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Atlanta Medical Center
Categories: Health and Medical Doctors Family Practice Health and Medical Hospitals Family Practice, Hospitals [Edit]
303 Parkway Dr NEAtlanta, GA 30312
Neighborhood: Old Fourth Ward
(404) 265-3627
- By Appointment Only:
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8 reviews for Atlanta Medical Center
8 reviews in English
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Review from Joseph M.
Lindale, GA
3/2/2012
I was a patient at AMC in 2009 and my stay was miserable. I felt the hospital staff was unprofessional, the facility worn-down and the overall experience terrible.
My wife recently had to have surgery and to our chagrin, we found out that AMC was our only option. We were very apprehensive, but her stay went without a hitch. We were told by her doctor that AMC has undergone a change recently and as a former patient and husband of a current patient, I see the difference.
The buildings still look fairly worn-out, but they are clean. The staff was first-rate - efficient, friendly and accessible. Pain medications were delivered on schedule and supplemented on demand. Food was edible (a compliment for a hospital). The campus gets a little seedy at night, but that's to be expected in an urban setting and at no time did I ever feel unsafe.
Give the "new and improved" AMC a shot...you may be surprised! -
Review from Ebony B.
Atlanta, GA
1) Across the street from the PJs aka the 'jects
2) Building looks like it's seen better days
3) I always feel the need to watch my back, like a lot
4) The smallest Labor and Delivery rooms EVER-- even smaller and more bleh than Grady.
5) Even smaller postpartum rooms. Double bleh.
6) Dark parking decks--see posts 1 and 3
7) The walkway bridge looks like it's going to fall down
8) YIKES!
Positives
9) Intown Midwifery is based here and delivers here
10) They do Waterbirths
11) You *may* get to experience the most pain in your entire life while looking at a prime view of the ATL skyline--or the back of a building/brick wall :-\
All in all, I wish Intown had affiliation at another hospital. This hospital is WOMP WOMPPPPPPPPP! Let's see how the *care* goesListed in: Atlanta Hospital Maternity…
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Review from Mikey H.
Atlanta, GA
4/11/2011
If you enjoy having your catheter ripped out by pissy and ineffectual nurses, by all means come here for medical care! The 5-star reviewer is either an employee here or experienced a miracle.
My boyfriend's father was in a bad car wreck last weekend and had to be flown in via helicopter. He spent the better part of two days in ICU here, during which he was given drugs he is allergic to and told them not to give him resulting in him having hives and a manic rage attack. Instead of restraining him, they just yanked out his catheter (thank goodness the air bladder was delflated at the time) and let him run rampant.
It was like pulling teeth to get the names of who was responsible for what (like nurse, head nurse, doctor, etc). My BF's dad waited all night to get test results from a doctor who never came. Only after his allergic fit did he get put in a regular room and after many more hours a nurse came by to ask why he was still there since his test didnt show anything. WHY INDEED.
The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing here. The place is shabby and rundown, and the staff is either adversarial, nice but ineffectual, or simply indifferent, depending on floor, day, and mood. There are so many crackheads and other unsavory folks trying to get in that you have to run an obstacle course of security in order to visit your loved ones (unless you get Indifferent Officer who doesn't even notice you).
The ICU nurses turned one patient's TV all the way up and turned it around so that they could watch it from their station while the poor lady
moaned in pain. Nice!
In short: If you can hold on to that heart attack just a little longer, go to Piedmont. -
Review from Sarah B.
New Orleans, LA
9/26/2009
My boyfriend recently had a relatively minor surgery, and was admitted into the hospital for overnight observation. Let's face it, anytime you get cut open, you're gonna be in pain, and you want the pain alleviated immediately. He told several nurses that narcotics don't work for him; Percocet, Vicodin, and even Morphine did nothing to alleviate his agony. Yet they continued to give him more opiates, in addition to acting very lackadaisical about his claims that nothing was helping-- as if he didn't know his own physiology well enough to draw these conclusions. Worst bedside manner ever! He couldn't even sleep through the night because of the pain.
In addition to that, his room was kept at a constant 80 degrees, and fiddling with the thermostat proved useless. Almost none of the remote control buttons on his bed worked-- he couldn't even turn on the television. There were several emergency call buttons around, and only ONE of them worked... the one furthest from his reach. The doctors who came in to check on him seemed like they were just trying to get through their rounds as quickly as possible.
A bunch of other things pissed me off; it all boiled down to feeling like he was being neglected by people whose JOBS are to make sure people aren't being neglected. From this experience, I would never recommend this hospital to anybody. -
Review from Gen C.
Miami Beach, FL
7/20/2011
Stay away from this hospital if you can!!!
I presented to myself to Atlanta Medical Center's Emergency Department as it was the closest one to me, had urgent care / fast-track services, and I was in severe pain. My procedure was very simple -- a Physician Assistant asked a simple lab work to be done, and she wrote a prescription for me -- all-in-all a 30-minute process. A month after the service, I was surprised to see a $1,700 bill waiting for me! A shocker as I had the exact procedure done a year prior in an Orlando Hospital, and my bill then was $100. Atlanta Medical Center coded and billed me for full emergency room service, despite the fact I presented myself with a simple case that requires a prescription. In addition, charged me for services by an ER Attending Physician whom I never saw (a Physician Assistant was the only one that saw me, and whom uttered only 10 words to me throughout my 30 minute ordeal).
Per CMS (Federal Reimbursement Rules) and EMTALA rules, fast-track operations should be using different special coding, billing, and reimbursement outside the normal Emergency Department procedures. If you want to pay for services that you wasn't provided to you, go to Atlanta Medical Center. If you want fair billing practices, then go somewhere else -- there are better Atlanta hospitals out there that deserve your business!
Learned my lesson....never again going to this hospital or any other Tenet Healthcare facility. No customer service, doesn't believe in fair billing practices. -
Review from Mandolin M.
Atlanta, GA
7/1/2008
BEST HOSPITAL IN THE ATL! I went in everyone was sweet and fast!
Went in and out for two tests, one cat scan super easy!
All is well! -
Review from Henry S.
West Hollywood, CA
12/14/2010
The US Postal Service of medical centers. Inattentive staff, confusing billing. General mess of a place. If you like mailing packages at the post office, you'll love getting medical care at this place.
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Review from Rigoberto G.
Lawrenceville, GA
5/29/2011
My wife gave birth here and the attention and service was exellent yhea its close to some crackheads and vagrants but what your going to do its atlanta
