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| - It sucks to be sick. But if you're gonna be sick enough to be in the hospital, this is the hospital you want to be in.
Flashback a couple months, when I had a high fever with some odd symptoms (blue splotchy skin?). My doc took one look at me and told me to go straight to the E.R.
So of course I didn't. I went home, packed a little bag w/ a few essentials, and thought about where I might want to be stuck for 2 or 3 nights (cuz I knew I was going to be admitted). Although I've been a patient w/ excellent care at St. Joes, I selected Scottsdale Shea because it was so nice when I had a 3 day stay after surgery a few years back, and the E.R. wasn't as busy (you can see wait times for their E.R. at http://fastertimes.org/ )
I get there a couple hours later, they triage me fast, and after about 30 minutes in waiting area, they got me back to E.R. Quickly looked me over, brought in the right people, tests ordered, fast process overall and in 2.5 hours I was in my own room.
13 days, folks. That's how long I was there. That's a long time (to me, anyway). EVERYONE who cared for me was awesome- the nursing staff (RNs, NAs) was attentive, competent, friendly, never waited for any meds. If something was wrong, they listened and took me seriously and followed through with testing, etc. My treatment was explained to me by the several doctors that were following my case. In addition, I had much of the same staff again and again, so that really helped.
Other details: my room was very clean, the nursing staff did their best to protect my sleeping (no throwing on bright lights, etc).
Food: you do get to select/order your own food unless you have some special restriction in place. Food is OK for say, 2-3 days, but after that I was done w/ boring Aramark hospital food. The quality was fine, but let's face it, it's hospital food and they aren't a restaurant. So if your stay is going to be longer than a couple days, prepare a visitor or two to bring you in something from "the outside".
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