Waccamaw Community Hospital

I have been here several times. I’m a local. It’s absolutely a sh!t hole. Never have I been treated so badly in my life. I did have one good surgery experience. Not sure why these people here have no common decency. After my most recent experience with my son, I will never come back unless I am unconscious and a ambulance brings me! The ER Doctor I had was a pompous tool. Told me 1% chance we had a real emergency and oh guess what we were the 1% that required emergency surgery. Thanks DH! Luckily he didn’t perform it. He made sure to make me feel bad for having to wake someone up during their sleep at 2 am to do an ultrasound. Don’t like it? Get a different job! Anyway, Anyone looking for an ER I recommend the South Strand ER. It’s not pretty like Waccamaw but had great experiences there.

While the staff was kind and while we had anticipated a long wait being that it’s the emergency room, I did not anticipate the lack of training from the doctors. Why do I say this? My 10yr old daughter fell onto her shoulder while rolling down a sand dune and felt something pop, so I took her to Tidelands ER. They did 3 X-rays: 1 of her shoulder, 1 of her collarbone, and 1 of her other shoulder for comparison. The doctor determined that she had an AC separation (gap between collarbone and shoulder bones) and he said that he also sent the images to a radiologist at home for their review and opinion and that they agreed on it being an AC separation. One week later we are at home and she has a bump growing in the middle of her collarbone, so I made an appointment with a orthopedic doctor who did the same xrays and she said (and showed me) that my daughter CLEARLY has a broken collarbone. Not a fractured collarbone, but a snapped in half collarbone!!! How did two doctors at Tidelands miss this?! What can be done so this doesn’t happen again? I’m so upset that my daughter went over a week with the wrong diagnosis and has been walk around with a broken collarbone without knowing. If she fell again her bone could have come through her skin. I feel terrible for trusting those doctors. Please question anything they tell you here because it’s just too dangerous not to. On top of all that, I have to pay for this service that was wrong in so many ways.

I brought my son in to ER and we were treated very kindly. The staff were attentive to his need's as well as our's. Thank you for the easiest ER trip in a stressful situation.

My mother was taken here by ambulance. She has memory issues and I wasn't able to get there because I live 35 minutes away. When I arrived they had her on a stretcher in a room no bigger than my closet. It was filthy. Their excuse was due to construction. More like due to the fact that she won't remember and I might not find out. We pay all this $$$ for medical care and the best they can offer is a pitiful, dirty back room beside the staff break room.

Had to make an unexpected trip to the Emergency Department with my father while on vacation. Every staff member we encounter was kind, caring, and treated us with repect. They patched my father up and we were on our way. I hope we never need them again while visiting...however, it is nice to know that they are there for us if we do. Keep up the good work to the team working the night shift on Saturday, May 18, 2019! You all earned 5 stars with us. Thank you for making a not so good situation a little better for me and my dad.