Rayville "EMERGENCY" Room

Does anyone know why Rayville ER will not take anyone during the day, they send them to their family doctor? Because I think it's ridiculous. It IS an emergency room for a reason! If you think it's an emergency, it should be treated as one. Why do they even have it open and why are they getting paid if they don't take patients during family dr office hours?? A friend of mine took her 10 month old baby there during the day because he swallowed something and she didn't know what it was and he had thrown up alot and they made her take him to his pediatrician and get an X-ray. what if he had swallowed something sharp or something had gotten lodged in his throat and it affected him!!? I personally think it's because the baby is on Medicaid and those patients are treated like dirt!! Also, every time I pass by there I see nurses standing outside smoking. ALL THE TIME!! And just a couple of days ago I seen a nurse standing outside smoking a cigarette, wrapped up in a hospital bed sheet!! I wish the state would have seen that!!

A cold or flu isn't an emergency...too many people without insurance are showing up at the ER for the flu and the hospital may never get paid for this...this isn't just a rayville ER trend...ER is also quicker during the day than most doctors offices without an appointment...people are abusing this

Yea but I was saying that the 10 month old baby swallowed something and had been throwing up alot. To me, that is an emergency. The flu or a cold is not. But he didn't have the flu or a cold.

And also, every hospital has good AND bad. But personally, I've never experienced ANYTHING good from Rayville ER. Everyone has their own opinion. :) I DEF do not want to lay in a hospital bed that has a sheet on it that a NURSE used to wrap herself in to smoke a cigarette, and I SURE wouldn't put my child on it either.

Amen sister, I think you are so right. Dead on! Rayville hospital is the last place I would go. No take that back it would be cold day in hell before I ever went there.

Are these responses based on personal experience or hearsay? Who in the world would put a used sheet on a bed or wrap a baby in it? Is that how you use your bedding? Every place of employment allows their employees a break of which employees may smoke, get a snack, etc. why should a hospital be any different?

There are far too many people who use the ER as their "doctor's office." That's not what the ER was designed for. It's for emergencies--car accidents, severe injuries, gunshot wounds, etc. That pain in your foot that you have had for 6 months? Not an ER visit. The baby who swallowed something may or may not have been an emergency situation.

If you have PROOF that a used sheet was placed on a patient, we'd all like to see it. Otherwise, this is pure speculation. As far as I know, the vast majority of patients seen at RMC are Medicaid patients. Kind of hard to believe that the hospital would treat them all like dirt. Again, if you have some PROOF (not hearsay) that the hospital is treating Medicaid patients different than other patients, show us.

The hospital is not perfect. But a lot of good folks do work there. I think a lot of people who complain about the hospital here seem to have some sort of personal grudge, rather than true, substantial complaints.

When my mother-in-law was in RMC on the verge of death (we didn't know that at the time), I said some pretty harsh things about RMC. I'd prefer not to remember them as I was way off base and stated so later. But, as guano said, most rumors are based on grudges. The hospital is not at fault when something happens beyond their control. A nurse standing outside wrapped in a sheet to stay warm does not mean that sheet is going back on a bed, nor that she is abusing her break time. The ER had to respond many times when the ambulance took my in-laws to the hospital during the day. When I was bitten by a Copperhead (twice), the ER acted quickly - during the day. When my husband broke his ankle they went to work on x-rays right away.
The ER does get abused and I personally know of two people who have gone, during the day, to get help because one had a 100 degree temp. and the other had diarrhea. How do you think we'd have felt if the ER had pushed our emergencies aside (which wouldn't have been helped by our family physician) to give someone a dose of Pepto-Bismol and a Tylenol? When the ER has been unable to help any of us, they have transferred us immediately, by ambulance, to Monroe.
Sorry, but I believe we're lucky to have this hospital and I pray we're able to keep it here.

Also if you are on Medicaid you must see your community care physician if their office is open. La Medicaid will not pay for your visit to an ER if your community care physician's office is open and it's not an emergency. I would tell your friend to ask her child's physician did they refuse to send a referral for treatment. That may explain why she was told to take the child to its pediatrician. Without a referral, they won't be paid for their services and can't see the patient. Well, they could have seen the patient at the patients expense. Maybe the hospital isn't the one to blame here.

I have always been under the understanding that when there is an emergency, no hospital can turn you away--- otherwise there is liability issues---but that is a true emergency--- even if you have no insurance--- but once they get you stable you may be shipped to another medical facility after that point for additional treatment. I too believe that many, many times that an ER is abused. Some child with a runny nose and no fever will be brought to an ER for treatment when on free insurance and has been just like that for 2 days. I will say that if a child swallowed something that i as a mother would have been paranoid and probably felt the same, but i do not think that they would not have seen to the child if in fact they felt it were an emergency or child was in danger. But i will also say that alot of times you cant hardly get into a dr.'s office immediately anymore, sometimes appt's are days later. I appreciate all our medical people and most all have passion for our lives. We all have different attitudes, and have not been happy sometimes with bedside manners, but i was treated and taken care of. I guess to break this down short and sweet, i too believe that so many times, many things are abused and thats why our ER is having to make adjustments to be ready for true emergencies. Watch what you say, you may be the very one that needs them---

I Understand that. I would want to be treated if I had a real emergency, before a child or someone with a runny nose or something of that sort. But I'm just saying, they shouldn't have refused treatment of the baby. No one even knew what he swallowed. Could have been something that could have caused bad problems. It WASN'T. BUT COULD HAVE BEEN!! and he was refused treatment. And wasnt seen until HOURS later at a drs office. My opinion is my opinion just like yours is yours :). Personally, I still wouldn't go to the hospital if I was breathing my last breath. Delhi is just as close and TEN TIMES better.:)

AmericanHoney, if you know that Delhi Hospital is SO MUCH BETTER why is your screen name registered in Texas? Hmm.. I smell a rat or either you are too cowardly to come forward and stand up for Delhi Hospital. And if Rayville and Delhi Hospitals had "Fast Track" ER's then you and your dire emergency would not be stuck behind the child with a runny nose.

MotherGoose wrote:

AmericanHoney, if you know that Delhi Hospital is SO MUCH BETTER why is your screen name registered in Texas? Hmm.. I smell a rat or either you are too cowardly to come forward and stand up for Delhi Hospital. And if Rayville and Delhi Hospitals had "Fast Track" ER's then you and your dire emergency would not be stuck behind the child with a runny nose.

Shut up. Nobody asked for your nasty comments. And idk why it's registered in Texas, MOTHERGOOSE. I live in Rayville, LOUISIANA. Pretty judgemental to call me a COWARD, when clearly, your name isn't mother goose. Hide behind a screen name. Ha
Go away.:)

You are the one that called yourself a coward. I said i smell a rat OR you are too cowardly. THINK THINK THINK

AmericanHoney2012 wrote:

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Shut up. Nobody asked for your nasty comments. And idk why it's registered in Texas, MOTHERGOOSE. I live in Rayville, LOUISIANA. Pretty judgemental to call me a COWARD, when clearly, your name isn't mother goose. Hide behind a screen name. Ha
Go away.:)

If your child or someones child has something weong with them then they need to see their provider. Or Pediatrician. I woek in a major hospital and know first hand of people coming in with ailments that could have been treated at home or in the doctor's office.
Those that are abusing the system make it harder for those that are truly in dire straights (chest pain, heart attack).

2 points:

First, my screen name has me coming out of Shreveport, but I, too, live in Rayville. I'm not sure how the location-tag thing works, but I am reasonably sure that most of the time it has nothing to do with someone's actual location.

Second, AmericanHoney--you state that the ER "refused treatment of the baby." But in your first post, it seems as though the baby was PROPERLY assessed at the ER and then sent to the peds office. How is that "refusing" treatment? Do you really think that if the child would have been in significant distress he would have been sent away?

Some of your comments indicate that you may not really understand what was going on with this baby, much less how a hospital works (like your "sheet" comment). It sounds as if the baby ended up being okay; I guess the ER staff made the right call, don't you?

well, the hospital is run under the police jury; runs on tax money, so people that live in the parish should pay attention to whats going on at their hospital; let the people in charge know about ur complaints about the hospital. All we ever hear about are the complaints and people that receive good care from the hospital arent the first to speak up. We need a hospital in these parts-so speak up and let the people in charge know about ur complaints.

why does this say that i am in west monroe?

my son goes to school with another boy at RHS; the other boy's momma told us today of taking her very sick son to the Rayville Hospital ER over the weekend. The momma told us that it took over 45 mi nutes to get someone to the window to even hear what the proplem was. According to the momma, the employees that cam to the window look frazzled, as if they were sleeping at the 4:30 a.m. shift. Anyway, the sleepy doctor told the boy and his momma that the boy only had gas & that they needed to go home and get some rest. today the momma tells me that she took the kid to her regular doctor & wizzzzard, some tests were done and the kid is eat up with gall bladder stones subce kid was in pain and vomiting. I thinkinh he had sugery todayl; Hope all is well with the kid.somebody that knows please let us all know how he doing.

CCfromRT wrote:

well, the hospital is run under the police jury; runs on tax money, so people that live in the parish should pay attention to whats going on at their hospital; let the people in charge know about ur complaints about the hospital. All we ever hear about are the complaints and people that receive good care from the hospital arent the first to speak up. We need a hospital in these parts-so speak up and let the people in charge know about ur complaints.

First, for the people assuming the authors of these posts don't live in either Richland Parish or Louisiana, your internet providers location is shown, not yours. The hospital itself is not run by the Police Jury. It is run by a board of directors hand picked by each jury person. The only responsibility the Police Jury has is to make sure their appointed person is doing their job and not stepping on the wrong toes. In the matter of taxes the Police Jury does accept or reject proposals by the board of directors concerning putting a tax referendum on the ballet. You are right, CCofRT, about people needing to give their input to the proper personnel at the hospital. If one has a problem with the way they feel they have been treated, call and make an appointment to speak to the CEO or find out which person on the board represents your district and talk to them. Nothing is settled by posting here when you could let your voice be heard where it matters.