Cardiology Associates

Dr. Glenn Cochran & his nurse Raven are the best health care providers I've had in all my years of being a cardiac patient.

Dr. Thornton saved my life the other night. I woke up with what felt like an elephant on my chest. Horrific pain that would not go away. After the slowest ambulance in history finally inched up my driveway, they got me to Thomas where the ER staff was literally miraculous. I had a 100% blockage of the LAD and only my wife's quick-thinking (and knowledge of where our very old bottle of nitroglycerin was) and their very fast turnaround saved my life. Protocol gives them 90 minutes from the door of the ER to the cath lab and they had me there in less than 40.

I was literally dying and they saved me. I am so incredibly grateful. The last thing I remember is Dr. Thornton coming in and I was in excruciating pain. He assured me that all would be well. Next thing I know, I was awake and joking that he was getting a 5 star review on yelp. Thank God for Dr. Thornton and the amazing team at Thomas!

Always helpful - Dr. Cochran and his staff have always been very helpful, courteous and pleasant. Never a long wait either. Recommend him every single time.

Absolute horrible people to work for. Don't train people correctly, lie to employees, just an outright dump to work in.

I know that doctors and nurses are in the medical field to make money but you'd think they actually care about people too. At this place they do not. I don't have insurance so I am a self pay patient. They are trying to charge me $800 for an ultrasound that only averages $230 here in Alabama. It's an ultrasound that I need because I'm having a reaction to the COVID vaccine, and I need to know if it is safe for me to take the second shot.

This is messed up. Self pay patients usually get a discount at any type of medical facility, but not here. Here they like to charge 4 times the average to people who don't have insurance.

Some of the doctors are amazing however I feel bad for the employees they do so much for this company and I've heard from numerous current and previous nurses, medical assistants, techs that this company treats them terribly. I even overheard about a nurse being written up for a family emergency and it's just so sad that these nurses do so much and there's no humanity in the company. Patients come first but your employees are the glue that help run the business.

I feel so bad for these workers that is why I decided to find another cardiologist to take care of me. I care about how you treat your team because that's the team that'll be taking care of me. If anyone reads this review I highly recommend using someone else these workers aren't treated fairly and that most likely means they won't care about how they treat patients because they aren't being taken care of. Compassion goes a long way!

I had to find a new cardiologist and I'm very impressed with the referral I got from my PCP. He sent me to Cardiology Associates and by the luck of the draw I got Karl V. Hakmiller, MD, FACP, FACC specializing in clinical & invasive cardiology who got his MD at Tufts AND he's a New England Patriots fan, how cool is that?! Trust me it's cool.

They have got their in-house and online tech in order. You can request an appointment online and in the Access Patient Portal access you can request a prescription refill, submit questions and update information plus another portal for a quick and easy way to pay your bill online. It's pretty slick and works well, I like good tech. Recommend!

Some of the nurses are disappointingly rude and condescending over the phone to patients who are suffering. I record all the phone calls. The doctors Are very professional and compassionate knowledgeable.

Gary C. 05/09/2019 Overall Professionalism Whats wrong with this picture? Your almost 102 yr old Mother is in the hospital over the weekend and Dr Trotter sees her one on one whenever. He along with the hospital Drs decide she should be on Hospice. She vaguely remembers seeing him. She does not hear well. I feel like it would have been nice to have talked to Dr Trotter.

After all it is my Mom we are talking about. So I called his office and offered to make an appointment or maybe he could call me. I got the switchboard and was transferred and shortly someone called me back and "asked" me what I wanted. I am sure the Dr will get his MONEY from Mom's insurance for his visits to see her and discuss what was to be done in her condition.

Please understand that if I had seen his Mother and He wanted to speak to me about her condition, I would have had a few minutes of my time to give him comfort and consideration. I hesitated in writing this but the more I thought about it the more disgusted I became.

Dr. Trice and Dr. Robichaux are good Dr.'s. However, their staff is very incompetent and lack common sense. They really do not care about their patients based on our experience with the staff. My father went down with a cardiac event while vacationing in Gulf Shores. While the Dr.'s did a fine job in getting him back on his feet, the follow up care required appt. scheduling and testing at the Cardiology Associates offices. That is where this really bad experience got even worse. Again, good doctors.bad, bad service from the staff. Avoid.