Yes, my mom’s experience in the Kaweah Delta emergency waiting room was deplorable. But I recognize that if the only thing you, dear reader, had ever heard about Kaweah Delta District Hospital was that post – you might get the idea that Kaweah Delta was (in general) not good. I want to dispel that idea.
Once my mom did get into a hospital room, the care there has been good. Very good, I would say.
Her nurses and physicians and other staff have been attentive, timely, and professional.
Myself, I’ve had two experiences with KDDH in the last five years: both were of high quality.
I didn’t need emergency care in those situations, so I didn’t have to go through the emergency room waiting room process.
One mild snark though, about the emergency room waiting room. One has a lot of time to be observant over the course of sitting in the waiting room for seven hours (my experience, not my mom’s).
They have digital signage (big television sets) mounted on the wall, playing a loop of various public announcements, advertising of new clinics that have started up, a new doctor accepting patients, etc.
There’s a video interview of two of the hospital bigwigs by Stefani Booroojian1. Anyway, the video is captioned, but the transcriber missed a word. The doctor is talking about keeping healthy, and says it is very important to do smoking cessation. The transcriber wrote that it is very important to do smoking sensation. Not the same thing. đ
Somebody probably ought to have caught that in the first week, so that the original content creator still had the file around and could re-do that little bit of the caption.
- Oh my goodness, she’s been with Channel 24 news for 40 years! She still looks great. Good on her. âŠī¸