My husband, age 57, had surgery at this hospital. He caught two infections while in recovery and was sent to five different ICU's. He had terrible care. They tried to cover over their errors, and they wouldn't tell me much about the infections. I was told to look them up on the computer. The ICU-G he was in was dirty; the room was hot (it was last summer). They said the air conditioning didn't work due to their being a window in the room.
On June 20, 2007, he had surgery. He was in ICU until the end of July. His kidneys shut down due to the infections, and was on dialysis. He was moved to TCU the end of July, and we were looking for a rehab for him to go to. But they did not get him up from bed as they were supposed to, he got bed sores while in ICU, and he even had a sore on the top of his head which they never treated. We had to ask for a wound nurse to treat his bed sores, and had to ask for an air mattress.
After being in TCU, he was to have a shunt removed from his neck on a Thursday--a 15 minute procedure. After waiting until 6 p.m. to have this done, the doctor came in and canceled this until two days later, a Saturday. On Friday, while awaiting the procedure, another infection set in where the shunt was, and the infection was identified as Acinetobacter Baumannii. His heart rate went up, his blood pressure went down, and his temp went up to 104 degrees. He was moved back to ICU on Saturday, and on Sunday they gave him blood. We didn't know this until Monday when they told us he had started bleeding, but they didn't check where it was coming from until Monday. And by then, they couldn't tell. That very next morning, he coded; and it took them 12 minutes to get him back; then he was in a coma for the next two and a half weeks.
I was told there was no hope and had to take him off the respirator on August 28. He died August 29th at 2 a.m. The death certificate said: natural causes. This was a lie. This infection took my husband's life. He was only 57 years old.
While in a coma, I begged them to replace his catheter. They never did, and he got an infection in that, plus in two other places. Jewish Hospital is filthy. I have learned that Acinobacter comes from our wounded soldiers in Iraq bringing this home and being in rehabs and VA hospitals, and it is getting into other hospitals and killing people. Many of these soldiers were in Jewish Hospital, and they died before they could have surgery.
There was much neglect of my husband. He wasn't cared for as he should have been. The rooms were dirty. Items would fall on the floor, and the nurses would pick them up to use them; I would say, "Throw it away". Someone in Jewish Hospital might be a carrier of Acinetobacter Baumanni. I've been told this is rare, but navy and army hospitals have much of this. Something should be done about it. I think my husband would have come home had it not been for the unsanitary conditions and poor care he received at Jewish Hospital.
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