Moses Taylor Hospital

The only reason this dump gets one star is because its not possible for me to put 0 stars. My son was born here not long ago. What was supposed to be one of the greatest two-​three days of my wife and my lives turned unnecessarily stressful. First, it took the fools in the delivery room over 3 ½ hours to give my wife her epidural. She asked for it at 6 cm because she was in the midst of a very painful back labor. Her pain was so severe that she turned pale white and began crying in pain (which is something I have never seen her do in over 13 years of being together, even in her precious delivery of our daughter). It was then that I went to the front desk and told them I was done playing nice and asking kindly. Once I got gruff, which I should not have had to do because it took focus off helping my wife, they finally decided to send some one up to do it. Also, while her delivery doctor, Dr. Tomassoni, was amazing and an incredibly positive help to us both; the delivery nurse helping her was anything but. I uunderstand the pressure of the job, but I sure didn’t appreciate essentially being told to shut up while I was encouraging my wife and coaching her. Nor did I appreciate the off the cuff and flippant breastfeeding comment another of the nurses made after my son was born. Also, don’t even get me going on the nursery. My wife had a mosquito bite on her leg, which led to the idiots in the post partum unit quarantining our room without notifying us first and acting like we all had some kind of communicable diseases. It really sat well with me when Nicole in the day care, who should invest a little less of her salary on fake nails and more on buying a personality, stripped my son in the hallway and made comments such as «what do you want??» every time I would attempt to bring my son in there so my wife and I could catch 10 minutes of sleep. While some of the nurses and aides there were good, by and large the experience was extremely undesirable. To put it in a nutshell, even if I were still in Scranton; which mercifully we aren’t, I would sooner go without hospital care than go back to Moses Taylor. As for delivering another of my children? I’d go with Dr. Tomassoni again in a heartbeat, but if it had to be done at Moses Taylor, I’d rather have them born at home than there. Like I said to start, if I could give less than one star, I would.

I have had two short procedure surgeries at Moses-​Taylor. Both times the nurses and everyone else was so nice, accommodating and friendly! Even going in for presurgery testing, they were quick and efficient, and of course so friendly!

My doctor sent my blood for testing to this hospital. It was nothing more than a cholesterol profile and I was charged 900 dollars. My insurance paid 700 dollars and I was responsible for the 200-​dollar difference. Other labs in the area do not charge this much for simple blood work. This hospital should be investigated for excessive overcharging.

The patient care at this hospital, and probably every other NEPA hospital is atrocious. It was shocking to see how misinformed and discourteous 90% of the nursing staff was.