Barnes Jewish Hospital

My husband's recent stay at BJH was the worst experience of his life. Some of the nursing staff shouldn't have been there. BJH needs to reward good nurses and hire more of them. They also need to have nurses be the primary caregivers as having the techs do all the draws fragments the care too much. The doctors didn't even realize the reason that he was admitted. One doctor was so arrogant that when I asked for my hubbie's TSH number he asked me if I was in medicine, and if I wasn't the number wouldn't mean much to me. The food they offer for the patients only causes heart disease and diabetes, but I guess that that way they ensure repeat patients. There is no interest in educating patients to change their lifestyles at all. They don't even offer brown rice in the cafeteria. So I assume that the nutritionists think it is all about "counting carbs" and don't know the difference between simple and complex carbs. This was simply the most shocking health care I can imagine. I wou... Read more

My first experience with the "best hospital in the united states" was last March when my mother was transported there from a rural hospital in southeast MO. My mother had a knee replacement surgery there and after the surgery she suffered a heart attack. The small hospital did not feel capable of the treatment she needed so we moved her to Barnes. To make a long story short...she was there 7 days and we then had her moved back to the hospital from which she came....the level of care at Barnes was worse than I have ever seen. The entire time my mother was there no one looked at her knee even after she spike a fever (sign of infection), this is the worst place I have ever seen! The next experience came when a dear friend of mine who has cancer had to be admitted for a blood clot that formed from the port she had then she got staph infection...her stay there was also a bad experience. I have yet to talk to anyone who has had a good experience with this hospital. I would not take my d... Read more

I just wanted to say I work @ St.Marys in Jefferson City and we always have patient satisfaction classes and our patients always come very first, But I was a patient @ Barnes and I have always had the worst svc. ever I've been going for a year now and everytime it has been awfull everytime, 1st I have never even met the Dr. who did my surgery, and of all of my visits I've never seen the same Dr. twice so each visit I have conflicting oppinions, Even after the surgery durring my stay I had to wait @least 1 hour after asking for something for pain while my husband said they were all just sitting @ the desk, after lying in bed for 2 days I had to tell them to have PT come show me how to get up because I had surgery on my hip and my shoulder on the same side and I must say I could go on and on and I do tell everyone I know, I'm sorry your in such a big city and everyone is just a # to you but Jefferson City is big also and our patients are people and we do have some compassion and I guess ... Read more