Hi, everyone!
I'm new here and am very close to my due date. Our insurance changes on the 1st of May, and I'm due on the 8th. Sadly, our new insurance won't cover delivery at Loma Linda as we'd planned. It seems that our choices in the Riverside area are Riverside Community or Parkview.
I'd appreciate any recommendations or reviews for either hospital.
I am stressing about this change and about what seems to be a choice between the lesser of two evils. I have tried to schedule tours of both hospitals, but neither could or would accommodate us until May.
Our doula is not wild about either hospital. I am trying to switch to another medical group so that I can possibly deliver out of Pomona Valley, but would like info on local hospitals, too. I can't believe we're worrying about this at this late stage.
Thanks in advance...any advice and information is sooooo needed and appreciated at this point.
Re: Riverside Community or Parkview?
I went in because I was having terrible side pain, and I was bleeding bright red blood. They took a pregnancy test which came up positive, weird cause all at home were negative. They sent me to ultrasound and told me to drink a ton of water and then theyd pull me in, i was next in line, and I ended up waiting for an hour, my pain getting WORSE my bleeding getting WORSE and having seen them pull in 10-12 people. Not my definition of next. We talked to the people at the desk, I was in so much pain I was shaking-But nothing changed and we left.
We drove to loma linda who immediatly took me in, did an ultrasound and more, and discovered quickly I had a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. At this point my heart rate was already dropping from blood loss, so I was rushed into surgery where they saved my life.
I would never recommend Riverside Community ever.
Parkview I have to experience with the hospital but I know the urgent care is soso and only medicates symptoms rather then illnesses so id rather not. Lol