Palmetto Health Baptist Hospital

Overall I was very pleased with the hospital the staff and the room. They even let my 14 yr old daughter stay with my husband for the duration of my stay!! That to me is a plus

The place was clean, the staff was kind, and the beds were oversized for gastric bypass patients.

I have my pain well controlled, but I think more could have been done to make my stay more comfortable.

They turned their heads to obvious problems for the all mighty dollar. I'm glad to hear they have discontinued their WLS program w/ Dr. Schriver. As far as I know he was the only one that they allowed to do those surgeries. We felt like we were thrown to the wolves with them. Their response to us was always that we should take it up with our doctor.

If this will save one life it is worth it. Please stay away from Dr. Peter "Dr. Death" Schriver and Palmetto Baptist Hospital. Do your homework and see what his death toll is.

My thoughts about this hospital have greatly changed since they cancelled my surgery 9 days before I was scheduled to have it. They decided on 8/27/03 that is was not cost effective for them to continue to allow Dr Shriver(who I have the upmost respect for) to no longer perform gastric by-pass surgery there as of that day. I thought hospitals were non profit and their concern was for their patients. I guess I was wrong. This has put a hardship on me because I live close to Dr Shriver and the hospital. Now I have to start all over again somewhere else. I think the hospital should have at least had the compassion to allow Dr Shriver to perform the surgeries that were already scheduled. They should have thought about the individual people this was affecting and not about their own administrative salaries.

I would highly recomend this hospital to anyone.

The hospital was excellant, very clean, and the staff very friendly and helpful. The nurses were right there when you needed them, plus they would pop in quit often to check up on me..I would recommend this hospital to anyone.

The nursing staff before surgery and after was GREAT!! I never seen housekeeping tho.. I was in the hospital for 4 day's and 3 nights. During my 4 day stay my bed was only changed once. I had a problem with one nurse. She was not a nice person and didn't want to help me with ANYTHING..MY comment to her is Your in the wrong field lady.

For the most part the hosptial and nurses were good. THere is always one nurse though who makes the stay miserable. I had that nurse (of course) that took nearly 2 hours to bring me pain meds, let my dressing bleed through my gown before my mother finally had to change it, and couldn't figure out how to do the disharge paperwork. Other than that one shift though, the nurses were very attentive and caring. I didn't sleep at night much, so the nurses kept checking on me and didn't mind at all putting me to bed so late.

I will say that post-op they did nothing they said they would. The nutritionist and the nurse you interview with post-op all assure you that they will check up on you every month for hte first year. It is 7 months later and I have yet to hear from either of them!