[Mountaindewed]

A friend of mine had cancer, and was being treated at a children’s hospital. I was in treatment with her in a residential home. She had mental illness as well as cancer. She ended up in the psychiatric hospital. But they sent her to a really bad hospital. I was sent to that hospital, and I was physically abused by the staff. They had an inpatient psychiatric unit at Children’s Memorial where she was being treated. Why didn’t they send her there? Especially since she was already getting treated there? The hospital she went to was very bad and the other patients were very aggressive, why would they risk something like that when she was so physically sick?

I was at Comer Children’s hospital and I needed to be in a psychiatric hospital, and they were talking about sending me to CM, but I ended up in the pediatric psych unit at Rush.

Has anyone had any expierence with CM (now Luries) psych unit? I needed to be in a psych unit at an actual hospital because I needed antibiotic shots, and I was familiar with Rush.

But why would they risk having my friend injured by sending her to a horrible hospital when there was literally a psych unit in the 6th best children’s hospital in the country? It makes no sense.

I feel like my friend should of gotten so much more then she did. She didn’t have any family support and the treatment center we were at was pretty bad. But you hear of kids with cancer who get so much support and so many other things and she didn’t get anything.

She ended up dying. She got very sick for like 1.5 weeks, and the treatment center didn’t do anything except make her stay in bed. But she ended up being airlifted to CM. She should of gone there soon after she got sick. I feel like she would have had a better chance of surviving if she had gone right when she got sick.

It makes me so upset that they didn’t do more for her.

[pegasus]

I'm sorry you lost your friend. I don't know the answer to your question other than may be it was an insurance issue. Some insurance companies will only pay for certain hospitals or types of care.

it sounds to me like she was sent for palliative care.

[Taylor27]

Im so sorry for your loss

[LiteraryLark]

This made me so sad. I'm sorry to hear about your loss. I really don't understand why they'd send her to a bad hospital.

I am unsure of where you reside. In my location, areas are divided up into Health Regions. Within each region, the hospitals and facilities are subdivided according to health specialisations. For instance in my city one hospital handles all the maturnity cases, another handles the pediatric care, while another internal medicine and so on. We have three hospitals that everything is split up and assigned accordingly.

it so happens that cancer and palliative care are handled by a different hospital from the one the psychiatric ward is held in. Just a guess here, but the cancer and palliative care was likely deemed to be more of a priority than your friend's mental healthcare and that this was the basis for placing her in the hospital that specialised in that sort of medicine.

[Loose Screw x 2]

Sorry about your friend, Boz. It hurts me to learn of a hospital or medical staff being responsible for a patient's condition worsening. Many years ago I agreed to check myself in to the state mental hospital and the staff of the ward I was in treated myself and other patient's poorly. Last I heard that place had been closed down.