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This Year I Will Be Without My Children's Father
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CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE -- It is a nightmare waiting to happen, they killed my children's father and think they got away with it but you have not. I am informing everybody I know to not use Erlanger as their hospital. If you are elderly and especially ** with little or no insurance, they will give you a death sentence. Please before you go there, I would stay at home first, your chances would be better. They have racist Dr. and nurses. They need to be reported for discrimination.

Check their ICU unit, not hardly any ** up there. This in itself is scary. I was told a while back by a friend that Erlanger killed his grandmother, not listening, "Oh how I wish I had." Now my children do not have a father. I will continue to talk about this till I can talk no more.

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Rating: 1/51

MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA -- My fiancé was in an accident, he flipped his 1000lb quad and got pinned underneath it for two hours. It took 8 men to lift the quad and one strong EMT to pull him him from underneath it. Fortunately he was alive and just scraped up. BUT he hit his head on a tree stump when it flipped. The emergency crew were great. Can't say enough good things about them. They took him to the hospital, I followed with a driver. My friend and I both were told, since my friend was in the room at the time that he had no concussion.

I come from a medical family but I did not pursue the field of medicine so stupid me didn't question the fact that anyone that hits their head that hard must have a concussion. Well, 4 days later I realized that he was hallucinating. He saw people in trees. He saw a donkey coming through the front door. I took him back to Erlanger immediately. They gave him a bed in ER. He was made to wait 8 hours for the Dr. to see him. The Dr. ordered a series of tests, and the staff followed orders. I went outside to get some air for about 5 minutes, tops. While I was gone the Dr came in with signed release papers and said that he could go home. He did not discuss the results of tests. He wasn't in the room for more than 60 seconds.

The male nurse in charge was wonderful. He told us how easy it is to get a concussion. He was in Iraq he said, and added that men and women soldiers got concussions from the bomb blasts close to them. I figured that he knew the results of the tests and knew that it was a concussion, just by the way he explained it to us. What he didn't know was up until then we were clueless. I was speechless. Now I knew why the Dr didn't say anything, he was too afraid of saying that my fiancé was misdiagnosed.

I think of all the questions I should have asked the nurse but I was dumbfounded. My fiancé didn't know what was happening. He has no memory from going to the hospital and the two weeks that followed. Almost everyone knows that one cannot go to sleep for a certain amount of hours after receiving a concussion. He did nothing but sleep. One time he slept for 36 hours, no exaggeration.

If it wasn't for his nurse we would not know anything. I don't believe in lawsuits but if ever there was cause for malpractice this would fall into that category. We don't know what the long term damage is, how could we, the Dr. did not want to talk to us about test results. I'm not done with them yet. Unfortunately I didn't get the Dr.'s name so I can report him. If this is some kind of protocol by which the hospital protects themselves then it is the most dangerous place to be under any circumstances.

I have learned a lesson. I should have demanded to see the test results. I should have hunted the Dr down. Did they keep him lying there for 8 hours, when the Dr was right there, on purpose? I don't know. I did see the Dr in a room laughing and joking with which I assume was another staff member. I came away with two thoughts. One is they are incapable of caring for patients and two, I hope that we never, ever have to go back to that hospital for anything. I wouldn't be surprised if they have or will be sued for malpractice. I pray for anyone that goes there for help. God bless all that fall into the hands of Erlanger Hospital.

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Room and Hallways Filthy. Floors Sticky When You wLk on Them. Holes in the Wall in the Room. This Hospital Needs a Good Cleaning.
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Rating: 1/51

CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE -- My husband was airlifted here from an accident. When he arrived in the ER we were assigned Dr **. He was arrogant and uncaring. Opposite of everything a Dr should be. Had it not been for Dr ** coming in to assess my husband he probably would have bled to death. The ER was filthy. We were placed in the TICU on the 4th floor. Then on day 2 we were sent to the 9th floor. The room was filthy. The hallway was filthy. There was dirt on the floor. Looked like body fluid spots on the floor. There were holes in the wall. I have never been in such a filthy room in all my life. I never want to come back here. How do they pass Joint Commission inspections? This place is a dump.

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Erlanger Staff and Neurologist Killed My Children's Father
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CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE -- Erlanger killed my children's father damaging his brain. Dr. ** is a rotten neurologist that literally mess up his brain! I will speak on this everyday until his license is taken. You killed Ralph **. Every Monday an serious issue would come up until that terrible day February 15 he expired thanks to Er, anger unprofessional staff. I beg of you please don't take your family there. They finally killed him.

I think they think if he was able to speak he would say something that would really get them in serious trouble! He is coming to me in dreams now and it is not over and will not be over till somebody pays! I won't stop talking, I will speak of this devil until I can no more. They practice euthanasia and kill black elderly people! It is a death trap! More on this later! I have to get the correct name of the neurologist who performed his surgery. To be continue.

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Erlanger Permanently Disabled Me
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CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE -- In March 2016 I was airlifted to Erlanger. I was on a gurney for 12 hours in the E.R. with no triage. Then they put me in a soundproof room. When I finally came to I was told that I had a shattered forearm, 9 broken ribs, and a broken shoulder blade. Somehow they missed a severe concussion and also a fractured hip. The orthopedic surgeon did not let my husband know that they were going to hack into my arm and put a metal plate in it. Because of this hospital, I now have Post Concussion Syndrome because they never drained the blood out from behind my brain.

For 6 months, I was unable to drive because I had no peripheral vision and this was diagnosed by a neurosurgeon in Cookeville Tennessee. I now have problems with my memory, long and short term. There is no cure but it could heal in 15 to 20 years but even then, I will only get 95% of it back.

They gave me morphine after my husband said I was allergic to it. They did not feed me. My husband had to use $300 of his own money to feed me because they said the cafeteria was closed. I had a fractured left hip that they missed and I now have a lower lumbar problem. I sat in oil, gas, airbag powder, and fire extinguisher powder for 3 days before I got a sponge bath. You should see how bad my arm was hacked.

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Erlanger has made my life a living hell
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CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE -- It has been almost 2 years on the 15th it will be 2 years when this dangerous racist hospital murder my children father. I will never forget it and Revenge is your my love... I will leave it in your hands. I pray every day for relief. Heavenly father I pray that you will take care of this..Amen

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His Surgery Was A Success However After That He Never Was Allowed To Leave This Nightmare Of A Hospital
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CHATTANOOGA -- They let my children father aspirate. He was never elevated at no time. The bed he was in would not go up and every time we sent there he was lower to an improper degree. We complain to no avail. They put things in his records that should not had been, like hitting a nurse, knowing this man had just had surgery. He was given medicine through lines that were not flush out. The line became contaminated. He developed a bile problem, the lines were totally contaminated. I blame myself for not staying up there with him but who would ever think a hospital would kill you...

They lied about the plate they took out of his head, they were continuous lying. The Neurologist had a very poor review rating. Please check your Doctor's reviews before selecting one. His brain became herniated because I truly believe he went back in without our permission to put that plate back that probably should have stayed out until the brain heal... Every Monday there was some kind of issue. He coded on a Monday, and in the end, he died on a Monday... I know he did. God will take care of them and they know who they are. You did not get away, from the deed you did. Please believe me. It will come to you one day when you experience the same thing I did.

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Erlanger the murdering hospital
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CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE -- Tomorrow would had been my 50th Anniversary with my husband Ralph. Church Jr. Erlanger you are a Murderer and will never let you forget it! I pray every single day that you pay and one day you scum bags will pay!

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Nasty Room, Poor R.N. Response /Dr. Aloof, Not Caring, or Even Competent Concerning My Condition.
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CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE -- This room had obviously not been cleaned, food particles in sink, mirror very dirty, urinal had no lid, probably used. Commode lid filthy with urine all over seat, floor actually black from not being wet mopped. I spilled some water on floor trying to clean out urinal, used a washcloth to wipe up water, actually black when I turned washcloth over, nastier than the worst motel I have ever stayed in. Room floor also dirty.

Asked for some pain RX at 11:15p.m for 4 broken ribs. R.N. didn't come to bring any med. for one and one half hrs. I could not even roll over onto my side due to severe pain, when x-ray person came to my room with a wheel chair and said "Get up and get in w/c alone with no assistance." Impossible to do physically.

Wife went out to nurses station to request help. R.N. said to wait and she would request a portable chest x-ray. She then came back to my room and said the Dr. would not allow, must get into w/c. P.T. never came to room to assist or even evaluate if I could get out of bed. Dr. said "Go home, come back for another chest x-ray in one week to see if internal bleeding had gotten worse."

I just had an arteriogram four days before auto accident, on blood thinners with a stent into R. coronary artery. Worst hospital experience EVER!!! The only bright spot in the Erlanger Hosp. experience was a student nurse, "Ester" from Collegedale School of Nursing. She was excellent, concerned and caring and helped in any way she could.

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Very unprofessional and neglectful
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CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE -- I was treated like I was not important at all. The ER Dr. would not look at my neck nor my MRI which would have told them I am in excruciating pain. They could have given me a shot. Or something. All they gave me was an ultram and that was three hours ago and I'm still in tears due to how bad I am hurting. My blood pressure was 172/104 which should have been the first clue to how bad I'm hurting. But everything I said was ignored and I'm still hurting extremely bad. Not usually one to complain, I do apologize.

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1.0 out of 5, based on 13 ratings and
15 reviews & complaints.
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Erlanger Hospital
975 E 3rd St
Chattanooga, TN 37403
423-778-7000 (ph)
www.erlanger.org
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