My husband has heart failure with a history of strokes and blood clots. On January 10 after an Ablation, the nurses, (Holly) and a younger nurse, would not admit him even though he was coughing up blood and couldn't walk. They were both in such a hurry to get us out of the hospital that Holly wasn't getting him dressed properly, with his underwear not pulled up so she couldn't pull up his pants. She kept telling him "it will be nice to be in your own warm bed" and the coughing up blood was "normal" for a man with a history of blood clots and strokes. When he was dressed, the young nurse told me "now you can take him to the car" and I asked her "how, when I have to get the car and have to get the car and bring it to the front?" and she said "oh yea" then she said "well then hurry  up and get your car". This was the evening of January 10 and on the morning of January 12, we called 911 because of him coughing up blood, the fear of a blood clot in his bruised leg where the Ablation took place, and he still couldn't walk. At the ER, we found he had Pneumonia and put on oxygen with antibiotics, etc. he was hospitalized for 2 weeks and in rehab for over 1 week. If he had been admitted the night of the 10th, the Pneumonia would have been found and perhaps he and I would not have gone through the many nights and days of being worried and upset. Now we have to pay the bills for the mistake made hastily by Holly and the young Nurse.
SHER IVR