I hope the quality of care improves with the expansion of the ER. Went there knowing I had a heart problem, all the classic signs. They did some tests and four hours later I was told they were 90% sure it wasn't heart related. I was sent home with a script for heart burn. When I'm told by a doctor it's not heart related I believed them and was relieved, Over the next few hours the pain increased, this time I had a friend drive me up to Jersey Shore Medical. I was there for fifteen minutes and I was rushed into the operating room with a diagnosis of a heart blockage and operated on right then and there. So much for Brick's ER assessment, I was lucky I didn't drop dead on the way to Jersey Shore. I have not stepped a foot in Brick Hospital since! How can a hospital that is owned by the same company, be so crappy in Brick and a A-1 class facility in Neptune?

Everytime they put an addition on Brick Hospital because they need the space to handle the volume at the facility I wonder why they claimed it was necessary to close Point Pl Hospital

@ Joseph my old boss had the same exact story we almost list him twice. I've had heart surgery and multiply others since birth for spina bifida it's a crying shame I have to go all the way to JSUMC or my favorite mon med in long branch to have a dr really understand me and not say or your young your dramatic. In a very rare Emergancy during my pregnancy I went to brick. I waited 6 hours before being seen by a dr I signed myself out went to mon med. And then was rushed to maternity floor for premature labor and a kidney infection. They said if I went home and went to bed I would have lost the baby. I am also an EMT myself and I NEVER TELL ANYONE TO GO TO OMC OR BRICK WHATEVER YOU WANNA CALL IT. I WOULDN'T EVEN SEND MY DOG OR WORST ENEMY THEY NEED NEW DRS RNS AND DIRECTORS NEW ROOMS MEAN MORE BUSINESS FOR LOCAL FUNERAL HOMES!

The worst er I have ever experienced. I knew more as a first year nursing student than the nurse and a misdiagnosis by a doctor. Of course JSUMC diagnosised the emergency correctly. Never again will I step foot in OMC. Never. They shouldn't waste their money or time.

3 times i went to brick er an was told high blood presuer then low preasuer 3rd time i refuse to belive him an wanted more test from 4pm till 830next moring a heart md told i had 3 heart attacks, real good er will never go again.

It seems the extremely bad skill set at the hospital is legendary. I know dozens of locals, as well as myself, who have complaints about bad diagnosis and inept doctors.

A Dr there punctured my lung during a CT Scann guided biopsy!!!!!!!! Then they took me in for another procedure & gave me to wrong stuff to drink before it. My spouse went to the ER for uncontrollable rapid heart beats & chest pain, was told it was nothing, found out at Deborah Heart & Lung Center that it was actually a birth defect & had 3 operations. NEVER GO TO BRICK HOSPITAL!!!!!!!!

Last time I was at brick ER I died....

The only places worse than Brick Hospital are Community and Kimball...Between 3 towns and 3 hospitals not a decent one among any of them...SOCH is by far the best hospital in the county, thats the only hospital around here I trust.

Brick is the pits. Their er is one of the worst in the county.

It isn't just the Emergency Room, it's the whole hospital. An Uncle went in for a test (ercp) to look at his pancreas. The doctor knicked I believe it was called a pseudo-cyst, obviously a pseudo-doctor, boom he had septicemia. It was being done as an out-patient procedure. He collapsed as he was getting dressed to go home. He was in a coma for 3 weeks, came out diabetic and he ended up with a staph infection that they would never admit to.

You go in Ocean Medical fairly healthy and you come out fairly dead. Now they can kill even more people. Yippee

People always tell their horror stories here, of course there are many life-saving stories but people never praise, they just complain. I've had 2 heart attacks and countless procedures at Brick and have NEVER had a problem. I also believe EVERY hospital has its good and its bad.

I, too have a positive comment about the ER at Ocean Medical Center. My father received excellent attention and care there 2 years ago and my mother just last year also received great care. My father was admitted and ended up being there for 2 1/2 weeks in Intensive Care. Every nurse that took care of him was excellent. I have nothing negative to say about the hospital. I actually wrote a letter to them to say thank you because most people just call or write to complain never give positive comments.

Cathy you were lucky. I had to call the state in 2 years ago when I walked and found my spouse covered in feces, literally head to toe, alot of it dried on. After I got him cleaned up, I asked for diapers. A male aide came in and said here are the diapers for the big baby. AND this was the oncology floor to boot!

I'd rather die trying to get to Jersey Shore than be a patient or corpse at Brick.

OOH, there has to be a joke in there somewhere....Brick Hospital is so bad even the corpses in the morgue are dying to get out...or Brick Hospital is so bad <insert "How bad is it?"> the morgue now has a take a number machine.

Ok I know, I'll never be a comedian, but at least I'm not a patient at Brick Hospital. I've never heard of anyone complain about their mental ward so I guess they'll have to open one up.

If I had a choice, I would never go to Brick Hospital. I knew the first person to die at Brick Hospital in 1984. It is all about money at Meridian, not patient care. Nothing has changed since 1984. It has only gotten worse.

I went to the ER almost two years ago with all of the tell tale signs of diabetes, even the nurse in the waiting room asked me why my regular doctor didnt test me for it when I told her I had seen him a week before. I get back to a room and they do all of the normal tests about two hours later the doctor comes back in my room, tells me all of my tests came back normal and that they didnt know what was wrong so they were going to send me home. Just to be sure that it wasnt diabetes they tested my blood sugar with a meter and it came out HI, so the nurse says "Oh thats odd, lets test that again." and once again it comes back reading HI. The doctor goes well let me check your blood work ONE MORE TIME. She comes back five minutes later and tells me that I AM diabetic and that my blood sugar was almost 900. I ended up staying for four days (they wanted to send me home after two with my blood sugar still being almost 400). If they had sent me home I probably would have died. I will NEVER go to OMC for something that I think may be a life threatning emergency ever again!