Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center — Local services in La Crosse

Labor & Delivery

Loren was the best labor nurse I ever had. She treated me like I was a real person. An experience I didn’t have before with other hospitals. The delivery room was spacious and beautiful. Equipped with so many methods to manage your labor— I made it 20 hours pain med free with the options and their supportive delivery staff.

There was an OB there that really shouldn’t be an OB however. I can’t remember her name because it was a foreign name I couldn’t pronounce, but she was a very small woman. She tried checking my cervix, and because she was so small so were her fingers, and I’m assuming this is why it took her so long. Honestly if she wasn’t a woman I would have reported her for assault cause that’s how her trying to check my cervix felt— painful and violating.

I saw her again in my recovery room and simply told her “no”. I couldn’t explain why since I had just finished a 24 hour labor and still hadn’t slept yet (it was 5 or 6 hours after my labor I think), but I wasn’t going to let that woman touch me again. If being small is going to cause her to have to finger someone violently to do a proper check she needs to pick another profession.

I was also disappointed that the recovery room didn’t look anything like what was in the virtual tour. It was cramped and uncomfortable. I realize maybe they want the recovery room to be uncomfortable, so people don’t try to extend their stay, but again it’s not what I was expecting.

Because of the cramped room there’s no space for the nurses to do their checks, and tests on the newborn (which apparently HAVE to be done in the middle of the night) without also keeping you awake. I realize there’s the option for the nurses to take the baby elsewhere so you can rest, but I don’t care what precautions there are I wasn’t letting people leave the room with my baby.

(I was here for roughly 3 days; I didn’t sleep).

Also for some reason the nurses kept telling each other I had a history of Bipolar Depression, and I told them multiple times I didn’t. They didn’t try to talk to me about it when I would say something they’d just ignore me and continue telling the next shift’s nurse I had that (again I don’t).

Finally there was a day time nurse— I believe her name was Kate, Kat or Kay, but she does NOT like her job. I was having painful breastfeeding, and the lactation consultant was occupied, so she “stepped in”. She just moved things around in the room talking fast— repeating that it shouldn’t hurt, so I must be doing something wrong (it was just cause I’m large breasted and my newborn was small, so I had to wait for them to get bigger to breastfeed comfortably).

She looked like she hated me for having issues and needing assistance. So I lied and said it didn’t hurt anymore so she would go away, because her annoyed demeanor was upsetting me. The only time she was nice was when we were discharged.

I’ve delivered 3 times, and as sad as it sounds this was still my best delivery experience if you...

I went into the emergency room om the 25th because I was having a lot of pain when I got to the emergency room the emergency room Department seem to be okay they admitted me for observation once I get up on the floor it seemed very odd to me I had to get into my bed by myself throughout the night the nurses were giving me medication to help with the pain but one in particular nurse came in my room I have some medicine for you and I said I'm not feeling very well she gave me something for pain she said she had a nausea medication and I asked what is it promethazine and it is a pill and plus an aspirin I told her that I could not take promethazine pill form because for some reason my stomach cannot tolerate promethazine pill form because it makes me sick she told me I still had to take it I told her okay I'll be puking then and that's what I did and the following day I was still puking my guts out tried to order some food before I left the hospital on Friday but I could not eat because I was puking and this is what I don't understand number one how can they let a patient leave the hospital knowing that they're puking their guts out and they can't even keep food down or liquids for that matter that doesn't make sense to me and then after I left the doctor wrote in my chart said I was allergic to penicillin amoxicillin Augmentin and I'm not allergic to thoes meds and on my after review summary it said I needed to follow up with an allergy specialist concerning those medicines so they could do an allergy test I will not do that I don't see the point in doing that because I am not allergic to those medications that I had just mentioned yes I have other allergies I know positively that I am allergic to the medicines that I am allergic to and I had multiple allergy test in the past so we will not be doing another allergy test and I am trying to be very nice like I am supposed to be but this is upsetting to me and I have to voice my opinion and this is how I feel it's like they don't believe a word I say there is only one person in the medical field that I trust and it surely isn't them and you're not supposed to feel like that as a patient so this is sad and they judge everything and base everything off of your past history and write things and base things off of past providers as well they don't think that patients can change over the years and how sad and disappointing is that on march 21 went too the emergency room for right upper quadrant discomfort and the er doctor rude nasty and a lier but that night i got transfered up too the hospital floor to have surgery next morning it was a bad exsperence all the way around dont ever go to guderson lutheren...

It was awful I went in there on a Friday night at midnight after an eye injury yard work accident cut my eye across I had a towel on my eye and they put me in a corner for almost 2 hours before they even wanted to even deal with me while I was holding a towel over my eye in pain cuz I was in so much pain I was begging for help and could not see cuz I couldn't even use my good I to see because I was in so much pain temporary jobs to ease the pain and then set me on my way with pain and go to the walk-in Monday a few minutes I couldn't even get until the next day it was terrible just terrible the pain was I had a scratch across the eyeball I end up going six times to six different doctors before I got a specialist on this my regular eye doctor which I did not need glasses and an eye exam then they kept ordering meds and throwing meds and ordering meds and throwing meds dishing out co payments with the system I am on day 7 antibiotic drops it's finally healing my eye I ended up going to ER Friday night and Sunday because of the pain in my eye changing this was a sad way of handling this on a disabled person my mom was shaking her head as she was driving me around to all these everyday appointments on craziness of milking my insurance when they want me to order up a drug that was going to cost me $75 I had to put my foot down and say I've had enough ordering up drugs and then you guys stolen away the next day and then ordering up something else and keep sucking my co-payments if I would have been having a heart attack Friday night i was dead 61 as the poorest ER system I've ever seen on a...