MJHS Hospice & Palliative Care

My mom who died of cancer was in MJHS hospice at home but then her nausea and vomiting were out of control so we brought her to their facility in the Bronx. She was there for days vomiting constantly, receiving the same meds day in and day out that weren’t working until finally, she had for three days in a row the only nurse who had the compassion and sense to take the time and tell the doctor what she needed. Less than 8 hours after she made the changes, the vomiting stopped and mom was able to eat little bits at a time and keep it down. We dreaded each change of shift because we knew if mom got certain nurses she’d be right back to square one. I’ll never forget this nurse named Jen who rolled her eyes at her co-​worker when my Dad went and asked for help getting my mom comfortable. And she wouldn’t even be working-​just saying catty things about other coworkers. When we didn’t have to ask two or three times, she would take a minimum of ten minutes to come to the room. It always seemed like there wasn’t enough help. Our family has a lot of people in the healthcare field and so we did everything we could to help mom short of giving her medications. And another thing, we were just horrified when we would realize that the same nurse would be working for over 24 hours straight. This happened several times in the month that my mom was a patient there. I asked one nurse about that and she just shrugged and said someone was sick and no one could come. Seems like somethings really wrong if people are regularly working over 24 hours straight. We were in crisis mode and not able to analyze the situation clearly. But with ²⁰⁄₂₀ hindsight we were definitely sold a bill of goods.

STAY AWAY FROM THIS AGENCY. I have a 9 month old baby special needs, i met with them MJHS @ the hospital in which they presented themselves as professional and specializing in pads (kids) Well every nurse from LPN, to RN came and w=hen they arrived they said oh you have a child? i thought it was an elderly person «they tricked me again» this is what they all say. They pass out when supposed tone watching the baby, on the phone babbling with friends, I found a nurse on you tube trying to figure out how to work babes feeding tube! this is scary, and a huge liability (Gave baby wrong meds) I am going to the appropriate authorities they should have their license yanked. They are not what they present themselves to be. None of the nurses want to work pads thats why they have a hard time keeping the same nurse and getting you a nurse. BE WARNED

My father died of colon cancer in 2009, he spent his last few days in this hospice and they treated him like an animal.
They nurses and attendants were ruse, unpleasant, non caring and had not compassion.
under the treatment of Doctor Yiquing Xu in Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn NY.
My father was 64 years old when he dies of cancer, he had a short battle with cancer and only lived months. We were approached by on the Hospice reps at the Maimonides hospital, my father was in great pain, and in a disgusting room in Maimonides, so when the rep said they would provide home care or hospice care and manage his pain, I thought it would be great.
I asked for the rep to make sure his insurance covered the home care and hospice care, he reassured me and said they would.
My sick and dying father did not trust him and said he was a like a car sales man, and my beloved father turned out to be right. We got billed and hassled by them to pay for in-​home care because they later (covnetly0 discovered that his insurance did not cover it.
They prescribed tons of medication which were very confusing that we were supposed to give him, we could not manage his care at home so we asked Met Jewish Hospice to admit him, this was a very hard decision for us to make and we wanted his last days to be spend being comfortable and pain. He spent his last few days at the hospice, which was depressing and horrible.
The addendnents and nurses all had bad attitudes, they had no compassion or care, they tied up my father to a chair one night like a prisoner and kept him in the hall, like, because the nurse and attendant could not be bothered by the noises he was making. The man was dying, but the stupid staff did to care.
I wish we had never ever admitted him there or even believed a word the rep said.