Getting to the Heart of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

Local Patient & Family Advisory Council for Quality & Safety Profile—Steven L. Coffee, Community Member: This profile of MGUH LPFACQS Community Member, Lt. Col. Steven L. Coffee and his family, tells how having patients and families engage in the safest, highest quality delivery of our care benefits everyone in care continuum. Ask if your hospital has a Patient & Family Advisory Council focused on patient safety and quality!

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This was an awesome experience thank you MedStar Georgetown

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Georgetown University Hospital by far was the worst medical experience I have ever had. I was admitted four years ago with a case of acute kidney failure and dislocated shoulder. I was there for 2 whole weeks, never once having my dislocated shoulder xrayed nor given ANY medication for pain. Was also accused by the "team" of doctors, who are quacks, that the kidney failure was my own fault and was verbally harassed by the entire group of doctors, including the psychiatrists, that I was only trying to get "pills". They only gave me prednisone to treat the kidney failure, and literally that was the only thing they did. Because of their negligence and incompetence, after I was discharged I needed to get a full joint replacement for my shoulder which had been out of socket the entire 2 weeks I was at Georgetown hospital.