If it were possible, I would give the facility negative stars. First, I needed an x-ray and then a follow up MRI in order for my doctor to prescribe the appropriate course of treatment of a nagging and painful issue. I went to NCH Medical Group in Mount Prospect because it was convenient. What a mistake that was...
First, I had the x-ray done and was assured my doctor would have it within a couple of days. After waiting a week and not hearing anything, I called the doctor's office and was told the x-ray was never sent over. Next I called NCH Immediate Care at Mount Prospect, at first they had no idea who I was or what I was talking about. After a couple of calls, I finally found someone to help. When I mentioned my doctor was at Advocate, they said that would be why the x-ray wasn't sent. I was told that their computer system had mysteriously stopped sending to Advocate that week (the previous week it had stopped sending to Alexian Brothers). Fortunately, the person that was helping agreed to fax the x-ray manually.
Next, I needed an MRI as a follow up and the doctor's office send the order to NCH Immediate Care at Mount Prospect thinking I would want to use them again. In order to avoid any further delay, I was in some pain, I just went along. That was a mistake.
I made an appointment specifically at 1:00pm on a certain Tuesday due to this being the best time for me due to work. I had to schedule the appointment two weeks out to get this time, but it was the best I could do, so I waited. When I arrived at NCH Immediate Care at Mount Prospect fifteen minutes early, I was initially told that I didn't have an appointment at all. After further checking, they said my appointment was at 2:00pm, not 1:00pm. When I attempted to explain that was not case since I'd deliberately made the appointment at this time, I was essentially told too bad, so sad... Didn't I know the man in the MRI at that time had just had a triple by-pass! My first thought was: really..., why are you telling me this? That's all fine with me, but it doesn't change the fact that I'm supposed to have an appointment now and have rearranged my schedule accordingly and you've either intentionally (as in bumped me) or mistakenly messed it up, so now I'm out of valuable time ($$$) and you're telling me to simply sit down and wait.
In fact, the receptionist/registrar (Patricia) was quite rude about it. Behaving as if I were being extremely unreasonable, especially since "...man in the MRI at that time had just had a triple by-pass"! Again, what? He didn't just have a heart attack and this is an outpatient facility, not an ER. And again, how is this relevant to my situation? Clearly it was simply an effort to deflect the obvious, they messed up again.
Seeing I was getting nowhere with Patricia, I asked repeatedly to see a supervisor or manager. After a long wait, Patricia retrieved an RN name Liz. I thought perhaps she may be more reasonable and even if there wasn't much that could be done, some acknowledgement of their mistake and understanding of my situation would be forthcoming. Oh how wrong I was... She was actually worse than the receptionist.
While I was speaking with her, I began to count off the logical progression of events on my fingers by gasping my index finger to begin with one. Liz immediate went off and accused me of pointing my finger in her face out of anger... Really? I thought I was simply and calmly making a point. I then told her we were done since she was clearly attempting to cast me in a negative light and put me on the defensive, even worse than the receptionist had done, and I walked away. She followed and continued. I asked why she would clearly attempt such an obvious trick and she mentioned something about the watching the news. Which is fine, there are many terrible stories on news, but what has that to do with the current situation? Again, nonsense.
At this point, the MRI tech came out and rescued me. I really didn't want to have anything done here at that point, but I had been in pain for weeks at this point and just wanted to get this over with, so I went ahead with the MRI.
Never again... This place is horrible. We'll see if the MRI ever makes it to my doctor's office. Do yourself a favor, STAY AWAY! read more