AHN Canonsburg Hospital - Main Building — Local services in North Strabane Township

Rude, incompetent staff in the ER. I went to the horrible Canonsburg Hospital ED after suffering pain, weakness, CONFUSION and a FEVER of 102.5°-103.7° (confusion and high fever are the HALLMARK indicators of sepsis). I was taken for a chest x-ray, then told to provide a urine specimen. I was so sick, feverish and dehydrated that I was having difficulty and expressed as much.

Simple blood tests would have shown I required an immediate blood transfusion. Simple blood tests would have shown that my blood had turned poisonous, that I was on the verge of death and septic shock. Had they JUST LOOKED AT MY X-RAY, it would have shown that my lungs were chock full of PNEUMONIA in both lungs. It was damaging my heart. It was turning into one pulmonary embolism after another. I was dying- very painfully and I was terrified and I just thought that maybe I could go to an Emergency Department at a hospital and get help- but NO.

Instead, I got a dumb, cocky, nasty male nurse who hastily threw tap water into an I&O cylinder (the plastic cylinders that they drain urine out of the Foley catheter bags into) and shoved into my face. At this point, I was slipping into delirium. I began pleading for help, asking what was wrong with me and he kept telling me that until I could give them a big urine specimen while severely dehydrated that they would do NOTHING and that they didn't know. All they had to do was look.

Forget you, CANONSBURG HOSPITAL. All any of your people had to do was THEIR JOB and instead, every single person in the ER was content with letting me die a HORRIBLE, PAINFUL AND EASILY PREVENTABLE/TREATABLE DEATH. I left. I called the next day to obtain my x-ray results.

Your workers straight lied. My x-rays were clear and fine they said. It's probably just the flu they said, just take it easy they said.

I did. Only to find myself in a ridiculous amount of pain and fever high as ever a few days later, with my fully septic, dying body ON LIFEFLIGHT TO THE UPMC ICU, WHERE THEY, believe it or not, actually know how to provide healthcare and actually care about life and death.

Stay away from Canonsburg General at all costs. Choose this place at your own risk. The ER is an awful outfit, full of ignorance, incompetence, and a SEVERE lack of knowledge and compassion...All of the things that are the tell tale signs to avoid a place like the plague. I just wonder how many others have gotten this disgustingly deficient level of "non-care". I hope this place gets sued...

The only times I've been to Canonsburg Hospital have been for bloodwork at the lab. The first 2 times I came to the lab, I had great experiences. Everyone was very nice & knew what they were doing. However, the last time I was there (and the last time I will EVER go there), I was supposed to have a 3-hour glucose tolerance test done since I am pregnant. The woman who performed my test had no clue what she was doing. She didn't take a baseline glucose level, had me drink the glucose drink, and then 20 minutes later when she realized she had forgotten to take the baseline level, took my blood and acted like that was my fasting glucose level! Since I had already drank the drink, my glucose was not within normal limits and had I not realized the mistake she made and left, my entire test would have been invalid but could have landed me a gestational diabetes diagnosis since she entered my results into my chart as if they were accurate!! Since my mother is an OB doctor who is friends with my OB, I let her know what was going on and she relayed the info to my doctor. He contacted the lab manager who said I was not being truthful because she had spoken to the phlebotomist who said she had taken my baseline glucose level before I drank the sugar water. It is absolutely unprofessional and unacceptable to lie like that when it could put someone's health at risk, no matter how scared you may be of the consequences. After I personally called and made the lab manager aware that I am not in fact a liar, I was reached out to by a "hospital experience rep" who assured me that the phlebotomist had received education regarding how to perform glucose tolerance testing, but I think what she really needs is education about how not to LIE. Such a stressful, infuriating experience...

I just left this place..I would like to know the protocol for family checking into the ER when their family member comes by ambulance?..cuz whatever it is u people need to DO BETTER. I get there at 830 this evening..the security guard is waiting..I say my dad came by ambulance..asks me who he was..tells me to sit down and they will be with me..awhile later she comes back asks for my id ..comes back with a name tag...so I sit and wait and watch people go back ..I don't want to bother the nurses cuz I'm sure they are busy and working on my dad plus all their other patients ..I work in the medical field I know how it is..so finally at 1025 I go up and politely ask if someone could just check to see if my dads ok..she asks me who my dad is..even tho she'll was told earlier..but I tell her..comes back and says we have nobody by that name..I say we'll he came here by ambulance that I know..spell his name for her ..she leaves comes back and says he's ALREAdy IN A ROOM..WHAT???.SO NOW I'm mad.why wasn't I allowed to see him or atleast told he went to a room already..now my father who is 75 thinks nobody came to see him..I know nothing that's going on with him...!!..and this lady security guard has attitude and says don't shoot the messanger??..messanger,she was the one that checked me in..she had time to laugh with her fellow security guard..eat..go smoke..but not come after sitting their for 2 hours and check on the people sitting out there...DO BETTER...what if this was you and your family?...what if something happens to my father and I could never see him again cuz visiting hours were over at 9??????...I WANT TO KNOW YOUR POLICY....and hire people who TRULY CARE...