Blake Medical Center

Nurses are terrific, Doctors Need to step off their high horses and treat all people with respect. Never have I seen doctors (2^nd occasion) treat people with such disstain and disrespect as I have at Blake Hospital

If I could give this hospital no stars, I would. On July 29^th we took our 9 year old here because her ears were bothering her (ear infection). Urgent care was closed due to after hours and visiting from out of state we had no other choice…
Well $ 1327.00 later. can you believe this… had I known this was going to be the cost for that 3 hour wait and 3 minute visit to look into her ears, I might have made my kid suffer another day. Not to mention, the doctor who saw her prescribed her an adult dosage of antibiotics. Thank goodness the pharmacist was paying attention.
Never again! If you’re ever in the Bradenton/​Sarasota area and need a doctor on the fly… don’t go here, you’ll have no money left to enjoy the rest of your vacation. This seems to definitely be a «for profit» hospital.

Review for: Heart surgery & CV-​ICU (CardioVascular ICU)
My mother (71) received a mitral valve repair. The surgeons were excellent and everything in the surgery was handled extremely well and we were kept informed of her progress. She had poor ability to respirate before she had surgery and the doctors had warned her, and us, that it could be an issue with recovery. As expected her heart worked great but she had difficult breathing so she spent several weeks in the CV-​ICU. This has provided us an opportunity to have almost all of the CV-​ICU nurses to care for her as well as many of the doctors (Cardio, Pulmonary, Infectious Disease, Ear Nose Throat, Nephrologist, GPs, etc. The care has been excellent and the nurses, physician assistants, respiratory therapist and doctors could not have been nicer or more competent. They all took time to explain what they were doing, the treatments she was receiving and the anticipated progress to expect. We were always made to feel welcome and they monitored her very very closely for the entire stay. Most CV-​ICU nurses have 1 or 2 patients and they are tending to them almost all of the time. She also spent a week on the 5^th floor (newly remodeled and very nice), which is the non-​ICU cardio recovery area. The care here was excellent also and even when my mother had a slight relapse with her breathing and had to be moved back to the CV-​ICU many of the nurses came on their own time to visit my mother and check on her in the CV-​ICU. Before I wrote this review I tried to think of what constructive criticism I could provide but I really can not think of any. Even the case manager Sandra Armstrong was very helpful and attentive to my mother’s situation and worked to move her into a rehab that was of our preference. If my mother had to go through this situation again I would choose Blake again with no hesitation but based on how the surgery went and the post-​op care she received I do not believe she will have to.

I wasn’t too thrilled with the staff in the emergency room at Blake. I’ve been in their ER 3 times, I brought my mom there twice and my Grandmother once. Every time, they were not very busy at all, yet it took them an eternity to bring you a glass of water when you needed one. Each time I went, the staff refused to let me into the ER to be with my family and I was stuck in the waiting room every time for over 2 hours. With the condition my family was in when they were in the ER, they were not able to speak for themselves, I had to harass the guard to let me in the back. I won’t be going to Blake Medical ever again.

Blake took a deep interest in my previous bad Unilocal!review. Their Director of ER spoke to me personally over the phone and addressed my concerns. My wife was again experiencing some pain and we decided to give Blake another unbiased try. A much better experience than before. They made an effort to improve the overall ER experience. Good for them!

Had some reconstructive surgery. I found the Nurses and Nurses Aides competent. Timely, and attentive. Resident Docs’ languages and dialects a problem, especially when medicated :-) .
Food services, not too bad.