Calvert Memorial/ Civista or St. Mary's Hospital?

[SAHMStudent]

Anyone know anything about any of these hospitals other than the PR on their websites? I'd love to work in a decent trauma center (so far still my first choice after 3 semesters of nursing school-we'll see what happens with psych nursing this fall), or maybe a PACU. I live in SOMD and Anne Arundel will be an hour and Washington Hospital Center will be over that. PG Hospital gets lots of trauma I know, but it's future is sketchy at best.

But if you have no info on the trauma area, I'll take any inside information on these hospitals. The good, the bad and the ugly.

Thanks!

[nicole109]

I grew up in Southern MD, and have been a patient many a times at Civista, formerly PMH way back when! I made the gruesome commute to Baltimore from LaPlata, happily bypassing Civista, Southern MD, all the DC Hospitals, BWMedical, and everything in between for about 2+ years before moving to Baltimore--if that tells you anything. If you want trauma, or exposure, then you need to get out of Southern MD...you need to get yourself into DC or Baltimore, I know the job market is tough, but that's where you are going to find the action. That being said...I have had encounters (within the last month) family members as patients at Civista, and I have to say that since UMD has taken over, I have seen huge changes. For a small town hospital, coming from the "doc in a box" it was once known as, and you would literally have to kill me before sending me there (knowing what I know now), it's come a long way, and the staff there was quite responsive and attentive. I don't have much knowledge about St. Mary's or Calvert--but I do know that St. Mary's is now a MedStar Hospital, and they have huge buy-outs in both DC and Baltimore, so, again there are connections there--if you can get your foot in the door it may be easier for you to make your way up the food chain later as you would be an 'internal bid' into other jobs later in the bigger hospitals. Good luck =)