Danbury Hospital Hospital

Not that I have a love for hospitals, but this is one I do love. Their staff is outstanding. Their care above and beyond even what I expected.

The only negative comment I would have is with all people in life. Some nurses were excellent, a few were burnt out.

I would like to make note of the fact that the Danbury Hospital's 10th floor (surgical) has been recently remodeled, and is more like a hotel than a hospital, and that obese patients have access to large size beds (bari-beds) and wheel chairs, and that the staff on the floor have been well inserviced on the needs of post bariatric surgery patients. I was very positively impressed.

My surgeon was great, but what made my stay wodnerful was the nursing (and the nusrses aides too). They were always right there when I needed them and on the phone to the pharmacy, surgeon, etc when I needed something. I can't imagine having gone through this in a hospital where it takes 20 minutes to get a reponse from a call bell!

As hospitals go this ws a positive experience. The ICU staff were excellent
and later when I was moved found the staff responsive to my needs.

Right after surgery I went to ICU. Not because of complications, but because the surgeon wanted me to have one-on-one care for the first day. In ICU you get your own nurse. They are there whenever you need them. They even bathe you in bed! When I was moved to a regular floor, I was given a private room. I hear they do this for all the bariatric patients, when possible, for privacy. It was nice having a private room. They also had special chairs on the floor for bariatric patients to be wheeled around in for tests and such. They are extra-large and extra sturdy. Also, I noticed that the bed was from a Bariatric Supply Company. They seem to take the needs of the obese into consideration. When yoy have to be taken to another floor for any testing, they have what they call "Patient Specialists" They are nurses that escort the patient to and from the testing and make sure that things go OK. When I went for my leak test, they wanted to tranfer me to a strecher from the chair in the ahllway outside Radiology. My "Specialist" would not aloow it. She said "there are to many people in the hallway and the patients privacy and dignity will not be compromised" So the technians had to do my x-ray with me in the chair. They had to do the maneuvering...not me!