UC Davis Medical Center
I went there the other day for a CAT scan and I’m quite perturbed, to say the least. Specifically I went to the new (2 years I think) Ellison Ambulatory Care Center and–it stunk. Smelled. Was maloderous. Not with that baked linen over urine smell that one expects hospitals to have. This was far worse. It smelled old and dirty, like a house that hasn’t been cleaned in 100 years. Like plumbing that has been leaking for decades and mold is now growing up the pipes. Like a fraternity house who keep their dirty sock collection by the front door. It was disgusting. Gross. Sick-making. What was it????????
And to compound my disgust, as I lay having the CAT scan done, I could see drip marks of some “material” all over the machine and the laser window was speckled with drips and dust. “What are these?” I asked the tech.
“Oh,’ said she, nonchalantly, “sometimes the liquid we use for contrast explodes.”
“Is it impossible to get off?”
“No, it comes off real easy with warm water.”
Then why the fuck isn’t someone cleaning the machine?????? Is this an indication of the standard of care of UC Davis? In today’s news, UC Irvine was caught cheating on their Transplant Program; is something not right with the UCs generally?
Who do I complain to????????????????
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Call the health dept. Or at least threaten to. Those words somehow make people clean up their act(s).
I don’t know, but look up the name of the director and start there. That’s disgusting. Thanks for the heads up.
Ecccch.
Perhaps the non-internet local equivalent of this LJ; a letter to your local newspaper? Hospitals should not stink. Even our 85 year old General hospital up the hill, huge, flaky-painty and archaic in design, is regularly cleaned. I wonder if maybe something died in their ventilation system and they can’t be arsed to track down the smell and remove it. Suggesting to the local press that there are rotting rat corpses in the ventilation system of this hospital might produce an interesting result.
Complain to everyone you can. The director of the Care Center. The biggest possible cheese at UC Davis. The UC Davis person with direct oversight over the care center.