Have been to Brookhaven emergency three times in the last 32 days and still have not been diagnosed or treated for the ailments to my satisfaction. Some of the staff and doctors were courteous and others should find a new profession. The er was outrageously noisy and slow in processing people and treating their needs and concerns so frustrating that I had to sign out against medical advice after being lied to and slow in processing and not knowing fully what my problems still are I kept my follow up appointments and medicines and still no satisfying results obtained. This by far was the worse experience of my life.So poorly managed I don't know how they are still in business.

You see so many horrible reviews here... Well, I had a horrible experience here too! Not only myself, including my mother, boyfriend and my daughter! The wait is terrible, they're horrible being doctors and nurse! When you go in this hospital and you want to get yourself checked out, you're being checked out by doctors and nurses WHO REALLY NEED TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND LEARN ALL OVER AGAIN! Its like you're being checked out by a friend who doesn't know what to do to help you. I cannot explain how horrible it is. They need to fire everyone there and hire new doctors who KNOWS WHAT THEYRE DOING

Only go here as a last resort. Terrible service. Unless you are dying, you're better off taking the drive over to Stony Brook

Forget all of those bad reviews. This hospital wzs a ghetto mees many years ago. North Shore/LIJ took over since then, seriously upgraded the facilities and the staff, and now, there is no place that I would rather go or take anyone for emergency health care. This staff ALL have excellent bedside manner. They are fast and efficient AND knowledgeable and friendly. I have had occasion to take at least a dozen friends to Brookhaven in the last seven years, for everything from stroke, heart attacks, assaults and work accidents and falls. Every experience here has been positive, positive, positive. I can never thank these people enough for all of the loving and thorough care that they have given to my beloved, my friends and my family.

I've been the BMH many times over the years, for an array of reasons. The ER (or the "ED" as they call it) is always packed full of people all over the place. There are a few rooms, but every room that I've seen has dual beds at least. Otherwise, you're sitting in a room with another person and a possible curtain divider, OR you're in the "hall," which is a somewhat fancier way to say they are leaving you in the aisle near the ED desk. My Mother went there a year or so ago for what was deemed food poison (by us), but they couldn't tell us that. Apparently, after running every test under the Sun, they found NOTHING. My Mother had been in terrible pain, to the point of altered mental status and lacking the ability to retain memories for portions of that night. The local FD ambulance grabbed her, and they were very helpful. They brought her in, and I visited the next day. The room she was in, which was in a wing in another part of the hospital, felt dirty. The hallways? Dirty. The whole feel of BMH? Dirty. But apparently the care were decent, since she didn't seem to complain. But I've heard of worse stories - my cousin's fiancee had some sort of blood clot or something. He was brought in and was found to have leukemia (I believe it was this), and he worsened rapidly. Before you knew, he went into cardiac arrest about two days into his stay. My cousin stated that the doctors didn't even use an defibrillator when he went into cardiac arrest. Rather, they used conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation. When he passed we all went to the hospital for support. I was there when the doctor and a nurse came into the main lobby to say what had happened. The nurse initially stated that he wasn't the primary nurse, but he answered what he could and was relatively compassionate and helpful. I look over at the doctor on the other side of the group and see that she was on her phone. When the nurse was done, the PARENTS of the deceased asked the doctor if she could clarify some information and maybe give some more insight. She looked up from her phone and blatantly said that she wasn't paying attention, and asked the parents what the nurse had said. My blood started to boil. How can you become a doctor with such a lack of compassion in such a field? These people's poor son just passed (He was 24), and you can't give them 15 minutes of clarity? Disgusting, deplorable behavior. If anything happens to me, please, for the love of God, take me to Stony Brook or Mather hospital. Brookhaven Memorial Hospital = BMH = Bury Me Here.