Heaven forbid a tourist or a local should be unexpectedly stricken by a sudden illness at the beach, forcing the hapless individual to dash into the Emergency Care facility at the Marina.
What a rink-dink unprofessional hole-in-the-wall place the Marina Del Rey Hospital is!
Shortly after being admitted to the hospital by rude insulting staff (with a piss-poor attitude) patients have revealed that they were set on a treadmill amidst a pile of confusing paperwork - at which point - they got lost in the woodwork as a posse of incompetent case workers and patient liaisons got caught up in a tangle of Healthcare policies threatening to shorten their lives if the actual emergency care wasn't forthcoming soon.
Indeed, when one patient lamented that he wasn't getting much-needed emergency attention, a nurse confirmed red-faced that there had been a slip-up.
The patient's name was left off the list on the Hospital in-patient registry!
Consequently, he was left to wander the halls in search of treatment while the hospital staff at the Marina Del Rey Hospital did fu** all!
In spite of the fact each Nurse at the hospital is assigned four patients - one incompetent lay-about found it difficult to keep up - in spite of the fact only three individuals were in her charge on the night I was eye-witness to her shoddy performance.
Notwithstanding the hospital's failure to promptly admit a patient (which amounted to negligence) and its subsequent shortcomings in respect to providing professional medical care in a timely fashion - it should be noted that the facility was also lacking in other respects, too.
For instance, food rarely arrived on time at the breakfast or dinner hour- and, when the trays did arrive - the orders were either cold and tasteless or short on the items marked on the menu.
Non English-speaking workers were also slow to clean the rooms daily.
But, you know what really got my gander up?
When the aforementioned issues were raised, the immigrant workers employed there just shrugged.
"Me no speak English."
In a hospital where the issue of germs, bacteria, and cleanliness are of utmost importance - it shocks the sensibilities - to encounter such a rampant disregard for a patient's right to professional medical care (especially at a facility that purports to be professional and top notch in quality).
In addition - more often than not - patients are dragged into inappropriate arguments with inexperienced staff who end up adding stress and strain in a patient's dark hour of need at the hospital due to their lack of training, overall skills, knowledge, and hands-on experience.
In fact, as patients languish in their rooms - in need of a doctor's emergency attention, pain-killers, and what-have-you - the ignorant unprofessional workers often persist in pursuing ongoing verbal battles with the ill as they writhe in their beds in excruciating pain waiting for much-needed medical care.
Curiously, it was announced last night on the nightly news that California is imposing laws that require a patient's care - not only be timely - but also overseen by medical practioners (and not left in the hands of the insurance carrier).
Obviously, the policy is being implemented to ensure that a patient receives the expert medical care and attention they are entitled to by Law- and in a timely fashion at the medical facility - in compliance with their paid-up policy.
Amen!
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