like baby is about to come and I beg and cry for anyone to come help. I was asking for a resident or student just about anyone to assist me to deliver. All my cries are ignored. I’m told by a nurse to lay in my side and cross my legs and breath through my contractions. I try explaining that baby is literally here but there’s no one to talk to. My doctor arrives, I open my legs and out pops baby… blue. Baby is whisked off to NICU in “respiratory distress”. I shudder to think what would have happened had she shown up a mere few minutes after she did.
I’ve had several births and emergencies in the years following this story. Each time we went to Manhattan because the neighborhood hospital meant to serve us, was out to kill us.
I am a former employee of the hospital and I too had family members waiting in the ER for over 12 to 15 hours waiting to be admitted to rooms. I was told there were no rooms available but i went physically to the floors and saw plenty of empty beds. Their answers was not enough staff to transfer patients or nurses to accept the patients.
The employees are unappreciated and underpaid But all the upper management and senior staffs are getting outrageous salaries. With all the government funding the hospital is getting its all going to construction and not improving health care by hiring more nursing staff. We didnt get salary increases in over 6 years but the big bosses I’m sure did. All the good doctors have left and gone to better hospitals. 6 months ago we were offered voluntary retirement packages and the majority of the people who left were nurses and doctors. Staffing has not been replenished and the patients are the ones who are suffering. And the new staff that is coming in have disgusting attitudes and have no interest in treating patients with respect and lack experience. Very disappointing how a community hospital has so deteriorated over the years.
My husband was admitted to the ER after having collapsed Rosh Hashana night. He is a traumatic brain injured patient that was treated in MMC a few years earlier hence his history was in the system. They did a mandatory CT scan gave him zofran for nausea and sent him home 4 hours after he arrived. Not 10 hours later he experienced full blown seizures at home and was rushed back to MMC. When they drew blood to see what’s going on they saw he had no anti seizure meds in his system although I personally saw him take it. I told them to compare the two blood works and was horrified to learn they DIDNT TAKE BLOOD ON THE FIRST VISIT. HOW CAN YOU TREAT A TBI PATIENT AND NOT DO THE BASIC BLOOD WORK ???? Apparently they forgot to draw blood the first time. That’s pure negligence.
A few years ago, my doctor told me that I had a blocked intestine and needed emergency surgery. He called Hatzalah and they took me to Maimonides. I was in the ER for a few hours very sick. At that point I had not eaten or drank anything for a few days and was deathly ill . FInally they admitted me. A young doctor (probably an intern) who barely spoke English came in to examine me and disappeared while flirting with a nurse. After a few hours, I went to the desk and told the nurse I wanted to discharge myself. I ran away and took a car service to Mt Sinai Hospital in Manhattan at 3 a.m. They gave me a CAT scan and immediately took me to surgery and saved my life. If I had remained in Maimonides I would have died. A few weeks later, I got a bill for $20,000 from Maimonides for staying in a room for three hours . The only thing they did for me was take my temperature. I disputed the bill and they cancelled it. In general, their policy is not to hire Jewish doctors and nurses. They hire third world staff who don’t know English and don’t know medicine and could not care less about the patients.
My wife had a surgery in Maimonides Hospital. They had to make 3 incisions in her stomach.
A. Comes out after getting a better insurance that we couldn’t afford we went to a Top specialist that confirmed that she didn’t even need the surgery and whatever they did was really unnecessary.
B. They allowed a resident student to stitch up the 3 incisions and they guy did an awful job. She has scary looking scars and skin over lapping.
C. After the surgery I went to check on her in the recovery room. I was in total shock to see about 6 nurses just laughing and talking and schmoozing and cracking jokes at super load voices and tones when there is a room full of patients that just came out of surgery trying to rest and gain strength and energy!! I thought it was so disgusting. The vibe should have been one of a library instead it sounded like I walked in to a bar!!
D. I told one of them that my wife needed the bathroom she said let her go. I helped my wife to the bathroom. While my wife was in the bathroom she started passing out. I had to choose to not call for help and hold her up or let her collapse and run get help. SHE WAS IN A RECOVERY ROOM AFTER SURGERY THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO TAKE HER TO THE BATHROOM!!! BUT SHE WAS TO BUSY CRACKING JOKES WITH THE CREW!!
I REALLY HOPE THEY CAN FIX UP THIS PLACE!!
Hatzals took my husband by ambulance on July 3 with high levels of potassium. They suspected a silent heart attack. During triage the nurses were excelkent. Excellent intake. But then it went downhill.
The ER nurses and ER dr immediately started IV and said he’ll need to be admitted. We consented. Once admitted. NOONE assumed responsibility for him. Not a nurse. Not a Dr. Saying a fkoor nurse or Dr will come down. I left at 11 pm. Only to get a call from my husband thst he needs a bathroom. No one is helping him. He peed in bed. He was left in his own feces. No one could walk him to the toilet. The next day no one offers him food yet innthe next room where the psychiatric ER pts were they were served a beautiful hot meal served. And when I needed a towel to wash my husband there were none. A security guard found me a towel. I stepped out for an hour and a nurse disconnected his IV. Without discussing with me. My husband they knew upon admission thst he had a brain disorder. Not one person cared. My husband left the hospital on his own. No one noticed. I’ve never seen such a place. The rule is for nurses and drs. First do know harm. They say thst to protect themselves from legal harm. Disgusting. Inhuman. Criminal. I want to come to the town hall meeting.
My mother was admitted to maimonides ER 5 years ago. she was kept in the ER for almost 2 days before being transferred to the floor. Once on the floor there was no one to talk to about my mothers care. The physician assistants were running the floor. And no one had time to talk to me or address my mothers care. The floors were understaffed. Was terrible. During the height of the covid 19 pandemic (April 2020) both my father and mother in law died in this hospital. We were barely called or had updates about their health or progress. Residents would call with conflicting information. And we were not allowed to be with them right before their deaths. Patients were not managed well and this might have led to their deaths. The hospital was overwhelmed and patients were neglected. There needs to be accountability. My father was alone when he died. Terrible hospital.
I was recently in a car accident with my kids and while being triaged in the pediatric emergency room I was yelled at by a nurse for moving too slowly to help her with my kids. Lady we were just in a car accident of course I was shaken up and in shock so I wasn’t moving very quickly.
BS”D
When I was a psychiatric patient at Maimonides Hospital this year they did major construction on the floor every day that had drilling starting at 6:30am in the morning all day and it was painfully loud and I think that many patients had ear damage. I complained afterwards to the head of the building and he said why do you care you are not there anymore.
They let patients live through major construction and it was heartless. They should not have had patients there during this major construction.
Please keep my identity and email address private.
Would you like to review the explicit pictures and videos detailing the horror show Maimonides Medical Center is? They absolutely murdered my father during the COVID-19 pandemic. He received virtually no care. He wasn’t even allowed in to their ICU. The hospital completely barred us from entry until it was too late. They lied to us every step of the way. They had almost nobody working there the morning my dear father passed away. They didn’t have enough equipment or staff on hand, but kept admitting people anyway. My father died due to lack of care. They are despicable and never apologized. They even had the audacity to charge us over $400 to obtain his medical records. “CEO” Gibbs belongs in jail, but instead he gave himself a $1M bonus/raise. The hospital has renamed the minor league stadium in Coney Island after themselves. When will their blatant chutzpah ever end? They left our family completely broken and decimated by our insurmountable loss. They need to be held fully accountable for their heinous actions and crimes against humanity, especially the elderly.
I was with my wife and she was in a lot of pain and couldn’t fall asleep so I went to the nurse ask for some medication to help my wife fall asleep the nurse went to get something and comes back a while later but in the mean time my wife fell asleep so I told the nurse we don’t need it anymore since she’s sleeping already the nurse answered me since you asked for if she most take it, I told the nurse if so give it to me and I’ll give it to my wife later when she wakes up, the nurse replies no and goes to wake up my wife as much as I tried to explain she is in real pain and finally she is sleeping but nothing helped she just went and woke her up with no feeling’s
My Father was having tremendous stomach pain, we had a suspicion that it might be colitis so we took him to Miamonedeis ER. He was there for more than 16 hours before a Dr saw him while he was in tremendous pain, no nurse would even bother looking at him… We called everyone we thought can help until he was seen and finally got a room and tests we’re being done.
I had my first child there. They left my wife in the recovery room for hours when asking why I am not getting a room that she can rest. Answer was rooms are full and we can only open another floor when there is enough patients.
Was no one to who to talk.
My Father was in the ICU in 2019. The nurses in the ICU where very good. But if you wanted to speak to a doctor, and I have one particular doctor in mind who is well known in the ICU, that was impossible. I understand the doctors are busy, but when your family member is on life support and you can NEVER speak to the doctor, you feel completely lost. We had been to NYU on several occasions, and you were able to speak with a doctor.
My wife gave birth to our first child in Maimonides.
Last time I made that mistake.
Horror show listed out below in order of events.
A) Two nurses, when inserting the IV initially, did such a terrible job that my wife’s blood was splattered in the wall. It was inserted incorrectly so badly, that the IV fluid went into her skin subcutaneously, causing her hand to blow up to twice its normal size.
B) The epidural was administered by a medical student/resident, who completely inserted the needle multiple times incorrectly. Ridiculously unsafe, and a person can be paralyzed from that.
C) My wife was clearly ready to give birth after being in labor for a few hours, but there was no nurse to be found, or her doctor. I had to run to the emergency room to get a nurse to get ahold of the doctor myself.
D) After delivery, the nurse cleaning the baby told us that it looked like she (our baby) had a hernia, throwing us into hysterics. No doctor was available to confirm this. We spent the night worrying like crazy.
E) Since it was the middle of the night, I was thrown out of the room, not allowed to stay with her, while not being able to even put my head down in the lobby.
F) In the morning, the pediatrician confirmed that there was no hernia, and that the nurse from the night before was completely out of line and incorrect.
G) In recovery, that same nurse screamed at us in a thick Russian accent that we are crazy for considering vaccinating her (typical vaccines for infants that the HOSPITAL recommends) and how all vaccines are evil. That same nurse, as well as the majority of nurses in the maternity ward, were horrendously nasty unprofessional, refusing to change the baby’s diaper when my wife couldn’t move. They also called her lazy.
H) In closing, it was an awful experience. In hindsight, I probably should have sued.
Shortly after arriving to my room after delivering my first, the baby had a dirty diaper. Since my legs were still numb from the epidural, I asked the passing nurse for help in changing the baby to which she responded ‘did you change his diaper yet? Well you’ve got to learn how!’
After getting into a bicycle accident where there was obvious contamination I got 16 stitches on my knee. The resident physician forgot to give me antibiotics. After outside professionals saw that this massive wound on my knee was infected, did I have to run on one knee to get prescribed antibiotics ASAP. It was a close call here, thank goodness we made it out ok.
I am not a patient but an EMPLOYEE
We are ALSO MISTREATED.
They dont care about the NURSES or PCT’s
They leave us short to take care of all the patients with 2 to 3 nurses on the floors and no PCT.. maybe 1 if LUCKY
We try our best but with limited staff IT DOESNT HELP and is told not to say we are short.
This is every day every shift ESPECIALLY NIGHTS!!!!!
Our union is not fighting enough for us.
We need staff everyone is quitting because upper management dont know what to do
For example
You have 2 to 3 nurse on the med surg floors and the ones with tele you lucky if there are 4 nurses
the vent floor forget it 3 nurses there to take vents what hospital where nurses have 6-7 vents. NO WHERE
the ICU nurses taking on 3 CRITICAL patients at a time.ALL THE TIME.. NOT SAFE
maternity is horrific you will deliver in the hallway
Nurses taking on every position
And RIVKA SHE DOESNT CARE!!!
Why keep telling us your HIRING
people ARELEAVING SO IT DOESNT HELP
No staff is happy and we are told its WORSE OTHER PLACES
THATS NOT AN EXCUSE!
Upper management needs to change
WHAT THEY NEED TO DO IS INTERVIEW THE STAFF
THEN THEY WILL FIND OUT THE TRUTH
ONLY TIME WE LOOK GOOD IS WHEN THEY STAFF US BEFORE A VISIT
ONLY THEN FOR THAT WEEK WE ARE FULLY STAFF!!!!
Start caring FOR THE STAFF
When I went in labor with my first child, the nurse who came to my room ignored me, and stayed on the computer. I needed help, and she wouldnt come near ne or listen; she just sat on the computer. When the anesthesiologist came, he yelled at me for moving too much, and at her for being on the computer…i felt like a villain from the way they were talking to me. At one point, i had a bad contraction and started crying. The nurse yelled at me to be quiet, because “its not so bad! She also had a kid and she didnt scream”. The dr yelled at the nirse to help put in the IV, and i was too scared to get yelled at to say I had to move cuz i had another contraction. The epidural went in the wrong way, and when i said i felt it somewhere he yelled st me cuz it wasnt supposed to go there; it was because I moved. I wanted to run out of the hospital and give birth at home from the way they were talking to me. I had never been made to feel like the terrible, guilty person they made me out to be….i wanted to die from the pain that they refused to help me with, and from their treatment
Can actually write a book on what my family went through while our 62 year old healthy father was murdered in the hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Hope someone files a class action lawsuit to see what actually happened to those patients and who gave the orders…
We deserve better. Being that it is off us – our gracious insurance premium payments that the hospital can survive , we MUST DEMAND care. We don’t just pay for neglect. This is unheard of a hospital coating their pockets and giving only grief in return. The guards are tattooed anti Semitic hooligans who try to intimidate. The nurses offer NO care and theres zero medical attention. Oh and when it came to COVID I have a whole tale to tell I’d even go on the radio or TV live to tell the saga of horror that when on when my husband was there….OMG a nightmare. He’ll on earth.
While giving birth i noticed i had tons of bags attached to my ib drip. When asked about them I was told that im getting antibiotics because it as strep positive. Despite being negative and despite me telling every staff member that came in my room. I even gave them a copy of my results and they said ooops.
Gibbs,Antonedes and Press need to be terminated immediately. The hospital lost excellent Drs and other staff under their mismanagement. The Board has not been effective. Many staff are aware of how bad the situation has become but have been afraid to speak up du to fear of losing their jobs. The incompetence must no longer be tolerated.
I was sent to get induced due to high bp. Was waiting almost 12 hours but there was no l&d rooms available. By then bp stabilized and sent home. The next day my water broke with meconium. Again no room to get induced. They finally sent me to the pacu unit. The nurse didn’t recognize signs of needing to push and kept telling me that its not safe for me to use the bathroom. I persisted enough that she called the Dr to check me and I was rushed to l&d. In recovery at 2 am My roommate passed out on the toilet and the nurse with her pulled the emergency alarm. When no other staff responded to the alarm the nurse sent me, not even 12 hours since giving birth sent me to run and find staff to help her.
At first I described this hospital as a zoo, but then downgraded it to a circus, as even animals would be given better care and treatment. This hospital should be avoided at all costs. Our community deserves much better.
My wife went in to labor about 7pm we arrived to the hospital after 7, we waited in the waiting room till 4:00 a.m. you can do the math, that is 9 hours of waiting while my wife was rolling in pain we were not the only once waiting crazy hours. This is a third world country hospital That’s all I can say, I hope never to step in to this place again.
I went to have my baby there and the treatment that I received was awful. The nurses were extremely rude and even physically hurt me (a nurse was pushing on my iv and when I told her she just rolled her eyes at me and kept her hands there anyways). They also messed up on my epidural (it wasn’t going to the places it was supposed to, and I was barely conscious) and no one came to help for 4 hours, until we called someone who had close connections to the hospital and they interfered. And after all that when my legs weren’t working, the nurses refused to help me transfer from the stretcher to the bed. I had some serious trauma from that birth that I don’t wish anyone to ever have.
I’m a chairman of international hospital, I used to live in Boropark, now live in an other country. My experience with my family using the hospital, I must say the doctors where let’s say ok , but the service was atrocious, the treatment of nurses and the administration, was the worse you can imagine. I would not recommend it even for an enemy. No wonder the Klausenburg rebbe would not take a quitell from a patient who was in this hospital, I’m also a Covid patient, the stories I heard how many people died in this hospital is outrageous. Thank god I was not in this hospital.
I was taken to MMC ER for a dislocated shoulder in Dec 21. The staff was very helpful. They gave me pain relievers and put me back together again. I was in and out in a few hours.
The hospital from the administrative staff, to the medical staff are like a bunch of uncaring robots.
I had surgery a couple of years ago and during recovery I had both my arms hooked up to IV’s in addition I had a catheter plus another item hooked up to my stomach. I called a nurse to help me with something and she told me to do it myself! I couldn’t move and was so distraught at her lack of response. Total lack of basic nursing care!!
I delivered my first child there in 2011, it was very bad. I felt like I was a prisoner in a jail. I was handled very roughly. The nurses did not respect my privacy – such as shutting door while inserting catheter, an internal exam or while I was pushing. I had to continually ask for the door to my room to be closed during these procedures, and recieved an attitude in return. One nurse came in to take the doctor’s lunch order while I was pushing, when I asked her to leave, she made a face at me. The delivery was extremely traumatic. I was told that thr baby’s heart rate was decelerating and the baby had to come out immediately. I was encouraged to push like the baby’s life depended on it. (Such an urgent situation but the doctor still had time to place his lunch order!).
There was no assistance with the delivery – pereniall massage or anything to ensure no permanent damage occured to me during the delivery. After delivery, I was placed into a tiny room with a roommate with many visitors, and smelly fast food. The nurses were very rough and not caring. They were more interested in threatening my husband to leave than to actually care for me. The bathroom in my room was filthy, bloody from the last patient. When my mother came to visit me, she cleaned the bathroom for me as the nurses refused to. They also did not change my sheets for days, even though they were soiled and bloody. My mother took the sheet from the new bed the nurses had set up after my roommate was discharged.
After discharge, I kept feeling that something was wrong, when I went back to the doctor he told me nothing is wrong. In the months that followed the birth I experienced repeated UTI’s and symptoms of Vaginitis. The doctor continued to dismiss my concerns. I got a second oppinion from a urogynocologist and was told I have a severe uterine and bladder prolapse from the birth and would need surgery to repair both. The doctor theorized that this occured due to the pressured birth – I was told it was an emergency to push the baby out and I did so within 20 minutes. I found out later that I could have opted for other interventions that were not offered to me. I have permanent damage that affects my life to this day. I continue to be incontinent and suffer severe discomfort from the prolapses, even though they have been surgically repaired.
This hospital needs to do better and they need to treat thier patients as people not as inmates. How do these people live with themselves knowing they casually hurt the most vulnerable people?
Triage staff are lazy, rude and incompetent.
They would rather sit around making small talk, and waste time, while leaving an entire EMS crew waiting around doing nothing wasting taxpayer dollars, and delay patient care.
This hospital is a disgrace and needs some serious intervention.
My wife was admitted to the hospital it was Friday erev shabbas i asked them to please make the process fast so we can get everything we need for shabbas and they did not! They made sure it should be the zman and then hive her a room!
In the room the waiting time for the nurse to come after ringing the bell was aprox 1 hr , thats ridiculous since no visitors are allowed for 24 hrs how can a patient take care of themselves on there own?! Thank god i sneaked in to the hospital on Friday night my tav told me to keep my phone with me so i can do whatever is needed to help my wife!
There was no communication whatsoever from the Dr’s to us whenever we uad questions the most we got is the floor dr that had no clue about the case!
I was never allowed to be in the hospital when the dr’s came!
#1 Get rid of the CEO, Ken Gibs, who cares about his pocket and doesn’t give a damn about patient care.
#2 Who are the board members? I’ve heard that it’s secret. What is the hospital hiding?
#3 Why is Hatzolah still giving them 50 patients a day? Cut off their supply line. Enough is enough.
By wife was brought in to the ER after she collapsed from dehydration during pregnancy. It was as simple as giving her fluids and a check up. It took “4 hours” for her to get a bag of fluids!
The only the Hospital did swiftly was demand insurance information and copay.
Next my wife who was suffering from extreme pain and couldn’t walk, was demanded to change into the hospital robe without prior given a bed. So, she had to muster the strength to walk to the bathroom and change in there. Nothing was done for exactly 4 hours. She suffered for 4 hours in pain without getting pain medicine. She was given medicine without being recorded on the chart. Physician prescribed another dose of morphine but we protested that she got it twice already until the physician was convinced. Briefly, after a whole night, we were told it was a kidney stone, instructed to see a specialist without any prescription for the mean time. The managed to rack up a bill of $6000 for diagnostic tests. I felt that if someone were to God Forbid drop dead in the E.R., the staff wouldn’t care one bit and just blame it on the sick person.
They really messed up my son a few years ago that he had to have an emergency surgery from 1:00 am till 6:00 am. And one time the Dr. Put on him am adult bipep machine and he geg on it when I asked the Dr. Why he did it with out my concent he told me that he does not care about me what I asked him I can go on more story about this hospital
I delivered the with my first was a disaster. First the nurses consistently forget to test my urine and after 2 days they finally admitted me cause was severely dehydrated so labor couldn’t progress. Then i asked a nurse for help after and she was at the computer playing solitaire and yelled at me for disrupting her! As if solitaire is more important than my needs! I dont want to put down the other amazong nurses who treated me with compassion but plenty of neglect.
Dont know why i went back by kid 2 and didn’t like my nurse she was mean and nasty. When asked for another nurse she said there was none. And she the head nurse so can’t help me as needed cause too busy!!!!!!! She consistently ignore the call button and when hubby went to get someone no one was ariund by nurses station.
When ready to deliver she refused to call my dr. She joked that my dr went to have her own baby and cant help me. It was 630 so she was just afraid she might have to stay an exfra few minutes over her shift. Dr came around at 650 to say she leaving and different dr coming in and was shocked that she wasnt called the baby head was out already and she caught the baby just in time. Was very traumatic for me
I have spent more time in Maimonides Emergency Room and hospital with elderly parents than I care to remember. To say patients are CARED for in that Hospital is a misnomer. They just DONT CARE!
The wait in the ER to get attention of any sort is endless. On at least one occasion, if I hadn’t been with my mom to advocate for her she could have died right there for just plain neglect to administer a simple intervention. It’s not safe to leave a patient alone at Maimonides.
Many of the nurses and staff are downright nasty. Many have attitudes. Many display thinly veiled anti semitisim. This in a hospital that should be catering to the community it’s located in.
Lucky for me, I have close relatives with”pull” in the hospital who would help me navigate the system. Without some awesome community liaisons, chaplains , and yes quite a few amazing nurses and support staff, no one would put themselves through the horror of a stay at Maimonides.
We need to talk. We need to hear each other out. We need to find better ideas for communicating to the staff the unique needs and mindset of the orthodox community. We need to change the culture amongst the staff to a more friendly warm helpful and more professional one similar to what you’d find in an out of town hospital or at a Manhattan medical center.
It’s really just a matter of attitude. An attitude that shouldn’t be foreign to individuals who have chosen to go into such a noble profession
Let’s make this work !
My personal list of horror stories is endless I don’t even know where to start.
I came in to the Emergency room for a infection on my inner thigh.
All I needed was a abscess drainage and some antibiotics. The Nurses were treated me worse then a animal. It took them 2 DAYS!!!! to finally help me.
I didn’t get food, no help, my wife had to come and fight to get me help.
It is the worst hospital in America. Disgusting! I remember getting up with my swollen leg, taking a elevator with Ivy to the Bikor Cholim room to get a morsel of food.
They had 100’s of beds all over the place, the place smelled like urine and feces.
The owners there are horrible human beings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Their new building on 9th ave and 48th has beautiful and spacious waiting rooms. First I spent a half-hour signing in with their new high-tech systems. I then needed to use the restroom and asked the receptionist if I would be called in less than 5 minutes because I didn’t want to miss my appointment, but she actually laughed at that. 2 hours later I understood why she was laughing. And I didn’t get to see the doctor until I reminded them that I was there (oh they didn’t call you yet?).
I was then offered the lowest cost and most painful treatment possible (open hernia surgery vs laparoscopic- which in my case had the same success rate in the hands of an experienced surgeon, but less pain and shorter recovery). I later switched to a different hospital/surgeon who took the same Medicaid plan, but the difference in efficiency, quality of care, and overall experience were like night and day compared to Maimonides.
Maimonides needs to stop advertising about how good they are (usually by promoting 1 good statistic out of 99 terrible ones) and ‘advancing’, and then maybe they can actually take care of a few patients.
After I had my second child I was left in my room for hours without anyone checking on me. I couldn’t get up because I was nursing and my call button wasn’t plugged in. The nurses before I gave birth were really sweet but the ones after had such bad attitudes as if anything anyone asked for was a burden on them. When I had my first child, he was taken to the nicu because I had a fever before I gave birth. The lactation consultant was supposed to come to my room and talk to me. I waited all morning despite wanting to go see my son. When she finally showed up she made me feel horrible about the fact that my son wasn’t with me and about my body. And then of course they billed me for that session. I will never willingly go back to that hospital. I’ve decided to switch doctors because I don’t want to give birth again there. Though I should mention, I was very happy with my actual doctor.
I was made to wait over 9 hours in a chair while in labor for them to tell me i can go home at 3 in the morning there was a full waiting room and since i looked “the least in labor” everyone was put ahead of me. i delivered via C-section at 1 in the morning after a long and difficult labor and i did not see my husband or my baby (saw the baby for 1 second did not get to hold him feed him nothing) until the next day .I was put in a room with no window even though the bed near the window kept on changing to different patients but no one can be bothered changing me my room was not cleaned even once!
This is a portion of the email I wrote after my son was born at MMC;
Forget about everything else that was done wrong, at what point do you start taking patients safety seriously? Why will only a threat at publicity and lawsuits draw a response from the Hospital? The hospital is so busy promoting Guidelines and Procedures – and then randomly choose when to honor them? Is it not a hospital mission to care for the patients that trusted them with healing them?? Does Corporate Compliance need to print pretty signs and hang them up all over the hospital stating the obvious? How about this; “Nurses, please attend to the patients in your care and leave sleeping for some time when you’re not on duty.”?
As I stated this morning the MMC doesn’t need a QI meeting, someone (or some people) need to be sent back to the drawing board. I’m utterly disgusted and wholeheartedly regret making the decision to have my wife give birth at MMC. I pay a fortune for my healthcare and my wife and newborn son are being treated to inhumane and sub-par care. I have no intention of letting this slide!
Just to recap our conversation this morning let me state some indisputable facts. (which can be verified on the hospital charts)
My wife has stated that she would like to exclusively breastfeed. Something that the hospital and all health professional encourage. Yet although the baby was taken to the nursery at approximately 12 am this morning (10/4/18) he wasn’t brought back up to my wife until 7:32 AM (exactly)
When my wife woke up at 5 AM and required assistance she pressed the call bell and got no response. She then called again and got no response. And then again. And again. Finally after 20 minutes out of sheer desperation she got out of bed and walked to the nurses station to personally request assistance. What she found at the nurses station was a lone nurse, Natasha Evanson so tight asleep that my wife had to shake her awake!!!!!!!! I can’t think of the proper terms to express my outrage when I became aware of this.
From when that nurse (the only one on duty) was awoken my wife requested that the baby be brought to her from the nursery. It took more that two hours until the baby was brought to her soiled and full of spit among other things!!!!!!!
When my wife asked the nurse (from the nursery) why the baby wasn’t washed off since being born she responded that “ don’t wash the baby until 12 hours after birth.” My wife said, “Well it has already been 18 hours.” The nurse said, “Oh! You’re right, I’m sorry but I’m the only one on duty in the nursery and I just couldn’t get around to it.
Need I say more? I know that generally the nursing par levels are lower during the night as patients tend to try to gain some much needed rest. But do I need to remind you that newborns don’t quite have their schedule figured out the day they’re born??? What good reason can you give me for not having adequate staffing levels? Do you want me to recommend some nursing agencies that you can call when you’re in a staffing crunch? If the Hospitals idea of cutting corners to generate a profit endangers everyone from patient to staff then you’ve failed miserably as an institution! And guess what, those kind of cost-saving measures will actually be the last nail in your failing institutions coffin as more people become aware of this and decide to take their business elsewhere. We don’t live in a vacuum. Remember, your actions speak louder than your words. And louder then pretty signs, and policies & procedures for that matter.
I demand that my concerns be addressed in the most expedient fashion and the results being shared with me and my wife. Ignoring me won’t make me go away and if this can’t be resolved amicably I’ll take things to the next level.
My mother was taken to the ER with severe debilitating back pain. I STOOD next to her for 48 hours, during which time she was not treated once. I couldn’t leave her as there was noone to care for her at all, such as give her a drink or a bed pan.
After 48 hours, her back somehow loosened up enough for me to get her out of the bed and for us to go home.
As we were on our way out, the nurse comes RUNNING to get her a pain relief patch and some pain killers. At which point, we said “have a nice day but we good” and left.
Sadly, we were one of many many cases in the same boat in that ER.
Never again!
An attending doctor and a male nurse had a FISTFIGHT standing over my fathers bed.The nurse felt disrespected and cursed and threatened to kill the doctor. A horrible experience with noone to complain to.My father died about an hour later while a resident was poking him for blood.
My 6 week old baby was admitted for dehydration due to chicken pox, she was in the icu for 3 days and not a single doctor came to check up on her, she ended up with a hospital acquired mrsa infection in a bone, maimonides wanted to operate on the spot, thankfully my doctor encouraged us to transfer her to schneiders… they were shocked at how intoxicated her entire body was and horrified that they wanted to operate under such condition….the bathroom in the room we were put into was worse than a subway station with blood and urine all over…. this was a private room in a pediatric unit….we complained but no one was interested…. she ended up needing vancomycin for 6 weeks thru a broviac catheter after surgery….
I don’t even know where to start. Have so many horror stories dating back as far as 30 years ago. I’ll start with this year. My mother with dementia was in the er for almost a whole day before she was admitted. I was randomly asked to leave for no good reason. Hardly anyone paid attention to her despite a serious fall. We had conflicting info about if she was allowed to eat or not. When she was shivering I went to get blankets for her (of course no one around to help so self-serve) I hot yelled at for taking 2 paper thin rag like blankets. Her test was supposed to be within 2 hours was like 14 hours later. The whole experience was like a nightmare with no caring and no attention. I’ve always said this: the culture of the hospital is horrible. You are paying thousands of dollars for the staff “to do you a favor” of treating you. I have been to many Manhattan hospitals never as bad as here. I myself would never go here if I had a choice. I have many more stories through the years maybe will come back to report
I had brought a friend there for treatment that was having trouble breathing. They diagnosed him with COVID, then left him in the Covid room at the ER , without food, for over a full day.
My wife gave birth and was put in the basement because the maternity ward had no room. Treatment was abysmal. Inexcusable.
My SIL was entered with severe bleeding 2 weeks after giving birth.
while my brother was by her bedside, a nurse\PA came and wanted to administer some dose, when my brother asked what it is he said the Dr said to give it, my brother was unhappy as it was a Med to thinner the blood, he went and approached the Dr, the Dr said if the dose would have been administered she would’ve died after few hours.
Sick
What took so long for people to finally get together and take action? The hospital is a disgrace. Treating patients like rag dolls. They pull the plug in a second. Shut this place down and put normal leadership in charge.
I was taken by Hatzolah to MMC because I was having severe chest pains. I spent 2 long days in the emergency room hooked up to machinery. My husband kept checking every hour with the patient advocate and other staff members to call a cardiologist. It took many hours before anyone even checked on me. I don’t think anyone was monitoring any of the machines. Once in a while, someone who peek into my cubicle, ask for my name, and then walk away. When a cardiologist finally stopped by in the evening, he recommended taking a stress test. I was told it would take place early the next morning and that I should stay overnight for observation. In the afternoon, they finally came to take me up for testing. They had neglected to mention that I was supposed to be fasting before the test, so they told me I would have to wait for the next day to take the test. At that point, I was not going to spend any more time waiting, so I checked myself out. This type of treatment is unacceptable. There’s no one to talk to, and the care is deplorable.