My clinic is INFESTED with fruit flies!!!

[Alexysis]

Geez, it's been 6 friggin' WEEKS now, and my clinic is STILL infested with fruit flies! And what are they doing about it? They are......"keeping the drains clean". Really. Still big and small cans of garbage sitting around UNCOVERED, and they are wondering why they still have this infestation! It's absolutely DISGUSTING!!!!

It's so nasty, I'm going to identify the clinic:
Fresinius,
Clinton Crossings,
Brighton, NY

Good god, how much more of this crap will we have to take? It was once a good clinic, but in the last couple of years it's become really "ghetto". We not only have flies running rampant inside, but nobody even bothers to power-wash the blood spills out by the front door anymore. It looks like a murder scene....

[Simon Dog]

I used that clinic about 6 years ago (pre-xplant) when I was traveling and did not see those problems.    It's located in one of the pricier and more upscale suburbs of Rochester, NY and not easily accessed via public transportation so I would not expect a ghetto atmosphere.   

[kristina]

Dear Alexysis, I am very sorry about your predicament and it reminds me about a situation when many years ago I assisted voluntarily in a house belonging to a Charitable Trust where more than a century ago a well-known writer lived with his wife.
The lady who was usually "running" the place to welcome inquisitive visitors etc.needed urgent help because she was not very well at the time and so I helped as much as I could as a volunteer who was not overly similar with the place and to my shock there was such a lot that had to be done with cleaning etc., and not much later I found out that this lady was actually extremely unwell at the time and needed urgent hospital treatment and that of course, explained everything to me. She had tried as much as she possibly could for a long time and that was that until her hospital admission ... I only mention this because it sometimes happens that we see a situation differently until we "get" the whole picture of what is actually happening and perhaps that might also be the case at your dialysis-unit? Would it perhaps help if you just look for a way to assist a little, wear some gloves and help a little by taking some of these big and small cans and take the offending items to the rubbish-bin?? I only mention this because I am sure it would be better for your own health as well?
Please take great care and I send you my best wishes from Kristina.

[iolaire]

My clinic had the flies at some point and it took a while to clear them. That included treating the drains.

[Alexysis]

I used that clinic about 6 years ago (pre-xplant) when I was traveling and did not see those problems.    It's located in one of the pricier and more upscale suburbs of Rochester, NY and not easily accessed via public transportation so I would not expect a ghetto atmosphere.   

Well, it IS rather 'ghetto', because almost everybody arrives here by medical transport (this is NY, everybody on MedicAid gets free transport), so the neighborhood is irrelevant. Also, that big nursing home on the corner just across the street is a MedicAid facility, where most of the local indigent dialysis patients are housed. And a bus stops right across the street....And, it WAS a good clinic 6 years ago...

Dear Alexysis, .....(edit out a lot of stuff having nothing to do with my post)...... Would it perhaps help if you just look for a way to assist a little, wear some gloves and help a little by taking some of these big and small cans and take the offending items to the rubbish-bin?? I only mention this because I am sure it would be better for your own health as well?
....

Huh? You want me to take the trash cans out to the dumpster? Why? That's what the staff is supposed to do. "Big and small cans" and "offending items" and "better for my own health"? What on earth are you talking about??  The trash cans here are 40 gallon large rubbermaid cans, and we have about a dozen of them around the clinic, all uncovered.

[Simon Dog]

Come to think of it, that was the only clinic where I saw a patient brought in in chains accompanied by a sheriff's deputy.

As to the garbage - patients doing that sort of thing could get a medical facility in serious accreditation trouble.  The "joint commission" is not a sales organization for recreational weed.

[kristina]

Hello again Alexysis,
I am awfully sorry but there seems to have been a misunderstanding. When you mentioned trash cans I thought you meant empty cans of juice etc., which should have been put into a rubbish-bin long ago and since empty cans of whatever etc. attract, if they are not attended to, all sorts of unwanted "creepy crawlies", including fruit flies ... I do apologize, but I certainly misunderstood ... and I am very sorry about this worrying situation ... could you go to another dialysis clinic nearby or is this your only option?
Best wishes from Kristina.

P.S. English is not my original language and so, unfortunately, some misunderstandings "come along" sometimes ...

[okarol]

Geez, it's been 6 friggin' WEEKS now, and my clinic is STILL infested with fruit flies! And what are they doing about it? They are......"keeping the drains clean". Really. Still big and small cans of garbage sitting around UNCOVERED, and they are wondering why they still have this infestation! It's absolutely DISGUSTING!!!!

It's so nasty, I'm going to identify the clinic:
Fresinius,
Clinton Crossings,
Brighton, NY

Good god, how much more of this crap will we have to take? It was once a good clinic, but in the last couple of years it's become really "ghetto". We not only have flies running rampant inside, but nobody even bothers to power-wash the blood spills out by the front door anymore. It looks like a murder scene....

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