Community Memorial Hospital San Buenaventura

Prior to admitting, my Dr called over . Before I even got to the hospital I had a room number. Went to admitting, they said go on up to the nurses station, so I followed the signs. I think it was room 6130. Checked in with the nurses, a tech showed me to the room, gave me my gown and socks,,,,, everything flowed smoothly. Now typically, you can tell the difference between excellent nurses and an average nurse. The ones on the 6th floor, very surprising, there was really no difference. They were all EXCELLENT!!!

My five year old son was just discharged after getting stitches in his chin and I was sitting outside breastfeeding my six month old after a long afternoon in the hospital while my three other children had a snack before we got in the car. A man approached wearing a Community Memorial Hospital name tag and black uniform and told me to leave and that my children were not allowed to sit and eat outside on the hospital’s private property. I’m guessing this man’s job was to keep homeless from camping on hospital property. Instead he kicked a breastfeeding mom and her four children under six years old (one with stitches in his face!) off hospital grounds.

Before we went there we called and asked if they had an orthopedic surgeon on call and an MRI available on site. They said of course and so we headed there. I was carried into the ER due to a knee injury. Was looked within 30 minutes by a nurse and then had X-rays done on the knee. An hour later a Physicians assistant came in and said nothing was broken so follow up in the next 3 days with your primary care and have a nice day. I never even saw a Physician! I was then wheeled out and lifted into our vehicle to go away. I knew something was seriously wrong so had my wife take me to another hospital. Turns out after the proper testing I had torn off a piece of Meniscus that lodged in my joint not allowing my knee to straighten . The Meniscus that was left was torn in half. I was in Surgery a few hours later! Stay away!

I had an amazing experience in labor and delivery the nurses were amazing and very comforting the delivery room was very spacious and clean. Love the new hospital and all the staff! Thank you for a great experience.

Spent almost a week there had some of the greatest staff but there were some people who should not be there at all Dr Torres should not be a dr he tried to withhold treatment stating medical doesn't pay for that when if he looked at the paperwork instead of the patient would have realized full insurance was covered by a nice private plan then tried to say that she was past due when the tech said she wasn't even in the last month according to the tech but after being told to get the test results before making accusations came back and lied once more to our faces gladly that was the last I had to see him after kicking him out and requesting a better dr. When management was alerted it was said this is just how he is. Then comes the security guard who bullies people yells at them and makes accusations and when proven wrong makes more unprofessional comments in a room full of people to put down rather than accept responsibility and again when brought to attention of management they told me other worse stories and again said this is how they are. I'm sorry for the rest of the staff that was amazing however supported those who were not only unprofessional but prejudicial towards their clients I won't be back and I dont recommend anyone use their services we either do good together or we fail together by accepting the unacceptable