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| - Last January I was admitted to Good Sam by my perinatologist for an unknown emergency condition with my pregnancy at only 18 weeks pregnant and I spent 13 more weeks living on strict bed rest in the new axillary OBGYN wing. My perinatologists said that my pregnancy was very complicated and because I was a HUGE hemorrhage risk, and in too perilous a position to go home, I HAD to stay there night and day, even though I only lived a couple of miles away. They said I could be compared to a water balloon resting on a bed of nails. Scary stuff!
It was the most challenging and depressing time of my life. I couldn't go home to my 3 kids and husband (even though I could *almost* see my home from the parking garage roof), I couldn't prepare for my new baby because I didn't know if either one of us were even gonna make it. I couldn't be home to prepare a nursery, plan a baby shower, get lunch with my girlfriends, go to work, NONE of that stuff. It was SO depressing and scary for me.
Thankfully my team of doctors and surgeons and the wonderful OB (and later the ICU) nurses made my experience as pleasant as possible. They took care of me physically, mentally and emotionally. The nurses there are all sweethearts and I adored them, they went out of the way to make me at home. They treated my husband and children like valued guests, and make the process of my kids visiting me as 'normal' as possible. That was important to me since my kids were very concerned that I wasn't going to come home to them, and were utterly convinced that their baby sister definitely wasn't going to live. Thankfully, we BOTH made it home alive thanks to the skilled doctors, surgeons and nursing staff that took care of us both at Good Sam and at the Phoenix Children's Hospital NICU inside of Good Sam that cared for the baby once she was born.
Also, I have to mention that my bedrest room in the OB Axillary wing was HUGE, and that is no exaggeration, it was seriously the biggest hospital room I have ever seen and would easily, comfortably hold a dozen or more visitors. WOW!!
Now for the cons:
The food was really NOT very good, and I think this is where the hospital truly falls down on service. I would routinely get bizarre, disgusting meals delivered to me, like a plain dry hamburger with a double helping of steamed carrots, no condiments at all. WTF? Or once they sent me a slab of dried up cold meatloaf (no gravy) and two plain baked potatoes, again no condiments. Again, WTF? And sadly the cafeteria food is NO better. The food was greasy, mushy and /or tasteless and WAY, WAY, WAY overpriced. (My mom spent 4 weeks at St. Joe's a few weeks before I was sent to Good Sam and I could see firsthand that St. Joe's cafeteria is SO much cheaper in comparison.) Because of the dismal food options my family routinely brought me yummytastic meals from the outside, like Long Wong Hot Wings, Pink Champagne cupcakes from Barb's Bakery, hummus and pitas from Pita Jungle, Mexican food from Juliobertos...you know, yummy stuff. :) So for this alone I am deducting one star.
Also there is a VAST difference between the quality of rooms in the old part of the hospital and the newer OB rooms over in the axillary wing. The difference is night and day, in fact. The old rooms are minuscule in comparison to the new rooms. In fact the old tower rooms practically require you to step outside to change your mind.
But the crappy food and tiny, old tower rooms aside, the hospital is GREAT. The nursing staff is wonderful and the doctors are all top notch. I wouldn't have gone anywhere else for the level of care and observation that I needed. In fact, the staff here is so skilled that I understand from what I was told that, for what my particular condition was, I would have been flown to Good Sam for bedrest and delivery no matter where in Arizona we lived. It was just random luck that we lived right down the road.
It is THE hospital to go to in Arizona for an extremely high risk pregnancy.
I will never be able to properly thank everyone who cared for us for those 13 agonizingly loooooong weeks at Good Sam, but I can only hope that giving them a great review will at least steer others to this wonderful facility.
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