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From: Pandora.Nigh@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Pandora Nigh)
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Subject: Re: va hospitals
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Date: 17 Oct 90 04:30:25 GMT
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     Hi Jack, yes the quality does vary. We have two seperate VA 
hospitals here. The Wade Park facility that was shown on Diane Sawyers 
report and the Brecksville Center. Only the Wade Park facility has been 
really bad. I also think that anytime you go to the hospital you can run 
into some real bad care and unsatisfactory enviornmental conditions. I 
have been in hospitals that at night if you ring for a bed pan or 
anything else you can wait hours for response. ( I have solved this 
problem- I wet the bed and then they have to remake the whole thing plus 
transfer me in the middle of the night and this takes longer than to get 
a bed pan. Once you do that to them it's amazing how fast they come when 
you buzz.) I have been on wards where the nursing staff had no idea how 
to transfer or help you transfer from the bed to a chair. There concept 
was to dislocate your shoulders and collar bones as they drop you to the 
floor. At Metro General hosptial I had a filthy room, the window sill 
and the side of the bed next to that looked like it hadn't been cleaned 
in years. I guess when ever and what ever hospital you go to you can 
run into problems. But there is no excuse for the degree of abuse that 
the  Wade Park facility did.
                                   Pandora

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