Kaweah Delta Medical Center

Had the best experience when I had my son here. Great nurses! I had the best ultrasound techs. I was high risk and was always in there and they were all so great. I wouldn’t want to give birth anywhere else.

The ER was very unprofessional. The front desk seemed to have a problem that I was reading my patient rights and asked questions. They staff was very unprofessional in their language towards each other and patients. I had to go two nights in a row because the first night they did no labs on me and just prescribed medication so I went back the second night and after I repeated requested, then they took my labs. So now I have 2 doctor bills instead of one. I will not go back to that ER. It was a horrible experience.

Had my son there, there was a prawn-​sized cock roach in the lamp over my head (lovely). I had one VERY rude nurse, but the others were nice. They barely fed my husband, who had to sleep in a chair for two nights. Then they tried to stick us with an additional $ 3000.00 for «nursery care» but our baby never left my side, we didn’t even let them bathe him in their chemical laden baby shampoo. It was «ok», the best thing is they didn’t push the hep b shot which was very appreciated, probably one of the best things about the whole experience.

The worst experience. Patient care was secondary to brakes and staff, nurses and doctors hangin out and talking about drinking and football.

We had a very bad experience in this hospital. My wife delivered our daughter here. Dr Lake was the OB GYN because our OB GYN Dr. Bosman will not be available on the delivery date.
Dr. Lake went to check on my wife two times during labor. He decided to break the water to facilitate labor. After that, he left. We have not seen him for a while after that. Not even a nurse went to the room to frequently check my wife’s labor progress.
My wife asked me to check because she can feel the head of the baby seems to be coming out. I was shocked to see that I can already see our baby’s head about to come out! I was furious that nobody was even inside the room. No nurses, no Dr. Lake! I have to call the nurses at the station.
Nurses rushed to prep my wife for delivery and even before they finished setting up, the baby was already out! The nurse holding my baby nervously shouted at me to stop recording with my video camera. Dr. Lake was no where to be found. After everybody was there, Dr. Lake finally came. He then stitched my wife while standing up, without wearing a sterile gown and NO gloves! This is his standard of taking care of his patient. He thinks we are just second class citizens he could treat that way.
It was a horrible experience we will remember for the rest of our lives. Do yourself a favor and stay away from this very unprofessional and unethical doctor and this substandard hospital.

I just had surgery yesterday and i thank all staff because they were all good to me love this place

Dirty
Slow
people throwing up
dirty
waits typically are over 8 hours which by then you can go to the doctor
even when waiting room is empty you wait forever
no one is getting called back
and they definitely have no order
They need to be shut down and opened by people who know how to run a hospital
Hope an inspector comes in and see the vomit all over

Bad rules. So I got a call this morning my daughter was on her way to the hospital. She said hurry up. Took care of the dogs, made the two hour drive, got there in time only to be told by a nurse I couldn’t go in. Already three people in the room. Usually it is three people at a time. Now it is three people period. The first three are the only ones that can see her all day.
This is the first grandchild’s birth I have missed. The baby was born hours ago and I am still sitting in the waiting room. I have to wait until regular visitors hours. This place sucks.
So let’s break this down. I arrived at noon. Only three people in the room at a time. I understand not having to many people in the room at a time because the staff needs to be able to move around. The first three people in her room were gone having lunch. My daughter was alone but since I wasn’t one of the first three to get there, I couldn’t see her. They told me three people, not interchangeable. Baby came at 2pm. They told me I had to wait until regular visiting hours at 6pm. At 6 pm they told me I had to wait until they moved her to another room. At 6:30pm they told me I had to wait because the nurse was tending to the baby. I finally got in around 7pm.
This is the coldest, most anti-​family hospital I have ever visited. If you live in Visalia and can think of an alternative to having a baby at Kaweah Delta, do it. You would get a better experience in the back seat of a taxi.

This review is in regards to their social services crew. They are awful. I called 3 days in a row leaving urgent messages on their machine because no one ever answers. My dad needed paperwork turned in and I wanted to verify where to take them and what I needed. I let them know it was urgent, there was a deadline. Nothing. Deadline passed and my senior, disabled father didn’t get his paperwork for medi-​cal completed. Patient and family services, yeah right!

Actually in E.R. right now! Staff was very good. I had nurses Ashleigh and Brianna and P.A. Lawrence. They were actually really great! The wait hasn’t been fun but there are a lot of people in the E.R. the only complaints I have are the cleanliness of the rooms and restrooms and I was very unhappy when I came in here bleeding and the security had to check my purse and my person! Overall experience was not too terrible considering I was in an E.R.

I went here for the ER several weks ago. My first time going to the ER in this city. I was expecting it to be busy since it was a Monday night. Proved me wrong I got there and was checked in and waited for a few mins and was called in. Doctor saw me and then there was a open bed and my nurse name, Michelle was awesome! She took good care of me abd asked me if I was doing okay and got me warm blankets! She was awesome and super nice! My overall experience is GREAT here.

Worst service and wait time I’ve ever seen. Nurses are rude. everything is un organized. My primary dr. Sent me strait over as well as called. We’ve been waiting in a room for 3.5 hours and counting… this place SUCKS

Horrible horrible place! My mother was there for a month and a half, and not one person on the staff thought to call me the first week, I had to call and locate her myself! When my mother would ask for me, the nurses lied to her and told her I was calling when she was sleeping. The night I showed up, after a 7 hour drive from my home in Las Vegas, I walked up behind a nurse that had the audacity to lie to her, saying I called and said I wouldn’t be there till the next morning. The next month and a half was a nightmare, non treating doctors would make judgment calls on her case, one young doctor even told her that there was nothing they could do for her and they would be sending her home, needless to say when I walked into her room, she was in tears, and I became angry and had her out of there within a week. Between the rude and disrespectful nurses (only one nurse treated mom with any dignity) that not only verbally abused my mother, but stole her pain meds, the house keeping staff that stole her purse and tried to break into her house (I overheard them discussing it right after they returned her purse after not being able to get into her house) and uncaring doctors with no bedside manners of which to speak of, this place isn’t a hospital, it’s a torture building. It’s disgusting how the majority of the staff behaves towards patients and families.

Emergency room receptionist are so rude and have no compasion for the patients. Waiting times have got better n the drs n nurses are nice n carring for the most part

I’ve been born and raised here in Visalia — and have had so, so many unfortunately terrible experiences with Kaweah Delta. The majority of nurses do not genuinely take care of their patients — rather than doing their part to facilitate a comfortable and trustful environment, they seemed to rather come in and out with little care or consideration for ANY patient or ANY family member/​visitor. The transferring of information from doctor to doctor or nurse to nurse is appallingly chaotic — my dad went in for a blood clot at one point in time, and when they transferred him over to the night doctor, he proceeded to diagnose that he needed to have an emergency back surgery. My dad had absolutely nothing wrong with his back, needless to say — and they neglected to call any family member for authorization. My aunt (who also lives in town) and I have had several back surgeries (down south at Cedar Sinai), and our xrays taken here at Kaweah Delta to be sent to our doctors are completely unreadable — it’s absolutely bizarre how terrible this hospital is. If you’re having an emergency, it’s worth the drive to go to Fresno — PLEASE!

Didn’t have a very good experience when I gave birth to my daughter in 2013. When I was swept away for cesearean they left my husband just standing in the room with paper like scrubs and no direction. Then when he finally got in they didn’t have him wash his hands. And one night a nurse named Melissa (pounced Mel-​e-​sa) almost dropped my newborn daughter. If i didn’t love my obgyn Dr. Bosman so much I’d have a baby somewhere else. Plus lactation consultant didn’t come quick enough. I gave birth at 5:38pm I didn’t see lactation consultant till 11am next day. Might consider having baby somewhere out of town if possible.

I went in a couple of weeks ago beause I cut my hand. When I go there there was so many people in the waiting room the nurses and the doctor were very nice. But today I got this huge bill. And it said on there that I never showed proof of insurance. And I did. My sister in law pulled out of my wallet because I was bleeding all over the place. Im so disppointed with Kweah Delta beacuse this happened the last time when we brought my step son there.

I have never seen so many handsome guys in one place. It was like being on the set of General Hospital.

Kaweah Delta Hospital is horriable. My mom came in with a neck injury and ended up passing away from it. All it would have taken was a steriod shot in her neck and my mom would still be with us. I am very upset with this hospital. My parents were in the hospital at the same time my dad had stage 4 colon cancer they sent him home shortly after his surgery when he was leaving an insession opened up with a foul oder and greenish puss they said he will be ok well that night he was back in the hospital and was septic we almost lost him also he did recover from that now on hospice. The ICU at kaweah Delta is the worst ICU I have ever seen and I have seen a lot. Staff was not good to patients not gotd at all with pain management. Thanks to Kaweah Delta my mom died at 59 and my dad almost passed 1 day later. Some nurses were great and I wish the best for them for the others I have nothing to say.

Kaweah Delta Hospice:
Horrible experience! Refused to increase our loved one’s base rate on the pain pump: instead told us we had to press the pain med bolus every 15 minutes day and night. Were sweet as pie in the hospital, but with the exception of one nurse, they were rude, judgemental, argumentative when we called for help.
They consistently contradicted what the other nurse told us to do and when questioned about this the supervisor was defensive and scolded family members for doing what they had been instructed to do.
We were forewarned by one of the Hospice nurses that their answering service receptionist was gruff and not real friendly, but she was tenacious about tracking down nurses!
What these so called professionals failed to do for our loved one and family was unconscionable; cruel; and has left indelible and excruciating memories that we will have to learn to live with for the rest of our lives.