A national survey by HCAHPS ask patients to share their hospital experience by answering 10 quality care questions. The results may surprise you.
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QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
1. Have you ever been treated at Bolingbrook Adventist Hospital?
2. Do you know of anyone that's been treated at BAH?
3. If so, how was your experience?
4. Which hospital (in the area) provide the best care?
5. Which hospital (in the area) provide the worst care?
Feel free to share your opinion, and join us in the debate.
I have never been treated at BAH nor do I know anyone who has.
ReplyDeletePersonally, for local hospitals, I won't go anywhere but Edward. My husband does not agree with me and uses Central DuPage Hospital exclusively.
As far as the worst care, even though it isn't local per se, I will never go back to Loyola. It's not worth it to drive to Maywood to be treated like cattle.
Anonymous wrote "As far as the worst care, even though it isn't local per se, I will never go back to Loyola. It's not worth it to drive to Maywood to be treated like cattle."
ReplyDeleteIt may be the worst, unless of course you give birth to twins 13 weeks early. Then you'll thank God for the staff (Doctors and nurses) in the NICU at Loyola.
I sure did 22 years ago this Halloween.
2.4 oz and 2.9 oz; and thank God they are both healthy and very much alive today. It was the longest 2 1/2 months of my life waiting for them to leave the hospital.
Turns out that as a teaching hospital Loyola was on the cutting edge at the time. What is now normal procedure when an expectant mother comes into any hospital in premature labor was experimental at the time. Loyola was one of very few hospitals in the nation that was testing giving the mother steroid shots at the time of admission to help the baby's lungs develop quicker.
Ten years later in a study it was discovered that the magnesium given to the mother, to try to stop the labor contractions, greatly reduces the incidents of cerebral palsy.
But anonymous might be right I guess it just depends on what you’re being treated for.
I wonder if their rooms being quieter at night has anything to do with all the dead patients?
ReplyDeleteI volunteered at ABH (Aventist Bolingbrook Hospital) for over 2.5 years.... both in the ER and Med/Surg departments. I spoken to many patients about a wide array of topics including care at the hospital. While there are some instances people were clearly unhappy, overall the majority had pleasent experiences being in the hospital. My wife visited the ER department for whole day. She felt like the service was good, good communication but it took a while to get out of there. Then there was the bill.... another story. For the most part, the Bolingbrook Hospital is a good facility. They have constant oversight and always modifying policy to better treat patients. They take complaints very seriously.
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