St Francis Hospital & Health Centers

The medical staff all seem knowledgeable, helpful, and caring, but with them being busy they are also always in a rush to get to the next patient. But they take care of each person it seems as well as they can. The place is kept clean and seems organized even when there are a room full of waiting people. Depends on the reason you’re there and the time of day as I have heard many pain pill addicts on welfare are always trying to get into the ER for some new reason to get more pills, which can slow down the process for the real people that need medical attention. So the ER may not be the greatest, but that’s more due to the people in it, and not the hospitals fault. If you have a pre-​planned visit, all is good from my experiences.

Worst experience ever! Sitting in a holding area with people throwing up around me, a young gentleman threatened to blow his brains out, children screaming and crying because they don’t feel well.. no one has their private rooms! 5 of us in one room! They say it makes the patients go through much quicker. .3 hours waiting still to find out about what is going on. .and 3 holding rooms later! oh now they are coming into the «waiting room» to take my blood! …while the «nurse» –takes my blood, while she sits next to me in a child’s chair.. meanwhile i can hear the doctor and employees talking about the patients.. Good ands bad of course. No sanitation done while I’ve been here watching this circuits from what i believe to be a third world country! Ashamed. .vent over!

After pushing the call button and getting no response after 10min i walked to nurses desk to ask for help to get mom to bathroom, two nurses sitting there one with feet up saying ok honey i’ll be right there to help u the other didn’t budge or even turn around. I walked back to her room and waited 10 min later i walked back down and said she is going to pee herself and bed. Nurse said ok honey I’m sorry and got up to come help. Before leaving she didn’t help her back to bed, I did. And left saying if you need anything let me know. Umm well u could put the monitor back on her & put the side rail back up… Smh… Dumb ass

Called Patient Registration and Referral Services.
On hold for 12 minutes. Left voice mail and phone number.
Called back.
On hold 35 minutes.
Left another voice mail.
NO ONE HAS CALLED ME BACK!

For a hospital this is the one to be at. Friendly staff and always seems to be pretty fast…

My wife and I recently welcomed our first child at St. Francis.
I spent the better part of 3 days in and around the hospital while everything going on.
The facilities are clean and the drs/​nurses are attentive, well trained and friendly. Overall we had a good experience and were taken care of when needed. There was one morning when they had a bunch of deliveries and we noticed we had a tough time getting something or another. but when there are 12 women in active labor and we needed something trivial we weren’t too concerned about it.
The café is surprisingly good for hospital food. I had a few make your salads. They are priced very well. I was able to make a huge salad for under $ 3-​$ 4.
Overall, no major complaints. Everything was very good.

I unfortunately needed to visit the ER on the Thursday before Christmas. The wait was under 10 minutes. The nurses were very friendly and didn’t make fun of me when I said that it was my first IV. I mean, let’s face it: if I were a nurse, I’d make fun of me. They get 5 stars in my book.
The reason for my visit is that I had *extreme* abdominal pain — I wasn’t sure if I had eaten something I was allergic to, or if it was something more serious like appendicitis, a hernia, ectopic pregnancy, etc. They did some tests and had me sit in a private waiting room with my IV until they were done. Nothing came up, they gave me a shot or morphine and sent me home with a prescription for pain killers.
This is the reason for my 3 star rating. It was just OK. They didn’t attempt to do anything further, just assumed that it was in fact an allergy (even though I was not sick to my stomach).
I am fine now, and I do believe that it was in fact an allergy, but I still left the ER wondering and worried.

I visit the lab frequently for monthly labs and they are amazing!
The billing department is something that needs work!

Community Hospital South, Greenwood,
Wonderful experience. Everything is on the first floor. Restaraunt and yes they even have parking attendents. Free… I don’t know if you even should tip them.
I went for a Parathyorid Scan. The tech. was super nice. Everyone I talked to Super nice.
People at St. Francis… almost uncaring. I am going to try to stay away from St. francis.

We live very close to this hospital so it has become our go-​to place for emergency room visits and surgeries.
The emergency room was recently moved and is newer and bigger. The front desk staff are generally pretty helpful and friendly. The doctors and nurses are hit-​or-​miss. Some of them are on the ball and know what they are doing while others are pretty incompetent.
There is plenty of parking and the gift shop and cafeteria are adequate.

If I could rate this hospital 0 or negative stars I would! The emergency room is a lawsuit waiting to happen. I had been to this ER a few times because of insurance reasons but this past time I was desperate. I had severe abdominal pain and sat doubled over in pain for 3 hours waiting for a room to open. Finally when one did open I was told to get in a bed with no covers or no pillow. I had to ask for those and after an hour of asking I finally got a pillow but took 2 hours for a blanket.
As for treatment? Well they started an iv with fluids after 3 hours of sitting in my room. They took blood and an X-​ray. I specifically asked the doctor if he had tested the amylase and lipase, he said yes. Come to find out the next day in my file they didn’t. They also failed to notice my d-​dimer was elevated. How can you miss something like that?
Anyways, after 6 hours of being in a ball of pain they gave me something which caused me to break out in hives. So if I told you I’m allergic to morphine and other drugs of that nature why would you give that to me? Fast forward an hour and in comes a physician assistant… examining me like I haven’t seen a dr at all. When I told her I had seen the dr she acted surprised and left. Ummm great communication there people. After about 12 hours of absolutely no answers they injected me with more pain medication, gave me a prescription of more pain medication and said to go see my PCP. Umm ok thanks for drugging me up with no answers… now I see why drug seekers hit ERs up, you just hand that stuff out like candy. So what did they do? Great question, I’m still trying to figure that out.
Once I got to my PCP the next day, all they really did was give me an X-​ray and ran a pregnancy test (even though I said I wasn’t pregnant, however, in my file they said I thought I was… ummm ok never said that but whatever) which of course was negative and other blood tests which showed the elevated d-​dimer. So I had to get more blood work to test what they claimed to have tested for. This is the second time they ignored an elevated d-​dimer and guess what… I have a blood clot! They should have addressed that as soon as they saw that elevated test because a blood clot isn’t something to ignore.
The ER physician doesn’t know anything. I think he got his MD from the back of a cereal box or on a boat in international waters. The nurses have a horrible bedside manner and just do not care about the basic needs of the patients.
Awful…just awful! Even if I was bleeding to death and there was no wait at their ER I’d never go back again. Who knows what information they are not telling you which could be detrimental to your health.

We came here to visit with my brother in law and the arrival of the new baby. The post partum room was smaller than many other hospitals that I’ve visited but it did the job. They said all the nurses were really nice and not many issues. The place was very simple, no bells and whistles and the baby came with it’s own security system attached to it’s foot so you won’t have to worry about anyone taking it out too far. The hospital is right off emerson and stop 11. They have a nursery viewing area but nothing fancy. The boards were not updated for at least a week or two with the new names of the babies so that was a little disappointing. You can see it off i65 but can’t exit off the highway. You can only exit at southport or County line. I have been spoiled with new babies in my life from friends and family so I’ve had the privilege of visiting many hospitals and maternity units and seeing all the nice rooms out there. This is small and simple and nothing to rave about.