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"Poor staff attitude"

About: Bass Coast Health

(as the patient),

Each and every time I go to BCH Wonthaggi to a particular clinic I feel the receptionist behind the counter is continuously rude and inconsiderate. I was advised by a clinician to go and see that particular section to make an appointment for myself. Whilst waiting to be served, I believe a hard of hearing person in front of me was, I felt, basically yelled at with an extremely rude tone and attitude. I heard the receptionist said, I’ve called you over three times now, for the hard of hearing person to then feel the need to explain to the receptionist their situation of being deaf and apologise to the receptionist.

After all the times of myself going into BCH Wonthaggi clinic dealing with this staff member's rudeness and having also had one of those bad mood days of my own, I couldn’t watch the poor deaf person be treated like pure crap in front of me knowing I’m going to be treated like that next. So I walked away and didn’t make an appointment for myself because I knew the receptionist would ruin the rest of my day. I believe something needs to be done about this staff member's rude attitude towards patients. Yes, I believe it’s Government funded, but in my opinion, that is no excuse to treat patients with disrespect. 

Kind regards

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Response from Jan Child, CEO, Bass Coast Health 3 years ago
Jan Child
CEO,
Bass Coast Health
Submitted on 28/10/2020 at 8:21 PM
Published on Care Opinion on 29/10/2020 at 9:55 AM


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Dear sunws34,

Thank you for taking the time to write this. I agree that people who come to our service should be treated kindly, respectfully, and compassionately. There is no place for rudeness and I would very much like to get some detail so that we can make sure this doesn't happen again.

I wonder if you could call me on my mobile (0472846355) so that I can get the time and date of the visit and follow this up. I am very sorry that you had this experience and I would like to make sure we can avoid such occurrences in the future.

Thanks again for taking the time to give us your feedback. We appreciate this effort.

Jan

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