Atrium Health Kings Mountain — Local services in Kings Mountain

I just spent hours in the ER. The nurses were great but the ER doctor leaves a lot to be desired. And sadly, this is not the first time this has happened. I went to the ER after 11 days of progressively becoming so very sick...coughing, congestion, that progressed to shortness of breath, extreme fatigue, and dehydrated because I have not been able to eat or drink much for 11 days..along with fever every day...it has been so bad that I knew I could not even drive to my primary doctor who is in Gaston County so I dragged myself to the ER here in KM. The doctor heard wheezing/congestion when he first examined me..I THOUGHT he listened to all my symptoms..he did order a small bag of fluids also..the ONLY thing he ordered was a chest x-ray. No blood work of any kind...heck, not even a Covid test. The ER did not seem that busy today and I know that the room beside of me had at least 3 different patients who had come and then been treated (maybe) and discharged. After hours of laying on that stretcher, coughing, wheezing, and becoming short of breath just walking to the restroom..the doctor popped his head in my room and told me I was recovering from previous injury. Oh really now. He told me to just keep doing what I have been doing for the past 11 days. Well...evidently that sure is working well since I made the decision to go to the ER after 11 days of becoming worse each day. Wonder if he would have maybe taken a closer look at things and possibly even done some lab work if he knew I had a 26 year medical background myself but I don't share that because I always want to be treated like a patient instead of worrying that healthcare providers will think I am trying to tell them what to do. So I finally made it home and have a call into my primary doctor to ask him what he wants me to do. I do know that a similar situation happened at the ER several months ago and I was discharged by that same doctor who told me that the hospital does not have anyone to treat what I had going on and so I was sent home. Just a few days later when I was seen my primary doctor, within the first 5 minutes he was on the phone calling EMS to transport me to the hospital in our neighboring county because I had gotten worse over those few days without any kind of treatment from the ER here in Kings Mountain. Changes need to be made or you are leaving yourself wide open...

If you have a true medical emergency don't go to Atrium health Kings Mountain! They don't have care for the patient anymore. The nurses were amazing but the Dr... I am very high risk for heart attack, stroke.. I went to the ER with chest pain and history of cardiac blockages and peripheral blockages. Blood pressure stayed high even after two nitroglycerin, two baby aspirin that I administered myself before going, she gave me a nitroglycerin patch, she did basic blood test and x-ray and said everything was normal but still on discharge blood pressure was still high and I still had on the nitro patch , I asked the nurse if everything is fine why does the nitro patch help the chest pain and what do I do if it starts back after taking the patch off?.. She said she would leave it on and gave me something through iv to lower my blood pressure, said the nitro usually does that but nothing was touching it to bring it down. I asked, if I didn't need to be admitted for observation why in the world would they leave it on and why is it helping the chest pain?.. she then tells me to monitor my blood pressure so it doesn't go too low with the meds and patch, if I get worse I can come back! I was sent to the ER by my cardiologist and this Dr didn't even give the option for overnight observation on the precaution considering my high risk. Here I sit still feeling horrible, still having chest pain and may end up at Carolina medical center where my cardiologist is.. an hour away. Some doctors are only there for a paycheck and don't care enough about the patients and that happens a lot at atrium health Kings Mountain. This isn't the first time I have been pushed out the door, last time I ended up in Charlotte hospital getting a heart catheterization. If you have the option please go elsewhere. I wish I would have. Edit: Blood pressure is even higher than when I left...

We were traveling in the evening, returning from NC to SC after seeing a home. My wife started complaining of "kidney pain" and started to get nauseous. I stopped at the nearest parking lot so she could relieve the vomiting. After several puking episodes in a matter of 15-20 minutes, her pain had increased to a 10/10. Not knowing what else to do, I took her to the nearest ER which happened to be Atrium Health. As soon as we entered the building, Cameron from security helped get a wheelchair for my wife. At registration, my wife was crying (literally) and short of breath from the now 15/10 pain as it hurt every time she took a breath. Cassey from registration took down all her information and got her quickly prepped for Mike. Within minutes, Mike triaged her and put us in a room. There we were greeted by Tamara (NP), Latoya and Megan. Tamara suspected kidney stones and immediately had Latoya and Megan start an IV for pain control. In probably 15 minutes, my then hollering wife had started to become normal and was able to have a normal conversation. After stabilizing her, Makayla then proceeded to get her a CT scan to get confirmation on the kidney stone. Within 30-45 minutes, Tamara told us the culprit was in fact a kidney stone. When I told the staff that we had about 2-3 hours of driving ahead of us, they gave my wife another shot to control the pain and gave us emergency meds to take on the way. Hope quickly helped finish the missing pieces of registration and had us on our way. I am a pharmacist in my community and I understand how important it is to have a robust medical staff supporting the community, especially during these times. My wife and I both agree that we would be proud to have any of these people in our community helping people get and...