Allegheny Imaging of McCandless Llc

I just wanted to share the terrible experience I had here and implore any expectant mother NOT to go here for their ultrasound. I was sent here back in 2013 after my doctor had a hard time finding a heartbeat on doppler. I had suffered miscarriages before, so I was prepared for what they would find. They told me to fill my bladder before the appointment, so I did. An hour later after my arrival after they had not called my name, I told reception that I really had to go as the water had drank had made sitting there for any longer unbearable. They told me it was okay to pee a little but to try to keep my bladder full. An hour and twenty minutes after my arrival, I was called back. I was greeted by a very young (maybe mid 20’s) ultrasound tech who was there with a ‘shadower’, another equally young girl who I guess was in training. Both of these girls sucked. They started out doing a transvag ultrasound and it immediately became clear to me that something was wrong. I said something to the girl and she uncomfortably told me that she couldn’t say anything to me and then glanced at the other girl. I felt like I was completely ignored for the next 20 minutes while she fiddled with the ultrasound. I finally asked her if something was wrong and she kind of shrugged. She also told me at some point that I had a tilted uterus (I don’t. This has been confirmed by three separate doctors and ultrasound techs since then). I then told her to please get someone who COULD tell me something. She dissappeared with the other girl for ten minutes before a nice radiologist (male) came in and told me that they couldn’t find a heartbeat. He said he would call my doctor. I figured that was the end of it. Like I said, I’ve been through these before, so I told him that and got up to leave. At which point, the girl told me that she ‘had to take more pictures’ and now to empty my bladder. I couldn’t fathom why she had to do this, but whatever. Disgustingly, she left the ultrasound on while she left the room while she went somewhere (I don’t know where, but probably to talk to the radiologist) thus forcing me sit in front of a picture of the dead fetus until she came back. Then she came back (alone this time) and did an abdominal ultrasound. I had been in there for about ½ hour at this point and just wanted to call my husband who was working. She again complained that she was having a hard time getting the photos due to my ’tilted uterus’ (again, bullcrap — I have given birth, had countless ultrasounds and not ONE tech or doctor ever said I had a tilted uterus. I actually asked my maternal fetal medicine doctor about this a year later and she said that in no way did I have this condition). Another 10 minutes later, I was DONE. I told her to stop. She acted annoyed, but did tell me that she would be finished in a minute. She did finish and then pointed me to the bathroom where I could change. Before she left, after all this crap, she has the nerve to tell me to ‘have a nice day’. Since then, I have refused to ever even look at this building again because of how I was treated — no compassion whatsoever and, I’m sorry… the other times this has happened (Alle-​Kiski and West Penn), the tech immediately stopped what she was doing and told me straight up that she was having a hard time finding a heartbeat and went immediately to get a doctor. None of this shrugging and noncommital crap. Since 10% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, you would be better off finding a place in a hospital where docs and techs are specifically trained in compassionate care. This place was awful. I cannot even drive past it to this day without shuddering and this is an experience that occurred over a year ago at this point.