complaint for grace hospital

my 85 year old mother was recently discharged from Grace at 2;45 in the morning and told to go home...no phone call to family as requested after we were told that she would be in overnight for more tests..very scary and confusing for her..anyone else have similar experiance?? they need to change procedures!

Welcome to the world of the health care system. Years ago, they would keep a person overnight if they weren't able to discharge them by 10 p.m. Now they no longer care. People are just shoved out the door into the minus 40 something weather like a piece of trash. Especially the very young and the very old and the poor, i.e., those who are most vulnerable and least able to speak for themselves. Why don't you call the local newspapers and TV and radio stations. I am sure they would love to hear your story and share it with others. We all need to advocate for these vulnerable people and put a stop to this kind of disgraceful treatment. Hey, what happened to Doer's election promises of treating people better in hospitals? And while you are at it, call the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba and lodge a formal complaint against the doctor who discharged this patient so unsafely. He doesn't deserve to have a licence to practice medicine.

Hello My name is Stacey Ashley, I'm a reporter for CTV News in Winnipeg. I'm working on a story about hospital patients and discharges. I'd like to talk to "random" or anyone else who was a similar story. Please email me at sashley@ctv.ca with your contact info.
Thanks,
Stacey

I nearly died at the Grace Hospital in WInnipeg, Manitoba from neglect, ieptitude, and general laziness and non-concern.
Fortunately, there are various invstigations ongoing about the issue of abuse, neglect, and ineptitude and poor management that has become increasingly alarming.

Stacey all you are going to get is a lot of BS from this site. Anyone can say anything without accountability.

I wasn't surprised when I read about a families fight with Grace Hospital to keep their father alive. They are too quick to 'pull the plug'. It nearly happened to me! I nearly died in ICU at Grace Hospital after I had been ignored for three days on the 3rd floor there after I was admitted for severe pneumonia - the nurses totally ignored me when I said I could not breath. I had pneumonia with complications. They refused to turn up my oxygen and stopped completely coming when I rang the emergency bell. By the way, I am only 51 yrs of age.

They had even recommended I be put on palliative care and left to die! Fortunately, a doctor happened to visit the man next to me one day and when he heard me struggling to breath the doctor had me sent to ICU immediately! I nearly died (A nurse told me) shortly after arriving in ICU. I was very fortunate – thank God. Fortunately the doctors gave me medicine when I was sent to HSC to see a specialist --and I've recovered nicely!

I have purchased a med-bracelet – guess what’s on it? If I am ever incapacitated DO NOT SEND ME TO GRACE HOSPITAL! It’s been two years now since that terrifying experience and I’m just glad to be alive

…I learned from a hospital employee of a different hospital where I was taken (Fortunately) that the ‘employees at the Grace had ‘recommended’ I be put on palliative’ care and left to die with no medical assistance in the form of drugs that could save my life. I am extremely fortunate to have been transferred from The Grace Hospital before I succumbed. I am stable now 2 yrs later and living quite well and healthy!

But I wonder how many have died needlessly in Grace Hospital in Winnipeg Manitoba?

We are mortal creatures. We are meant to die at some point. Quit slandering the poor Grace Hospital.

Actually if you want to diss a hospital, go for the Victoria. They treated my mother in a most inhumane, incompetent, and nasty manner after she had a heart attack and had the misfortune to be a patient there. The nurses are a mean, nasty, and barely competent. They hire lab techs that are clueless and cause harm to patients. And they hate anyone over 50. One nurse told me they should let everybody over 50 die because they had already "lived their live, are a waste of skin, and we shouldn't be spending any more money on them." She looked like she was getting close to 50 herself so I guess she thought she was a waste of skin too. I would NEVER go to that hospital voluntarily. Very bad news. This is a very bad place for patients to be.

unfair wrote:

We are mortal creatures. We are meant to die at some point. Quit slandering the poor Grace Hospital.

Poor? The nurses at Grace Hospital in Winnipeg Canada are anything but poor.'Poor taxpayer' is more like it.

I agree with the person who referred to the Victoria Hospital. That place is really bad news. I don't know about the Grace, never had anything to do with them, but had friends and family who were patients at the Victoria and it was not good news at all -- a real hellhole with lots of incompetents working there.

i work at the hsc, the nurses there are always bitching , eating, and bitching, they dont do anything, they are overpaid, very mean,and the aides do all the hard work.
so dont feel sorry for the nurses, they dont deserve any sympathy, or more money, they have the people fooled about how valuable they are

I have been a patient at HSC and did receive wonderful care from the nurses and found them to be very competent in so many ways. It was not my expectation that they do the aide's work. That doesn't even make any sense. I am glad to hear that they are not doing the aide's work because why should we pay for them to do a lower paying job? Spairn, it sounds like you are an aide and a very bitter one at that. Maybe this is not the career for you.

Any thing is better than Seven jokes (Oaks) hospital. They hire nurses without any training there.

Sally wrote:

Any thing is better than Seven jokes (Oaks) hospital. They hire nurses without any training there.

Where did you hear this and is it public knowledge? If you are referring to the Edwin Canseco case, then you have your facts wrong. He had a degree in Nursing from a Philippine university. He hadn't passed the Canadian licensing exams but he WAS TRAINED AS A NURSE. Now if there are any instances of the hospital hiring people who really do not have any nursing education, it has not been made public knowledge. And Sally, unless you are correct in the statements you are making, you should be very careful about telling lies and slandering the hospital. You need to be very careful to get your facts straight before making careless defamatory statements.

Thank you Stacey and other investigative journalists out there. Please keep up the investigating. It is very covert but hopefully the public will find out what a bunch of uncaring, rude, and lazy nurses are in this 'friendly' city!

So what is with your negative comments about nurses? If you made those comments about a person of color, you would be labelled a racist. I am not labelling you, but the word misogynist does come to mind.

Where did the complainant mention anything about women in particular? nurses are also males.

in response to bitter grapes, i am not an aide ,, i am in a professional position at the hsc for 20 years, and i stand by my position that the majority of the nurses are bitchy over eating,overpaid,overrated,and underworked complainers. who treat staff and patients like crap,

Ajax wrote:

Where did the complainant mention anything about women in particular? nurses are also males.

Yes, it is true that there are a few male nurses but 99.99% of the profession consists of women and I sense that the writer of the comment about lazy, greedy nurses was referring to female not male nurses. I don't believe the writer is correct in making these stereotypical assumptions. Yes, the nurses did express concerns about salaries and it was resolved without the much talked about strike. I think the nurses should be commended for handling themselves so well in this situation. I know many nurses who put their patients ahead of themselves and give selflessly to them, very much in contradiction to the writer's lazy, greedy stereotype. I know many nurses who work a lot of unpaid overtime. But you don't hear about these quiet hard-working people. It is only the squeaky wheel who gets the grease and the media attention and then people like the writer label the entire profession.

spairn wrote:

in response to bitter grapes, i am not an aide ,, i am in a professional position at the hsc for 20 years, and i stand by my position that the majority of the nurses are bitchy over eating,overpaid,overrated,and underworked complainers. who treat staff and patients like crap,

Well, I don't think you are so professional to make such sweeping stereotypes and you are definitely a misogynist. The word "bitchy" is not usually applied to men. You obviously have a very big chip on your shoulder for some reason. I had the occasion to be a patient at HSC and was treated with respect and dignity by the nurses who behaved in a very professional manner. I saw how very difficult their job could be as I was in the Emergency Dept. and I left with a great admiration for these unsung heroes. I feel sorry for you that you are carrying around a big block of wood on your shoulder for some reason. You should try being a patient. It would be a true learning experience no doubt although you sound like you are such a miserable, unhappy type that no matter how good the care was you would complain about it. Some people are just very unhappy no matter what.