St. Agnes Hospital Hospital
I met many patients who had either had the surgery or knew someone who did and wanted to reassure me or wish me luck. Overall, the nurses and residents bent over backwards to accommodate, and, being a nurse myself, I can tell you we're not very easy patients! I was asked to please come back after a few months so that the staff could see ehow successful I'd been. I was very pleased with my experience.
I was very pleasantly surprised that the care was so excellent in this hospital. I am a nurse and found the nursing care particularly good. I expected good care in the icu step down area but found that it was even better on the forth floor. I was very well cared for and the nursing stafff couldn't have been more attentive!!Thanks to them all.
Nurses didn't seem too empathetic to any concerns I may have been dealing with. Only one nurse was actually helpful, and that was on my last day there. My room was right outside their station and they were loud during the night. The semi-private room was not well-lit. I felt like a second-rate patient at St Agnes.
I was a little put out at first when the pre-op techs had to stick me twice to draw blood, then the pre-op nurses had to stick me three time to put in the IV which still hurt, but I wasn't about to say so for fear of a fourth puncture...which happened anyway on the following day. After I was out though, everything went swimmingly. I woke up in IMC-Intermediate Care Unit because I have a CPAP machine. It was impossible to get much sleep because people were in anout out all night. It was quite annoying, but I understood that they had to do what they had to do. I was transferred up to 4 South the next day and all was well. The nurses were all so nice and the residents were kind and gentle. My overall stay at St. Agnes was fantastic. I cannot say a bad work about the staff there.