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My Experience Was Life Saving

With my prior 2 years experience with heart problems and multiple procedures and test, my aortic valve was discussed multiple times! I was told it wasn’t ready for replacement!
After a hospital stay in December 2023 I was released from the hospital with shortness of breath and fatigue/weakness and edema in my legs symptoms! My insurance authorized home care nurse and physical therapy. After several weeks my progress was minimal and the shortness of breath and edema had gotten worse! At that point my home care nurse called my nephrologist with concerns of my well being. I was told to go directly to hospital ED and she, the nephrologist , would meet me there! After a couple of test it was determined I needed my aortic valve replaced! I was admitted to Advent Hospital Pepin Heart Institute for the surgery. After a weekend of dialysis I was cleared for surgery and the results were a miracle!
Now 30 days after TAVR surgery I’m feeling better everyday and currently attending Advent Cardiac Rehabilitation and I’m up to 2 miles on my goal of 3 miles a day in the near future!
Feeling better than good and thankful to God, my Doctors, Nurses, Technicians at Advent Hospital for saving my life!
God is Good!🙏

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We are delighted to hear about your remarkable journey to recovery and the outstanding care you received at AdventHealth. Thank you for sharing your inspiring story with us!

First time admitted

This was a surprise to be admitted, everything one was very kind and I appreciate Nurse Serena for catching the issue while conducting my discharge, Nurse Jay was great throughout the night and busy for sure but the nurses that worked her shift were horrible no patient care or support for their coworker I called twice to ask for someone to come and unhook my IV so that I am able to go to the bathroom although nurse Jay was busy none of the other nurses who were working with her and also sitting in front of my door would come and take off my IV so I can go use the bathroom instead they had me waiting for 10 minutes about to pee on myself until I unhooked myself as someone who works in the hospital to be very disrespectful and not at all any type of patient care, and that is the one thing that scared me about being in a hospital was being with people who are supposed to care for me for any reason and then simply not caring. God forbid that my heart rate had spiked, and I went into cardiac arrest. They would not do nothing and that is how I truly feel aside from the two nurses that I worked with everyone that 7 PM to 7 AM shift were horrible so I appreciate nurse Jay very much. and because of her, I felt safe.

Excellent Facility and Staff

My husband has been a patient at Advent Healthcare for more than three years. The Tampa hospital and medical offices along with his team of doctors have been amazing. Our first visit they were converting to the Epic Computer system which was a learning curve for all of them. However, we are so happy to have medical care where we can see at any time every office visit and notes and summaries of the visits, future appointments, test results, send messages to his medical team, use the app as a call button during hospital stays and so much more. The team of doctors, Sucandy, Muhammad, and O’Hara have been excellent to work with and we have been exceptionally pleased with the amount of time spent with us during visits and hospital stays. We have never had a doctor, nurse, staff or volunteer have a bad day in front of us. Advent has a caring group of people and it truly shows in how they treat their patients.