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Jack
02-06-2010, 08:34 PM
The main hospital that I attend is a teaching hospital with a campus spreading over a vast area. The hospital itself is split into two sites separated by about half a mile. Due to its size, the place is a permanent building site with old parts being demolished or refurbished and new parts built.

The oldest parts are still Victorian -

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The most recent are more modern -

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pberggren1
02-06-2010, 09:22 PM
That is impressive Jack. What is the population of metropolotain Birmingham area. My local hospital is in a city of about 17,000 people with about another 40,000 people in surrounding towns, villages, and farms extending far away as 120 miles or more. The hospital I go to in Saskatoon is much bigger but not as big as yours. Saskatoons population is about 250,000 people and has a university hospital and 2 others. Saskatoon is about 170 miles from where I live.

Jack
02-06-2010, 10:26 PM
Population of Birmingham is around one million, but because of its facilities, people visit from about a 50 mile radius.
There are of course lots of other hospitals in the area, mostly smaller, but the other one that I occasionally attend is quite big too.

elephant
02-06-2010, 10:44 PM
Where I live is a teaching hospital and serves a population of 200,000. The hospital that I frequently go to is Medical University of Charleston and that is a nice size teaching hospital. I love it, beach is right there and good shopping/resturaunts.

JanW
02-07-2010, 01:50 AM
I go to Hospital for Special Surgery (affiliated with Cornell) for rheumy and St. Luke's Roosevelt (affiliated with Columbia), big NYC teaching hospitals that must serve hundreds of thousands of patients a year. My ENT at St. Luke's where I will have my surgery says that the nurses in the recovery room are wonderful, but that he wouldn't speak to conditions "on the wards" but think "big teaching hospital." Which I know means it's not going to be about patient care, but rather about training the docs. But I'll only be in overnight, anyway.

Sangye
02-07-2010, 07:45 AM
I go to Johns Hopkins. There are 2 campuses in Baltimore (maybe more?). Most of my docs are at Bayview campus. The main campus takes up MANY city blocks. It's like a small city-- building after building, and new ones going up. I couldn't begin to guess how many patients they see.

jola57
02-07-2010, 04:24 PM
Abbotsford Regional Hospital is only 7 months old. The lobby resembles a hotel lobby and is 4 stories high and has Sturbucks. It also has a new to the area Cancer Center. The surrounding area has about 200,000 people.

moyan
02-08-2010, 12:47 AM
Hi Jolanta, I assume you had a good trip. We really do live close to each other, son was in Abbotsford hosp. after being badly beaten, so I was there every day. Watch out, there might be a beige Toyota on your driveway one day, especially if you are making coffee :) But, since I don't have your address, I might stand in the town square and holler your name! Seriously, it would be fun to meet. Moyan

elephant
02-08-2010, 12:57 AM
That must have been a really rough time for you Moyan. I'm sure your son appreciated all the time you spent with him, just being there for him probably healed him quicker.

GARYfromBOSTON
02-08-2010, 01:35 AM
I go to Mass General (also a teaching hospital) and for anyone in the New England area I give it two thumbs way up. The service I received while admitted was tremendous and the Wegener's docs are great. However, driving any where near the hospital is a bit of a nightmare ;)

Jack
02-08-2010, 03:27 AM
The worst thing about going to a big hospital is finding convenient parking and getting from there to the clinic. Then, if they ask me to go for an X ray or something it is another major hike.

DuaneHart
02-08-2010, 01:15 PM
I go to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and also work there. Great place to work and a wonderful clinic and hospitals. I'm very happy with all the doctors I've got--Rhuemy, Cardiologist, Internist, Dermatologist, and Gastroenterologist. They all work together on trying to get my health back in order and are so far doing a grea job.

jola57
02-08-2010, 05:35 PM
moyan, yes I'm back. It would be fun to meet. Next time I'm passing thru Langley i'll let you know.

Luce
02-09-2010, 04:06 AM
I have two hospitals that I have to visit due to the unique way that Dorset Primary Care trust provide services. The first is Royal Bournemouth hospital and I visit this one most often, I was taken into A&E here and remain under a respiratory/thoracic consultant here. I also go here to have my blood tests and see my renal consultant who works for Dorset County Hospital but holds clinic sessions at Bournemouth.
However, because the County's renal facility is run from Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester (35 miles away) I have to go here for any day-patient care and if I needed to be hospitalised again I expect I would have to go back here.
This is mostly due to funding because although the same trust run both hospitals because my primary care is given by the renal team every procedure must be undertaken on the County hospital budget.

Both hospitals are reasonably new, only 10-15 years old I believe and the staff and facilities at each are both adequate and quite pleasant. Although both are located in very busy areas within their towns so parking is expensive and at a premium. Stupidly public transport is limited for both sites, I catch a bus to Bournemouth which is only every half an hour but this is mostly to avoid the parking nightmare and heavily congested roads around the hospital.
The only real way way to get to Dorchester is by car, otherwise it's an hour on the train and then a bus to the hospital, or a 20 minute walk uphill.

Jack
06-19-2010, 06:47 AM
They have just opened the new building at the hospital I attend for Wegener's stuff - it is only around 20 drive from my house. :)
BBC News - First patients at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/birmingham/10317818.stm)

Jack
06-19-2010, 07:41 PM
None of the docs at Birmingham has ever described themselves to me as Wegener's specialists, but there is a team that work only on vasculitis. Quite a lot of the literature I have read on Wegener's has come from the Birmingham group and I have seen reference to them in American publications so I guess they are well respected.

pberggren1
06-19-2010, 10:58 PM
I thought that Savage and Bacon are Wegs Specialists?

I am going to try and take some photos of my local hospital and maybe even of the ones I go to in Saskatoon, the larger city I go to to see my Rheumy.

Jack
06-19-2010, 11:15 PM
They certainly lecture on the subject so I'm sure they can be considered to be specialists in Wegener's, but since they run vasculitis research covering many different conditions ( What is Vasculitis (http://webrheum.bham.ac.uk/Vasculitis/Whatis.htm) ) I'm sure they would not be labeled so specifically.

Sangye
06-19-2010, 11:34 PM
They're definitely Wegs specialists.

Kimbangu
06-20-2010, 06:45 PM
Interesting.

curly
07-08-2010, 01:37 AM
My daughter goes to Loma Linda University Children's Hospital in California. I always stay 24/7 w/her. The worst thing (for me) is that they only serve meat to the patients and there is no caffiene (they are Seventh Day). But the RNs will whip you up a cup of their unit coffee if you ask them. Otherwise, I always haul along some pre-packaged Starbuck's!

LisaMarie
07-08-2010, 04:13 AM
I go to KU MED in Kansas City Kansas for my otolaryginologist (ENT) for all my Trach stuff and have to go to St Lukes On the Plaza in Kansas City Missouri for my WG specialist....both doctor's offices are attached to the hospitals and both are always expanding or constructing ...so parking is a nightmare...but I am greatfully they are close....still thinking about Mayo as a back up if my WG doc does not work out here....KU Med has awesome quirky little stores and restruants nearby to fill my time between test and such....
Jack...Love the victorian hospital....I love old buildings ...they have such character

Jack
07-08-2010, 07:29 AM
They have now started to move out of the Victorian parts. The first department to leave was the military section where the wounded from Afghanistan are sent. I think politics and press coverage played a big part in that decision.
There is an ongoing argument about whether wounded troups should go to a military hospital, but I know which I would prefer!