UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) — Attraction in Aurora

I was recently admitted for an acute flair up from a lifetime of genetic Kidney disorder. The first night I was there through vomiting a nurse comes in with a security guard at 3 a.m. to do a non consensual search. I was transferred by ambulance from out of state so all I had with me was my purse & a bag my husband threw together. I did not understand why they were searching & terrorizing me. I was visibly confused, upset & crying asking why. The nurse said on my last visit it appears something was in the chart that warranted a search. Her answer only brought more confusion & upset me even further. I began to record without capturing faces what they were doing. It is not lawful to search anyone without consent. So they finish & one of the doctors on my team comes in & tells me nothing was in my chart that she is in her words targeting patient's who are on high doses of certain medications not only patients but friends,families, visitors of said patient will also be searched with or without consent. She then demanded I delete my recording or she would send in security to confiscate my phone & delete it. I did not come into the Hospital with anything & the medications I was on was prescribed & given by them. I was so upset alone in the Hospital & terrified. I then stayed awake for 5 days out of fear finally out of pure exhaustion fell asleep on the 5th day to be awakened by a horrible nurse who did not actually wake me she was pulling on my I.V tubing causing some severe pain because my arms were destroyed from 6+attempts to start an I.V and at least 2 to 3 draws per lab tech. I then expressed to this nurse that I had to use the restroom she ignored me over and over so I naturally headed to the restroom. That really is nothing in comparison to the profiling & discrimination I received the very first night of my hellish stay in this Hospital. I have never been treated so poorly. Their treatment of me was unwarranted. I have lab testing, Positive genetic test's to prove I have an uncontrolled rare disease that unfortunately requires medical care sometimes & have never in my life abused a Physician's or medical facilities care but I have had to face being admitted for ling stays alone & I have been abused multiple times because no one is with me to witness the cruelty except this time I had my phone a recorder & video. Again,in my video I show no one's faces. I was in a teaching hospital, public domain & hospital or not I do have rights but said Doctor "you have no rights" If this is future Healthcare I hope to die before ever needing Hospital care in my future & I am still fairly young. I do not know how to process all of this because I chose the Hospital because I felt I could trust them & get my care through their clinic's & that has been a nightmare. I saw a recommended pain therapist I confided in her & she took my words outside of her walls again without my consent & confronted my primary physician. That cost me my Doctor & for the management staff to blame me for something that would have never been known if not for this "pain therapist"she boasted about being only one of a handful. Well now I know why they don't have many because it's a farce.They use your words against you provide no confidentiality. So I have lost my faith in all & that is scary because I will need medical care until I die. I have been pushed to the point of thinking everyday how I can and will end it before allowing another "medical professional, facility" to help me. The stay in the Hospital was a nightmare & they did not focus or test the acute problem instead they focused on the underlying condition dismissing a possible illness other than the Genetic condition causing it all. I feel scared & alone without faith or trust in Healthcare and this Hospital rushed my feeling along. No one no matter what they are taking in or outside of a Hospital should be searched without consent. Being in a Hospital does not take away your rights nor does it say hey I'm here alone so you can beat me up & abuse me. I had to share my experience where...

I can't imagine how other people on here can give 1 star. I am going to guess that they do not have much experience at other facilities. There is NOTHING one star about UC Health Anshutz Campus. I have been victimized at military and VA facilities across the nation for over a decade. I can easily write a 1000 page novel on lost paperwork, terrible care, long wait times, cancelled appointments and uncaring staff. All that changed when I walked into Anshutz. First of all, the people that work the desk area are absolutely fantastic. They are always warm and friendly to me when I arrive. They are always on top of my paperwork which I appreciate more than you can imagine. I have waited on missing paperwork for years. I have suffered, while waiting for back surgeries due to lost documents. At UC Health, they understand and have overcome the Veteran's Administration's propensity to lose any and all, paperwork, appointments, records, MRIs and X-rays. I have had several procedures at Anshutz so far, they have kept the documentation straight and my timeline has been spot on. I cannot express what it means to me to have people that actually care. It has been years since I felt that way. I have had several back procedures through the VA and military. For any appointment, no matter what it is, the wait time will be a minimum 1 hour in the waiting room. I have been left sitting in waiting rooms multiple times for several hours when the staff forgot I was in the waiting room. I have had them cancel appointments I was present for and blame me for not attending. Complaints will get you nowhere. I once waited for four hours in a waiting room, sitting on a hard chair, with cracked vertebrae in my back and neck, the appointment ended up getting cancelled because the Doctor left for the day. I waited a month for another appointment, then another two hours in the waiting room. None of this ever happens at UC Health. I have not spent 10 minutes in the waiting room, total, during my last 4 appointments. My butt barely hits the chair and the Nurse is calling me in. Appointments and procedures were performed on time, or a little early, every single time. Honestly, to a person in pain, it is like winning the lottery. The Doctors and Interns that I have seen at Anshutz are top notch. They listen to you. They explain everything perfectly. They made the pain tolerable. When I was at VA and military facilities, oftentimes, they made the pain worse. They gave me a bunch of drugs with horrible side effects. Many of them would just prescribe pain killers that would just mask the pain without addressing the actual issue. Many people just keep re-injuring themselves because they don't realize that they never healed, they just didn't have pain due to Opiods. I have received steroid injections in a filthy VA treatment center from a Doctor that grunted as a form of communication. The injections made me violently ill. The VA Doctor injected so much steroid into my back that I was numb. Because I thought that the lack of pain meant that I was healed, I resumed normal activities and ended up cracking my vertebrae much worse, which required surgery. Last year, I had steroid injections twice at UC Health. Both times, I was in and out in about an hour. The best way I can describe the experience is to say, walking into that treatment room was like stepping into a futuristic operating room where the Doc is your favorite Uncle and the nurses are your favorite Aunts. Except for a few small stings, it was virtually painless. I could actually feel the medicine entering the spaces that hurt, they would feel warm and stopped hurting. Since 2006 when I was injured in Baghdad, I have been in constant pain unless I took pain killers. It is hard to describe what it is like to be pain free after all these years. The steroid injections administered at Anshutz gave me hope. I will never be fully healed, I'll never be 100%. But for the first time in years, with ongoing treatments at Anshutz, I have hope...

UCH DISHONOR PATIENT DIRECTIVES, PERMIT FALSE RECORDING of MEDICAL RECORDS, & PATIENT ADVOCATE IS A EUPHEMISM FOR HOSPITAL DEFENSE LEGUE. PROCEED WITH EXTREME CAUTION IF YOU ARE DISABLED, ELDERLY, or NON WHITE.

UCH completely backs breeching Patient Directives. Organ Donation, Resuscitation, or Medical POA are inconsequential at UCH. ALWAYS GET A 2nd OPINION OUTSIDE OF THEIR NETWORK, their is NO authentic accountability mechanism at UCH. Do not frustrate yourself with them. Take your complaint directly to the medical board. They have no will for self accountability.

They will not honor your directives or champion them for you. You are solely under the ego of the Surgeon. Nothing stands between your directives, and ensuring they will be respected/administered. Not what you expect in a developed nation.

Patient Advocacy is a euphemism for Hospital Defense League defending the indefensible instead of your Patients Rights. In their own words they do not meet in person with Patients. They also do not meet their own communication deadlines.

I had my medical directives ignored by a surgeon Dr Michael Rex Dayton, who gave me a surgery I did not consent to. 3 months later I'm told he acted within the guidelines of the hospital.

It was not a matter of necessity in surgery. He knew a week in advance he was not going to take the approach to my hip replacement as agreed. He deliberately kept that to himself until hours after surgery.

We (MPOA) and nurses, thought I had the anterior approach. Muscles, tendons pulled to one side. Therefore offering rapid recovery were patients are able to start walking a few hours after surgery.

He knew I did not want the posterior approach - CUTTING through glutes tendons ligament nerves. Not only the hip healing but all the severed tissue, and nerves.

I was made to get up walk like an Anterior patient would be asked. I collapsed to the floor and passed out. 3 months later I can honestly say, if I could return to my pre surgery state now. I would be better off in mobility and comfort.

Patient Advocacy state it is within Hospital guideline.for the Surgeon to ignore my MPOA directive because he said sorry, and he feels the surgery went well. That could as easily be an organ donation or resuscitation directive ignored.

If you fall within the demographic of Elderly, Disable, Female, or Non White. You must write across the top of the consent form in your own had writing.

"I CONSENT TO (exact procedure including approach). ANY DEVIATION WITHOUT MY, OR MY MPOA CONSENT IS AN ACT OF GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM WHICH YOU WILL BE HELD CRIMINALLY LIABLE FOR REGARDLESS OF THE OUTCOME." I SUBMIT TO THIS ELECTIVE SURGERY ONLY IF THE SURGEON ABIDES TO THIS AGREEMENT."

Ask the surgeon to sign, and get a copy before going under. If the Surgeon refuses. Know you are accepting they can do whatever they want with your body. That could also include ignoring resuscitation or organ donation Directives.

Instead of a 1 night stay . I was there in a opioid drug induced state , after collapsing, for a further 7 days, then transferred (not discharged) as an inpatient to PAM Intensive Rehabilitation Hospital for another 7 days. There I underwent opioid withdrawal from the drugs given at UCH. A fact absent in Dayton's notes.

UCH Patient Advocacy, and Dr Dayton state that my procedure was well tolerated, the post surgery was unremarkable, and well tolerated. Insulting. 13 weeks after surgery my mobility has been compromised. He made one leg longer than the other

I have a recording of Dayton admitting his willfulness, which apparently is irrelevant to the Hospital. All attempts to complain will be rerouted to the Hospital Defense Team Please feel free to call if you want more details. I hope to stop this happening to any one else.

UCH gives Dayton 5 stars reviews on their try a network. Go to google and search there for a real reflection...