Temecula Valley Hospital Gets An F Grade

I have been thinking about writing on how badly my wife was treated at Temecula Valley Hospital for a long time now. If she wasn't mistreated the first time I brought her into the Emergency Room on January 13th maybe she would be alive today. I told the attending male nurse everything wrong with her. When she was released, I was given her exit papers and nothing I said to the nurse was relayed to the ER Doctor. She was waiting to see a Doctor for at least 3 hours in the waiting room. Then she was released 15 minutes later with the diagnosis of being dehydrated. Then on January 18th I had to call for an ambulance because by then she had stopped eating, had a temperature, and couldn't walk on her own any longer. She was tested for Covid-19 immediately and it came back positive the next day. By then it was too late. She went from weighing 100 lbs. to 75 lbs. in less than a week. They just couldn't her back from the edge of death. The first few days in the hospital she was able to talk to people on the phone and eat some of the food they furnished. But she soon deteriorated into getting a tube down her throat so they could help her breath and feeding her intravenously. Of course nobody could talk to her then. Finally, after 3 cardiac arrests, and no hope of recovery, they pulled the plug as they say, and she passed away on February 4th.

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I love you honey. Rest In Peace

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You have probably heard that the United States has the best Healthcare System in the world. That is a straight out lie perpetrated by the Healthcare Industry itself. And don't believe what you see on TV and the Movies where every Doctor and Nurse cares for you and fights until the last minute to save your life. That's not the real world. Just ask some of your extended family members and friends. You will be surprised how many stories people will have on how someone was mistreated, missed diagnosed, and soon died because of it. The problem is, hospitals are no longer administered locally. Temecula Valley Hospital is owned and operated by Universal Health Services, Inc. "A Pennsylvania based company that is one of the largest healthcare management companies in the nation." You don't get that lofty distinction by spending money to save lives. You get it by figuring out that if you can get a steady flow of individuals to coming into your hospitals ER and send those people home with a handful of prescriptions, you don't have to use your main hospital facilities on Them. You can charge a hefty co-pay from each person and a large sum to their insurance companies. In this way, the rest of the hospital facilities, which generate low profits, can sit unused. Plus, everyone working in the ER is taught apathy, not empathy. "You will burn yourself out if you care too much!" I actually heard two nurses talking the last time I was in the ER who were saying, "Its not my job." Second nurse. "So we are going to let people die?" First nurse again. "Its not my job." Second nurse. "So people will die." The first nurse suddenly turns around and walks away. I heard this in the Covid ward of the hospital because I had the Covid-19 virus the same time as my wife did.

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Now you might be asking yourself, "Why don't I sue?" Well, someone who is more affluent than I told me of their experience with the whole process and lawyers that a Management Company keeps on hand to squash any attempt at winning a verdict favorable to you. The best you can do is complain and that what I am going to do.

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This first site I believe is universal between all states and I am positive each state has a Medical Board and Department Of Public Health you can look up to send in your own complaints. Don't be intimidated. If you don't say something, nothing will ever change!

HH.gov

https://www.hhs.gov/answers/health-insurance-reform/how-can-i-complain-about-poor-medical-care/index.html

 

How to file a complaint with the Medical Board - California Department of Consumer Affairs

https://www.dca.ca.gov/consumers/complaints/medbd.shtml 

 

California Department Of Public Health

https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/Pages/FileAComplaint.aspx 

 

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