These people treat you better than family! Everyone was respectful, caring, efficient. Even Carmen in housekeeping. Wonderful place to get well. Thank you so much. Still no migraine 3S but an inner ear infection got added on after I was released. From the ER to the 3rd floor you guys are the best!

I spent seven months in Blake Medical Center and now this has become my hospital of choice. The staff is excellent, professional, kind, friendly, and thorough. They made me feel as if I was among family which made my rough stay much easier to handle.Leaving there was bittersweet and left me teary-eyed.It was like leaving family. I have been in three other hospitals in the area: Doctors Hospital, Manatee Memorial, and Lakewood Ranch. Nothing compares to the care and kindness I received an Blake Medical Center. I highly recommend this hospital.

This is the worst hospital to ever go to. My father had passed out and was taken there. He had an enlarged spleen and they thought that the reason why it was so enlarged had to do with his liver. They incorrectly diagnosed him with cirrhosis of the liver, which was completely wrong. My father got weaker by the minute. They were feeding him aspirins and doing nothing to correct the issue or to check to see of it was something other than his liver. It was not until we removed him and put him into an entirely different hospital that we found out he didn't have cirrhosis of the liver at all. He has Lymphoma, which luckily had not spread. He underwent chemo and the spleen reduced. He is taking his final treatment next month. Had he stayed at Blake he would have died. DO NOT GO THERE!

Just wanted to publicly say how disappointed I am and how uncomfortable I am to even step foot in there at all now to see my grandmother with a couple of the RN nurses on staff where I was for the past couple days in the ICU with my grandmother for serious health problems. Being in there to be with my grandmother for support and want it to be known that everyone in there taking care of her were and have been amazing till a couple nurses deserve to be known that if you are in this kind of industry that they should understand what people are going through and should all be there to help others and understand it’s not all about how they feel when it comes to a procedure they should have done a billion times because they are there for helping others. 2 ladies there one named Wendy the charge nurse decided to pull me out of the room while my poor grandmother was being a pin cushion because they couldn’t find a vein and stuck her at least 8 times with 2 other nurses there as well before calling in a IV specialist and blowing out a few of her veins first saying and discriminating against me asking me to step out of the room mind you my mother and sister are in the room as well for the other nurse named Liz who caused all this saying I was making her nervous for me just standing there and holding my grandmother’s other hand while she was in pain and saying she will be ok and it would be almost done because my grandmother cannot hear at all and basically just reads lips since clearly the girl kept sticking her with a needle over and over to try and get a vein and get blood which she never did and blew out her vein but my mother and sister were not asked to leave. If someone is nervous plain in simple for people watching her do an IV then clearly some more training should be involved. Thank you Liz and Wendy for making a very rough time even more unpleasant and uncomfortable experience to even step foot in Blake hospital again especially when it will probably be a series of continued visits. I would say next time for them to learn what honestly is really important in a hospital and not about discrimination and insecurity.

staff was nice for the most part, but the quality of service wasn't even to be rated. There were multiple times even up until my Husband was discharged that we would ask for something and 30 minutes later we were still waiting and it wasn't like they were busy, staff was standing around talking and laughing. I understand that the discharge process is a little timely, I also work in the medical field but 5 hours is a little much. Staff, accuracy, compassion and the quality of patients care could improve.