My aunt was admitted to emergency the other night at Foothills and although she was treated with extreme care and thoroughness, I need to make a comment about the place in general.
When we came to visit, I thought I was fighting for a parking spot at the Chinook Centre. Are illnesses on sale today? The lobby was full of people I swear there was hardly any room to manoeuvre past the lobby space, there is also a huge area of very old used wheelchairs when you enter the building, I really thought I was at a flea market or something but in the 1970s.
Getting to the floor was fine but each floor we passed was like visiting hospitals out of my childhood, just a very old facility with dirty tiled floor and again aged mobile beds. When we got to my aunt's room as much as she had a killer view of the city, her room was cramped and the bathroom that she and her roommate shared was being visited by other patients from other rooms. I was like where am I?
I guess I have been spoiled by the super sleek Chumir and the newest freshness of the Rockyview Hospital's new additions where my mother had a room that was huge and akin to a Best Western Hotel room and I am not exaggerating.
But in the end, my aunt is now resting, and is well taken care of; after all her health is all that matters. Foothills is great on service but low on moderness.