WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital — Local services in Wheeling

I am putting one star because I can't put zero. I gave birth to my daughter at this hospital and my fiance and I did not have a good experience over all. My doctor was great, Dr. Lancione, I would recommend her to anyone, and so was the team that SHE put together to help her with my birth, but the rest of the experience was consistently unpleasant and infuriating. There was another reviewer that said she had a horrible experience and that her husband was discriminated against and that does not surprise me. She said if you are any kind of minority that you wont be treated well and I have to agree. My fiance and I are druid pagan and proudly adorn our pentacles as symbols of our faith, and we were constantly given dirty looks, especially my fiance. I understand it is a Catholic Hospital, but we didnt have much of a choice and they are supposed to respect all faiths and cultures regardless of their views. I hate the way my fiance was treated especially. When we got into the parking lot of the hospital, we had to ask where Labor and Delivery was because they DONT have a sign outside anywhere to indicate where it is, so we asked a security guard where labor and delivery was and his response was "Why?"...my fiance responded, "my girlfriend is in labor" and the guard's response was "Is she pregnant?"

I’m not going to go into FULL detail about how horrible I’ve been treated by nearly every person I’ve come in contact with at this so called hospital, but I’m currently 34 weeks pregnant and finally have enough courage to look for a different place to deliver my daughter. If you care about someone do not let them come here, and don’t get me wrong if they were just “rude” I can handle that, no problem, I get it your job is stressful, but when I have multiple woman (still to this day don’t know what their job titles were) checking my cervix and cutting me using the metal papsmier tool not sure what it’s called right now & literally saying “yeah I’m not sure what I’m doing” ?!! Been there for over an hour before they realized my monitor wasn’t even ON?!? & hooked me up to the wrong machine for contractions.. I was and still am so blown away by how these two woman still remain employees at a hospital! And than I tell the doctor (Dr. Swamy) on my following appointment about my visit to labor and delivery (I was only getting check out Bc I had some cramping and decided to go make sure everything was okay) and she says “well that’s here say I can’t do anything about it” and goes on an on and basically calls me a liar ?!? AND ALSO, maybe I will go into full detail Bc I’m so against this hell hole, I expiernced nerve damage to my neck & back in December, I was also pregnant at the time considering I’m still pregnant and it’s April, but anyways, I could not work, so my doctor I was seeing for the neck an neck injury suggest we contact my OB and make sure it is okay to get X-rays so she can help me further more with my injury, I called, my doctor called AND faxed over paperwork requesting permission to send me for X-rays and I even asked Dr. Swamy and the response we both received was “that’s not our department or problem” “that has nothing to do with us, but no do not get X-rays done” so i never had the X-rays done and ended up losing my job because I’m STILL suffering from the pain Bc my doc can only do so much (I see her once a week), i was at my apt with dr. Swamy yesterday & AGAIN was called a liar, she said if we would have requested it she would have said she didn’t care and to get the X-rays, I literally almost fell off the table, she was the rudest woman I’ve ever met on my entire life, made me feel about 2ft tall & because of her own ignorance and incompetence of her staff, I have had it!! The entire apt she babbled on and on like an idiot contradicting herself more times than I can even count all defending her mistakes and her staffs, not a single apology for how I was treated, NOTHING. I’d rather have my baby born at home!!!! Their are only 2 and I’m serious, 2 woman I’ve met at wheeling hospital that didn’t make me feel like garbage. This is my first baby and I always have my fiancé and or mother in law with me, an they’ve witnessed it all and their sick about it all, also. Wendy the nurse practitioner is wonderful on the other hand, BUT I will say this, when I told Wendy about not being able to get through on the phones for a week and 3 days straight or the on call Doc, she did inform me their are a lot of issues with the phone.. at least I got answers and didn’t get blamed for it ?! Lmao. But seriously don’t go here, I didn’t want to have a buckeye baby Bc I nor fiancé is from here, but looks like I’ll be trying OVMC and begging them to take me.. sorry for such a long rant. Just thought I’d worn anyone questioning...

My father is currently in Ruby Memorial Hospital getting treatment after a month long debacle with Wheeling Hospital which included three Hospital stays and no answers for his serious health issues. In this time period my Dad recieved multiple blood transfusions only to be released with no real plan of care. It was obvious he was bleeding to DEATH. The first visit my dad went in through the ER and then to the ICU to receive a blood transfusion. The Hospital stepped him down to a regular room and completed upper GI and then released him without any plan, follow-up, or orders to check his hemoglobin. He was supposed to have a colonoscopy but they discharged him before having this test. The outpatient office called and notified him his colonoscopy would be in 5 WEEKS. A few days later his Cardiologists checked his bloodwork/ Hemoglobin because he was concerned about my Dad having no planned or little follow-up! They discovered his Hemoglobin was in the 7's which was very LOW. He went back to Wheeling Hospital for another transfusion in which they finally did the colonoscopy. He was THEN released AGAIN without keeping him more than a few days or conducting ANY more in depth nuclear TESTING. I know for sure they had a nuclear test to detect internal bleeding but did they do it? No!!!!!! They told him to schedule a pill camera test on an outpatient basis which could take weeks to obtain, they did however have him came back for bloodwork in which they found my Dad had low hemoglobin again. So he went back to the hospital to receive yet another transfusion only to be released again. I'm sure I'm leaving out some details but the major points were expressed in this post. After all this mess and three hospital visits my Dad was FINALLY told by one of the ER doctor's to "go to Ruby ER". Mind you my Dad is legally blind since birth and can't drive as well as HIM still bleeding AND very unwell, dizzy, etc. They send him away while in the ER a forth time telling him to go to Morgantown. Why isn't there a referral process at this Hospital when people need a higher level of care? Why wasn't he told to go there earlier if they didn't have the technology to take care of his life threatening health issues? He was discharged each time and told to wait on follow-up testing that was scheduled weeks out in advance while my dad continued to bleed to DEATH. My Dad ended up taking a taxi to Ruby Memorial because I live out of state. When he arrived there he was told he really should have had a referral from Wheeling Hospital for them to treat him. Thank goodness they admitted him and are taking care of him at Ruby! They gave him more in depth testing within the first 24 hours of him being there than he recieved in three hospital visits at Wheeling Hospital. Wheeling Hospital SHAME on YOU!!! I worked as a social worker for many years and some of this time was hospitals. It doesn't take a genus to recognize medical NEGLECT! You NEGLECTed my father and his health has suffered as a result! You can only get so many transfusions before it starts to affect other organs in the body! He will hopefully get the surgery and care he needs at a real...