Go somewhere else for imaging, this place is HIGHLY disorganized!! I got a phone call from Advanced Imaging at 4:24pm EST the day before I had an 8:30am MRI appointment at this location asking for more information about a Wallstent that I had placed years ago in Illinois. I had informed Advanced Radiology verbally at the time of making the appointment and in writing on April 12 and April 29 about the stent, yet they waited until the last minute (May 2) to request info that would take me a few days to get from a hospital. I gave them all 37 pages of the medical notes that I have, and highlighted the areas that showed when I had MRIs after the stent was placed, but unfortunately the notes do not mention the brand of the stent. I was never given a stent card or I'd have given them that information as well. I've had at least two MRIs in other states since its installment with no issues and no interrogation from the imaging facilities about this Wallstent. A quick Google search of the FDA website about it says that settings of 3.0 Tesla or less are safe to use with Wallstents. I was offered the option of making another appointment at a different facility that would have MR machine that would use a lower Tesla setting, but I am unable to rearrange my schedule for at least a month and why should I, when this office didn't do their due diligence in reading the information I gave them and contacting me in a timely manner instead of waiting until the last minute? What about this experience makes me think that they wouldn't mess up a second appointment somehow?
Additionally, I was given prescription premedication of prednisone and Benadryl to take before this MRI because I stated that I'm allergic to gadolinium. They took my word on that, and gave me prescription medications for it, yet they won't take my word about the type of stent that I have even though I show up on time fully prepared with all the information they ask for minus the brand of the stent. If Advanced Radiology had asked for the brand of stent days ago when I sent in my medical history, this wouldn't have been an issue. To make things even worse, the office manager Alex K was smug and condescending about this entire fiasco, trying to make me think they were doing their due diligence because he called me at 3:15pm on May 2 (the afternoon before my appointment). Whether it was 3:15pm or 4:24pm, that is less than 24 hours notice to obtain medical information that requires faxes and signatures from hospitals in two different states and two different time zones. All of this is completely unprofessional and shameful of Advanced Radioogy and since there are many imaging facility options out there with more convenient hours, I'm choosing somewhere else and you may want to as well!
Update: I made an appointment with a Hopkins imaging facility and it was immediately a much better experience. The person who took my call asked a lot more questions and let me know what information they needed in advance for my stent, which is not what Advanced Imaging did (and at every step of the way I even volunteered additional information to AI that they did nothing with until it was too late). As a healthcare provider of 30 years myself, I know that disorganization at the administrative level infers disorganization/incompetence on the clinical level and certainly shows a lack of care at the upper management level. There's no incentive for management to change or improve problems within the organization or within themselves if they keep getting patients and profits anyway. I do hope this office improves after today's fiasco for other patients' sake, but fool me once shame on you, and you won't get a second chance to fool me again when there are other businesses who do the same thing better to take my time, money, and trust to. read more