Dr. Amy E Swindell, DO



Family Practice     -  Pennsylvania,  Huntingdon

 Overview

Dr. Amy E Swindell, DO works in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania is a specialist in Family Practice, Hospice Care and Palliative Medicine and graduated Altoona Fam Phys/altoona Hospital in 2002. Dr. Swindell is affiliated with J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital and practicing for 24 years

 Specialties

  • Family Practice
  • Hospice Care and Palliative Medicine

 Board Certifications

  • Board Certified by the American Board of Family Medicine

 Years Since Graduation

  • 24

 State License

  • Pennsylvania

 Education & Training

Residency Hospital

Altoona Fam Phys/altoona Hospital

Altoona, PA, USA

Year completed: 2002

Internship Hospital

Altoona Fam Physical

Altoona, PA, USA

Year completed: 2000

Medical School

Lake Erie College Of Osteopathic Medicin--Erie

Erie, PA, United States

Graduated: 1999

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I am a former Internal Medicine/Hospitalist who worked at UPMC Altoona between 2013 and 2016. I interacted with Dr Amy S...windell on a number of occasions and wish to warn anyone who is willing to listen about the dangers of this doctor taking care of your family members who may be terminally ill.
Circa 2015, I was starting my first day of my work cycle as a Hospitalist. I had an elderly man who was a known case of intra abdominal cancer who had been admitted to the hospital with excruciating abdominal pain. His pain had been rated at 10/10 intensity and as a result he had been admitted with Palliative Dr Amy Swindell consulting.
I had seen the patient on the morning of my first day rounding and his abdominal pain due to the cancer had eased with morphine. He told me he wanted to stay in the hospital another day because his abdominal pain caused by the cancer had eased slightly but not resolved to the point where he was willing to go home.
While I was writing a progress note in the patient’s electronic chart, Dr Amy Swindell approached me and told me that the patient was stable for discharge and should be sent home. I explained to her that I had already started writing the progress note for the day and that would make discharging the patient more difficult, as we Hospitalists are only meant to write discharge summaries on patients the day we discharge them and not progress notes. But my next action was to tell her I would ask the patient if he wanted to go home that particular day. I told her I would discharge the patient if he wanted to go home and was willing to be discharged.
I invited Dr Swindell to the patient’s bedside and asked him if he wanted to be discharged the same day. The patient claimed his pain in the abdomen had eased since admission but he would prefer to go home the next day as he felt the level of pain was still high and he was not comfortable being discharged that day.
I accepted this wish on the part of the patient and told Dr Swindell I would honor the patient’s wishes to be discharged the next day.
Around an hour later, while rounding on my other patients, I received a phone call from my supervisor. He accused me of telling Dr Swindell I refused to discharge the patient in question simply because I had started writing the patient’s progress note for that day. This was a lie Dr Swindell had told my supervisor as a ploy to get this elderly cancer patient discharged prematurely at a time when his abdominal pain was only partly controlled.
I had told Dr Swindell my having initiated the progress note for the day for the patient would have made the process of his discharge more difficult. But in the next breath, I told her I could discharge him if he was willing. I had escorted her to the bedside to ask him if he wished to be discharged the same day or the next, mindful of his pain level. My decision to keep the patient in the hospital another day was consistent with his wishes. She distorted my words, contacted my supervisor and FALSELY claimed I refused to discharge him simply on account of my having started writing his progress note for the day.
My request to anyone with a terminally ill patient in their family is to NOT allow Dr Swindell to participate in your family’s care unless you wish for a lying and manipulating Palliative Medicine doctor to unsafely discharge your relative at a time when their pain has been inadequately controlled. You have been warned.
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 Office Locations


Primary location

 Office Address
10663 Raystown Road Suite A
Pennsylvania (PA)
Huntingdon
16652
 Phone:(814) 627-0071

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Office Address, 10663 Raystown Road Suite A, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania (PA), 16652




 Insurances Accepted (check insurance plans)

  • Aetna
  • Aetna HMO
  • Amerihealth
  • Blue Card PPO
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • Choice Care PPO
  • Choice Plus POS
  • Choice Plus POS II
  • Cigna
  • Cigna HMO
  • Cigna PPO
  • Commercial Insurance Company
  • Community Blue PPO
  • CoreSource
  • Coventry Health America PPO
  • Coventry Health Care
  • First Health (Coventry Health Care)
  • First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
  • Gateway Health Plan
  • Geisinger Health Plan
  • Golden Rule
  • Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • Humana
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Medicare MCR
  • Meritain Health
  • MultiPlan
  • Navigate HMO
  • Navigate POS
  • Open Access Plus
  • Options PPO
  • PHCS Network PPO
  • United Healthcare
  • UnitedHealthCare
  • UPMC
  • UPMC Health Plan
  • UPMC PPO

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 Affiliated Hospitals


J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital photo


J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital

1225 Warm Springs Avenue Pennsylvania PA, Huntingdon, 16652

J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital is a hospital located in Huntingdon, PA. Procedures/Diagnosis costs are at the state average in 3 of 3 procedures. Length of Stay is at the state average in 1 of 3 procedures.



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