If You Were A Patient and Had A Choice of A Hospital to Go to, Which One Would it Be?

BarbPick · Dec 28, 2003

I did very well with the Cleveland Clinic in Ft Lauderdale.

Jolie, BSN · Dec 28, 2003

In Chicago, my choice would be Rush.

I think very highly of the Mayo Clinic as well, based on their treatment of my in-laws.

P_RN, ADN, RN · Dec 28, 2003

Well it wouldn't be the one I used to work at after the cold hearted way they handled my WC claim.

I think it's be the one my daughter had her GB surgery in. A small but well thought of County hospital, won't name the place.

My aunt was treated well at Bethesda and at Walter Reed....hope not to have to go there :)

TiffyRN, BSN, PhD · Dec 28, 2003

The DFW area like many I'm sure has quite a few hospitals, plus two different counties to supply county services. It really depends what you need.

For heart issues/heart surgery I would go to Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. I think it says something when hospitals from a competing health system send their hard cases to BUM-C as we call it. They are also very good for cancer care.

In the words of my husband who was a local paramedic for years "If you're sure going to die (from trauma) and you're ABSOLUTELY sure you're going to die, go to Parkland (in Dallas). They have a kick-*** Trauma Center which gives their high priority traumas a resident for each body system. If you aren't that bad off, stay away cause they are an inner-city ED with all the inherent bad issues that it entails.

One of my pet peeves is about one of my preferences. We have two excellent Children's hospitals in the area, one in Dallas (Children's Medical Center of Dallas) and one in Fort Worth (Cook Children's Medical Center). Why anyone would take their child to a little po-dunk community hospital when they could take their child to a whole hospital that does nothing but treat children? I used to work one of those po-dunk hospitals, we didn't have a pedi-floor, just admitted pedi's to the medical floor. I had no idea how to care for pedi's!! Thank God none of them ever crashed or needed their IV resited even. Sure we had written protocols instructing us on how to do this but with about 6-10 pedi's a month, no one's skills were real sharp. My little soap-box.

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Dec 28, 2003

Grant Medical in Columbus Ohio.

Dave ARNP · Dec 29, 2003

Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington Kentucky.

HANDS DOWN the best place I've ever been.

Trixxy, LPN · Dec 29, 2003

It's gotta be Mercy Hospital in Canton, Ohio.

The doctors and nurses are absolutely fabulous...the whole hospital is on the ball.

I spent a week there after my quadruple bypass..they saved my life. From ER ..to telemetry... to ICU... to CCU...not one single worry that I wasn't getting the best care...and you know..nurses make the worst patients, cause we diagnose ourselves and question everything.

Dave ARNP · Dec 29, 2003

I'll add that my little girl and very soon, my son have/will be delivered at Central Baptist. My father had his open heart there (And he is a CT Surgeon). Mom had her TAH/BSO there. Both grandma's lap choles. I could go on forever.

Central Baptist is the ONLY place I would ever let work on my family or me. Granted, like any other hospital they too, have less than perfect physicians, NP's, PA's and Nurses. But for the greater portion, their staff consists of some of the greatest medical physicians on earth (IMHO). If you're ever there lemme know. I'll hook you up with some of the best nurses ever to work on a floor. Well, I can't offer you our greats, Jnette, Frances LeMay, Barbpick, Fab4Fan, NICUGoddess, DylansGrannie, BlueEyes (I have forgotten sooo many but you are ALL GREAT!). I can offer you a suggestion on a highly trained, completely compassionate nurse... who will do their best to assure you get the best care possible.

Dave, who thinks he needa stop doing referrals for just onnne little second.

Burnt Out, ASN, RN · Dec 29, 2003

Hmmm...I have more than one choice...

At the hospital I work at, there are only several units I would want to be a patient in-one being on my own unit (and I have been;) ).

Now, here are my other choices:

Huntsville Hospital

UAB Hospital

(Both of these took WONDERFUL care of my baby boy, and his parents too).

MD Anderson

Vanderbilt

Duke (or is it UNC?)

Tweety, BSN, RN · Dec 29, 2003

I'm sure one day I will be a patient. I choose the hospital I work in. If I didn't feel it was a good place to be then I wouldn't work there.

LadyMarine · Dec 29, 2003

University of Connecticut Medical Center. They are the best here,