Tawas St Joseph Hospital

I was scared to bring my son here due to the awful reviews. We were in yesterday (Memorial Day) I was expecting it to be a hot mess. We were in and out in just about an hour. That included registration, our very short 10 minutes in the waiting room, vitals, nurse and doctor visit, getting a prescription & discharge papers. The girl who registered us was very upbeat and kind, usually you will find someone who acts like they hate their life. The nurse was also very kind and really helped me feel better about our situation. While I only saw the doctor for a very short 2 minutes, he listened to what I had to say and quickly gave us a solution. Everything was very clean. I hope we won’t need the emergency room again anytime soon but if we do we will definitely be back here vs going somewhere else.

I came to this hospital because I woke up in the middle of the night gasping for air and I’ve had a hard time breathing the past 3 days, I got admitted, they took my temperature and had me take a few deep breaths and said I was fine, I was in and out in less than 20 minutes, I’m not a doctor but if someone’s gasping for air, there’s probably something wrong. Not to mention the Nurse was rude. Very disappointed that I drove 45 minutes to get to this hospital to turn around and go home.

Went to this hospital for my first ultrasound as I am pregnant, I had the most miserable unprofessional ultrasound tech that day. She was mean to my family and snippy in what she said to them. She would not even let me look at the screen. I figured we might get to see everything at the end but she just left the room as I asked "Do we get to have any pictures?" She just snapped "Maybe once you're further along" very rudely and left the room. I was so upset when we got out of there . So I then called the Tawas women's center because I wanted something, answers so be it . They asked me to come in imediately, Dr. Landry came in and said "so they couldn't detect a heartbeat, you'll want to have a follow up ultrasound, have a nice day" and through us to the front desk. No more information was given to us, we hardly had time to process anything before he was getting us out of the room. His approach was just not professional. I know in the future I will never deal with Tawas Ascension for any of my needs.

On Sunday March 3rd my 55 year old daughter was brought to your facility with increased weakness, lrthergy, not eating or drinking much over 3 dsys. Your ER DID A URINE ,NO BLOOD WORK. GAVE HER a injection of Rocephin and sent her home with a oral antibiotic. By morning she was worse. (I am RN of 40 + years.I live 3 hours away )I told my son in law to take her back she sounded as if she was septic ) they did , she was in serious condition, blood work all of it was critical, they tranfered her to St Marys, Saginaw . Placed on ICU. , strong antibiotics, dialysis, nephofosty tube placement, trackacardia, she should have been assessed better the first time, 24 hours would have made some different. Please evaluate your ER staff, they need to start over in medical school. Except the lady who took one look at her and got her down to ST Mary's. The mother of a very sick daughter.

Went there to get an xray of my arm and took verbal abuse from the doctor. I didn't get the xray. Worst treatment I have ever received in my life and I'm a disabled senior citizen. I wouldn't ever step foot in that hospital again if my life depended on it.