IMPORTANT EDITOR’S NOTE – Feb. 1, 2012:
As a matter of policy and like most other websites which allow users to post complaints, Ripoff Report generally does not investigate the accuracy of reports on our site. In addition, as explained on our site
here, we also have a strict policy against removing reports.
Despite these policies, we were recently contacted about the report below and we were presented with evidence showing that this report (and several other related reports) are almost certainly NOT LEGITIMATE. Specifically, based on the information provided to us it appears that some or all of the report below was copied word-for-word from another earlier report
about a different person.It appears that this old report was copied, the name(s) in the report were changed, and the report was re-posted in the form you see below.
Based on this information (which Ripoff Report staff has independently confirmed),
it is extremely likely that the report below is FAKE and you should not regard it as truthful or accurate. Again, as a matter of policy Ripoff Report will not agree to remove this report, but as a matter of fairness we wanted to warn our readers about this issue.
NOW TO THE REPORT THAT WAS FILED:
Subject: Kate Santucci, Horrible, disgrace, uncompassionate, dangerously incompetent, Children’s Memorial Hospital
Kate Santucci
Occupation: Nurse at Children’s Memorial Hospital
Home: 1938 W Roscoe Chicago IL 60657
Business: 2300 Children’s Plaza Chicago IL
60614-3773 773-880-4000
Internet Address: http://www.childrensmemorial.org
I am writing this review as a frequent visitor of Children’s Memorial, and a health care professional myself.
Kate Santucci, formerly, Kate Dembs, nurse at Children’s Memorial Hospital is horrible, unprofessional, uncompassionate, and dangerously incompetent. She is a disgrace to all human kind. Worse, this nurse’s ignorant with a huge attitude.
Kate Santucci has fallen asleep on the job, failed to perform critical tests, and stolen drugs intended to ease patients' pain or anxiety. Further, Kate Santucci has failed to follow procedures for administering narcotics (for the pain) and allowed patients to languish for hours with dangerously low blood pressure, and that her written report’s full of errors, mixing patient’s age/gender/meds/symptoms.
On a subsequent stay Kate Santucci almost (thanks to my watchful eye) mis-drugged my kid 9 of 10 times during a five day stay, because despite not being familiar with a seizure med he was on Kate Santucci insist on the pharmacy dispensing all meds. At one stay Kate Santucci gave my son someone else's breast milk!
These are just the hospital stays. The ongoing care has been filled with the same careless mistakes and poor planning. It takes days for call to be returned and then it takes weeks for anything to be resolved. I have written the dept. chair Dr. Epstein to no avail.
In short, I am amazed by how dangerously incompetent Kate Santucci has been, and even more so by the fact that she still works at Children’s Memorial!
