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Jul 02, 2008 09:25 AM

Woodland's Memorial Hermann or St. Luke's Hospital


Trying to decide which one is better.

I was offered employment in their ICU's. Both offers the same base pay. Hermann has $7,500/semester tuition reimbursement compared to St. Luke's $2,500 only. Hermann offers relocation help, St. Luke's does not. But St. Luke's is a Magnet hospital. I haven't worked with a magnet hospital before. What do they have for me to consider them.

Any inputs especially from those working in those hospitals are welcome.

Thanks

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from RN1989
Old Jul 02, 2008, 04:39 PM

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I've heard negative things from nurses that worked at both those hospitals so can't help you on that one.

Magnet overall is oftan a joke but I will say that I had better experiences working for magnet hospitals than other hospitals. Magnet does have to keep up some appearances and standards in order to keep their magnet status so I found that they generally were better than some of those piddly hospitals going for the totally pathetic "Nurse Friendly" designation from TNA.
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from hypocaffeinemia
Old Jul 02, 2008, 04:43 PM

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They are both good hospitals. I've had clinicals at both sites. Aesthetically St. Lukes is nicer overall and their ICU is a bit better of a physical environment. MHTW has an H shaped ICU with no real central station and the only windows are in patient rooms, so the entire place feels sterile and gloomy. Also, each nurse has their own nook between two rooms.

Given the choice upon graduation next year, I'm going to make the drive to Methodist Willowbrook and their new tower they are building.
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from ethelbsnrn
Old Jul 02, 2008, 11:46 PM

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RN 1989,

Thanks for the input re: magnet hospitals. I am really leaning towards St. Luke's-Woodlands because of the magnet status. It is the SLEHS that has acquired the magnet status. I am just assuming that since the one in the suburbs is part of their system, it is also a magnet (correct me, if I am wrong). Benefit-wise, theirs is no different from the Hermann's. What are the negative things you hear from both hospitals?

Methylene,

Thanks a lot.
Are you in the "burbs"? We are planning to move to Woodlands. Any suggestions for a good subdivision near the hospitals? I looked at the website of Willowbrook Methodist, I guess their critical CCU patients go to TMC.

Hope to hear from you.
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from hypocaffeinemia
Old Jul 03, 2008, 07:54 AM
Updated Jul 03, 2008 at 07:57 AM by hypocaffeinemia

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Originally Posted by ethelbsnrn View Post
Methylene,

Thanks a lot.
Are you in the "burbs"? We are planning to move to Woodlands. Any suggestions for a good subdivision near the hospitals? I looked at the website of Willowbrook Methodist, I guess their critical CCU patients go to TMC.

Hope to hear from you.
I live in The Woodlands, myself. However, I live in the "back" (Sterling Ridge) and the drive in morning traffic to Willowbrook is only a few minutes longer than to St. Lukes or MHTW.

As far as CCU patients, right now we do transfer patients requiring CABGs or transplants downtown, but this will change over the next year and a half. If you were to come here you'd help shape the way our surgical ICU works as it develops.

Besides surgical, we do have fairly sick patients. Looking at our board right now, 2 of our twelve rooms are closed temporarily due to construction, so that leaves us 10 beds for the next week. We currently have 5 vents and two IABPs going, and we're about to send one of the IABPs for major abdominal surgery (here, not transferred out), so there's definitely plenty of action (we don't have any neuro, though).


For our tuition reimbursement, there's $2500 per calendar year, however there's a program for $7500 yearly tuition that requires a two year commitment to work post graduation.
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from labcat01
Old Jul 03, 2008, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by ethelbsnrn View Post
RN 1989,

Thanks for the input re: magnet hospitals. I am really leaning towards St. Luke's-Woodlands because of the magnet status. It is the SLEHS that has acquired the magnet status. I am just assuming that since the one in the suburbs is part of their system, it is also a magnet (correct me, if I am wrong). Benefit-wise, theirs is no different from the Hermann's. What are the negative things you hear from both hospitals?
Maybe RN1989 will correct me if I'm wrong but it is my understanding that magnet status is NOT system wide. Meaning that even thought SLEH in the medical center may have magnet status, that doesn't mean the other system hospitals are necessarily magnet.

That's my understanding- am I right?
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from hypocaffeinemia
Old Jul 03, 2008, 10:18 AM
Updated Jul 03, 2008 at 10:20 AM by hypocaffeinemia

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Originally Posted by labcat01 View Post
Maybe RN1989 will correct me if I'm wrong but it is my understanding that magnet status is NOT system wide. Meaning that even thought SLEH in the medical center may have magnet status, that doesn't mean the other system hospitals are necessarily magnet.

That's my understanding- am I right?
This is true. Although, is the St. Luke's system is set up anything like Methodist's, policies and practices are essentially the same at any facility and the only reason the smaller community hospitals don't have Magnet/Nurse Friendly/etc are because of how new they are. "Main" Methodist is Magnet, but we are not even though all practices are identical.
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from PsychRN03
Old Jul 03, 2008, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by ethelbsnrn View Post
Trying to decide which one is better.

I was offered employment in their ICU's. Both offers the same base pay. Hermann has $7,500/semester tuition reimbursement compared to St. Luke's $2,500 only. Hermann offers relocation help, St. Luke's does not. But St. Luke's is a Magnet hospital. I haven't worked with a magnet hospital before. What do they have for me to consider them.

Any inputs especially from those working in those hospitals are welcome.

Thanks
I don't know much about either hospital other than I completed a RN-BSN program with someone who was of mgmt. status w/ SLEH; they did her pretty wrong; she was there many years and because she was a ADN she had no further upward mobility so she went to school for the BSN; her hospital would not give her any assistance nor would they allow her to attend classes without using her own vacation accrual (because she was mgmt.); and then once she completed the BSN she was still not able to get promoted without an MSN

I've also heard vague negatives about Herman, but no place is perfect

I just know I kinda despise institutions that don't support employees earning a higher level of education other than lip service, regardless of your job title; maybe as a floor RN, it's better
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from ethelbsnrn
Old Jul 04, 2008, 02:04 AM

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Thanks Labcat01, Methylene, PsychRN!

I am very grateful for all of your inputs.

Where do you 'll guys work? Would you recommend your place of employment?
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from ethelbsnrn
Old Jul 04, 2008, 02:10 AM

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Originally Posted by RN1989 View Post
I've heard negative things from nurses that worked at both those hospitals so can't help you on that one.

Magnet overall is oftan a joke but I will say that I had better experiences working for magnet hospitals than other hospitals. Magnet does have to keep up some appearances and standards in order to keep their magnet status so I found that they generally were better than some of those piddly hospitals going for the totally pathetic "Nurse Friendly" designation from TNA.


Thanks RN1989 for the reply. Where do you work now? Would you recommend your employer to me?

Thanks.
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