WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital

The nursing staff is beyond compare. They provide excellent care. However, the upper level management like to think they're above the patients. I've been in the hospital over a month. I admit I was ordering food from Door Dash. A top supervisor named " Karen " and the director of nursing told me I couldn't order chewing gum using Door Dash. They took the gum and sent it to security to hold. It's funny how I've been in the hospital many times and haven't met either of these women once. Karen told me I was " manipulative" would manipulate the staff to let me order food

Meanwhile, other patients order Door Dash all the time. It's sad that the women who are responsible for running t his hospital don't pay more attention to the poor treatmen the Emergency Dept

Doctors provide. Too bad they can't see how miserable they're making their staff. I would not recommend Gettysburg Hospital to anyone. The management has lost the human side of medicine.

JOE THOMPSON

Since my previous review was taken down. I’ll make it short, HIPPA is breached, and your information will be shared. Urgent care manager swept it under the rug. Take this one down and I’ll just go ahead and write another one. Happy training to avoid those payouts and lawsuits.

I took my gf into the ER this morning, she is in serous pain, and all over her abdomen and chest. There legit was nobody there today and for 4 hrs, we got one iv fluid, a blood, and a urine test..and no ct or ultrasound done to figure out what's going on inside and why she's having abnormal pain from what she's had in the past. No just long waiting times. Where is the care and attention needed? The only person who cared enough today was the attending nurse, ex military. She was nice.

Second, she had a major surgery done the other year, same hospital and was in extreme pain, crying. And the nurse didn't even notify the main attending doctors nor surgeon doctor of the pain until I called the doctors! She was due for the pain meds too. Then on top of that couldnt even write a prescription properly for pain so i could pick it up and get her relaxed for almost a day! When does it stop? When do the doctors your hire truly give a shit and do their damn jobs and get the stuff ordered ASAP! In DC and Baltimore, they don't have half the problems and they have way more problems in general going on daily. There is no immediate attention to care. No bedside manner.

And if I ever hear another god damn nurse or attendee or doctor in the ER complaining about a patient they happened to have the other day "well I sent this patient the other day to Baltimore to get better care and now they want to take it out of our paychecks" I will lose my shit...disgusting. gwt out of health-care and helping humans because you're not cut out.

I'll be writing the hospital president, Michael Cogliano.

Oo I see the reviews are not good. Pros first fastest phone staff available they are prompt and urgent. Had an emergency for a re catheter. Call confirmed they had a urologist on call. Emergency room was fast to get to family member but… worthless visit “on call Urologist” was unable. Soo I think service is fast what they do not have are doctors actually on call. This was a Saturday but seems, Drs are not held accountable for their responsibilities. Only posting to reframe others with catheters of any kind to not waist valuable time. Ended up driving to DC. Waisting 4 hours.

My family was in town visiting for the week when my toddler fell and hurt her arm. Looking like it might be broken, we decided it was best that we take her in. Having the privilege of living near all of the Boston hospitals, I am extremely weary of being seen anywhere else in the world. We brought her to this hospital assuming they could handle something such as this, it is an emergency room after all with medical doctors. Big mistake! Our daughter had turned two just days prior and had never had an injury to this extent, so she was a fighter to anyone who came near her. The two nurses were extremely dry with us and with her. In the xray room they had five, yes FIVE, people plus myself holding her down. Complete hysteria and chaos unfolded in that room. She was already terrified and in pain, but now she had numerous strangers holding her down and pulling her into weird positions with her body to keep her arm straight. Once back in our room, the doctor came and let us know she did in fact have a break. However, he said “the good news is it’s not a complete break on this bone” (I have a video of his exact words) and pointed to her radius. He suggested a fiberglass cast for her to stabilize it or a splint. Again, our daughter is two. I knew a splint wouldn’t stay on her arm, so we opted for the fiberglass. He did agree that was the best choice and left to get the nurses to help him. Within a minute, he returned and said the nurses were not willing to put a cast on her and we were going to do the splint. He assured me this was completely fine to do as it would stabilize it and protect her from further damage. He put her splint on and sent us off with instructions to see pedi ortho or her pcp in about a week. As I said, we were on vacation so it was a few days before we got back home. She broke her arm around 11:30 pm on Tuesday, we were in with ortho at Boston Children’s Hospital Monday morning. We did follow up X-rays to see how it was healing so far, only to find out my child had not one but TWO broken bones. Both bones had complete breaks in them. The doctor we were with at Children’s stated she should have never ever been in a splint for almost a week, a fiberglass cast should have been done immediately. She showed us the breaks on the xray, which I compared to the video on my phone from PA. They were clear as day when she pointed them out! She said she was very lucky she didn’t have any further damage to her arm with a splint. Additionally, the splint they gave us was an older child size. It looked like a boxing mitt on her and slid off very easily, despite making sure it was tightened, between the first visit in Gettysburg and our appt in Boston. We did a fiberglass cast for 3 weeks, followed by an actual toddler size splint for 2 weeks. The complete negligence of this hospital is absolutely unacceptable. We have yet to receive our bill from them, however I plan to call their billing department to fight all charges. I would not recommend anyone go to this hospital if they can’t see two completely broken bones.

I have no idea on where to start with this review but overall this hospital has gone down hill the housekeeping department had people who did great and now when I returned there as a guest I expect everyone to do there jobs and the nurses and doctors were great but the house keeper supervisor I heard her gossiping about her employees to someone on a phone and that’s just very unprofessional to talk about your staff like that I think this hospital needs to make a change in who they have supervising and managing it… never thought I’d experience this. Never coming back to this hospital again VERY DISAPPOINTED…

I have gone to GH many times the staff is normally good but I did have one bad visit in 2021. The reason for the poor review is the fact they add politics to the lobby! LGBTQ flags should not be in a general medical facility. It’s inappropriate. I’m there for a medical situation not to have a political stance thrown in my face! KEEP POLITICS OUT!!! That type of stuff should be kept between a doctor and the adult patient!

Wonderful Hospital! I had a cholecystectomy done on January 20th and everything post-op as of today has gone really well! I have also gone to the Emergency Room several times to get checked out for different concerns and the staff have been excellent! All the nurses, PA's and Doctors have been very kind and reassuring every time I have gone. I am very very pleased with my experiences here and am blessed knowing this Hospital is in my area!