Hickory Hospitals

nopigetter · Jun 5, 2008

HI I just registered with this all nurses site tonight. I'm a new grad from Caldwell Community College. I had the opportunity to do a clinical rotation at Frye. I'm not real sure about Catawba OB dept However I do know that Frye has a pretty good Dept. Catawba has had magnet status more than once and Frye is privately owned. As a guy and a student nurse I had to do the OB rotation of school. What I liked about Frye is that the OB unit was separated into (L&D,C-section), Post partum, then separated from that was the nursery and a fairly nice NICU. I had a great experience at Frye and learned a great deal. The only thing I know about Catawba is that they usually get our patients from my hospital before Frye does. Catawba uses a giraffe EMS and have a NICU as well if your familiar For more critical kids we ship to Wake Forest University Baptist Hospital. I hope I have helped you some what I know you probably researched these two facilities and gotten some answers. I Think that either of the two hospitals would be great to work for. I just spent more time at Frye. Good luck and welcome to the area.

elkpark · Jun 5, 2008

I worked as a state and Federal (CMS) hospital surveyor in NC for several years. I was always v. impressed by what I observed at Catawba Valley. Without going into detail, I will just say that I cannot say the same for Frye.

Frye is a Tenet (private for profit chain) hospital -- there is a lot of info "out there" about Tenet, including some older threads on this site. You may want to do a search and review the threads here, at least.

KEK1984 · Aug 19, 2008

Hi UNC Nurse...I've heard horrible things about Frye. They apparently don't treat their employees very well. I've only been in Hickory for two years and have been told numerous times: "Don't go to Frye!"