Good Samaritan Hospital — Attraction in Vincennes

Horrendous hospital. I went there on a psychiatric watch in April, and they immediately sent me home with nothing even though my life was in danger and I almost didn’t survive. They were so invalidating. I’m a trans man, and expressed that my gender identity caused me severe emotional turmoil, and they continued to invalidate me even though I was there to prevent myself from taking my own life. Every time i go, regardless of why, i’m faced with blatant discrimination. Extremely unprofessional. You can post as many signs about being against discrimination as you want, but it completely thrown out the window if you don’t actually follow any of those. It gets worse, though. When I was there in april, they took a blood sample. I didn’t think anything of it, because they never reported anything back to me. In SEPTEMBER, I come to learn that the reason i’ve had chronic pain, fainting, SVTs, internal chills, body numbness, and MORE is because I’ve had deadly anemia (lack of red blood cells, affecting my entire body) which was detected months ago, but never reported to me. They knew this, seeing it in my blood, but they didn’t bother telling me even though it could’ve gotten worse and worse. Luckily, I scheduled an appointment with my doctor, who saw it on my record four and a half months later. My story doesn’t even scratch the surface of the intense neglect people face there. I am closely related to an ex-staff member, and she hasn’t kept quiet. The people in our town deserve to have a hospital that truly cares about their patients.

I’d like to acknowledge that not every experience is bad. Thank you to the staff at Good Sam who truly work hard to keep us happy and healthy. Your work doesn’t go unnoticed. I just wish that everybody would carry the load you do. You...

Sure, the staff is nice or whatever, but seem inept in many other ways.. my father has been there more than 3 weeks, I live out of state. Somehow, the day I could finally fly up here to see him, they decided to sedate him just hours before I could get there, so I didn't even get to see him awake..

I got to spend a little time with him but was whisked away to the waiting room multiple times, where they eventually forgot about me completely. I sat in there for an hour, when I went to check what was going on, suddenly there was no one at the desk.. when I walked further back to find someone, they admitted they forgot about me and assumed I left. They then immediately sent me back to the waiting room where I sat for another hour and a half, before they finally let back in, 15 mins before visiting hours were over.. they were still working on him for part of that.

He was having cognitive issues and refusing food and they made no attempts to get him any kind of nutrients for 2 whole weeks.. only hydration. I only found this out yesterday...

Now, this morning, it seems someone there must have had covid, because they suddenly needed to covid test him, which came back positive, while he already had pneumonia and was sedated on a ventilator, among his other issues.. they have no one there that can help him at this point, and said they needed to transfer him to IU to make any more progress or to have any clue what's even wrong with him.. Because of there being no beds available due to covid, he's just been there and getting worse for at least a week where they could do nothing but the bare minimum. Now, I can't even go see him again and have to fly back home, knowing that was likely the last time I'll ever see him...

Infuriated is an understatement. Shame on every...

Before today I would have given the Neurology department 5 stars. I have been seeing Dr. Adam Mednick and he has been very attentive and I feel like we have been really making some progress on my tremors and my migraines. But today the receptionist in Neurology threw all of that right out the window because she was just not going to listen. I came in for my appointment and she told me my appointment was tomorrow. First of all I knew my appointment couldn't be tomorrow because I was already booked up for tomorrow, secondly I had an appointment card she had written last time I was there that said it was today. She wouldn't listen to any of that. I told her I had driven an hour to get there and could not come back tomorrow. She asked if I would like to reschedule. There was no one else in the waiting room at all, no offer to try to squeeze me in. I explained how her and I had planned this appointment out last time I was there and she just said this appointment has not been changed and it is tomorrow. She had no interest in looking at the appointment card she had given me in her own hand writing. She wasn't mean but not sympathetic either. So I just told her I guess we were done and I left. It is a shame because for the first time in over 25 years I felt like I was making progress. I wish there was another way to see Dr. Mednick. I wanted to make this a one star review but I took the one star reception and the five star progress I felt I was making and...