The George Washington University Hospital Hospital

Having had no previous hospital stays I would have to say that I felt very comfortable and at ease with the hospital and all the people who help make my stay a comfortable on.

The Staff needs to be more attentive to their patients instead of coffee clatching at the nurses station.

i called the nurse 3 times before they would help me and considered going home.

Overall, I was very disappointed with my stay at GW. Although Dr. Lin and Denise were wonderful, the residents and the nurses were sub par. My first day post-op, I had an infection with my IV and it took over 3 hours (imagine no hydration or pain medication) to get a new IV put in. No one ever gave me a binder or the leg massaging boots....everything had to be requested. I experienced terrible headaches which the residents attributed to the morphine, but no one offered another type of pain killer. We had to ask. Luckily, my mother is a nurse, so she was able to run the show, but without her, I would have been in big trouble.

My biggest issue was that my surgery was pushed from 9:15 to 11:00 and nobody came to tell me until after 9:30. Also, after surgery, I was wheeled into my room in an ICU bed.....which was narrow and extremely uncomfortable....and I had to ask for a bariatric bed 2 days after surgery. Also, the communication between Drs and nurses could have been improved. Nurses kept me in bed due to low blood pressure, and the team of Dr's were not happy with that.

Overall experience was good. I liked the fact that most, if not all the rooms, are not shared.

When it came to the food ie protein drink, it was terrible "boost" and made me run to the bathroom and could wipe myself and was hard to bath.

No Negative comments. Everything was ok.

Most of the staff was sensitive. Only a group of people during my first x-ray after surgery were the exception. But the doctors and nurses that took care of me were great.

Overall I found the staff and medical team very nice and sincere. And I had read the previous reviews of this hospital before going in for my procedure and was a little concern. But I thought overall everyone one was nice. I will agree with the other posts that there were certain areas (i.e., admitting) that were alittle slow - but once things got rolling.. it was good.