I come to Mercy twice a week to have a paracentesis procedure done. Out of the...this is my 7th at…read morethis facility I think...experiences I've had here I can give 1 star and I can give 5 stars. For example, last time 5!!!!! They got an IV in on the first try, the doctor was in and out, procedure was as painless as you can make it, the nurses were a delight, I felt great afterwards and they even fed me! (Their deli sandwiches are actually really good.) Now the time just before that was a nightmare. It took SIX different people to finally get an IV to function properly. Them sticking me that many times caused me to have one of the worse migraines I've ever experienced in my life. They didn't offer me ANYthing to help. I of course would have loved some sort of mild pain pill, but they didn't even offer me water or a cold cloth for my head or to dim the lights or anything. And the two nurses I had that day just kind of hung out in my room and chatted away...wouldn't shut up. Nothing to do with me or work. I was lying there bawling and they pretty much ignored me to talk about Creekfest and how expensive the one girl's ugly-ass hair was. I went home and cried pretty much the rest of the evening. Times before they have been good and bad as well. Usually it's an IV issue. Sometimes they pull on my bowels when they adjust the catheter. Sometimes they feed me, sometimes the tv works. I've only had 2 different doctors and you only see them for a few minutes, but they're both good. I will keep coming here because it's a lot easier than driving to Omaha. I used to have to do that. I do have issues with the scheduling department at Mercy. They can never seem to find my orders and stuff. And they're slooooooooow. Can the website admins change the picture on here? It's not that great looking at an actual pile of shit.

Horrible. My husband was there for 3 days. Absolutely no TV. What are ppl supposed to do for three…read moredays in a hospital. Just horrible...... had a heart ultrasound at 8, and no communication. Zero. Couldn't eat anything until he heard those results. Starved him out. Nurses here call this place the ghetto....

Here is my review of the Intensive Care Unit at UnityPoint Health - Sioux City…read more.. If you find yourself needing medical assistance, consider yourself blessed if you're sent to the ICU at St.Luke's. When I first arrived via ambulance, they unloaded me onto the bed in ICU Room 10. From there, it was a flurry of gloved hands and intrusive wires as four masked angels descended on me like vultures on roadkill. They hooked me up, checked my vitals, and kindly welcomed me, in a matter of seconds. (It was super speedy,l I almost missed it. These people are turbo-charged, no lie.) For the next 9 hours, I was thrilled they left my door open so I could hear all the conversation at the nurses' station. It's nice to know these people, who deal with such intimate and scary cases on a daily basis, can keep their sense of humor in the wake of it all. My nurse, Kendra, who looks half her age and carries herself with the grace of a beauty queen, was so sincerely kind and helpful and didn't bat a beautiful eyelash at any request I had. She made me so comfortable and eased any embarrassment I had. She answered all my questions with the wisdom of a thousand fortune cookies. When I was frightened, she helped to calm me with a gentle mix of shoulder pats and pharmaceuticals. And don't get me started on the support staff. From the cheerful gentleman who emptied the sharps boxes to the nursing assistants, from techs to housekeeping, everyone was just as nice as an old friend. I am so glad I found myself at St.Luke's. I mean, I'm not, but I am. *Points deducted for lack of petting zoo and ice cream parlor. *Update: The DO have a petting zoo. I'm not surprised.

Billing is a joke. They charge 5x your copay and then say it's correct. I will never go to them…read morefor anything again. I will literally die before I go to any of business with the name unity point. I just left a DR. I loved because if this. Would never recommend to anyone.

outstanding hospital and always my first choice! i have always been treated with dignity, respect,…read more and gotten excellent care, from their ER in particular. more than once, i have left mercy medical center' in Sioux city and gone to St. Luke's due to long waits, or wrong diagnosis (missed appendicitis and telling me it's the FLU? really?) i am impressed with everything about the ER department. you walk directly into the department to an actual desk (not someone behind a plate glass window) and the staff shows concern. they never seem "bothered" when someone asks a nurse a question, they just answer it and then gently direct them to the waiting room wait times are reasonable as far as a hospital waiting rooms go. professional and thorough treatment from all the staff. i recommend st. luke's hospital to anyone who visits Sioux city.

I had my right knee replaced, from the surgeon to the staff everyone was fantastic, they took the…read moretime to make sure that I was comfortable. The food wasn't bad either. This is the second time I've been there and I wasn't treated differently. This is a good place to have knee surgery

The rank and file of the personal I have had interactions with are great, Tracey Thorsen, not so…read moremuch. She's the business officer in charge of approving financial aid applications. I am quite disabled diagnosed in 1973 w/RA. 50+ yrs later it didn't get better. In fact now I have painful neuropathy in my right side, need a knee replacement for a year. The pain can be excruciating. I can't work. I applied for financial aid in September. I had computer issues which has caused me to reapply because that's what Tracey said. I did but there's a document from the SD DSS that I need to get my application completed. Penny at the State tells me I don't need when I called. I told her that Tracey is anal retentive & insists. Well Penny didn't send it she sent me a new application There's a urgency to get some medical care & financial aid. Tracey apparently can spend 10 minutes on the phone with me telling me how she can't/won't call Penny & ask her to fax the document that would have taken 4 minutes. I understand that Dunes has been hit with a 12.7 mil judgement and probably shouldn't be approving financial aid. Tracey your lack of compassion & BS has led me to write this review. I will forward this to the US attorneys office hot line number at the bottom of the lawsuit article. Your not very Christian Tracy

I have a lot of fluid in my legs and abdomen because I have liver disease. And my thighs are really…read more'chubby' because of the fluid so when I started to develop what I called 'bruises' all over my thighs and stomach (excess skin from losing 130lbs semi-recently) I just figured the bruises formed because my legs rubbing against each other. I went to show my regular doctor and she was really concerned so she referred me to a dermatologist since I didn't have one already. Dr. Grote took a look and was a little surprised/confused himself on what was on my legs, so we took a biopsy in two spots to get checked out. Aside of the pain from the rash (as it's now being referred to as) they biopsy didn't show cancer or anything else I should be super worried about, except both doctors here have no idea what this rash is. So they're sending me to Omaha to figure out what it is. So yeah, this clinic doesn't have the resources it needs for me, but I consider sending me to a specialist good practice because it proves the doctors care and want me to be well. (I just really want the pain.) Dr. Grote couldn't prescribe me anything because of my liver disease. The clinic is clean, the receptionist women are super nice and one of the nurses even gave me a bunch of good bandages to help me keep my stitches clean. (From the biopsy.) If I ever come across the need for a dermatologist again, I'll be heading to this clinic first.

Almost a year ago I went to see Dr. Grote because of a growth on my forehead. Two weeks later…read moreresults confirmed it was cancer. Dr. Grote was amazing to me and so was every single staff member. I was sent to a Plastic Surgeon and had surgery. Now here I am alive and cancer free nine months later. He is very warm and kind and I love how much they care and help.

Our provider left so we were forced to see Dr. Bajracharya (they call him Dr "B"). If your child…read morehas ADHD and will need medication renewed, this is NOT your guy. Be sure to ask about this when scheduling, as he is forcing us to see a psychologist for any ADHD medications. I have been renewing her meds at her yearly physical since she started receiving treatment seven years ago. He stated that this was a new "rule" and the dea will come after him if we don't see a psychologist for her meds. I have been an RN for over 30 years and never heard such a load of BS. After asking around, I hear that this is just his personal policy. This was a total waste of our time. We waited for an hour to see him. The "exam" was questionable. He barely looked at her, asked very few questions. Mostly he seemed annoyed and very uneasy around my 15 year old daughter. If she is too close to adulthood to see a pediatrician then tell us when we are making the appointment. This clinic is just sad and depressing-- the waiting room is like the DMV. You would never guess that this is a place for children. Sad, sub-par care in a crappy, dirty little office with cheap plastic chairs.

DO NOT TAKE YOUR CHILD TO PRAIRIE PEDIATRICS!!…read more Two years ago today my wife and I lost our only child, our son Cameron Condon. He was almost two and half years old at the time of his death. Unfortunately Cameron was a patient of Prairie Pediatrics since he was born in January of 2013. His primary "doctor" at Prairie Pediatrics was Eyad Najdawi. Right around his second birthday (January 2015) Cameron vomited for no apparent reason. A phone call and visit to Prairie Pediatrics didn't find anything abnormal and they thought it might just be a bug. Cameron continued vomiting, more frequently, over the next few weeks. Continued calls and visits fell upon deaf ears. First, they thought Cameron had allergies. Then they thought it was reflux but even after weeks of daily vomiting they failed to refer him to one of the GI specialist that regularly visited the clinic. When we even suggested that we should look at his head because he had recently fallen down some stairs at his daycare we were met with resistance and reassured that a head CT scan would be a waste of money!! Cameron continued to vomit more and more frequently and he was becoming more and more irritable and inconsolable. After our countless phone calls and visits we finally decided that we could no longer follow Prairie Pediatrics directives to do nothing, we took Cameron to the hospital and insisted a head CT scan be completed. Within minutes they discovered a very dangerous, painful, and if left untreated often deadly situation, pressure from Cameron's spinal fluid had built up and was causing a condition known as hydrocephalus or a build up of fluid in the brain. Within an hour we were on our way to the Children's hospital in Sioux Falls to see specialists. In approximately a two month span, despite over 30 phone calls back and forth and 6 office visits to Prairie Pediatrics none of their doctors could recognize the textbook symptoms of hydrocephalus. This condition is not rare, affecting approximately 1 in every 1,000 children! The fix for hydrocephalus is a routine procedure where they implant a shunt to help relieve the pressure on the brain. Increasing pressure in the brain will cause vomiting, nausea, irritability, and severe pain!! Once in Sioux Falls we discovered that Cameron's hydrocephalus was being caused by a large tumor near his brain stem. The biopsy results came back that he had AT/RT (a very rare form of brain cancer). After multiple brain surgeries, chemotherapy, CT scans, countless pokes with needles and everything else that no child should ever have to endure, Cameron died on June 16th, 2015. Najdawi and the entire staff at Prairie Pediatrics should be ashamed of how those involved in Cameron's care handled this situation. Cameron went through unnecessary severe pain and suffering because multiple members of their team were too stubborn to possibly explore other causes of a symptom that kept presenting itself over and over! The hydrocephalus could have been fixed regardless of whether or not the cancer kept progressing. His brain cancer had already metastasized by the time we were finally able to get a diagnosis. If we had found it sooner there is a chance he would still be here with us today. In the two years since his death we have heard from all of his caregivers .....except Prairie Pediatrics....not one word, not one sorry for your loss, not one sympathy card, not one apology for failing to provide Cameron with basic medical help, NOTHING!!! I know acknowledging the transgression would require the company and doctors to feel sympathy, compassion, and maybe even a sense of responsibility, none of which Prairie Pediatrics or Najdawi displayed!! After seeing the sheer amount of wanton disregard for Cameron's health and well being from Najdawi and multiple members of Prairie Pediatric's team along with the extreme disrespect and lack of sympathy with his death, I beg you, for your own piece of mind as well as your child's well-being, to reconsider taking your child to this place!! If you would like any additional information or if you have any questions please feel free to message me. - Submitted on 06/16/2017 -