Lakeridge Health — Health in Bowmanville

Reviews of Lakeridge Health

• Jose

  Added 2016.07.04

  The majority of the staff are friendly but seen rather sparse; the hospital seems to be understaffed as it always takes a lot of time to be seen by a doctor or nurse. The emergency department is always busy and typically slow; you can expect to spend anywhere from 3-6 hours before seeing a doctor.
• Emilia

  Added 2016.02.25

  If it's not a critical matter, it's best you wait to see your family doctor as you will spend just as much time waiting for your appointment to come as you will sitting in the waiting room of the emergency department. It does not seem the staff understand the patients needs; they claim to see people on an urgency scale but had my partner walk on her own feet while in immense amount of debilitating pain and left her to wait for 7 hours while people with colds were seen before her.
• Allison

  Added 2015.11.21

  Typically the emergency department is an all day event though as I have spent more than 6 hours there on a quite few occasions, including the most recent visit where my partner could not walk due to an unknown hip injury and was in immense pain; that was an all night visit right up until the Sun rose the next day. The staff did not see urgency in the fact that my partner was unable to walk on her own and was in immense pain, which was quite clear as she was in tears for most of the visit. After being seen, we were sent on our way with an appointment to get an ultrasound done on her hip. We now await the next appointment.
• Savannah

  Added 2015.08.29

  The only reason I received timely care is because I was here at 530am. All I've heard all day is complaints from staff to each others (standing around talking while patients wait for care) or the triage nurse be extremely rude and short with everyone in the past 2.5 hours. I know it's a hard job... but I'm definately not impressed with their attitudes and treatment towards those who deserve respect and kindness.
• Evan

  Added 2015.04.02

  UPDATE: AVOID UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.
• Ariana

  Added 2015.01.19

  After a traumatizing car accident, I did not need a traumatizing hospital experience. People... Save your time and sanity, go to Oshawa or Ajax/Pickering. SERIOUSLY. Don’t go here.
• Colton

  Added 2014.12.26

  I will be filing a formal complaint against Dr. Tahir and her medical staff now that my injuries are healing for failing to follow protocol and allowing patients to leave the hospital in worse condition than they came in. My witnesses will also be submitting complaints on my behalf.
• Charlotte

  Added 2014.12.22

  Verdict: Be sure there are no other options for care, otherwise be prepared to wait...and don't expect any special treatment for pain.
• Ivy

  Added 2014.08.06

  Verdict: I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS HOSPITAL TO MY DYING ENEMIES!!
• Eva

  Added 2014.08.02

  Absolutely pathetic brought my 9 month old in with trouble breathing at 1145pm and at 1:30am still hadn't been brought into a room....when I said Tylenol was due for him at 12am was told not to give him any and they didn't even ask to check on him, check his temp....nothing. There were also 3 other infants all in the waiting room for hours while people labouring some pains were being checked in and taken right away. My son was moaning in discomfort struggling to get his breath and apparently that did not take priority here. This hospital is an absolute embarrassment to Bowmanville and as a resident here am firmly against EVER using this hospital again.....utterly atrocious services....needs to be addressed by the lakeridge health organization and changes need to be made immediately!
• Dominic

  Added 2014.07.15

  Don't put your faith in the staff here. We were turned away from further care at Bowmanville Hospital Emergency department because the doctor felt my partner was faking her pain. We waited 4 hours on a second visit to the emergency department after being there just 2 days prior for the same issue. This time they did an ultrasound, it showed nothing; they then did an x-ray (because the ultrasound was the WRONG PROCEDURE that they booked on the first visit), which also did not show anything; the doctor then suggested that she get an MRI but refused to book her an appointment or give her a recommendation for one because he couldn't see anything that was causing her the pain she was experiencing so he DIDN'T BELIEVE HER and FIGURED SHE WAS FAKING the injury.
• Ryan

  Added 2014.06.03

  I waited over 5 hours to be seen at bowmanville (please keep in mind, I was in a car wreck that led to me being here) with a severely broken wrist and discomfort all over from being hit head on, and discharged over 7 hours later. No pain meds. No concussion protocol.. No info on the injury itself.. No X-rays to be sure it was in place...
• Kinsley

  Added 2014.05.29

  PATHETIC AND APPALLING BEHAVIOUR!!
• Violet

  Added 2014.05.24

  TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY, they attempted to give her a needle without disclosing what it contained, when she asked what it was, she was told that it was NAPROXEN. She is ALLERGIC TO NAPROXEN and it was ON HER FILE, she was even wearing a HOSPITAL BAND DECLARING AN ALLERGY to the drug!! THAT IS DAMN NEAR MALPRACTICE!!!! Thank goodness she asked!
• Lillian

  Added 2014.04.14

  PREVIOUS REVIEW: (2 STARS)
• Isaiah

  Added 2014.03.04

  Waiting room a bit tight . I have always been treated well . Very nice people , doing a trying job . Empathy contagious .
• Theodore

  Added 2014.02.20

  The staff here almost seriously harmed my partner and had the nerve to accuse her of making a false claim for help! This is appalling behaviour that I do not expect from our health professionals and it makes me sick to think of how many others they have turned away or harmed
• Leo

  Added 2014.01.10

  Dr. Tahir (I believe is how you spell it), is absolutely horrible. This woman should NOT have her medical licence. Her bed side manners and her compassion are atrocious; to be frank, non existent. She put me under to realign my broken wrist and refused to do X-rays post procedure to be sure it was in place. My mother asked her multiple times, and has other witnesses to Dr. Tahir openly refusing to do what protocol states for broken bones. Also placed a splint in the wrong area which caused more damage to my wrist in the end....
• Sawyer

  Added 2013.10.09

  I would love to give them no stars if possible..... PLEASE DO NOT GO TO THIS HOSPITAL.
• Aurora

  Added 2013.05.18

  5 days later, I had a check up at the fracture clinic in Oshawa - just to find out my badly broken radius isn’t in place... so I had to have my hand frozen (which doesn’t help with pain), and pulled in every which direction for over 20 seconds by 4 doctors/nurses, to snap it back into place. The staff at Oshawa fracture clinic were disgusted with my “treatment” and “care” of my injury by Bowmanville staff. Appalled.