An absolutely horrific experience!! First, when I entered there was literally no one there except a machine telling you to check in and give your drivers license. (After you read what occurred, you'll understand why I wish the machine actually gave me the blood test as well!!)
Upon doing that, I received a text to come in. The Wizard of Oz voice told me to go to go back, but no real direction how to find them so after wandering towards the back I located a woman who was abrupt and extremely unfriendly. She told me to go pick an empty room down the hall, so I walked into a room that said something about hazardous waste disposal and figured that's not the correct room!! I finally walked back and found what looked like an empty exam room, only to be yelled at by the lady who told me to go down the hall further! Found the little area where they had the curtains and went to sit down, but then staff member yelled to come in the room which another patient had just left, which didn't make me comfortable. Would've preferred to stay where I was for what "should have been" a very simple blood test.
I have gone for as many as 16 to 20 vials of blood elsewhere, and today I only needed three. Apparently three was huge for this person. :-( She was a short, slightly obese, black woman, whose name started with the letter M. I can't recall but it was something like Marietta or Marguerite or something? (Anyone reading her exact name, please DM me...!! I would be grateful).
Right away she turned me off by the way she was speaking in an unprofessional manner. Also, there was a giant bug climbing up the wall which I pointed out, and apparently she was very frightened of them and actually moved to this room because they were more bugs in a different room! (Doesn't instill confidence in their cleanliness or safety protocols!)
I brushed it off thinking I just wanted to get my blood test and get the heck out of there. She then palpitates for what seemed like several minutes, and couldn't seem to locate a vein even though I clearly pointed out 2 very good veins that I have had successfully used in literally hundreds of past bloodwork. Finally says she found one, when she hears a noise and opens her curtain to see some kid racing down the hallway. I don't know if he belonged to a staff member or patient. But it distracted her and she lost the vein. So she went back to touching it with her hand again over and over and over and over tapping my arm to try and magically find this vein.
Actually, I've never had another nurse do this in this manner. She decides that she found it and puts in the needle. After apart 20 seconds of pain, I look over and see no blood is coming into the vial. I asked her or more like stated, "you didn't find a vein, did you?" She says no, then goes to get another needle, and now I am spurting blood, but she does nothing to immediately stop the bleeding, or prevent a bruise or confusion, and doesn't even give me gauze. She goes to get another needle. I stop her & asked if she could please give me a Band-Aid! She doesn't give me a Band-Aid. I ended up having to go to my car & find my Emergency first aid kit to get a Band-Aid. But the story doesn't end here!
Still needed to get bloodwork so I suggested she use a thinner needle. She then asks me, showing me a tray of needles, if I usually get the blue or the green one? At this point I was incredulous. I can't believe this nurse is asking ME which needle SHE should use?!
Eventually another nurse comes in to kill the bug on the wall. I ask if she is a supervisor and she says yes. I then asked if she can please complete my blood work, which she agrees to. It took her only a couple seconds to find a vein (same arm!!) and complete the work. Which tells me my veins were just fine, but the first staff member, who is credentials I am unaware of, clearly had no clue what she was doing!
I came home very distressed and run into a neighbor down the street. I start to relay the story when she asked me if I had this very same nurse. I asked, how did you know? And she gets agitated and shares her experience of how this woman has poked her many times and how another person has to finish the blood work and so on!
Why the heck does Labcorp employ a person that clearly does not know technique, does not know her job, is completely unprofessional, and it's just stabbing people randomly in the hopes of eventually "catching" a vein?! This is the main function of this lab. It's to collect blood from people. It's to do blood test. How outrageous that they don't have more professional and capable personnel! I'm here at your old west. You can see my arm: this is about 17 hours after it was done. You can't see it in the picture, but the black and blue part actually is a raised contusion/bump as a result of this woman's complete incompetency!!
I'd have to write two more pages if I tried to tell you about their billing. Avoid place! read more