Belfast Hospital has never been anything more than a bandaid station and continues to offer sub par service. My father had a stroke in '09 and untortunately had to visit the ER on a number of occasions over the course of a few years after that. After a couple visits in the course of a weekend, a nurse had the gall to tell my mom that they couldn't keep seeing him in the ER and he should be in a nursing home if mom couldn't take care of him at their home. Mom was visibly upset about the possibility of putting her husband in a facility after working so hard to keep him in their home, and a supervisor had to formally apologize to us and discipline the nursing staff. Many times over the years since, we have had problems with the staff there, mainly the ER and administration and billing offices. The problems they have had with patients receiving incorrect medication while being inpatients is yet another concern, (I believe there was even some deaths) and they refused to listen when told they were giving my dad the wrong dosage of insulin until his PCP came in and set them straight. My dad ended up staying for a few days after an infection and they assured us that he was being taken for walks a few times each day to strengthen his legs and keep him mobile. We found out that was a bold-faced lie and when he came home, he was then a bed patient who never walked again until his death in 2015. Since then my mom has vowed to only go there for testing and non-invasive procedures, and has arrangements with her PCP that if she needs to go anywhere it will be Bangor. Over the past few days she has been having stomach pains and called the hospital for a callback from the Dr on call who was covering for her PCP. Once again they proved their lack of caring and attention to patient care, and no one ever called back. She is going to call her PCP on Monday and once again complain about the quality of service at Waldo County. I STRONGLY urge everyone to carefully pay attention to this facility and whenever possible, go somewhere else.
UPDATE: turned out she had an obstructed bowel and almost died. Three hospital stays (in Bangor), two surgical procedures and a very long and tough winter recovery later, she is slowly making a comeback. No thanks to Waldo County General.
