Induction Scheduling Help - Reiter Hill and Sibley Issues

[Anonymous]

I have polyhydramnios and was recommended to be induced at 39 weeks (which is next week). The scheduler emailed me right away and I immediately submitted my three preferences but it’s been over a week and they still haven’t confirmed a date for me. If I didn’t have a medical condition and risk factors I wouldnt care, but I’ve been told I’m at risk for still birth and that feels pretty serious to me… WTF is taking so long to get a date scheduled? Is this normal? Should I be calling nonstop? I feel so helpless and worried and stressed. I just want to make sure baby is delivered safely and this feels incredibly negligent.

[Anonymous]

Please! I feel so helpless here! Is no one going to reply?!?

[Anonymous]

I had this issue too, and I kept calling and also left a message for my OB who was able to work around it. Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Were you dealing with Candice Gibson? Is this an issue with lack of follow up from her or an issue with the hospital not getting back to her? Did you call on weekends? I was planning to start calling tomorrow and following up with my OB, but I will try calling today. I don’t like pestering people but I have a feeling like I have to in this situation which is so outside of my comfort zone.

[Anonymous]

Ugh Reiter Hill is the absolute worst.

[Anonymous]

Do they have a patient portal? I would email through that as well.

[Anonymous]

The patient portal is how I have been communicating with Candice Gibson. I will try messaging and calling her today and then will email my OB via the patient portal tomorrow and continuing to call/email Candice daily- this just seems like a very negligent system where something medically recommended is not being prioritized in the way that it should be and it could very well be that Candice is doing everything she can, but the lack of communication about why I don’t have confirmation is troubling to me.

[Anonymous]

Contact your ob directly. I had a hell of a time scheduling a much less time-sensitive surgery last summer. It was so frustrating. It didn’t get fixed until my doctor became aware.

[Anonymous]

This isn’t even for a c-section it’s just an induction to get labor started for hopefully a vaginal delivery!

[Anonymous]

Reiter Hill is the absolute worst. Once I left I realized how truly awful they were. Not sure how to help you now bc they are incompetent and don’t care, but get out the second you can

[Anonymous]

Yes, I would be calling and emailing every day and I would demand an appt with the OB.

[Anonymous]

I have not had an overall bad experience with Reiter Hill - The only actual issue I have encountered is with scheduling an induction date honestly.

At 38 weeks I can’t really change practices now anyways so just trying to figure out how to get this induction scheduled.

[Anonymous]

It’s been almost three years since my induction at Sibley (but not with RH). My recollection is they didn’t confirm very far ahead because elective inductions get bumped if they don’t have sufficient space.

[Anonymous]

I had an induction 2 years ago at Sibley (not Reuter Hill). It took a few days to schedule just because the hospital, etc. And you need to mentally prepare for the fact that even once it is scheduled there is a high likelihood you will get bumped from 12-48 hours later, like I was. Hospitals are still understaffed and they take active labor patients before they take inductions.

[Anonymous]

100% understand that it might get bumped due to understaffing or not enough beds, but I’d like to have a time that gets bumped rather than no time or confirmation at all. Plus I am not choosing to do this, my doctor put in this request for medical reasons, so I would hope that might bump me up on the waitlist because of the risk factors of delaying.