Hunterdon Medical Center — Attraction in Raritan Township

Expecting parents: beware. I will happily travel to a much further location to get care for me or my family before entering this facility again. Below is a detailed explanation of why I recommend going elsewhere to give birth.

There are some incredible nurses and doctors here (Nurse Suzy - maybe spelled Susie?? - is an absolute gem and overall lovely person for example) but they are outnumbered by people who will leave you disappointed and even concerned. One nurse was quite condescending and negative about the prospect of my wife having an ideal experience, for example, and the staff were quite happily fighting over who would get to perform the next c-section like they were fighting over who gets the biggest cookie. When my wife was giving birth, multiple people in the extremely crowded room were overwhelmed and seemed like they didn't know what to do, which added stress to the situation.

We were sternly rebuked for some of our medical decisions. If you don't want to exercise every option available, they treat you like you don't care about your baby, when in reality we couldn't possibly care about her and her health/safety more and simply prefer more natural and holistic approaches to physical wellness. When I went with my baby into a room to get retested (because they were consistently unable to get good tests) I overheard a doctor coaching another employee about the importance of billing, and the vibe is that they are trained specifically to get your bill as high as possible, regardless of what's in your baby's best interest. There are multiple things they tell you are a "must" that are actually just an option they would like you to opt into for the sake of raising the bill.

After giving birth, as in immediately after giving birth and for the remainder of your time there, expect no rest for you or your newborn. It's an endless parade of doctors and nurses and consultants and photographers redundantly and erratically entering the room non-stop and testing/talking about the same things as if there's no structure, even if the test results are good or your baby would do much better with an hour or two of quiet before resuming testing etc. The doctors and consultants give conflicting information, making it difficult to know which information is legitimate.

Even if the mother is breastfeeding well, the baby is going to the bathroom well, the test results are all good, and every single thing is headed in a happy and healthy direction, don't expect them to let you be discharged when you're ready. We were presented with obstacle after obstacle preventing us from leaving when we and our baby were ready to go home.

Worst of all, these doctors and nurses do NOT trust you. They don't even hide it. "Do you have an appointment with a pediatrician for sometime in the next 48 hours?" Yes. "OK, with who?" "We haven't heard of them, we need to call them to confirm the appointment." Expect this kind of mistrust for the remainder of your relationship with them.

For example, their in-house thyroid test showed signs of potential hypothyroidism. Our fantastic pediatrician advised that we could go anywhere for the retest, so we scheduled the soonest appointment literally anywhere else. The hospital tried to bully us into going back to them, with multiple staff members demanding it and stating that it was a requirement, while insinuating that we were lying that we were getting retesting done elsewhere. Of course they had to call our pediatrician to confirm.

The retest results show that everything is normal, but to be safe, we are going to have a follow-up appointment with a pediatric endocrinologist to ensure she's set for great, healthy development. We will definitely NOT be taking their recommendations for who to see about this, and I recommend you also seek other advice if you were unfortunate enough to have had your...

Walked into the emergency room and the patient walks in there with covid-like symptom shouldn't they right away you put into your room by himself? I was crapping bricks when I walked in and the first thing I've seen and I heard, very scary. But my biggest concern is when I took my husband to the emergency room his blood pressure was 170 because he was out of medication due to a error at the pharmacy. The same Pharmacy that put me into a panic and said I don't know how your husband's functioning with his blood pressure is 170. so at the emergency room they did everything EKG and blood work and all that stuff. So as we're waiting for the blood work and nurse came in not even a doctor kept asking my husband why he stopped taking his medicine he had to tell the story about six times which is aggravating my husband also and had the fight with the pharmacy about the prescription. blood pressure is up so we told the nurse story six times and this nurse comes back and says just so you know that 170 is nothing to panic over . If your blood pressure is 200 or 210 then that's the time to come to the emergency room. I just read from the Internet Medical site that 180 is considered fatal and you should go to the hospital right away. Now I'm confused and aggravated as his wife. I'm no doctor I'm barely high school graduate. So now I have to sit here and worry or what the right answer is for my husband's blood pressure. What is with this world today. For helping other people from other countries and our people here can't even help who's already here. I'm on my way to a nervous breakdown I'm an extreme worrisome person for the well-being of the American people. The pharmaceutical world has gone mad all their nothing is to push these pills on people. Not one doctor ever recommends a plant-based remedy it's always drugs. I'm so sorry I had to write this but just like the pharmacy is going to get it too because you guys are going to kill somebody and I'm trying to make people be aware that high blood pressure is nothing to play around with don't wait for the last minute

3/2024 Episode 2 another visit to the Hospital. I can't believe you can only leave one review I have to edit my review I already posted. Anyway just letting you know that you sent me home with an 11-year-old boys discharge papers. I have them sitting here for proof. Like what's going on over there? I'm going to keep posting every mistake you make that is not a cheeseburger that I'm complaining about it's a visit to the hospital. My husband had a heart monitor on him. The next day we had to charge it but we are also told not to take it off of 14 days. We have to take it off and charge it. I know why do I keep going back? Because it's the only Hospital closest to my house. Please get some new management. Please correct...

Okay, first off, my horrible experience started before we knew much about my true situation. It started when, for quite a few days, I was having severe abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea, and vomiting. I went into the ER, and they gave me a CT Scan. They saw my large intestine was very inflamed, so they recommended a few day hospital stay. They also put me on a couple of drugs to deal with the supposed infection. But I was still in severe pain for those few days and kept getting diarrhea. I thought it was just part of the infection. They thought it was gastritis or gastroenteritis. They released me a few days later, but I still was almost as bad as when I first came in. I could hardly even eat anything and lost about 50 pounds. I could hardly even ride in a car without getting sick. This lasted for a little less than a week before I went to my follow up doctor, who had the nerve to say I was doing good and they'd do a colonoscopy in six weeks because she said "You're too inflamed for one soon" What? My white count was through the roof, high hemoglobin, and still severe symptoms and I was told I was doing good? So then my mom made an appointment with another doctor she knows in another office. I go in, he takes one at me and my blood work and says "I think I know what's wrong. I have to do a colonoscopy tomorrow." I was stunned. Right away? And the other one wanted to wait six weeks? So I go in, get the colonoscopy, and he sees major inflammation so bad that he couldn't even do a full procedure. What was the problem? I was officially diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis and was put on IV steroids to bring the inflammation down and a few other meds for a few days there too. I felt SO much better and was able to eat more things. The vomiting also stopped and the bloody diarrhea decreased. I'm doing fairly well now though. Like I said, I didn't know much about these things before Mom's doctor explained them. Why Hunterdon didn't even put me on steroids to reduce the inflammation or at least do a scoping test to see what was up "down there" is just inexcusable and shows complete incompetence. So is the Doc I saw there a week later. You'd think they'd know all this stuff! I am NEVER coming here EVER again. UPDATE In December 2017 I finally got the 1st part of my surgery to remove my diseased colon, and the 2nd part of the surgery done in May 2018 at Overlook Hospital. I am SO MUCH BETTER than how I felt 2-3 years ago despite having to use the restroom 4-5, sometimes 6...