Kindred Hospital Northland

The incompetence, medical negligence, lack of empathy, poor staffing, lies, hipaa violations, and subsequent coverups that we encountered during a family member’s stay at this hospital have been truly incomprehensible. From the moment he arrived and was left paralyzed in a dark room by himself without access to a nurse call button for 4 hours before being discovered by a visitor to the moment he was transferred to another hospital who immediately was forced to put him BACK in ICU due to the condition they left him in, this experience has been a nightmare. If you want your patient to literally die for 3 minutes in the middle of the night because they took so long to notice that an important tube came out, choose Kindred. If you think it is okay to have your loved one left in their own excrement for over an hour at a time on multiple occasions only to be told that the «nurse followed protocol and didn’t do anything wrong» even though she accidentally THREW AWAY YOUR MEDICATION which prompted one such delay, choose Kindred. If you enjoy being lectured on the importance of sleep for your patient when you are unable to leave because they are already an hour late on delivering meds and you have reason to believe that they will simply «forget» to give it as they have in the past, choose Kindred. If you think it is ok to talk to random people about the patient’s condition, choose Kindred. If you think leaving a patient who is immobile to slump over regularly and smoosh important lifesaving tubes is a great idea, choose Kindred. If losing personal items is your idea of a good time, go work for Kindred… you’ll fit right in. If you think it is appropriate to have a CNA argue with a patient for over 15 minutes over whether or not the patient has been turned in the past 4 hours (no wonder they can’t get to patients in a timely manner), choose Kindred. If you are okay with not getting updates when important medical events happen such as when the life sustaining tube comes out or even finding out an entire WEEK later that your patient as pneumonia despite asking for updates every day, choose Kindred. If you want to be lied to about whether or not they called you for consent of a procedure when they didn’t and you have phone records as proof, choose Kindred.
If you’re okay with walking in on your nonverbal immobile patient regularly choking on their own saliva because no one cares enough to suction their mouth KNOWING THAT THEY CANNOT SWALLOW FOR THEMSELVES, choose Kindred. If you like having staff roll their eyes at you and hearing them talk ill of you and your patient, choose Kindred. If you like finding out that they gave your patient the wrong kind of iv fluids due to yet another mixup, choose Kindred. If you are okay with nurses hiding call buttons under pillows of patients who lack the ability to reach their head, choose Kindred. I could go on for days with the litany of issues we encountered and it wouldn’t begin to scratch the surface.
If you want to lie awake at night worrying over whether your patient is being treated with dignity, respect, basic care, and human decency… choose Kindred.
If, however, you actually love or care about the patient, do everything in your power to choose another hospital. It is my reasonable assumption that their life may very well depend on it.