Ochsner Rush Medical Center — Local services in Meridian

Worse ER experience I've ever had! I got accidentally sprayed in the face with insecticide last week and it made me terribly dizzy and sick. I had to call an ambulance to get there. The doctor on staff completely ignored what I told him about the accident and insisted that I had just got heat exhaustion, because I was out in the yard a full 5-6 minutes when the accident happened. My sickness couldn't possibly have anything to do with the pesticide going on my face and in my eyes. They kept me until about midnight and discharged me. No taxis or Uber or any of that stuff running that late. And I don't hae any family to help with things like that. So they wheeled me down to the waiting room and told me I could stay there until things opened up in the morning so I could get a ride home. Then about 530-6am, their security guard woke me up with "buddy, I'm gonna have to ask you to leave pretty soon". No one else was in the waiting room. I wasn't bothering anyone. I had my discharge papers laying on the table right beside me. He could see I had got treatment there. And it's in a high crime area. It was a nightmare! I would have to be deathly ill to ever use...

My Father fought for nearly 4 weeks with COVID, and despite the hospital website CLEARLY stating that floor patients could visit, we were not allowed. I lost the only opportunity I would ever have to say goodbye. We were told at the end of the stay that he had brain damage(an EEG was not run) and I requested an EEG, the FNP for ICU south told me the results wouldn’t be in because she thought I wouldn’t want to pull him off of the ventilator. Magically after I explained the situation the results happened to be done. I have the results still, with a time stamp 1 hour before we even arrived. Situations like this are not fun for anyone, but to lie to a patients family, a patients son, who then had to hold the hand of his father and watch the live leave his body, knowing that if a healthcare worker would lie about something so minuscule then they easily would lie about care made available. I’m not saying my fathers death could have been prevented, all I’m saying that you will not get transparency here, and I’m 2021 transparency is all we can ask for, don’t take that...

If you need anything more than a couple of stitches go anywhere else. I had a seizure followed by Todd's paralysis. I was unable to move or communicate. The staff's only concern was what drug I had overdosed and what insurance to bill. After they realized I didn't have drugs in my system they decided they would do a CT scan to make sure I didn't hit my head when I went down. While in the CT room I began to choke the technicians refused to help and decided to chastise me instead. Nothing else was really done until a few hours later at shift change when they decided to do an X-ray on my spine that had been fused a couple of years ago there they misread the X-ray and said I had broke my back again. Gave me a back brace and sent me home. Followed up with my spine surgeon the following morning. Where I was informed my spine was healed and not rebroke that it was obvious I needed...