Hospital vs Hotel

[General E. Speaking, RN]

Check out the intro add for this hospital in the medical center in Houston. And we wonder why patient's expect "hotel-type" service... gimme a break! I hope those nurses only have 2 patients so they have time to pass out slippers and fluff pillows.

http://www.universitygeneralhospital.com/

[ewattsjt]

i thought there was some sort of regulation that required hospitals to serve the indigent population. one hospital near me circumvented that for years by having a prison contract. the inmates were considered to be "indigent" even though the bill was paid in full. i wonder how this hospital is planning on getting around it.

i think it goes by state. ours only has to treat life threatening conditions and births (considered life threatening for the neonate). i can go to the er with a possible broken arm and no insurance and they do not have to accept me. however, once accepted (admitted), they can not refuse treatment.

if the facility receives government subsidies, it is another story. there is generally a policy that would deny such subsidies if treatment is denied to the indigent population.

that is how it is here. they refused to treat my son for a dislocated patella laterally, until we found our insurance cards (got verification). they were nice enough that they allowed him to stay in the waiting room until we called the insurance company and got verification. i didn't and won't work for our local hospital.

getting back to the post.....

it looks like a good place to be a patient at but, maybe not for staffing. someone has to pay for it.

[MS._Jen_RN, ASN, RN]

I just threw up a little in my mouth

:lol2:

Seriously, I hope they treat their staff as good as they say they treat the pts.

~Jen

[lorster]

I very much doubt that this facility has an Emergency Dept. The number one reason to have an ED these days is to funnel new patients into the facility, and obviously the physician owners of this facility plan on just funnelling in their own non-emergent well-insured or independently-wealthy surgical pts.

I wonder if they plan to have hair stylists and nail care technicians available to the patients? (Cuz we all know you gotta have that big hair in TX).:roll

HollyVK

Hey guess what? They do have an ER and they are hiring, lol. I also question a doctor owned facility. Man, imagine getting into it with a doctor, you are out of there tomorrow. I just question the whole environment. Of course, there may be many doctor owned hospitals out there that work out well. Any one know of any?

[hollyvk, BSN]

Hey guess what? They do have an ER and they are hiring, lol. I also question a doctor owned facility. Man, imagine getting into it with a doctor, you are out of there tomorrow. I just question the whole environment. Of course, there may be many doctor owned hospitals out there that work out well. Any one know of any?

These are the services the facility offers (via their JCAHO accreditation info):

• Cardiac Catheterization
  
• Cardiology
  
• Diagnostic Imaging
  
• Diagnostic Tests
  
• Emergency Medicine
  
• Endoscopy
  
• Family Practice
  
• Gastroenterology
  
• General Practice
  
• Hospital
  
• Infectious Diseases
  
• Intensive Care
  
• Internal Medicine
  
• Lithotripsy
  
• Nephrology
  
• Neurology
  
• Nuclear Medicine

• Otolaryngology
  
• Pain Management
  
• Pediatric Medicine
  
• Pulmonary Medicine
  
• Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine
  
• Respiratory Care
  
• Short Stay-Recovery-Infirmary
  
• Sleep Studies
  
• Surgery-Cardiac
  
• Surgery-General
  
• Surgery-Orthopedic
  
• Surgery-Plastic
  
• Surgery-Podiatric
  
• Urology
  
• Vascular Medicine
  
• Telemetry

http://www.qualitycheck.org/qualityreport.aspx?hcoid=440118

But again, I am really surprised that they've chosen to include ED services to what is essentially a self-contained high-end surgicenter.

HollyVK

(not thrilled to see the company behind this has targeted my area for one of these facilities)

[lorster]

If they receive any federal funding for building, they must provide a certain percent of charitible care. Certainly this will not be only patients with insurance facility. They are doing cardiac caths and other emergent procedures.

[SK-222]

"UGH!" what an ironic set of initials for it

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

I would love to check in just to see how it is all working out. Please keep updating us on this one.

[RunningWithScissors]

I, too, thought this was a spoof when I saw it!

I worked in the Texas Medical Center for 7 years, and in my former hospital there was a VIP floor (President of Turkey, famous actresses, etc.).

They DO list emergency medicine as their services provided, so just wait until they get some of these folks who know how to work the system in there.....they'll have their enitre families camped out there and keep finding reasons NOT to be discharged (I'm still nauseated and in pain, and if you don't do more tests, I'll SUE!!!)

[banditrn]

I just threw up a little in my mouth

And that just made me snort all over my keyboard!:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Seriously, tho, looking at all this, and having worked in a hospital that is trying to go that direction - what does all this fluff and foo-foo add to the cost of the hospitalization? Are the insurance companies going along with it?

[austin heart, BSN, RN]

I also question a doctor owned facility. Man, imagine getting into it with a doctor, you are out of there tomorrow. I just question the whole environment. Of course, there may be many doctor owned hospitals out there that work out well. Any one know of any?

I work in a private hospital where the doctors have a financial intrest. No problems with that in my opinion. It is other nursing issues that cause problems.

We also have a similar hospital like this in Austin......

The Hospital at Westlake Medical Center : Marble floors, granite counter tops and flat screen plasma TVs in all rooms, consierge service, etc.

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

Marble floors

Broken bone inducer.

[NeosynephRN]

Broken bone inducer.

At least the blood is easy to clean off!