Schuylkill Medical Center – East Norwegian Street

I dropped my nephew and his gf off at 10:00 PM because he hurt his arm and she had a pain in her side. I got a call at 3:30 am and he still wasn't seen but his gf was seen and the difference between them is she has insurance and he doesn't. I called him at 5:00 am and he still wasn't seen. They were taking everyone that came in after him back but they were not taking him back. I finally got tired of it and I call the ER, they told me that ambulances were coming in back to back all night long and that they did not have a room for him (but the had a room for his gf that had insurance) then at 5:37 they finally took him back to check his hurt arm. I told them that I was going to contact a lawyer. They were VERY RUDE. If I was anybody, I would not go to any of the pottsville hospital. If you need to go to a hospital than I would go to Geisinger hospital.

Rude employees, doctors, and nurses. Doctors, nurses, PAs, and all other medical staff are unprofessional and seem to know nothing about medical issues and solutions for them. The medical staff will openly talk openly to one another in plain earshot of other staff and patients about patients medical concerns and their personal opinions about them. Saying such things as "pft, they're just here for drugs", "I've been in worse pain, what a b****", "can you believe mr. smith has x, y, and z wrong with them oh man" etc.

A few days ago my father drove himself to the emergency room at 1 in the morning for abdominal pains. He was a nurse himself, so he brought along all the pills that he took so they would know what pain meds they could give him. They kept saying they didn't know which pills he was on when they clearly had them all in a bag with him. When he arrived at the ER, he told them he this he perferrated something in his stomach due to the steroids he was taking for cluster headaches. They ran a bunch of test, and found nothing. Once he was admitted into the hospital, there was minimal check up from nurses, we were lucky if a nurse came in once every 3 hours. He was complaining that the pain was a 10 even after giving him morphine. Ours later they finally gave him some drugs that calmed him down and slowed the pain a little bit. My mom and I left and she came back a few hours later and his portable urinal was laying on floor with urine all over. No nurse came to help, my mother had to be the one to clean it up. He also had vomit on his bed sheets, and no one came to change them, my mom had to do that too. Two days later they finally tell him he perffereated something and he needs surgery, when he knew that all along and he told them that's what he thought was wrong. Terrible experience never going here again.

My son is in the kids Ward. He is treated like an animal and injected with way too many drugs by the staff. They refuse him phone time with his family. The nurses are terrible and never have answers for me. He has been in there 22 days and not stable. I am finally asking to transfer him. Do not go to this hospital

Horrible hospital. Staff extremely unprofessional and rude.