Long Island Jewish Medical Center

I was there over night the whole visit was great the only thing I was confused with was when I was being moved from the recovery room to my room the oneeeee person not even a nurse moved me all by myself and my sister even asked aren't you going to get help he said of I do this all the time.My sister later went to the head nurse from the recovery room and ask her is this normal, she acted dumb to the whole thing and said she will talk to the nurses upstairs. I just left cause hey what about down here he moved her from here first. like I said the besides that one thing the staff was great
Gladys Mc Cabe was there 10/27/15 patient of Dr. O'Keefe

It's funny that the start of the comment section ask's what I liked about LIJ. The answer is nothing, my mother went into the gyn clinic on the third floor for an appointment. They told her she needed to go to the emergency room for high blood pressure (Yes you read that right, their reasoning was high blood pressure). After waiting for 4 hours she was not seen at all but was told she needed to stay to see the Dr. I finally told her they can't legally hold her without reason or being seen (because she wasn't in a room or hooked up to any monitors). She told them she wanted to leave and go see a specialist about the issue within the next few days to which the nurses told her that she shouldn't leave and needed to wait another two hours to see a Dr. about the emergency.... I'm still trying to figure out how you classify something an emergency and then expect them to wait 6 hours to be seen for said emergency. I nor anyone in my family will ever be going back to this hospital. I'm beyond pissed with what they call service. The hospital should seriously reconsider how their emergency room is operated. And for the record she had a 4:30 appointment at the gyn got their at 3:50 was not seen till 5:30, she was wheeled down to the emergency room at 5:45, and finally left at 10 after they told her she had to wait another 2 hours.

It's very sad how I seen this place treat us like it's all about business/insurance money and nothing else, I have been in and out of here with my 80 year old dad for a few months and this last time my dad was here for 3 weeks and 1 day, between those 3 weeks I also delivered a baby in the same hospital for which I was hospitalized for 4 days! I'm sure in those 3 weeks between my dad and I they got over 200k out of our insurance. My dad only speaks Spanish and is a very educated and kind individual, to whom the service was awful, all they did for the first 2 weeks was drug him up with pain killers, the staff didn't have recorded on file many things, like when was his last super catheter replaced, he didn't get showered by anyone on the 1st week, his room was very dirty when I would visit, his urine bag wouldn't get drained or cleaned from blood clots which would make his UTI worst. I had to start speaking to the nurse manager on the 5th FL and tell them how serious I was about my dad's health in order for them to start actually doing studies to try to help my dad and not just keep him there on pain medication, also after a week of been there, staff would call me to ask me why was my dad admitted to the hospital? , really? You are the doctors and medical professionals why are you asking me this after a week of him being there?, it's ridiculous how many patients each nurse and doctor has, how could they possibly really focus on my dad, doctors would walk in and not know anything about my dad, doctors wouldn't know when we're the MRIS happening, yet they would postpone my dad everytime, they also didn't know many other things, so sad what the abuse, what a guinea pig my father was to this place, I have some pictures of the way the room looked, wish I can make this go viral, in my 30 years of life I have never signed on to a website to give complains, but this is a must..... it's someone's life not merchandise from a retail store like we got treated, as far as my delivery, the staff in the nursery were very unfriendly not a smile, the PCA would walk in the room sign her hourly signature sheet and not ask if I needed anything, however the other PCA was great, she helped me shower after my c section and more, God bless her and one of the nurses too.

I wish i could give no stars...they shift you in like cattle. Made my poor husband wait while he had morphine in him in the most uncomfortable chairs, in these cubical's that looked like i was in an airport hanger while waiting four hours for results. he was hunched over till passed midnight until they said they were admitting him to run further testing, I said ok well at least you get a room and sleep...HA i was in a room with 20 other people and not attended to yet again. a diabetic, in pain. There website is false, shows this amazing hospital and rooms.the ER is suppose to be great. I have a picture of my husband curled up on a chair in a ball with the time stamp off how long we were waited. to shoved into another cubby hole. and no mention of this on the fabulous website shame on you.

I have been here for 6 hours and waiting on an xray result for 2 hours and counting..I used the restroom and there was 3 dirty gowns hanging on the stall doors in the "results waiting room" and garbage all over the floor.. I have never been more disgusted in my life. Every nurse I have come across has a nasty attitude and doesn't want to hear a word you say. I would never in my life come back to this hospital.