Anyone have info on UPH Kino in Tucson?

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I have been offered a traveling position at University Physicans Hospital Kino in Tucson, AZ. Day Shift on Med/Surg Telemetry. Anyone have any good info on this hospital?

Also, any help advise on apartments in that area that would be suitable would be good information to have too.

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Infusion, peds, informatics.

i went to school in tucson and lived there for 8 years.

kino didn't have the best reputation. it is a "community" hospital, so it gets a lot of the uninsured. or it did at the time.

i worked with a nursing supervisor who had worked at the er at kino, and she just loved it. the medics i knew also had a lot of respect for the er there. it is (or was) a level ii er.

not so sure about the med/surg floors.

do you speak spanish? at the time, the hospital had a very large spanish-speaking only populaiton.

things may have changed some in the past 10 years, though. you might want to post in the az nurses forum, since a couple of the regular posters there live in tucson.

definitely don't live near the hospital. it is close to i 10, though, so you can live out east and get to work without too much problem.

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I've done a number of assignments at "community hospitals" on the West Coast and they have been OK. Most community hospitals, as the poster above indicated, see indigent patients which can be of high acuity. Language is often a problem.

The nice thing about community hospitals is that the stress level and production-pressure are not as high because they are not part of corporate America. There are some decent review sites where you could find some info like ultimatenurse, locumsreview, and hobonurse.

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