I'm blessed to have my doc - she's great. Staff is good and I get what I need done.
Love the staff and the doctors! I am blessed that I am able to get my healthcare here!
Veterans stay away from this facility YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! This facility the fourth busiest in the nation is horrible and a disgrace to veterans given how they mistreat veterans and get away with doing that. My experiences dealing with this facility is that you got good employees here but also a lot of bad ones that get away with crime and leadership here does nothing about it. Doctors recommend medical care the appeals got denied for service connected wounds later to be approved only 49 months post retirement from the service from the Navy. Took 49 months to get pain management as actual treatment for my my condition it worsened from stage I to stage III CRPS. This facility even could not help myself with prosthetic needs and as the veteran I had to pay out of pocket for my mobility cited the Washington Times as the Tampa Bay Times articles. Speaking out in the news media came with retalliation against myself. Even after giving the facility the benefit of the doubt to do the right thing still prosthetic requests are not honored. This facility will not even honor it's own issued prosthetic cards for when your prosthetic breaks again paid out of pocket after the news articles. There is no accountability at this VA and ICARE lacks entirely! A chief employee can falsify your medical record to state you have "no right leg atrophy" when clearly is a difference when making request to correct the medical record nothing changes you take the complaint to patient advocate as the hospital director even to Congress it goes no where!!! On YouTube documents that I followed up with this matter at the VA Town Hall meeting nothing got done again, and again! Congress did nothing about it nor the OIG. I was told to file a FTCA federal tort claim SF-95 against the facility for medical malpractice even by Suzzane Klinker by the Hospital Director this facility got away with that through the Court who denied jurisdiction however the law is clear upon such matter being shown in 28 U.S.C. Section 1346(b)(1) where exclusive jurisdiction is reserved to the District Courts. Federal judges up to the Florida Middle District Chief Judge had wrongly denied jurisdiction and actually aided and abetting wrongful act as crimes of the VA against veterans from this very facility see Derek Peeples v. United States 8:16-cv-00528. Since this facility can get away with medical malpractice as crime as labeling acts benefits under the Veterans Judicial Review Act essentially any act committed against veterans on VA property this facility as other VA's will get away with it all. NEVER AGAIN USE THE VA! Time is overdue for the SWAMP at BAY PINES to drain. EMPLOYEES NEED TO BE DOING JAIL TIME! Time is due for privatization of the VA. Government ran healthcare has killed too many veterans and injured too many veterans trust is lost too many veterans have been failed. 307,000 plus veterans died under VA enrollment scandal and VETERANS you think you want to use the VA? Know who actually cares for you! VETERANS YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! - Derek G. Peeples, United States Navy Retired
A Vietnam veteran, a good friend, may have suffered a mini stroke so I call 911. Within 5 min their @ the house. Bay Pines determines his hemoglobin level was 7 and needed a transfusion. They admit him. He had 2 units of blood, upper & lower GI plus a colonoscopy (sp?) I was extremely impressed with the quality of care and attention to detail he received. I wish to extend my gratitude for those on the 4A wing. Great team! Keep up the wonderful work.
Can't say enough, Treated very well, professional, patient and always ready to help. I will never go anywhere else for any treatment. If it wasn't for VA I would be suffering in some secondary hospital in St. Petersburg. My Doctors and Nurses are the best. The Dom staff rock, the food, good. I hope you all can appreciate the many Veterans who still serve here and everywhere.
Dr. J. Sims ran two urine tests: 12/16/14 and 12/23/14. Said I had blood in my urine. Ordered a CT which was unremarkable except for an embolism in my aorta near my stomach..follow up in 6 months with ultra sound. He sent me to the Urology group and they wanted to prop my bladder. Well obviously, I said no. When I began to ask question about the urine tests. Dr. Sims said that "if I didn't stop asking questions, he'd report me". I changed doctors.
The ultrasound revealed NO embolism in my aorta.
Since December, 2014, other urine tests were done which revealed "negative" results.
It appears these labs and doctors are required to fill quotas with no regard to patience concerns.
Summary: do not believe everything they tell you!