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70% of patients communicated with nurses well in DC, compared with 84% in Nebraska and 83% in South Dakota
80% of Nebraskans thought the hospitals were clean compared to 61% in DC.
78% had a high hospital rating in Nebraska and South Dakota compared with 58% in Washington DC.
24% of South Dakota hospitals had a 5 star rating as opposed to 2% in New York and 1% in California.
I was in the hospital in Nebraska twice and the bedside manner was incredible. The emergency room barely had a waiting room. The triage nurses were very responsive. The bedside manner is incredible and the nurses seem to have only a patient or two each. The rooms were extremely clean. It was a very peaceful environment. The doctors were extremely dedicated and took thorough time with me to calm my concerns.
Fast forward to the hospital in Las Vegas. The emergency room was a room with a dozen people with a smal set of curtains. The doctor was very rude. The nurses sat there and talked all night about their luxury apartments. The doctors would come in 30 secounds, followed by a nurse with five medication asking which one was needed. It was very weird and dirty. Multiple sick people going to one bathroom at the Las Vegas hospital and not one person cleaning the bathroom.
I can't help but think that when South Dakota and Nebraska pay about $25 an hour for nurses that they can hire many more per-capita then they can in states like California where nurses make well into the six-figures.
Another thing with Nebraska and South Dakota is a vast majority of the population has employer insurance with a high reimbursement rate as opposed to the bigger states such as California that have a majority of the people on Medicaid/Medicare or are inelgible for government reimbursed healthcare.
Boston has the consensus #1 children's hospital, Mass Gen, Beth Israel, Brigham & Women's, Tufts, BMC, Dana-Farber.......and those are just the ones off the top of my head.
There are certainly other towns with wonderful institutions of their own, but in terms of quantity and quality Boston cannot be touched.
Weirdly NYC has no pediatric only hospital while Phila. has two.
NYC has Babies Hospital, now Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital and one of the tops in the country--as it must be. My brother, son, and I were all born there!
Cleveland, and any city with a major university health center:
Boston has the Harvard hospitals (all due respect ro BMC and NEMC, but it's not about you)
Baltimore has Hopkins
Houston has UT medical center
NYC has the Columbia, Cornel and NYU Hospitals
LA has UCLA
Chicago has Northwestern Medical Center
Pittsburgh has UPMC (PITT)
St. Louis has Wash U
Cleveland is the only city with top shelf hospitals, that doesn't have a top tier medical school.
Took out daughter there (CHOP) for a 2nd opinion last year. What an incredible place.
My twin girls (and my wife and I) spent a year at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). They were conjoined twins born at CHOP and eventually separated at 8 months old and were discharged a few weeks before their first birthdays. They are now 4 1/2 year old healthy little girls and you would have never known they were once conjoined if not for the matching scars down their bellies.
The doctors and nurses at CHOP are absolutely amazing. I truly believe if not for CHOP our girls would have either never survived or at the very least not be able to live the normal life they are currently living. Their motto "Hope lives here" is absolutely true.
I've also heard Boston has a nice children's hospital as well but after visiting CHOP first we knew right away that we were in the hands of some of the top pediatric surgeons and plastic surgeons in the world. I thank God everyday for CHOP, they took my daughters in one of the scariest situations imaginable for a parent and gave them the life they have today.
It's a good med school. Top-30, for sure, but Cleveland Clinic is a top-3 hospital.
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