Hospital Inspection
The first hospital we were forced to use was, to be kind, less than sanitary. To be blunt, it was filthy. Dried blood, visible clumps of dust and other mystery dirt went untouched by cleaning crews up to five days at a time. All this, in a children's cancer ward.
I won't list questions to ask. I would simply visit the prospective hospital, peek into several rooms, meet some nurses along the way and make mental notes as to cleanliness, general friendliness of staff members and general attitude of patients and family members. Several nurses and parents at the first hospital told us some horror stories about one doctor's habit of reporting parents to Child Authorities at the drop of a hat to force them into putting their child under his care in his hospital.
The hospital we moved our daughter to was extremely clean and sanitary. In the first hospital, she was always in a two-bed room with another child. The second hospital always put her in a private room and, if her counts were low, a pressurized room in the bone marrow wing that required everyone entering to wear a surgical mask.
When we asked why they always put our daughter in a private room, they told us the danger of infection was too great to put more than one cancer patient in a room.
Needless to say, standards differ from hospital to hospital. "Don't expect what you don't inspect."
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Updated March 15, 2010
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