St. Luke's Medical Center (COE) Hospital





Other than the hospital being old and not very nice to look at, the nursing staff of this hospital is the only thing I really have a complaint about. I rarely saw a nurse and when I did, they were very abrupt and not very helpful at all. I actually saw my doctor's partner and the Apollo College students that took my vital signs much more often than I saw a nurse. If I had to do it over again, I'd have the surgery at the Bariatric Center at Banner Good Samaritan Hospital.

Due to some of the posts on here, I was a little bit afraid going into this but, I thought the nursing staff was awesome, preop and during my stay. My IV had problems (I do not have good veins) and so they had to take it out, meaning no more morphine pump for me. They then started me on liquid pain medication. I could have it every three hours. Each time I asked for the medication (I didn't need it more often than than the three hours), they would bring it right in, like within seconds! The first night there, my nurse, Mary, was unbelievable. My roommate had had the surgery the same day I had and Mary was in the room almost the entire night helping each of us, get to the bathroom, get up for our walks, etc. The next two nights there were the same. Very good nursing staff, and very attentive! Trish was an awesome day nurse, always checking and quick to answer! No complaints here!

The hospital is a good one. The only downer i have is that they were doing some renovations on the place and you could hear jack hammers very loudly in the pre-op room, not very relaxing...Then in my room i could hear it thru the walls as well. Also the staff seems to be great but i learned that if i wanted something to ring for it about 20 mins in advance and then to give a reminder call after about 10 mins of waiting. They seem like a busy staff.

I read a lot of bad stuff about this hospital before I went so I was pretty scared. I think that my experience was pretty good. I only had a few complaints about the length of the bed. I am so tall that my legs didn't fit in the bed. They were right against the end of the bed and sense I wasn't heavy enough for the bariatric bed I had to just deal with it. My IV was also bad and I told every nurse I had but they kept saying that it was fine and don't worry about it. I work in the hospital so I know that my IV was bad and they kept pushing meds in it. When I got home I got an infection in that arm but it wasn't a severe one and I just let it clear up on its own. I think that anyone who is fortunate to have someone who can stay with them should take advantage of that. If my mom didn't stay with me I don't know if my experience would have been as good.