Holy Cross Hospital
This was forwarded to us by a couple of concerned people:
- To the nurse that was working last night (6/13/16) in the ER at Holy Cross Hospital around 9:00pm, who refused treatment to my husband (right to his face) because he was a COP- shame on you! Not only is that illegal in your line of work BUT it shows the type of person you are deep inside which is straight up UGLY. You should be ashamed and embarrassed of your actions. I pray you or your family NEVER are in need of protection or service from ANY law enforcement.
Thankfully it was not a dire emergency but unfortunately for you, I will be finding out your name and writing a letter to the President of the medical staff at Holy Cross. Not only do you deserve to be reprimanded and called out, but you don't deserve the right to call yourself a nurse; one who is there to help and care for people no matter what! Like all professions, it only takes one bad apple to make a bad name for all but I am way too intelligent and know far too many hard working, dedicated, caring nurses out there to have YOU change my thoughts and feelings about them.
As for the nurse that DID treat my husband, I THANK YOU! I will also be finding out your name a writing a letter of encouragement and praise to have more people like you on their staff! Even though it wasn't a life or death situation (Thank the Lord) my family thanks you for being there to DO YOUR JOB no matter who walked through your ER doors.
There is certainly some sort of licensing board for nurses and this should be brought to their attention immediately. Also, the FOP should be notified along with the Superintendent to see who can start some sort of formal proceedings against the hospital for employing someone who acts this way. A lawsuit shouldn't be out of the question either.
Labels: un-fucking-believable
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
92 Comments:
Report her to the agency in the state or federal agency who governs her
This is TOTAL BS! (Intolerable)
If this happened? SUE.
And don't use FOP. Get a real lawyer and bring them to their knees.
Next case.
Please tell us who?
Please don't just write a letter. Demand that she is fired and loses her license. Don't settle for anything less or this kind of behavior will continue toward cops. The chief of staff should be made to publicly condemn this type of hostility and unprofessionalism. It's repulsive. Don't just leave it up to the hospital to take care of it. They might just sweep it under the rug. Don't stop until the proper actions are taken. Good luck.
Holy Cross USED to be a Catholic Hospital. With Obamacare, many of the Catholic hospitals have been forced to either sell out to non-Catholic entities who keep the original name in order to deceive people and pretend they're still the hospital the nuns ran out of charity -- or compromise their Catholic identity. Out of integrity, the Church will not do the latter.
Sadly, the government's taking over of health care has forced the former and not the latter to take place more often. It's sickening.
When these FORMERLY-Catholic hospitals so sickneningly treat CPD members the way Holy Cross did in this case, please know that it's NOT a reflection of the Church. The current presidential administration is killing health care, among all other things.
And if criminal Hillary makes the White House, it'll only continue!
Write the letter to Holy Cross and cc to the Illinois License commission. Check the internet. It was probably racial too. Watch yourself, this employee has your personal info in the hospital system. Catholic hospitals are run now by liberal J.O.' now. There should of gave your husband 1st class service, a person with insurance !! Write the arch bishop too.
Very believable. Very sad.
The supt actually do something to help us officers and our families... Haha! Don't hold your breath. But, he'll be ready to strip and give u 30 pending in a heartbeat.
Good job Mrs.!! You are to be congratulated...take this through to the proper sources, proper channels...the nurse in question was out of line in her given responsibilities and to her profession. Nothing is NORMAL any more...the word should be removed from the dictionary...The nurse was depraved, insolent nuclear and filled with contempt to have denied care and comfort. She needs to be brought up on charges and her license should be cancelled immediately. She is a danger and a threat to the next patient, perhaps even to her co-workers. Wishing you all the best...it is important to finish this task.
Outrageous. Repugnant. Vile. Unethical. And illegal. The nurse should be fired.
Here are where complaints against the nurse should be sent:
National Council of State Boards of Nursing: https://www.ncsbn.org/filing-a-complaint.htm
Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation: https://www.idfpr.com/Admin/DPR/Complaint.asp
Also, Holy Cross Hospital is part of Sinai Health Systems. The letter should be addressed to Karen Teitelbaum, President & CEO, Sinai Health Systems, 1500 South Fairfield Avenue, Chicago, 60608.
It should also be copied to ALL the executives listed here: http://www.sinai.org/content/sinai-health-system-leadership , including Lori Pacura, President, Holy Cross Hospital.
Just as in LE, witnesses are a good thing. The more people within Sinai Health Systems who are made aware of this disgusting incident, the more likely punitive action will be taken.
All best to the PO and his wife.
T
Only thing more alarming than the nurses conduct is that a PO went to HXH for any type of treatment.
Go after the hospital's accreditation.
http://www.jointcommission.org/
Also contact the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.
https://www.idfpr.com/
Writing a letter will do nothing but have a supervisor tell the nurse to not do that again. Slap on the wrist. Want the nurse to be dragged over the coals and fired or at the very least suspended? Sue Holy Cross and the nurse. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
"I will be finding out your name and writing a letter to the President of the medical staff at Holy Cross."
You will just be shunted to the "Coordinator Of Patient Experiences," or some such. Every hospital has one of these good-for-nothing sponge listeners on the staff today. Don't telegraph your punches. Contact an attorney instead.
My wife is a RN. I would like to hear both sides of the story.
As someone who has had horrible experiences with nurses, this is an outrage for a nurse not to treat someone simply because he's a cop. I hope something is done to that nurse, as it could have been an emergency. If it was dire, a nurse like that could be responsible for someone's death. This nurse should be fired on the spot.
Sorry to inform you, but notifying our Superintendent would be a waste of time unless you were one of those promoted off the Lie-tenants exam or a career criminal that feels he was miss treated by the police. You see, our Superintendent is not pro police, he is anti police. Don't forget, the police used to pick on his stupid ass too. Even Jodi wasn't this bad!
Gottlieb ER treated me like a ball of dirty rags, by the way. It was more like a sexual assault than like medical treatment. Glad I caught the serious medication error made by Doctor God or I might have bled to death.
I was by myself -- all around me, everyone who had come in with a friend or family member was being treated just as sweet as pie. There's a lesson there.
I wouldn't even take my Dog to HXH...first mistake. U were better off finding a witch Doctor!
Go to the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation website and they have forms to fill out and mail it in to the address below. This is where you can also beef on attorney's too.
Complaints against any individual or entity regulated by the Division of Professional Regulation may be filed by contacting the Complaint Intake Unit.
Mailing Address for the IDFPR Complaint Intake Unit:
Department of Financial and Professional Regulation
Division of Professional Regulation
Complaint Intake Unit
100 West Randolph Street, Suite 9-300
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone: 312/814-6910
"I will be finding out your name..."
I hope so. A lot of "healthcare" workers today avoid wearing name tags, or go on a "first name only" kindergarten sort of basis.
Spot on, SCC. It's amazing how some hospitals ER staffs are super kind to us, while others are handing out IPRA's phone # & web address.
I remember searching a banger and the IL Moronic ER staff put the old OPS # on his discharge info card.
I work in 008 and deal with that shit hole all the time, please post her name just so I know if I have to deal with that slow motion fucking ER
Please follow up and write that letter, I'm only guessing race was an issue, the hospital is a joke, they are in no hurry the help the police, call that bitch out
Who was the nurse?
Make a formal complaint at the hospital and sue her privately.
Oh, don't mention the FOP... They are very busy in contract deals and fucking cops out their money... Also Carrying water for rham
I hope this person follows through with the complaint and contacts the board to have this nurse removed. SCC posted something about a law being passed on hate crimes against law enforcement, such as this. Well I would even go as far as making this an example of why such a law is needed. The anti-police is real people, think about that next time you order your food or receive any type of service. People out there HATE you. Protect those you love, yourself and each other.
State of IL issues all medical licenses.
Find out who this nurse is and get her name in print. No one should be refused medical aid. This is the nurse's job and she failed to do her job.
WTF??! Now a nurse is refusing to help a police officer?! What the hell is this world coming to? Please give us her name so we can all write letters to the hospital and get her removed!!
Is this really a thing? People are refusing service to police officers due to their fucked up beliefs?
I've heard of people getting shitty with police officers or blurting something out about the police at their place of work. But I believe this is actually better, because as a police officer I would not want to be treated by some crazy ghetto police hating nurse.
Wouldn't eat food prepared by some thug giving me the sideye either.
Go get her lady and lets get that name out in public so some of the rest of us can recognize her actions too. She should be examined and reprimanded and punished if warranted. The hospital must be held accountable too. Someone needs to shine a little light in the hospital management to determine if this is an isolated incident or if there is an adverse culture in development there that requires scrutiny by regulating boards. I still remember the issue with the staff at Northwestern years ago wherein they attempted to prevent armed on duty policemen from entering because of thier anti firearms policy which left them appearing to be very ignorant.
Law suit. Call f o p and medical board. No one can be denied medical treatment. Shit, call/email news sources. Someone might pick it up. Hate crime
If you are armed, they will not help you, They will give your gun to a security guard who in turn puts it in a safe where every security guard and who knows who else has the combination, I got hurt and refused to give my gun to them, had to call the CO and get a car to come over just to hold my gun while I was treated.
IDPR can & should be notified, her license, at the very least should be flagged.
I heard Eddie Johnson visited the nurse and apologized for the cop visiting the ER. The officer has since been stripped and IPRA is investigating.
To file a complaint with the Illinois board of nursing, Go to the link below.
http://www.idfpr.com/admin/DPR/DPRcomplaint.asp
Either use the online complaint form or download the complaint form and mail to the address listed on the site. You will need the individual's name.
Also word to the wise, don't file the complaint with the medical staff. File with the administrator CEO and chief nursing officer.
Who purposefully goes to Holy Cross for medical treatment? My fiancé used to work there, they stopped allowing family to visit because of the volume of crack, cocaine and full out cases of canned beer that was being smuggled in.
Nurses in Illinois are licensed by the Illinois Department of Professional Registration. Complaints can be filed with them. Also hospitals have requirements to be listed on the City approved list for transport. "Back in the day" we had a problem with a major hospital ED and steps were taken by the City through the Department to correct the problem or be removed. Remember, $$$$ speak and not being on that list (I should mention I don't know if it still exists) gets them in the pocket book.
Can the hospital's operational/incorporating
charter be revoked for non-service?
There is a governing body to address that to.
Right?
Can the nurse be terminated/suspended
and ultimately sent to prison?
You know... Kinda like Policemen.
Right?
How come there is no media stampede
in front of the nurse's home?
How come all manner of investigative
and media entities aren't pawing
through the nurse's panty drawer
and laying out the contents "sunny
side up" to tantilize and titillate under
"The public has the right to know?"
You know...
Kinda like Policemen.
Right?
An old school Watch Commander,
(The New Yuck way is a failure)
worth his salt would be way out
in front on something like this...
Oh wait...
That's the old wild-assed,
taking care of M/Fing
business, "WAH! You Cops
are too angry, mean and out
of control" Warrior Mentality
Police that gives liberal
progressives and catered-
to constituencies the nervous,
knee-knocking shits...
"You guys are just pissed because
it isn't 1960 anymore. Get over it!
No one gives a damn about you
Cops and your petty
concerns anymore!"
Law suit is in order.
Also, do follow up with all the appropriate licensing bodies. The hospital is licensed by the state as is the nurse.
I guarantee that if this nurse had a complaint against a cip she wouldn't hesitate to complain.
As a matter of fact don't be surprised if she files a complaint against your husband first to cover her ass.
Look up the Illinois Department of Public Regulation. Should be able to file a complaint there.
It's the Illinois Board of Professional Responsibility that licenses nurses...and barbers...and real estate hustlers. Good Cripes.
Unleash Armageddon on this so-called nurse. It is your right to do so. Don't forget to start proceedings with the Catholic Church.
Please name this person when you find out, this is not only wrong but disgusting. So does this mean even if a copper gets treated it will be less than proper treatment? I was recently in Christ at the er and told them I was a CPD copper and they at 1 time let us use there "fastlane" but was told no more. I waited over 8 hours for treatment is this the new hospital trend?
Should have got loud and made a scene, as soon as folks get loud they get catered too.
THIS! AND FILE SUIT!!!!
Go to the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation website and they have forms to fill out and mail it in to the address below. This is where you can also beef on attorney's too.
Complaints against any individual or entity regulated by the Division of Professional Regulation may be filed by contacting the Complaint Intake Unit.
Mailing Address for the IDFPR Complaint Intake Unit:
Department of Financial and Professional Regulation
Division of Professional Regulation
Complaint Intake Unit
100 West Randolph Street, Suite 9-300
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone: 312/814-6910
6/15/2016 01:10:00 AM
http://www.dph.illinois.gov/topics-services/health-care-regulation/complaints
My wife is a RN. I would like to hear both sides of the story.
6/15/2016 12:52:00 AM
Why do u need to hear both sides ? She refused to do her job and treat a patient. What side could she possibly have ? How would you like it if you went in for medical help and she said to you " sorry sir, I can't treat you because you are a fat ass idiot"
OLD HOMICIDE DETECTIVE: If this ever happens again, demand to speak to Administrator in Charge. There is an Administrator in Charge on every shift in every Hospital. The second thing to due is to demand to speak with the person who is in charge of the OR room on that particular night. If at all possible, get documentation. But in any case DEMAND TO SEE THE ADMINISTER IN CHARGE. If for some reason you get denied, then go to a phone, call the switch board, and ask to speak with this Administer.
In addition to filing a complaint with the state.
File a lawsuit against the so called nurse and also the hospital.
Hopefully your husband is going to be OK.
It would be nice as a L.E.O. to know the circumstances and individual surrounding your post. Otherwise what's the purpose? Too broad of a brush stroke on this post.
Had a similar experience at advocates Christ in Oaklawn waited over 7 hours for treatment shuffling from area to area as soon as I told them I was a copper downhill, the best part we have insurance they were treating the illegals who bring their kids like it's a amusement park running everywhere like gold! Done with Christ for now!
Illinois Department of Public Health is the overarching agency that regulates hospitals. Also ISP/medicare fraud unit, as the hospital receives medicare/Medicaid funds.
Here is the web-site to file a formal complaint against the nurse and hospital it's the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Here is the link to file that complaint. Hope this helps.
https://www.idfpr.com/Admin/DPR/Complaint.asp
Time for a no justice no peace rally. Wrong color, nobody cares!
Post her name. I'll call until she is fired.
Anonymous said...
My wife is a RN. I would like to hear both sides of the story.
6/15/2016 12:52:00 AM
I agree. A nurse refusing to see someone because they are the police just doesn't sound right. We all know there's three sides to every story. Not necessarily doubting that he was refused service, but was it ONLY because he is the police or were there other circumstances the writer may have left out?
Old Retired Guy Here, Again !!!! Had to chime in on this one. The really scary part is, what if a person of this mind set, decided, She Did What To Treat The Police Officer She Hated. Wow, I don't what anyone like that treating me.
You know I spent over 32yrs. on the CPD. I worked with a lot of folks, with a lot of different opinions. I can honestly say I never had a single one refuse service to someone in need of help.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Oh, don't mention the FOP... They are very busy in contract deals and fucking cops out their money... Also Carrying water for rham
6/15/2016 03:20:00 AM
$$$$$
You are of course talking about Mark Donahue?
Definately sue her, the hospital that employs her.
Fuck her. Get her fired, but with all due respect what on earth were you doing at Holy Cross?
Is this why the hospital is referred time as Double Cross Hospital
Children's Hospital in Lincoln Park had a policy of not allowing us in with a firearm. Many times I would hear 1840 inform the squad that advised of such at the entrance to the hospital and that neither she nor her officers would respond to the call unless they could enter without their gear. I don't remember her name, but kudos!
Contact the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. This is the state board which licenses nurses in Illinois. I'm certain they would LOVE to hear about this person!
Retired Ol' Sixgun Sarge
Holy Cross! For medical care! Forget it! Better off at Nortwestern Hospital
As for Nurse Ratchet. Licensing Board. This nurse is a danger to everyone. Cop or not! Nurse is NOT mentally fit to care for the sick.
Best of health to the Officer
The licensing board for nurses is the Illinois Dept of Financial & Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
www.idfpr.com
Call the next case. Not a cop.
It's called the "Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation".
http://www.idfpr.com/profs/Nursing.asp
Similar incident happened during a recent week long stay at Resurrection Hospital. On several occasions, various nurses that would come on shift would remark about my being a policeman. Although I never mentioned my profession, I learned that it was listed somewhere in my file. Most were very professional and friendly, but one in particular had a definite attitude. I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, so I dismissed it without wanting to believe it was a matter of race. Used to be if the staff knew you were a cop you would always receive preferential treatment as a courtesy. Don't get me wrong I'm not looking for special treatment, but god damn treat me like every other patient.
Where was Chuck Gowdie or the rest of the hackd? Not one word ofthis in the media.
Never and I mean Never Id yourself as a PO anywhere. Don't do it. "City Worker".
I've felt with her before. We transported a prisoner who was beat up during a domestic stated that to her and she still didn't believe him she was convinced the police did it. She needs another line of work. She is worthless as a nurse and as a person in general. I am not allowed to pick on choose when I do my job neither are the fire fighter emt's soldiers seamen or others that do what we do. Drs and nurses included. Regardless of our personal feelings. So may she would be better suited in another field like basket weaving or selling ocean front property in Arizona
Years ago when I was still on the job, I was working the midnight shift and I transported a female prisoner I had arrested to Christ Hospital for blood and urine samples. This female nurse started in on me right away when I told her why I was there and she continued to rip me a new one in front of other waiting patients. I complained to the doctor in charge and he told me that I wasn't the first cop that she went off on.
The doctor told me that she didn't like the police. I made a complaint to my Chief in writing expecting that some action would be taken against her. Of course the chief didn't want to make waves and nothing happened.
Is this anti police? racial? Please give more info because right now we are reacting to information that does not fulfill the necessary parameters to even write a case report. If this patient said he is the police and the nurse refused to treat him or her for a medical purpose this needs to be made national, cuz if it was a white nurse refusing to treat a black person the potus would be all over this
Facts of ER visit are important to put this in context. Was nurse reacting to seriousness of medical complaint (I.e. Triage) or did she dismiss cop because he was a cop? If she did latter, she should lose her job & license. If cop's illness was not as serious as other patients in ER she did her job. Being a cop doesn't automatically send us to front of line.
Nor should it send us to back of line. I hate it when passing motorists who didn't see crime yell at me for having someone on hood of car. They weren't there & don't know what I saw & why I did my job.
Maybe nurse deserves same consideration. If facts turn out she refused service because patient was a cop, we can rightfully attack her then.
This could be a violation of the MCC anti-discrimination ordinance, which references discrimination based on source of income. File a complaint with the Chicago Human Rights Commission.
Exactly what were the circumstances?
And in my 30+, I never tagged-oops, scratch that. I never ticketed a nurse but did ticket one Dr who said my boss was a personal friend of his. And I don't like that boss... Tip: He's a D/C and wears elevator shoes.
Stay safe guys and gals!
Isn't it the same preferential treatment they always request when they are stopped for traffic? First thing you hear is " I'm a nurse or doctor at so and so hospital" immediately looking for a courtesy but we go to the hospital and identify ourselves and get treated like shit. This is the continuing liberalization of our country, which they start in grade school as they indoctrinate the kids and teach them how evil the police are. It will only get worse.
"Similar incident happened during a recent week long stay at Resurrection Hospital. On several occasions, various nurses that would come on shift would remark about my being a policeman. Although I never mentioned my profession, I learned that it was listed somewhere in my file."
6/15/2016 06:32:00 PM
OLR/Presence/Community North keeps all sorts of non-medical information in its files, some of it decades old and inaccurate. You can always tell when the lady at reception tilts her head back and reads and reads and reads through those little half-glasses, and from that point onwards it's the fish-eye from everyone you deal with.
Wow. I came up in the ER in Chicago ( St Mary of Nazareth ) back in the 70's and 80's. We always had a great relationship with the PD, and I've tried to keep that up everyplace I've worked around the country as an ER doc since then.
This bitch needs to be reported to the State Licensing Board ASAP. Contact the Hospital CEO, the Hospital Board of Directors, and the Department Chief of the Emergency Department. Sounds like a great story to get on the local FOX news station, WGN, etc.
Northwestern Memorial tried to make us lock up our guns before we entered the hospital from time to time. Sgt. Jack Runyan told them that no Chicago Police Officer would ever enter that hospital unarmed and with a partial uniform. They relented.
RIP Sgt. Runyan
I say sue the hospital and get paid on discrimination and that nurse needs to be fired.. Screw a letter make sure her name is plastered everywhere and get her fired. Unfortunately it's not newsworthy because your husband is hated by the BLM of Chicago including the superintendent, the mayor and all the alderman.
To the woman that wrote this post, if this happened I wouldn't just write a letter about the POS who refused him service.
I would be at the hospital to DEMAND to see the administrator who runs the hospital, along with the head of the H. R. Dept.
And I would do it ASAP.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
"Similar incident happened during a recent week long stay at Resurrection Hospital. On several occasions, various nurses that would come on shift would remark about my being a policeman. Although I never mentioned my profession, I learned that it was listed somewhere in my file."
6/15/2016 06:32:00 PM
OLR/Presence/Community North keeps all sorts of non-medical information in its files, some of it decades old and inaccurate. You can always tell when the lady at reception tilts her head back and reads and reads and reads through those little half-glasses, and from that point onwards it's the fish-eye from everyone you deal with.
6/16/2016 01:10:00 AM
Doesn't the insurance card still say 'Department of Police'? If not, the plan code certainly tells them all they need to know.
First, I would like to say thank you to everyone who has commented and shown support. Second, I would like to assure everyone we are taking all actions to make sure this "nurse" isn't allowed to do this again to ANYONE else. The officer was being treated by a male nurse who then asked another nurse for help for the cop he was treating when she voiced out loud, "I don't like cops. He's not my patient so I'm not helping him." The police officer never said a word to her after those words were spoken but left once he was finished being treated. The male nurse was asked later if indeed the woman spoke that way and he in fact said she did. The hospital has made a public statement on their Facebook page in my opinion admitting guilt. Again, I thank everyone for their outpouring of support and it truly has been a family who all sticks together to make sure ALL are protected.
Sometimes things happen whereby a person or CPD Officer must get to a hospital quickly even though they are not truly satisfied with the facility....thats why Emergency Rooms were developed. As for Holy Cross Hospital...Correct....it used to be a decent Catholic Hospital. Now, it partnered with the University of Chicago due to Obamacare....it can't give abortions for example or the pill...U of C can do that and the partnership also took place cause HXH is out of dollars. Amen brother!! Cardinal Cupich, where are you??
Sue now. call the state board of nursing and let them know her name she will lose her license and deserves to.
FYI: This nurse has put in her resignation and is no longer an employee of HCH.
Bye Felicia.
Good riddance, now make sure her nursing license in this state is revoked.p
Anonymous said...
Northwestern Memorial tried to make us lock up our guns before we entered the hospital from time to time. Sgt. Jack Runyan told them that no Chicago Police Officer would ever enter that hospital unarmed and with a partial uniform. They relented.
RIP Sgt. Runyan
6/16/2016 07:38:00 AM
Yes this is true. I was working at NMH at the time. The three goofs who were running security at Northwestern now run security at Mt.Sinai. They lack common sense and ethics so be careful. The director of security at Mt. Sinai was so bad his mother fired him .
Well I'm an Ed Rn and I can assure you I have never turned away police service. There are always two sides to every story. The problem I have in this situation is that everyone is bashing nurses on this webpage or this certain one with out knowing all the facts now being that this is a police web blog I thought for sure police would know find out all facts before accusing. We all should be working together especially since we are all first responders. But attacking each other does no justice for anyone. I pray all our officers are safe on these crazy streets. God bless
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