Southern California Hospital at Hollywood

This is by far the worst hospital ever. No kinda personal care from staff. I was admitted at 830 am, took these bumbling idiots 3 hours just to find a pillow! No one comes when u push the call button. Still have not seen a doctor yet. So Lame
Dont stay here if you are in serious condition ! I am here for pneumonia and had to demand oxygen ! IDIOTS! Thats medi cal !! Crap crap crap !
Ok i have been in ICU for over a week and despite the first night, on general floor im assuming the staff was poorly trained. One nurse actually told me i was crazy to the respiratory therapist and both made it seem i was the problem as im drowning in my own fluid, then he finally came to the deduction that oh she cant breathe with out 100% oxygen and why i was screaming like a banchee!
Having said that the ICU nurses and staff have been amazing and kind since then .
Just know this is a very small community hospital and there are no single rooms, its 3 to a room and thats what u get but still less than 5 on ICU unit .
I am with health net medi cal

Zero stars. I am so flipping frustrated with the rampant incompetence and utter negligence I’ve witnessed at this hospital. Waiting 3 days for a consult from a Dr. Markie is inexcusable and borders on malpractice and certainly qualifies as delay of care. Today, I’ve raised hell to try to get the consulting doctor to grace us with his presence. After, they sent a young Physicians Assistant Erwin Hernandez that was no help at all basically told me to wait and see if her condition improves (it has gotten worse since we got here actually) and now they have discharged us. The on-​call Dr. Johnson hung up on our nurse Lorna who was trying to help me when I asked if I could speak with him. The nurse we has on Saturday, I’ll call her Nurse Ratchet (her name was Linda) was rude, condescending, argumentative and walked away from me when I tried to get information on the treatment plan or any updates on my sisters care. This woman clearly needs to find another line of work and be fired. I feared for my sister’s well being while she was in this nurses care. Basically, we’re leaving with all the symptoms that we arrived with. Do yourself a favor and avoid this hospital at all costs!

Had a great experience. All the staff were friendly. The facility is very clean. Have had a chronic illness for over 20 years and learned new, better ways to manage myself from the caring staff at this hospital. They were very attentive to my needs and responded quickly when I called. Even when they were very busy, someone came to check on me. The hospital administrator even checked on me a couple of times! They make people feel important. Couldn’t have asked for a better stay. Thank you to everyone who helped me!

At Southern California Hospital at Hollywood the staff helped me through one of the most profound medical experiences of my life. Long before I walked through those doors for care my communication began with the administrators. I am transgender and even though we live in 2016, very few hospitals have approved the gender confirmation procedure and the administrators continued to work tirelessly to get the procedure approved through several committee reviews over several months. I learned as a prospective patient I had to be patient with the process and let them do what they had to do because I genuinely trusted the staff expertise and process. Fast forward four months later and I’m invited to come see the operating room where my approved procedure would happen. I met OR nurses, several administrators and that experience braced me for my procedure that would happen in the upcoming months. As much as a hospital can feel like a home is what Southern California Hospital at Hollywood had become. Prior to surgery I got reminders and told if I needed anything prior that the staff would do their best for me. Day of surgery I brought my mom and friend and it seemed like I was having a send off to college party! All those familiar faces I met months before welcomed me and my family and friends with open arms and they all had a beautiful catered breakfast while I prepped for surgery with Dr. Sinclair and Dr. Kowalczyk and it was beautiful start to finish. I woke up for s second after the procedure in OR and the staff all said Beautiful Beliisima! I felt whole again. Then in my recovery room I was mad cause I was in pain but the nurses on floor 2 are some of the best wound care nurses around. I had 24 on the hour nurse supervision emptying my catheter and giving my meds and being good people overall talking about the news and weather and although I am the first transgender patient the nurses and staff were so thorough and educated that I felt like I was on heaven on earth. Every time I has interaction with staff my pain eased. I am forever grateful to the Dr Sinclair and Dr. Kowalczyk who were skillful enough to create such art and happiness for me and to the staff at SoCal Hollywoood, I love you all and a million thank you’s cannot express my gratitude but after a stay of four days I was healthy and happy and I was ready to live my new life. Btw the ending was beautiful too they sent me home with lots of hugs, instructions and a beautification car service! I wish all the best who undergo surgery here best of luck and remember that all those inside of this hospital want the best for you and will do their best for you, be patient as you can be let them work and trust the process! I would like to thank the administrators and Nurses specifically Catherine, Connie, Michelle, Abigail, Karen, Marisol, Mark, the sanitation staff and of course all those I forgot to name !!! Much love

There for 2 days. When I felt almost normal I told them if the don’t discharge me I’m walking out. Had to ask for everything at least twice. Nurses are easily stumped by intelligent questions. Had 3 different doctors come to visit with updates. When I asked them questions they’d «go find out» and never return with an answer. No one asked to change my sheets or gown. Friends brought clothing and meds and the nurse took meds as I was putting them in my clearly marked pill box divided by day of week and am/​pm claiming they didn’t want me to overdose. She didn’t even look to see what they were. Afterwards I had to ask for them each day and it took them well over a hour to deliver. Anything that wasn’t «in their formulary» they replaced with meds from their pharmacy. When I did check out they couldn’t find my meds. STAY CLEAR!!!

My mom was transferred here from Kaiser and I was upset that it was a 45 min drive from our house, But Me and my family are grateful that she was sent here since they treated my mom with top notch care within 2 days she was diagnosed and had the issue taken care of when kaiser had told her she was okay and that nothing was wrong with her. Not the best looking hospital but the got the Job done when Big Corp Kaiser rejected my moms Medical Keep up the good work Dr. Johnson, I will be reaching out to you soon.

My son was transferred to this sh*thole from another hospital where he had been in the ER due to insurance purposes
He had a collapsed lung … this place is very dirty and the nurses are incompetent
The man next to my son. his cell phone would ring very loudly all the time and wake my son up so he got no sleep. when I complained about it nothing was done… how can you rest when there are loud noises all the time ?
My son was on the 3^rd floor in ICU. a woman kept screaming all the time … this place is a war zone
My son checked out AMA because he thought he would die there
They want to keep you there longer than necessary so they can bill your insurance …
I have never been to a hospital as noisy as this one and am glad my son left
DO NOT go here !!!
This place is creepy !!

Too many problems from a to z. Could write a book. Liars, incompetent or just plain evil drs — take your pick — patient dumpers, obamacare death panel participants.

Do not come in or let yourself get transfer to this s***hole, every outdated nurses are very lazy, they give you wrong medication they serve you food you shouldn’t be eating and when you need assistance from the nurse there no where to be found they check up on the patience when they remember oh s*** I’m at work this place is a nightmare that needs to be shut down

I wish I could give 0 stars. This hospital is the absolute worst. RUN DON’T WALK! My dad was in ICU and left with bed sores. They weren’t turning him. The entire experience was a nightmare. It’s hard to reach anyone over the phone from nurses to case managers. There’s tons of students there so be ready. Don’t expect anything good to come from this place. They kept my dad some extra days so they could collect on his insurance. There were also always security guards outside of rooms. I assume this place is where they take inmates.

SHUT IT DOWN!
Hands down the worst health care experience of my life. No one should be subjected to this kind of «care».
After going to the ER at Cedars Sinai for chest pain, my fiancé was transferred to SC Hospital because it was the closest place that took her insurance. The first thing I noticed was the smell of old cigarettes and cleaning products, more like a dingy motel than a hospital. Second, we asked for a pillow which wasn’t already on the bed. Instead we got a blanket in a pillowcase. It took 7 hours for them to produce a an actual pillow. In the meantime we found out that all of the tests that were done at Cedars would have to be repeated, including another Xray, exposing her to unnecessary radiation (something the doctors at Cedars tried to prevent) because for some reason, despite having access to the results they insisted that their hospital need to run their own tests and produce their own results. I’m sure the only explanation is that it was a scam because the hospital’s instruments are a joke. They checked her blood pressure and temperature a few times a day, and each time they checked it they had to re-​run the test multiple times because the numbers were all over the place, from low blood pressure to high blood pressure, having a fever to being fine, just seconds apart. After being unable to produce a consistent result, the nurse would inevitably shrug her shoulders and leave. Awesome.
Third, fourth, fifth, sixth… I could go on. We were placed on a floor that is generally reserved for psych patients. This means that people were screaming about someone trying to kill them, nurses yelling at them to shut up, alarms going off every 20 – 30 minutes whenever one of the inmates, I mean, patients, tried to escape. Our roommate was pretty quiet as she slept most of the day and night, but when she did wake up she didn’t know where or when she was (claimed it was 1978). She would undress and leave her clothes all over the bathroom, she spilled water and food all over the floor, and on multiple occasions removed her IV, which I found next to our bed one morning covered in blood. We once woke up to her standing on our side of the curtain which is really unnerving in the middle of the night. I heard from one of the nurses that its not unusual for patients to wonder in from different rooms. Very comforting.
The food usually included an unidentifiable «meat» product. Yum.
We never saw an actual doctor once. The button to call the nurse regularly malfunctioned, meaning that when we needed assistance I had to walk out and find one of the nurses running around in the hallways. Most of the nurses and technicians were either students or must have just graduated, or were terribly trained, because no one could ever offer clear answers as to why certain treatments were being recommended. The only answer we got was that, they were told to do this, so they are doing it.
The table that was supposed to be adjustable to accommodate the tilting bed was broken and covered in a sticky residue (maybe used to have something taped on and then removed after years?). Beautiful.
When she complained that her IV was bothering her, a nurse went to find a second pillow, but returned once again with a blanket instead. She reported that that was all she could find because when she asked the other nurses for a pillow they told her, «What do you think this is, KAISER?» Just. Great.
As far as I could tell, it would be impossible for anyone to leave the premises without being worse off than when they walked in. My fiancé left with swollen bruises all over her arm from all the places they successfully and unsuccessfully removed blood, and we still didn’t have a clear diagnosis. We were both traumatized.
AVOID THIS PLACE AT ALL COSTS. NEVER COME HERE EVER. EVERRRRR.

BEWARE! Don’t ever go here. Worst hospital staff from the admissions staff to the nurses and doctors. You will leave here in worse shape than you came. Level of incompetence across the board here is just stunning.

Wow, what a horrible horrible experience.
I went in at 3am one morning because I had the stomach flu and I was seriously dehydrated. First of all, when I got in, the receptionist was so mean and rude. After I sat there for 30 minutes filling out paperwork, before swiping my credit card she told me that the one Dr. working just went on break and wouldn’t be back for over an hour. I sat around anyway. Finally once I saw a nurse, they again were mean and rude and treated me like nothing was wrong even though I had a severe fever and my body was a mess. Finally 3 hours later when the Dr. got there, the same thing. Gave me some BS meds and a kick in the ass. I understand you can’t really do anything for the stomach flu, but the whole experience and people working there were terrible. The place was also dirty and the workers felt like med school rejects.
To top it all off, I got a bill for 1700 bucks from them this morning because they aren’t in my network. DO NOT GO HERE. If it’s the middle of the night, spend the extra money and go to the ER, or tough it out until 8am and go the Urgent Care at Melrose and Vine.

DON’T WALK … RUN! I came with my partner after an auto accident… We sat 5 hours … 2 hours in the lobby. There was a roach crawling up the wall of the examining room and a woman that was clearly a mental patient kept coming in the room wanting to know if we had girlfriends… A guy with no ID wearing a large diamond stud in his ear said he was the doctor took a look at my partner… Handed him 2 Tylenol AND FARTED LOUDLY IN THE ROOM… He said he needed to take «SHIT» and never came back… NEVER COME TO THIS PLACE…

One of the worst places of all time. mit needs to be shut down due to incompetent employees and doctors. An absolute joke of a facility and I would rather die quickly than let those animals touch me… gross…this is a zero star rating even though I’m being forced to put a star

This place should be immediately shut down. I went with my boyfriend because he was excessively vomiting for a few days and it was the closest place to our home that took his insurance. It was a huge mistake. It was disgusting inside (not a place people should be treated for their health) and the staff was all very rude.
The waiting room was clean, but the positive feedback ends there. Our first red flag was that the person who took in the patient before us loudly asked them «what’s wrong with you?» in the waiting room.
When they came to take us in the back we were walked through a series of rooms with 3 or 4 patients in each on small beds and across chairs with blankets thrown over them. We were eventually brought to a back room adjacent to the nurses office where we were seated next to trash bags a tray with a dried white substance on it and another patient laying across chairs shivering under a blanket. This trash room was probably cleaner than the other rooms to be fair.
The nurse and doctor spoke loudly about my boyfriends condition from their office and shouted questions at us from their seats. Another nurse came in to take his vitals and was then yelled at by the doctor from their office about the blood pressure machine being broken because the last three patients had the same reading. They did nothing to fix it or take it again. They also joked about releasing another patient even though «he said he was suicidal» and laughed as they said so, etching to the effect of «Eh. Get him out of here.»
The doctor then asked Nathan to come into the office and tell him what was wrong, but very rudely told me to stay where I was and that «they didn’t need me in there.» 10 seconds into the conversation they were interrupted by a shirtless man barging into the room asking the doctor questions. My boyfriend then followed his gut and we left the building. Nobody stopped us or asked any questions. We just had to get out of there and there was NO WAY we were going to let them do any tests or take any blood with whatever instruments they had laying around. This is a place you go into with one thing and leave with 5 others.
DO NOT GO HERE.

This is the kind of place that you go in healthy and come out in a body bag. I went because my finger was infected and I needed an antibiotic and this happened to be fourth of July weekend. They put me in an exam room that was also the copy room so people were constantly coming in to make copies while I waited to see the doctor.
I was also the only patient I saw who was not handcuffed, this must be were the jailed get treated.
Doctor looked at my finger for a couple seconds and told me it was infected and wrote me a prescription for antibiotic.
I paid $ 100 and I didnt have insurance at the time so I didn’t think it was that bad. I probably could have looked past all of that. But today 4months after my visit I got a letter, not from them, but from a debt collector, saying I still owed them $ 130, I haven’t received any phone calls or letters from them. This literally the first time I was hearing about this. This place is a scam.
Don’t go here. Seriously

If I could give this hell hole no stars… I would. This is one of the worst hospitals, if you can call it that, that I have ever seen. My brother was transferred here due to insurance purposes. The first night i got a call asking when my brother got there. I told the nurse he transferred from another hospital that night… she was totally oblivious… she said she didn’t know anything about him and hadn’t gotten report. The next day i asked to speak to a Dr. and they send a nephrologist who did not want to talk to us and just walked out. I tried to let them know my brothers specific fluid requirements and he told me i must be wrong because he had never ordered anything like that… wow…really…i care for my brother everyday… i know what he is on. Then he was ordered for a GI consult, one of the main reasons we were here, and it took 5 days to see someone. When i asked to speak to the doctor i was told he is not here and you can’t talk to him because he is too busy. The nurses didn’t wash their hands. They set sterile flushes on the dirty bed and tried to use it on my brothers line. They left medication, unattended, at the bedside for hours (JHACO violation), they wouldn’t cap the IV tubing lines and it would get contaminated by touching the curtains and they would attempt to connect it to the line. He got sicker while he was there and no one had a clue as to what was going on. The nursing care I’d horrible, the doctors i have meet have been so unprofessional, except one PA. I think this place should be shut down.

Changed their name to ‘Southern California Hospital of Hollywood’ as if it would magically change how horrible this place is. Just lettin’ yall know.

A bit dirty and run down. When I went in the secretary was on the phone and didn’t acknowledge me. They have patients sitting about in their parking lot. Don’t know what the deal is with that, but I’m always worried they’ll attack me.