Eglin AFB Hospital

Yes, I know! It’s a military hospital but depending on who your nurses are, this place took great care of me. Hubby and I felt confident during our high-​risk pregnancy with the OB clinic and the Labor and Delivery Unit who went ‘above and beyond’ to welcome our baby boy. I hated the techs who bruised my arms from failing to get my IV line in. That was my only complaint. My nurses took such great care of me and hubby. Sometimes they would give him an unwanted meal plate from the dining café. So sweet! They constantly checked in on me and were very patient. I live that our OB doctor got to catch our baby. After delivery we were transferred to the recovery room, where we stayed for two days to fully recover. Nurses let us sleep at night and came right away when I buzzed. I also loved that they let me have my doula with me during my entire labor.

ER is terrible.
The two people that check you in are great.
Everything after that feels very unprofessional. It’s seems they’re almost annoyed that you’re there or too busy for you. There is a patronizing kind of sarcastic vibe as they’re asking /​documenting your situation. You get the feel that they’d rather be anywhere than where they are; specifically socializing and cracking jokes with each other.
They are not good with kids. All of my visits were for my children.
#1. My 4 yr. old daughter fell off a chair and hit her head hard on the tile floor. I couldn’t keep her awake and she could barely stand up. The triage nurse was determined to make her stand on the scale in order to get her weight. My daughter was crying for me to hold her and the nurse was just looking at us like, «Oh well, I’ve got all day… not moving forward till we get her weight.» Eventually I started crying bcse. my daughter couldn’t stand and was screaming and falling over for me to hold her. I told the nurse that my daughter was 37 lbs. (she gets on the scale every morning after I do) but she said «I have to get her exact weight.» This went on and on; me trying to peel my daughter, with a concussion, off of me. The triage nurse had no empathy or concern for either of us. She just stood there, not helping and with a smirk on her face. It was really awful! I’ve never known anyone to act this way in a situation like this. Felt like I was in a bad dream.
#2. Next, let’s talk about the pregnant doctor, dark hair, glasses (Prego in spring of 2015; don’t recall the name) this one’s a real gem; bad attitude and dirty looks to boot. I took my son in for an infected bug bite on his leg. She looked at it briefly and prescribed an oral antibiotic. I questioned as to why it needed nothing «topical» and she looked at me and responded as if I should get off Google and quit trying to self diagnose. 10 days later it was even worse; like a hole eating into his leg! Took him to his regular doc. To follow up. He gave us an anti fungal cream «topical» and the spot was almost healed within 3 days. SMH
#3. Took my 8 yr. old son in with a bad cough and tightness & pain in his chest. They took x-​rays and diagnosed with pneumonia quickly. Sent us home with antibiotics. Came back for 5 day follow-​up.
Again…in with the snarky, prego doc. She listened to his lungs and said he’s wheezing! Looking at me like how could I not know this? I said, «Oh…was he not wheezing before?» (I was assuming it would have been remarked upon /​documented if he was wheezing five days earlier or not, when initially diagnosed with pneumonia.) I’m not a doctor but it seems to make sense to me.
She looked at me with disgust and says,
«I don’t know if he was wheezing… I’m not the one that treated him.»
You will receive sub-​standard care from people that are consistently rude, unprofessional, and disrespectful.
Avoid if you can.
Ft. Walton Beach ER is AWESOME!
Gulf Breeze Baptist Medical Center is AWESOME!
So sad that that this is what we’ve got to deal with for an ER for our military families.
Note: other depts. are great!
Pharmacy, OB, etc… Love them!
It’s as if the ER is infected by toxic personalities or something and they’re all just sarcastic and pissed off; can’t quite put my finger on it.
Hope this helps someone :)

If you can aviod the er.omg. they suck.
It would take too much time to tell you how bad they suck. dont expect help during lunch time. they will be busy figuring out what there going to eat for lunch. and when you tell them they suck. they will call security .l
Emergency room= wait and die in a room.
Now.the other units are steller! The msu took great care of ny wife after the er dropped the ball… they were awsome! Labs. pharmacy .x ray. family heath. ect… keep up the great work.
Its a shame one bad dept has to spoil a otherwise good review.

This review is only pertaining to the OB department. Once you can bring your pregnancy proof they automatically enroll you into an orientation class. It was super helpful and they even inform you of what to do if you would prefer switching to standard to be seen off post. So far so good and I have lots of literature to look over after leaving the hour and a half class.

It’s a military hospital under construction, nothing amazing about it other than you have to walk around to different elevators to get the same floor but opposite side since construction has cut off all direct hallways for easier walking access. It has everything a regular hospital could have including emergency room and drug dispensing pharmacy. Hoorah!