if you live in ft worth - dont go here

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http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/606891.html
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In the Short Stay Unit, InSight reported that some patients spent 10 days in a hallway bed, with only a thin curtain to separate them. Up to 26 patients shared one bathroom with one sink, one toilet and no shower. Patients not strong enough to go to the bathroom had to share one portable toilet.
As for basics like thermometers, wheelchairs and IV poles -- there weren't enough to go around.
Cynthia Brannon said her sister spent a week and a half in a hallway bed waiting for surgery.

[Wht95Lightning]

positively atrocious! :flaming:


I highly recommend Harris Methodist H.E.B. hospital. I've been there twice and the staff was very professional and I was treated properly and with courtesy and respect.

[slick-svt]

JPS is a shithole!!!! all of our taxes pay for someone else from another country to have a 20 kids and when we get sick we're fuct, or told we make too much money, for their shit......:flaming:

[BC Lightning]

JPS is a shithole!!!! all of our taxes pay for someone else from another country to have a 20 kids and when we get sick we're fuct, or told we make too much money, for their shit......:flaming:

JPS is a county hosp, and its also a learning facility for the residents, so everything that can get throught the door with no insurance will be seen.... eventually, as well as prison inmates

I'm at JPs 3-4 times a week, it is nasty to say the least, until you get to the OR floor

Its like Parkland and its where the residents rotate to after their 3 months at Parkland, then Private practie @ Zale, and then the VA

People with insurance are taken to Baylor AllSaints or Harris Methodist

John Doe's, no insurance, prison inmates are taken to JPS

[BC Lightning]

Wait a week for surgery?? I call BS on that, they have a new wing with tons of new ORs, fully staffed, and are doing some type of surgery from 7am till midnight some nights

What the story probably failed to mention is that the patient in some aspect was not cooperating, had something in their system, decided against surgery, had a mental illness and didn't have anyone there to sign the consent papers for surgery, etc


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I have an ENT surgeon that does 10-20 surgeries every Tuesday and Thursday at JPS, granted he has 5 residents with him and has 2 OR rooms going at the same time, but one case I had with him got canceled 3 times and the patient ended up staying for a week @ JPS because he had been diagnosed with a slight mental illness at 17, mom didn't file all the right papers out and had been signing on his behalf, well kid turns 18, gets into a fight and breaks his jaw and orbital rim, mom tries to sign the papers to do the surgery, but doesn't show her to be legally responsible for him, so now the kid doesn't want the surgery, then decides he wants it but wont sign the papers, took a couple of days of this and then the DA came up and gave the mom power to sign on his behalf

I walk through JPS' ER waiting room and highly doubt anyone is there for a week, granted they are on beds in the hallway

JPS Arlington off New York Ave is really nice and state of the art, the Oral Surgeons use that facility


If you really want some bad horror stories then go to Parkland, the stuff the residents tell me just sad

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If you really want some bad horror stories then go to Parkland, the stuff the residents tell me just sad


Thats not surprising, go work at most large teaching facilities and its the same story, different place.. I speak from having worked at a large med school and teaching hospital for 9 years.

Dana