Behind the Best Children's Hospitals Rankings
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children's hospital of LA
Children's hospital of LA is not what they say they are.My daughter who was diagnosed with CTD @ birth was a patient there up until the doctor who was treating her there moved to a different hospital. Childrens hospital did not assign my daughter a new doctor and said the doctor who replaces your previous dr. will contact you, no one ever did.The disease my daughter has can be fatal if she fails to take her medication.The pharmacy had been contacting the hospital for refills for one whole year when they called me to say the doctor would not authorise the prescription.After calling the hospital they said they could not approve my daughters prescription because she was not a pattient there.I responded how can she not be a patient if you've been reffiling her prescription for a year I told them my daugher could die if she did not have this prescription,how can I get her to be seen by a Dr. in genetics asap they said I had to be reffered by my primary physician and it could take up to a year and sorry but they could not reffil my prescription.I after asking the primary physician to reffer my dauther all over again she said they were ridiculous she had already been reffered a year ago and they had her whole file there but reffered her again anyway, needless to say its been 3 years and I still havent her of children's hospital to schedule an appointment.Luckily the receptionist @ the desk said that what they were doing was wrong and the only reason they refused to treat my daughter was because she was insured by medi-cal she gave me the number to where my previous doctor was working now so she is now seen by her previous doctor in los angeles county hospital where they feel she belongs because she is a medi-cal patient, Childrens hospital does not make the well being of the children their main priority and is outright wrong.
Adolescent Medicine?
Why is the specialty of Adolescent Medicine left out of the surveys? Adolescents are an important demographic. I don't see this specialty listed on any of the polls.
What's really important here people
Everyone here disputing why their childrens hospital didn't
make to top ten list should really be concerned about only one thing...The competency of the facility that their children or grandchildren are sent to for complicated surgeries and treatment. Our newborn grandson was born with heart defects that required a five hour surgery to "replumb" his little heart. Our son and his wife live in New Hampshire where our grandson was born...they discovered at the last minute before releasing them to go home with him that his breathing wasn't normal. Then they found that his lungs weren't receiving oxygenated blood. They moved him immediately to Boston Childrens hospital. He was admitted to the cardiac ICU.
I could go into all the intricate descriptions of his diagnosis but that is not what I want to talk about here. The doctors, nurses, surgeons and cardiac and respiratory specialists demonstrated an impressive degree of competence, compassion and
patience with our family. By the time we returned home to California we felt as though those professionals had become a member of our family. We can see why this facility, attached to
Harvard Medical School, is ranked at the top of children's hospitals. Is it better than those not listed that some of you are upset about.....my answer is this....if you have found your childrens hospital is the best facility because of your experience involving your child or grandchild, rankings really don't matter do they. The important thing is that your loved one is receiving the best care they can receive in the country.
Be happy and thankful for that.....Once more....you should thank God for that!
LOMA LINDA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
I would like to comment on the hospital it self.When kids half to be admitted to a room and share it with 6 other kids that is a little bit insane to me. When you have to stay in the emergency room for a day until they have space for you thats insane.When you are admitted and stay with your child you have to make a appointment to take a shower and go down to the lobby to do so.
Why can't they build a childrens hospital that can handle all the patients.Does anyone one know how many people live in california.
some of there nurses and doctors have no bed side manner at all.There nurses seem annoyed that they have to take care of your kid. well heres my answer for that don't work with the kids,find another job!!!!!
My granddaughter had to move back to colorado because of this hospital and the treatment.Don't get me wrong she had a great doctor (Dr. George Yanni) great doctor.
WHAT HAPPEN TO AHS OR ADVENTIST HEALTH SYSTEM? LIKE LOMA LINDA HOSPITAL
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE "AHS"? I AM DISSAPOINTED. AHS STANDS FOR ADVENTIST HEALTH SYSTEM, WELL KNOWN HOSPITAL SPECIALY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ITS AT LOMA LINDA MEDICAL CENTER, SPECIALIZING IN MANY SPECIALTIES. WE KNOW ITS NOT IN THE BEST LOCATION ITS 69 EAST OF LOS ANGELES,CALIFORNIA, THE TRAFFIC IS TERRIBLE, THE SMOG, AND THE MOST NEGATIVE PART IS ITS IN THE COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO,CA. SOMEHOW, SOMETHING IN THE CURRENT LEADERSHIP IN MANAGEMENT OF THE ADVENTIST CHURCH, THE AHS, AND THE LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MUST COME TOGETHER AND COMPREHEMSIVELY GATHER A NEW VISION, NEW LEADERSHIP, A NEW PURPOSE, A NEW DREAM, AT ONE TIME AHS WAS A PERPECT HEALTH SYSTEM, BUT IT SEEMS SOMETHING IS CURRENTLY WRONG, I PERSONALLY EXPERIENCE THE EMERGENCY ROOM TREATMENT, WAITING TWO TO THREE HOURS WAIT, COSTING THE U.S.GOVERNMENT ALMOST $2,OOO DOLLARS FOR WHAT? I COULD JUST HAVE TAKING A TYLENOL AND LET THE PAIN SUBSIDE AND SAVE UNCLE SAM LOTS OF MONEY, SOMETHING IS WRONG AT LOMA LINDA MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL, THATS HOW COME THEY ARE NOT EVEN IN THE RATING. WHAT I AM SEEING IN ALL THE HEALTH SYSTEMS OR HOSPITAL IS PROFIT BEFORE COMPASION OR CARE, YOU CANNOT STAY IN BUSINESS IF THE ATTITUDE DOESNT CHANGE. HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEM IS ABOUT CARING, COMPASSIONATE, AND HEALING, BEFORE PROFIT, THE ATTITUDE MUST CHANGE AND IT MUST CHANGE ASAP.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
St. Jude Childrens's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. is without question the leading institution for care of children with cancer. Their ability to combine state of the art clinical care with up to the minute research makes St. Jude the premier childrens hospital for children with cancer.
If compassion counted...
If compassion counted, and patient/parent input was included in these rankings, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia would easily surpass CHOP as the best place for children with Nephrotic Syndrome in the Philly metro area. We LOVE Dr. Susan Conley!
Seriously?
I just read about a list of hospital referrals a friend is looking at for her daughter. The hospitals given were ranked at the top of that specialty on this survey. I would be amazed if the 62 hospitals who didn't respond would be on this list anyway. What kind of administrator wouldn't make sure their hospital was included? Not an administrator of a top hospital.
No ratings guide is perfect, but that doesn't mean is misleading or not reliable.
Misleading "ranking"
I think that The Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City is one of the top ten in the American continent for Kidney Care, overall in research, clinical, academic and excellent patient otcome. I am amazed on how you guys "rank" hospitals with incomplete information. I think that your ranking is not reliable.
Rankings
The criteria are based on the ability to offer all servies - not quality
The list should read hospitals that offer all services not best
