Providence Regional Medical Center Everett – Pacific Campus

BEWARE!!!, My Wife was brought to the emergency department of providence hospital on pacific Ave. in Everett, WA. by EMT’s, due to a 911 call related to unbearable pain in her leg. Even before the doctor? saw her he had already decided what the diagnosis would be. This emergency department leader decided that the pain my wife was experiencing was from her hip, even before he saw her. On his way into the examination room In the emergency dept. he grabbed the report forms for hip problems {I was not aware of this at that time, but was informed of it later}. I told this doctor that her pain was NOT from her hip, the pain was in her leg! Her leg was slightly swollen, and causing her a GREAT amount of pain,{leading to the 911 call}| and the pain was NOT affected by position of the leg, or body. It did not matter what I or my wife said this «leader’ of the esteemed hospital discharged my Wife with a diagnosis of leg pain {the complaint she came in with} and referred her to an orthopedic physician later the next week, she was shot up with pain meds and rolled down to the parking lot on a gurney, The hospital did not have an available wheelchair. This all happened on Friday, my Wife suffocated, dying in my arms because of a 14 cm BLOOD CLOT THAT FOLLOWING MONDAY MORNING. A SIMPLE BLOOD TEST CAN RULE OUT THE POSSIBILITY A BLOOD CLOT, OR EVEN AN ULTRASOUND. but I guess that was too much work for this Paid Professional Healer and leader of their doctors in emergency medicine working for the Sisters Of Providence Hospital. GROUP DEATH HAS A NEW NAME…
.BEWARE, There are actually doctors out there who are incompetent, stupid and care-​less.
Do not become another Victim of MEDICALLY SANCTIONED NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE!!!
THIS DR. KILLED MY WIFE.

all staff is very helping and co-​operative got a new born baby gal on dec-31−15 and we came across 3 – 4 nurses and 2-​doctors from CHC Edmonds who were on DUTY at providence pacific ave and all were best and very caring and understanding.
special thanks to Dr-​Bly and Dr-​Richardson from CHC Edmonds who were part of delivery and after care process… they really are best if u fall under there survilliance.

My Fourth baby was born here years ago and it was absolutely the best experience. The staff was extremely professional and on top of everything. I had a wonderful view of the Puget Sound from my large comfortable room as well.
I am a medical professional myself and watched and observed everything with absolute impression. I wasn’t Unilocaling back then so I wanted to show my appreciation today.
Thank you!

Let me start with this is going to be a longer review.
The only service we have used at Providence is the Midwife Center and advance imaging.
My husband and I were ecstatic to learn we were expecting our first child. I took an at home pregnancy test on December 2, 2014. I made an appointment with my PCP short there after. My PCP is part of The Everett Clinic (TEC), he recommended Providence. Apparently, TEC and Providence work together and have access to each other’s records. We made an appointment to meet with a Midwife for December 29.
We went to our appointment on the 29^th, it was great. The Midwife spent almost an hour answering our questions, everything from, «Is how tired I am normal?», to «What can/can’t I eat?». Since this is our first pregnancy, we had a TON of questions. She told us about «Centering». We loved that idea. Not only do you get hands on with your pregnancy care, but you meet other soon-​to-​be parents with a due date around yours. When all the babies are born you have other new parents to meet with, other kids your child’s age. And most importantly, SOs are involved. That means my husband would get the be there, hear the answers to the questions himself and interact with other husbands that are in the same situation. We were very excited and signed up as soon as we could. I think the program is a great idea! Since Centering session would start well into my 2^nd trimester, they set up a 2^nd individual appointment for the end of January.
The Midwife ordered blood tests and an ultrasound (U/​S). The test results we all normal. But, I noticed that none of the tests were for HCG. Ergo, there was no doubling test. No follow up blood work.
We scheduled the ultrasound for January 5^th.
We went to our U/​S appointment. Based on last missed period, I would have been about 8 weeks along at the U/​S appointment.
Until this point we had really enjoyed our experience, but ignorance is bliss and naivety is deceiving comfort blanket. So, this is where everything goes sideways.
At the U/​S appointment, I felt that the technician was a little apprehensive and nervous. There was also another person in the room. He seemed like a «senior» technician. In hindsight, the technician that was doing the U/​S on me was a «student», and the other technician was a «teacher». While I don’t care, I understand everyone has to learn, I was never asked if it was ok for the student to perform the U/​S. I still feel like it is standard practice to inform the patient of something like that. There were a couple things that left me with a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach, like when the student started listening to the U/​S she kept shaking her head, it was as if something was wrong, or she was doing something wrong. Also, she was very unsure of her answers. I understand she isn’t trained to to diagnose the results, just perform the tests, but she acted weird.
When the test was done, we were sent on our way. We were told we would get the results in a couple days.
As I was driving home (my husband met me there), I got a call from the on-​call Midwife. She basically told me, the pregnancy didn’t take (I have since learned it was a blighted ovum). I’m sure she mentioned it then, but I had just been hit over the head with a 2×4 and was not a good listener. My pregnancy sack measured about 7 weeks, but it was empty I do recall her saying that I needed to set up an appointment to «complete the termination». I was given options for completing the termination. That was the gist of the entire conversation.
I drove home the rest of the way, only a mile or 2, fighting back tears. As soon as I pulled in the garage, I broke down. I told my husband about the phone call. I was a mess.
Looking back over the last two weeks, we have been on a crazy roller coaster. We were NEVER given options like a follow up exam, follow up blood work, nothing like that. Just lets end this. He thought about it for a while and we decided to set up and appointment… for a second opinion from another provider. We schedule one through TEC.
I got a call from the the Midwife the next day to set up the «termination» appointment. I told them I wanted a second opinion. Immediately, they cancelled my 2^nd appointment.
I couldn’t believe how horribly they handled our situation. From my research blighted ovum miscarriages are not uncommon, but how can they be so blasé about it? Especially with first time parents. They never explained anything, from the test results showing a cyst on my ovary (which is normal to keep early pregnancy sustained) to it’s possible I ovulated late in my cycle and might not be as far along as I/​they thought. We learned this from our second opinion appointment.
Ultimately, the initial diagnosis was accurate, but how it was handled we will never go back to Providence, and am even considering avoiding a Midwife for our next pregnancy.

At the womens pavillion: My fiancée had a fibroid tumor removed today. It was very large. The doctor was just awesome and so was everyone else. They are taking great care of her right now and I’m happy she had the procedure done here.

Although I went through 3 days of labor (induced) and was in complete misery for most of it, I can say not a single negative thing about this place. The staff was out of this world amazing. All of the nurses I had were SO kind, genuine and patient. They were truly angels during the last 2 days, I don’t think I would have had such a pleasant experience if it weren’t for them. I definitely would have been leaning towards cesarean if it weren’t for the advice from one of the very experienced nurses– which was something I didn’t even want to consider! Anyway, I got through it– had my beautiful baby and after all the hell that came with the process of getting to the point of giving birth, I can at least know when I’m ready for baby number two I’ll be taken care of. I seriously have a special place in my heart for this place and it’s employees

Since most of the rave reviews for this hospital seem to be for the women’s pavilion which I can’t say I’ve been inside of since I have not yet given birth, nor would I wish to ever give birth in Everett I will give my review of the part of the hospital I’ve had experience with.
My grandmother was transferred to this campus after having a quadruple bypass at the newer Providence up the road. Over the weekend there was no physical therapist on duty, so she was not taken out of bed for a walk and lost a lot of strength. On Monday she was a little stubborn so they gave up on trying to get her up and walking at all.
When I showed up with a friend to visit her again this week, out near the bus stop just off the end of Pacific I saw nurse smoking and picking her behind. I saw many of the other nurses smoking, and when we got into the elevator a group of nurses got on with us and smelled more heavily of nicotine smoke than a casino gaming floor. The nurses on her floor (the 6^th floor) seemed to be from the bottom of the barrel. I heard multiple times the nurse call button in patient’s rooms going off and the nurses would sit at the desk and wait, or make a run to the staffing lounge. While watching my grandma have dinner in the patient cafeteria most of the patients all elderly and confined to wheel chairs were left to fend for themselves. One nurse when we were walking back from the patient cafeteria walked right into my grandfather like he wasn’t even there, and she didn’t even bother to apologize. I saw many of the nurses just hiding out in corners and looking like they generally didn’t want to be there. The staff who I came into direct contact with seemed pretty short tempered and dead inside, and showed little care for those who they are paid to tend to. Even my grandma’s own call button would go long periods of time unanswered. The funniest part of all my grandpa said that most of the nurses here seem like they should be patients themselves.
So if you have the option of being dropped off here when you’re deathly ill or in the woods, go with the woods. At least if you’re left in the woods you will expect to not be tended to or cared about. I would say that this place is a joke, but when it comes to the lives of your loved ones it’s no laughing matter.

I’m a big fan of the Providence Everett. They’re very professional, very helpful, and their feature is just excellent. I gave birth of my son and daughter there and had very good experience. Thank you

My wife gave birth to our second child here. It was fantastic! They staff made everything so pleasant, well as pleasant as you can be after 18 hours of labor! We had our first at Skagit Valley, and this blew that out of the water. Definitely a great experience here!

I gave birth to my son here last May and I had a great experience. I had group health insurance and my doctor was ok, but she didn’t feel comfortable delivering with a vacuum and Dr. Anholm delivered instead. She was excellent and took great care of me with some post-​birth complications even though I wasn’t her official patient.
All of the nursing staff here is excellent and the food is pretty good too! I was hesitant when I saw I would have a male delivery nurse but nurse Dave was great and ultimately saved my life when I had some serious postpartum bleeding. I ended up needing to be at the hospital for 5 days. Every day someone checked in with me to see how everyone was doing (staff/​service) and everyone was so helpful. It was one of the scariest moments in my life as I almost needed a blood transfusion (1number away!) but I was so incredibly well cared for leading up to delivery, throughout and following delivery as well. Even though I now live 30mins away I am tempted to come back in the future because of my positive experience.

I picked Providence for my entire pregnancy care.
Dr. K. L. Pieper was my OBGYN for the 9 months and he delivered my baby too. I got lucky as he happened to be the delivering doctor when I was due. All but one nurse were nice and attentive. However, the one crazy nurse kept on pushing to have me induced, under no order or request. Luckily the doctor didn’t feel the need either and she finally went away.
Except for that… the whole experience was straight forward.

I woke up April 2012 with the worst pain I have ever felt in my life, I thought I was dying. When my husband finally convinced me to go to the ER we picked the closest one we could find. When I arrived and limped to the counter, the reps asked how they could help me. I informed them that I had severe pain in my abdomen. They asked a few questions to determine if it was a life threatening emergency and proceeded to check me in. At the time I was frustrated with the questions and the fact I had to wait, but I was in immense pain so my patience was non existent (not their fault), and they got me back to the room in the appropriate order.
The nurses were very competent and the doctor was nice once he was able to examine me. It was about an hour wait to see the doctor, I’m sure it would have been sooner if there was cause. I left with a diagnosis of kidney stones and I received an rx and was told to follow up with my Doc.
About a year later my husband had at surgery at Swedish Edmonds and was having a complication during recovery. We went back to Providence because it was closer and again we were impressed how nice the doctor and nurses were. He saw the doctor more quickly than I did, but he had just had back surgery– so completely understandable.

I’ve had to be in and out of the Women’s Pavillion and the nearby surgery department over the past few weeks. In fact, I just got home a few hours ago from my surgery and I feel great, tired but great!
Every nurse and doctor I came into contact with was friendly, interested in my well-​being and comfort and they just made the experience go by in a breeze. I felt completely relaxed (before the painkillers! ;) — it is just a great atmosphere! Thank you Providence :)

Providence Everett is a place that you never really want to go, after all it is a hospital. Sadly at times we will all need to go to one for ourselves or a loved one, and Providence is a great choice if you are in upper Snohomish County. Although Overlake in Bellevue would always be my top choice, Providence provides quality health care and a friendly staff which is what really matters in the time of need. I would recommend Providence if it is the closest hospital that you are near and need medical care, but if you have a planned procedure or are closer to Overlake, they seem to overall have a more friendly, personable, «resort» guest feel to it.

We recently had our second child at Providence and couldn’t have been more pleased with the staff and he entire experience.
The rooms are great. Set up with everything you need. (other than a DVD player and a big screen plasma tv)
The staff is awesome. Where do they find all these happy and helpfull people?
Our first pregnancy was easy. Our second turned into an emergency c-​section. Even though they were both quite different experiences, Providence was on top of their game throughout.
I highly recommend Providence to make your baby experience even more special…
Max Danger Carson born in November 2008
Charlee Sue Carson born in July 2012

I gave birth to my first child at the Women’s Pavilion located at Providence it was the best experience I could have asked for. The doctors, nurses and staff were so wonderful, it made a big impression on me. I highly recommend them to any expectant mom near by be it your first, second or seventh child, you wont be let down.

Had my last baby here 8 years ago and it was by far the nicest providence hospital I had been too. The rooms were nice and the staff was very nice and helpful.
I also have had serveral surgeries here and still felt it was a nice hospital.