Jacobi Medical Center

I started my prenatal appointments there and I must say it was by far the worst experience. The receptionist speak to you like you’re trash, and the wait time is extremely long just to meet with a nurse for 15 minutes. I ended up having to switch hospitals, I don’t recommend this one at all.

I have found Jacobi to be extremely good. Staff and nurses and doctors are really accomdoating. Admin is also very courteous. Couldnt be happier.

This «hospital» is a toilet and its employees are its contents. Dr. Penzone specifically is a drug dealer and should be arrested accordingly. Jessica Dodes is a social worker whose only job appears to be answering a phone and nodding until the frustrated caller hangs up. The look and feel of this entire establishment resembles Rikers Island, but with more sickness and death. If you are considering visiting this place for any health issues, I suggest you do everything possible to find an alternate choice or simply kill yourself before Dr. Penzone does.

If I could give this place no stars, I would. Waited more than 7 hours in their joke of an «emergency department.» And when I asked how much more I’d have to wait, no one knew. You might as well stay at home than come to this hospital. Avoid this place like the plague.

I’ve been here six hours and still have twelve people ahead of me. I just need a tetanus shot. I stepped on something in the nasty water at orchard beach. I knew it would be bad but I had to bring my niece with me because I had no one to watch her. Now it looks like we are going to spend the night in the waiting room. They won’t even given me a blanket for the little girl she is only seven. This place doesn’t treat people like people.

The time waiting is ridiculous somebody do something to move fast sopoust to be emergency

They’re so fast here and friendly. Dr Johnathan Smith and nurse Peter were very courteous, attentive, and efficient. I would recommend this place over any other ER in the Bronx, total time from entry to discharge was an hour and 45 mins. And the child is already playing

Worst hospital ever!!!. I took my mom in with an ectopic pregnancy and we had to wait for 8 hours for a doc to see her. on top of that when i asked one of the nurse why if my mom was pregnancy she had to wait so much she said «look around you all these people have been waiting more than you »

The wait time is atrocious. When I said I was going through of my OWN doc, the triage nurse said that I would just get sent back here. They told me 2 hours, then 6 hours and 9 hours later still have not been, seen even after explaining the severity of my pain and feeling faint/​dizzy. I stopped coming here ago for a reason. Today was a reminder. Staff hangs out, people in the waiting room go in & out of ER like it’s a hang out. Place is dirty too!!!

Horrible rude nasty nurses. The service sucks. They don’t care about you as a person. I will never come to this hospital again.

My Mom was admitted into the ER around 12noon. The doctors were wonderful and caring especially Dr. Benitez. She had several tests while there and everything went smoothly with that. About 8 hours later she was admitted into a room. Here’s where the problems began. It’s the nurses. They are a bunch of lazy rude mumbling dummys. They don’t care about the patient. One of the aides was cleaning up my Mom and was so rough with her she felt pain the whole day. The next day my Mom thought she wet herself and i asked for an aide to come and clean her. It turns out it was a false alarm and the aide reprimanded me for not checking to see if she was wet!!! WHAAAT??? The nerve of this horrible women to be annoyed that I didn’t do her job. There was one sweet sweet nurse named Actor. I’m sure I’m spelling it wrong. The rest of the nurses are sashaying there big buts as slowly as
they can and barely do their job. My mother was very upset with the nurses there and soon she was transferred to a rehab facility and it is like night and day. The rehab’s nurses are all wonderful and caring and I feel my mother is getting good care.

Worst hospital in terms of service. Nurses are so nasty and lazy. The departments don’t communicate patient info. So there’s all this miscommunication and know it all nurses that get nasty and go outside to their nurse posse and talk about you in front of your room.

My mother in law yesterday hit her head in the bathroom n her head opened a bit. Thank goodness she wasn’t alone when this happened but w one of her sons. Since they were in the Bronx, the ambulance took them to the nearest hospital. Since I’ve had bad experiences with hospitals such as Flushing Hospital where my godsister’s father passed away bc he bled to death while waiting to be attended, I told him to take her to LIJ since I KNOW that hospital is superb! My husbands brother was panicking so he let the ambulance staff take them to Jacobi… They did bandage her up right away bc they saw the condition of her head injury. So that was good which I was surprised to c bc I read on Unilocal reviews n most of them were bad… Here’s when It went bad… When she was admitted to the hospital that was around 5PM. They said they need to do a Ct on the head which is expected so we agreed. They didn’t come back until 3AM!!! N said one sentence, «we r still working on it «I told my husbands brother to leave n take her to LIJ since the urgent care has been taken care of… But they thought since she was bandaged up right away pretty much that the CT on the head would be rapidly done for her… They need up leaving this hospital after waiting for more than 8hours just to get a CT done… N they didn’t even get it done but at LIJ… The reviews don’t lie… Please read the reviews before going anywhere bc that’s the lesson I’ve learned

I don’t understand why the bad reviews. My mother was taken to Jacobi emergency in the Bronx for fracturing 4 ribs. Yes we stayed in the emergency triage room for over 24 hours, but the nurses were very attentive and pleasant and the doctors came by frequently. The CAT scan machine took the longest time and getting a room once she was admitted took a long time. Once she got into a room, 3A16, the nurses were very pleasant and attentive. The room was clean and the doctors came by often to update us on what was going on with her. We my uncle was in Brooklyn hospital a few years ago for double pneumonia and it was a horrible hospital. They made him sit in his feces for at least an hour and they were very, very rude. The hospital was disgustingly dirty. THAT was a horrible hospital. My uncle was transferred to Einstein hospital in the Bronx and they were great as well. I have no complaints so far for this hospital. They have exceeded my expectations so far.

I’m very disappointed to see the bad reviews here. I am not in the habit of going to the hospital for anything, my motto is, unless I have a broken bone, there’s not much they can do for me that I can’t do for myself.
In any event I had no choice but to take my 7 year old daughter to the Children’s ER, under the direction of an Urgent Care doctor in my neighborhood. I was NOT looking forward to this. This would be our first trip to an ER because the horror stories I hear about Emergency Rooms are enough to keep me away. But this was a real emergency.
So we get there. We are processed immediately. Very nice staff. A nurse comes out after we were processed to give out medical bracelets and he checked my daughter while we were waiting. He was very nice and put her at ease.
VERY shortly thereafter, we are taken to the back to see the doctor. The paperwork and waiting room was a combined 30 – 40 minute wait. I know! I was super surprised too.
So a lovely young doctor comes to us and begins to examine my daughter (while Frozen is playing the background — JACKPOT!). She had an excellent beside manner, made my daughter laugh and feel really comfortable. I was so pleased. She then called over another doctor, they both continued to examine my daughter. Less than 10 minutes later, not only was I leaving, but I had the actual medicine I needed, not the prescription. The wonderful Dr. Farah Jan had even saved me a trip to the pharmacy! She was an absolute doll, I almost wanted to invite her over to dinner and feed her (Sorry, I’m Dominican, I can’t help it.)
Jacobi (and Dr. Jan) you won me over. I’ll be singing your accolades for years to come. Thank you Dr. Jan!

This hospital is the biggest pile of dog shit to ever exist on earth. Aside from the awesome chocolate cutie who wheeled me to the bathroom. The one star is for him oh and he was hilarious. This hospital sucks mega monkey nuts. I am here because I have a sprained ankle I was here for over 3 hours, attempted to speak to the A.O.D who apparently is a ghost because I never spoke to her/​him it whatever.
So called urgent care closed at 9. I don’t know what was so urgent about the care. I’d rather have a 3some with Woody Allen and Whoopi Goldberg in Macy’s window at the height of Christmas then ever step one of my cheap ass Rainbows shoes in this cum dumpster. Save yourself the aggravation, let your heroin addicted neighbor triage you and treat you at your local park. It would even smell better. You fucks!

This hospital is huge. They have specialty in all major areas.
They have renovated many departments in the hospital to make access and care better.
A quick tip is if you need to be seen in the urgent care dept. get their early since they are generally open from 8 – 9 M-​F and 11 – 7 on weekends.
Also the trauma center is top notch.

ER is always bad.
I only come here because its the closest hospital. I know when I come here I will spend a minimum of 8 hours. Most of the time is just waiting. Even when they tell you you’re getting discharged it seems to take about an hour to do so.
Doctors are not the best, some you can see are busy overworked (if so they definitely shouldn’t be working). Most see you for 5 min and don’t come back for another 2 hours. There are countless times where my pains and/​or friends have been brushed off and given the usual ibuprofen to take.
I try my best not to come here as I know that not only will I not be listened to but will wait hours and hours for nothing. Even coming here with my friend I know it’ll be the same.
Some nurses are nice but even they come every couple hours to check on you.
Regardless try your best not to come here for emergency services.

Dirty stinking bathroom, saw doctor pick his nose, nurses had strong accents appeared to be from Africa and Jamaica, health care workers seemed kinda ghetto like nasty, most nurses overweight and do not seem to take care of themselves nor do they seem very educated, most smell like smelly cigarettes or that funny kind those people smoke (ghetto people). Noticed the nurses don’t seem to brush their hair or brush their teeth, and one just farted loud near me and did not seem to phase her. Curious with the news media talking about this hospital a lot lately, decided to check it out (not as a patient) and it seems worse than they say. Sorry for the SOB that gets taken here by ambulance.

Jacobi Medical Center has been on the news recently as the «WORST HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY», and I AGREE. In my opinion people should avoid going to the ER here at all costs. Once you go in you may not come out, or end up much worse than you were when you went in. God have mercy on those patients in this place, and the families that suffer with them. PRAYERS go out for ALL people in this place, the WORST HOSPITAL IN THE ENTIRE NATION ! ! !