Pablo Espin I cannot begin to express how grateful I am for the incredible care my mom received at Stony Brook Hospital. She arrived at the emergency room with a severe headache and dizziness, not knowing the life-threatening condition she was facing. Since she doesn’t speak English, the hospital staff immediately provided a translator, ensuring she felt understood and supported.
The emergency team acted swiftly, running tests to check for any issues, including aneurysms. To our complete shock, we learned that my mom had four aneurysms—something we never expected, as there was no history in our family. She was admitted right away, and as her main point of contact, I received a call that changed everything. Without hesitation, I flew from Charlotte to Stony Brook to be by her side.
Upon my arrival, we were met by PA Diana, who walked us through every step with care and compassion. She explained my mom’s condition, the necessary preventative measures, and introduced us to Dr. David Fiorella—a name that, after extensive research, we quickly realized is synonymous with expertise and life-saving work. Knowing he would be handling my mom’s procedure gave us immense comfort.
The next day, Dr. Fiorella performed surgery to address two of the aneurysms, a procedure that lasted about an hour and a half. Thanks to his incredible skill and the dedicated team at Stony Brook, my mom has been recovering well. She will need another procedure in the next 2 to 3 months to address the remaining aneurysm, but we are beyond relieved and hopeful.
The entire staff has gone above and beyond in every way—providing not just top-tier medical care but also compassion, guidance, and reassurance during one of the scariest moments of our lives. I may not live here anymore, but having grown up in the area, I know that every hospital experience is different. For us, Stony Brook exceeded every expectation.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for saving my mom’s life. We will forever be grateful.
5 /5
LadySkiba G The worst hospital ever. I came at 3 pm to the ER from urgent care. I had numerous of “doctors “ come and try figure out how to treatment my diagnosis. I was my own doctor in this hospital. No pain medication until the pain got worse. After awhile with no answers of what is gonna be done I requested to leave the hospital still in pain. I would NEVER recommend this hospital for anything. It is now 12 AM and I’m still here waiting for discharge papers.
1 /5
Beast570 So currently been the hospital fell down 12 steps was told there is nothing tramtic with my injury but found a sack of fluid in my spinal cord that wasnt present in another mri from December which this sack of fluid can put pressure on my cord and is at the lvl thats causing my symptoms so my symptoms are left leg weakness with severe pain was told pain meds here are never iv push but Ive heard nurses talking in the half about giving iv diluted to other patients. So why lie tell me that my symptoms are not related to any tramtic injury put there are clear changes on my mri how can you guys claim you treat your patients pain when its clearly not treated and just because my symptoms dont fit what you see on imaging so you basically ignore your patients. I will be writing a letter to the new york health department on the utter disregard of neglecting my symptoms imagines one thing but when you ignore your patients symptoms and brush him off as nothing is neglect. This is the change which they seem to think is not causing any of my symptoms but if you looking up all my symptoms are exactly represent this injury 2 mm focally rounded T2 hyperintensity in the central spinal cord at
T9 may represent focal dilated syrinx. Also when you order your meal here it take 2 hours to come to your unitt then on top of waiting and getting cold food if you order a cheese omelet you will get just the meat and the vegetables I ordered tribble the amount of cheese you will stay with just meat and cheese you can tell by the picture of the egg slop if you notice no cheese for a a meal ticket that clearly says extra cheese.
1 /5
Meltem Erdogan The worst hospital for childbirth.
My baby and I almost died due to the improper treatment we received.
They did not give me my placenta, even though I requested it.
After an emergency C-section, and with my baby suffering from severe jaundice on the second day, they discharged us without any treatment.
I had to be rushed to another hospital, and my baby nearly died because the jaundice wasn’t treated and we were simply sent home.
I contracted multi-resistant hospital bacteria and almost died. They didn’t even administer antibiotics.
Despite having a C-section, they left placenta remnants inside me, which nearly cost me my life. I was rushed as an emergency to a nearby hospital immediately after being discharged.
Everything may seem luxurious, but the treatment is absolutely terrible.
1 /5
Brianna Castaldo I went to CityMD because I had a fever for 12 days. My heart rate was at 142, my body was fighting an infection and I was struggling to walk or remember my own name because I had 101 fever until I took medication on the way to stony brook. I spent hours (2-3) waiting to be seen when others who just walked in got looked at first. If someone with a fever for 12 doesn’t get looked at immediately they can get sepsis because they 50/50 have an infection somewhere in their body.
Well I did, I left after waiting almost 3 hours be seen. I want to Mather Hospital told them my symptoms and the second that I told them I had a fever for 12 days they put me in a room and did CT scan, x-rays WITHIN 30 mins. Not 3 hours. And guess what, I had an infection in my whole body I was fighting. Had stay night because it was bad.
You NEED to fix your hospital. It is horrible.
Only reason I went because I got told to go stony brook because cityMD called ahead to tell the hospital about what going on.
Never go to stony brook, ever.
There better hospital who will care about you, who will not roll their eyes when you ask how much longer until you get seen.
DO NOT GO STONY BROOK.
1 /5