Elmhurst Hospital Center

A living nightmare. Blood and food in the toilets, handcuffed patients in blood or naked are not big deal. The ER doctors are terrible and they should be fired because they couldnt do their job. I went to ER and told the doctor I might have an ovarian cyst and got ruptured and doctor laughed at me. After pelvic exam he determined I had yeast infection. He previously thought I had UTI but blood test fucked him up. I was later admitted to Queens Presbyterian, diagnosed with ovarian tumor and had to do a major surgery to remove my ovary. I am glad I didnt take the ER doctor’s word seriously. The doctor is a joke that I diagnosed myself closer than him using Google.

Came here when my grandpa was hospitalized due to illness in 2010. I can only come once a week. Whenever we want to see him, we have to go to the receptionist for a pass. After a month, he was relocated to Flushing.

I’ve had the worst experiences in my life at this hospital! I can’t believe this place is still running.
If you want to DIE go to Elmhurst Hospital!

This is hands down the worst hospital I’ve ever been to. Everyone is nasty, there’s no toilet paper in the bathrooms, basically nobody gives a shit why your there or for how long. I was there for 6 hours after a car accident. It was a disgusting display. Do not recommend, ever.

Dr. Naznin Khan from the Behavioral Health department Elmhurst Hospital was extremely rude. I was there with my sister who’s a patient of this doctor. First, she tells us that she doesn’t have much time as she has to go home. Well, then why did you give us an appointment at 4:30 p. m if you have to go home? You can’t talk like that to a patient who has schizophrenia. Me and our mom went with my sis because we were concerned, and we had few questions. My sister has seen other psychiatric before, and we never had any problem with that Doctor. Ms. Khan kept saying she doesn’t understand why my sister is taking all these medicines. I answered that her previous doctor diagnosed her with schizophrenia. She answered me ‘i didn’t ask you, please get out of this room’. My mom wants me to come with my sister to her appointments. I’m certainly not coming back to this rude lady. We will change her doctor, and I will file complaint against this lady everywhere. Hospital also needs to take action against this kind of rude doctors. Certainly not fit to be a psychiatric.

Whoever reported this place as closed has made a mistake. The hospital– ER and inpatient services are totally open. I am still visiting my dad on a daily basis, who went through the ER last Wednesday and now has been admitted as an inpatient for over a week and two days.
This is one of NYC Health and Hospital Corporations before know as HHC. Elmhurst Hospital is one of the 11 hospitals and part of this system.
Here is what everyone needs to know if you are going through the Emergency Room.
1) Be prepared for long wait times. We were there like 10+ hours before dad was admitted as inpatient from the ER. We had no choice. We took our dad first to the Primary Care Physician for assistance/​treatment and she had to call the Paramedics to take him to the ER. Many PCP do not have to facilities to treat conditions that the hospitals can.
It is a cold and barren experience to be in the Emergency Room. You have people screaming in pain, prisoners who also seek medical treatment with correction facility personnel like two with them right next to them, and a host of other characters. Medical staff doing their best under the circumstances. Avoid ER at all cost. Go through your Primary Care Physician first to seek treatment.
2) Always have someone with you going through the process at the hospital. I feel so bad for those who are alone and have no one to go with them. Can be very scary for the long wait time and one is placed on a stretcher and wheeled off to different areas for X-​Rays, CT-​Scans, Ultrasounds, etc… Can be so confusing and difficult for that family member who is already sick and disoriented with pain.
3) The ER doctors here are really good. They are doing their best to figure out a diagnosis and treatment plan and wants all incoming patients to get released. Know the wait times are a killer, on top of all the test that they conduct on the patient to find out what is going on. You are lucky once you treated and discharge. It is a whole different ball game once one is admitted. The doctors change and those ER room do not follow you and a whole new team takes over.
This is a public hospital and serve so many people here in the Queens area. Patients here are globally diverse and there are translators here at the hospital.

Avoid this hospital! Just go to Manhattan people! We came here at 1:30 pm. Now its 5 pm and still havent seen a Dr! 8 hours later and my husband still has not been admitted… The word Emergency means nothing to them. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

When you enter the emergency room area it is filthy and dirty. Chairs I was afraid to sit on. Floor look like its never been cleaned, waxed or buffed.
I been to a lot of hospitals emergency and this was disgusting

You could be dead ER and they’ll still make you wait 5extra hours to be called because your condition wasn’t critical enough.
I had an experience once where my friend’s iv bag was literally dry, I had called a nurse to see if she could help, she stopped, looked at me and said «I’m not her nurse» shook her head in an «apologetic» way and walked away. Could she had offer to call my friend’s assigned nurse? The world may never know. And I still don’t know who her «nurse» is till this day cause she never showed up. It’s like she… forgot about us. If the iv bag was changed, we would had considered staying the extra 10 hours just to see a doctor for a split second.
Whoever replies back to this and ask me what they could do to help or «wishes» to hear my thoughts or «voice»…hear this… please fire everyone there and hire new employees. Or at least those who shakes their heads in an apologetic way.
To add on… I went there for a stray cat bite. It was around 4pm. I had lunch at 1pm expecting to have dinner at 7pm at least. Nope, waited in the ER for hours and hours and I guess those hours turned to 7pm. They then called me and finally I received my shots and it was about 4 different shots. I nearly passed out because I had nothing in my fucking stomach. I assumed everything was gona be fine cause the nurse didn’t ask anything about having a meal before. Like I said, I nearly passed out and the nurse had me sit down, didn’t ask questions on what’s going on. I told her, without her asking me, that I hadn’t had anything to each since I got there and the. She goes «omg, why didn’t you tell me???»
WTF??? ARE YOU SERIOUS???
Y’all keep this up Elmhurst Hospital. I’m just voicing my concerns, Someone less passive is going to sue this hospital for everything it’s got, if y’all don’t shape the fcuk up!!! It’s not the hospital, it’s the employees.

I was brought into this hospital unconscious in a ambulance, so it was not my choice.
This hospital is very bad, here are the list of issues I had to deal with in 9 days of being there.
They had me wait 4 days from the day I came into the emergency room before doing surgery on a shattered patella, fractured pelvic, fractured foot, head laceration, among other injuries I had beed mowed down by a car.
Majority of the nurses are rude with exception of a couple. Whenever you ask for your medication it takes a minimum of 30 min.
Finally what got me really upset is that after I finally got the surgery done, they somehow accidentally discharged me from hospital. So when I needed it most, I was unable to get pain medication for over 5 hours while they fix the problem and I suffer in excruciating pain. Do yourself a favor put a note in your wallet that says in case of emergency do not take me to Elmhurst hospital.

Not great service.
Came to the ER Saturday morning, i got attended fast & they diagnosed what I had so they said they had to do surgery on me but weren’t sure what day. I’ve been in the hospitalized for 5 days without food & liquids. They were never sure when they were going to do the surgery due to not enough space in the operating room, until Monday they said I was schedule for Wednesday. Finally Wednesday comes and they say they can’t do my surgery! Due to not enough space in the operating room because they had so many emergencies! They decided to send me home because its not that «urgent» my situation and to set up an appointment for my surgery thats going to be in 2weeks! Unbelievable! Wasting my time in the hospital for nothing and i was vomiting everyday during the time i was there. They are so disorganized and not clean either. DONT COME HERE IF YOU HAVE AN EMERGENCY. You will just waste your time.

This hospital is a bullshit ! Im arrived by 9:40pm with my daughter she is 8 month old, she had a hight fever. First when i went to the desk for the registration by emergency the lady was talking my data and on the same moment she was playing casino on the table hahahaha, omg and after everithing i get out of the hospiatal at 4:30 am almost 5 am next day omg, i think people from the hospital need new maneger and personal!
Think twice before to come to this hospital

Even if I were in a car accident right in front of this hospital, I still would go to a different one for treatment.

One would hope you never have to visit a hospital, but I’ve been through a lot with Elmhurst Hospital.
I had a serious appendicitis operation while in elementary school. I didnt know how bad it was, but doctors did a good job in getting me operated and healed. Although they put me through a lot of unnecessary pain by not being gentle with their needle sticking and IVs.
I volunteered here as well during my high school days and I got to know more of the nurses and doctors. Most of them are really caring and want to help. There were also instances of patients calling nurses and being neglected. Depending on the shift on duty, it could be night and day.
And then I came again a few years ago when my brother with cerebral palsy had pneumonia in his lungs, high fever and needed machines to help him breathe. Doctors were telling us that there wasn’t much hope. Nurses were really sweet and was there for us when we visited him. We decided to pull the machine and he started recovering! It was a miracle.
So, although I don’t think the hospital is a A+ hospital, and does have some minor flaws. They also have a great staff as well who does care and can do great things. So this is more of a 3.5 star rating.

The psych ER had the most comfortable chairs of any psych ER I have been too yet. If you have to watch a prisoner with some issues, this is the place. Staff is friendly and accommodating.

Its 9:50pm, ive been here since 7pm. The only time i spoke to someone was when they checked my blood pressure and body temp. This place is a joke. Its disgusting. Ive asked 3 nurses for assistance. They ask my name and never get back to me. Im holding this nebulizer tube and no one has given me the albuterol i need. No one can answer any questions. No one knows anything. They do not care to check or come back with an answer. There are patients everywhere. It is so unorganized that I’ve heard more than one nurse call for the same one patient. I came here to receive medical treatment and i would have been netter off simply staying in bed. At least i would not be further contaminated by disease in this dump.

Horrible place.

I had a long winded review about this place but instead I’m going to sum up all of these reviews and my experience here with these wise words:
if you come here or if you bring anyone you care about here you’re basically screaming, «I HAVE NO REGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE.»
avoid this place like the plague. the extra 10 – 20 even AN HOUR drive to a different hospital is completely worth it.

How is this so called «hospital“still running??? the lady at the mini registration desk was very rude. kept yelling out every personal information at a point she goes“YOU HAVE VIRUS? You have virus!?“to everyone that were waiting in the
I’m waiting another patient went to sit down she grabbed him back up yelling «no no no”(mind you he was a elderly).i was first put down as wrong reason I’m here, I ask them politely to change because that wasn’t why. nurse shurgged and kept typing. I needed immediate care where the last time I was hospitalized, doctor at the time told me to come back if worse. pain so unbearble, the only reason I was taken inside because I almost threw up & passed out on the nurse at the mini registration.
I have seen no doctor and still waiting in a cramped up dirty waiting room inside the ward with my urine for 4 hours. a patient who came right before just got called to see the doctor… How u put cramps when I’m having complications. thats the real reason. their policy with its based off how severe your feeling to see a doctor. Such malpractice.I asked a nurse who do I give my urine politely and she goes“to your nurse“and w & walked away… unbelievable. how do I give it to my nurse if I never even met here?!
I should have gone to the hospital in elmhurst much
my mistake I figured elmhurst hospital had its days.

If I could give zero stars… You get the point. If I had been fully conscious when the ambulance driver told me we were going to Elmhurst hospital, I would have adamantly refused. The first thing I heard when they unloaded me from the ambulance was a greeting from hospital personnel that went something like this «She’s not going to trauma, right? We are really backed up in trauma.» It was downhill from there. When I finally saw my primary care physician a couple days later and told her in detail what happened at the hospital she literally stopped in the middle of the examination and said «I’m sorry, but their care borders on malpractice.» It’s true. AVOID IF AT ALL POSSIBLE IF YOU WANT TO ACTUALLY LIVE.