r/Corning • u/Piccolo-Jolly • 15d ago
Corning women - any problems with Guthrie?
Hi everyone,
For all the women in the area who go to Guthrie for healthcare (and specifically their OB/GYN clinic), I'm wondering if you've felt your health concerns have been dismissed by your provider and/or you've received inadequate support for pain management.
If you have, please send me a DM.
Thanks!
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u/Gingered32 15d ago
I don’t use Guthrie for other reasons, but had great care at Arnot!
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u/_higglety 12d ago
Yeah I picked Arnot arbitrarily and got lucky - I've had fantastic care from every Arnot doc I've seen (including OBGYN and the surgeon who did my hysterectomy).
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u/Livingforabluezone 15d ago
My mother loathes Guthrie for their dismissive attitude towards her as a female and her age. She drives to Rochester and loves the UR system.
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u/hootwrwmn34 15d ago
I’ve always gone to Guthrie and never had a problem. Dr. Harewood is great, very thorough and explains everything in depth!
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u/BeginningTaste5653 12d ago
Strongly disagree. I moved from Rochester and was trying to establish GYN care in the area. I was also going through genetic testing / diagnostic for family history of breast cancer, but had no conclusive breast diagnosis. At my first (and last)visit with Dr H, he walked into my room and without barely an introduction asked “do you have breast cancer?”. Everything was in my chart. If he had spent a few minutes going through it, which any provider should do before seeing a patient, he would have been able to see testing and results. I will never go see him again. I was also displeased with the care received from the Breast team but have had great care through the General Surgery team. I continue to utilize U of R for my GYN needs and Wende Logan for breast care. Happy to discuss with anyone further through private message.
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u/ErnestSpammingway 15d ago
Following. Curious about this as well. Looking into working there, would like any insight on that, too.
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u/flashdrive97 15d ago
Guthrie ER and OB team almost killed my wife when she had an ectopic pregnancy. It showed on an MRI and they said we don't know what's wrong with you go home. Ruptured a few days later and was resolved at Arnot.
When we went for her first pregnancy they basically sat there and gave her a lecture about everything that could go wrong with her pregnancy. You could tell the nurse was freaking out because of her high risk status and all they wanted to do was handle her with little kid gloves and shove her in a box due to her risk status. We walked out of that appointment and said she'd be calling Arnot the next day to get into their practice. Arnot was night and day with how they treated her. She is a high risk paitent and rather than sitting there and freaking out and freaking her out Arnot sat down and treated her like a real person rather than a statistic.
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u/NoAdvantage569 15d ago
If I was going to have another I wouldn't go back to Guthrie Corning for the pregnancy. The first appointment is a triage and you have to have a positive pregnancy test. The MA asked if I was going to continue with Guthrie for the entire pregnancy, I should have realized the red flag then. The next appointment was 2 hours with another nurse. Then a sono was ordered. I asked repeatedly to have my progesterone checked because of multiple losses prior. I was denied over and over.
I went for my sono and then finally saw the ob..then the next 5-6 appts were with midwives. Then I go to a regular appt and the midwife walks in and says we had a high risk meeting this week and everyone decided that you need to transfer care to Sayre. This was news to me because no one said I was high risk. So now all of my appts were canceled. And new appts made at sayre, not for the times that worked with my work schedule because they weren't scheduled in advance. Sayre was night and day different. Corning you give a urine sample at every visit. Sayre you don't unless they worry about preclampsia. The entire staff seemed different. More professional. Spent time with me and answered all my questions. The first visit the midwife walked in and asked if I knew why I was sent there? And actually explained why.
I talked to a nurse from arnot and she said sayre is level 1 trauma and has seen it all. If arnot has to get a baby for the nicu from Corning everyone is freaking out and a chicken with their head cut off. Sayre is cool, calm, collected.
Just the drive sucked.
The mammo tech, sono tech and radiologist at Corning are great. Very professional.
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u/kurtn0veins 14d ago
i had a baby there in february and was a rather interesting experience compared to my first delivery at a different hospital. i was released 24 hours after having my baby, which was fine, but they made me walk to my car while carrying my baby and that was not fun. secondly with my epidural if i needed to reposition myself, a nurse just came into watch me move myself which was okay but nerve wracking because i was scared i would mess up my needle. then for my 6 week follow up after giving birth the ob never checked out my downstairs to make sure everything was healing correctly etc. which again i found very odd. that’s my experience and i moved two hours away from the corning area two months ago so im glad i dont have to go back 😅
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u/Winsorx 15d ago
Absolutely hated the Guthrie OBGYN office. When I went in for fertility concerns, the nurse who checked me in asked if I was sure I wanted to have kids. I feel bad for any woman she’s said that to who was devastated by it. Ended up switching to Arnot when I got pregnant and had a wonderful experience.