Rooms in hopsitals

(Different corridors certainly had to do with the toilet and bathroom situation, since rooms in those didn't have an own toilet and shower.)

I have not seen a ward of any kind since my son was in the pediatric ward 45 years ago. In most hospitals in the US, there are semi-private rooms that are segregated by sex. The two people share a bathroom.

There are private rooms, but insurance companies pay for semi-private accommodations, but for cash you can get a private room. In some of the newer hospitals, there all all smallish, but private rooms with their own bath.

Having spent time in both private and semi-private rooms, I think that a private room is very important in helping a person get well. There is something very disturbing about having the person next to you moaning and groaning, and depriving you of a night's sleep, when you need it most. Also, one of my big beefs are preople who have multiple visitors for most of the day and evening.

Over here, they don't put men and women in the same room, but other than that, it's co-ed.

The one thing I truly hate about hospitals is their total lack of privacy! Every time I go to the hospital I end up in this hospital outfit that doesn't leave anything to the emagination, braless, in front of a bunch of strangers.
For this reason alone, I would welcome the idea of seperate floors for the genders.

I'm with you on the private rooms, Phoenix. When I had my son I had to share a room with a woman who had people in and out all day and night. I just had a baby and I was exausted, so a little sleep would have been nice since I knew I wouldn't be getting much of that anymore when I got home.

A private room would have made all the difference in the world!

As far as I know, Montana, they changed such here .... quite same time ago, mostly, at least.

Now, there are only seperated rooms, but "concentrated" re gender.
(For example and especially in hospitals where two rooms share one shower/toilet.)

I hope they start doing that in these parts.

[I really like "hopsitals", btw :wink: ]

That's the first time I've ever heard anyone say that they liked hospitals

HOPsitals, montana.

they vary in slovakia greatly. the old state ones are dreadful. you can easily have 20 people in the same dark room, beds separated with curtains, common bathroom in the corridor shared among many such rooms. having not lived there for years i didn't really know what it looks like on the inside, so when i went with a friend to visit her grandmother, i was quite heartbroken. it was more like a prison. grandma couldn't really walk on her own, and sometimes couldn't get a nurse quick enough (since they're chronically understaffed as well) to make it in time. visiting hours were strictly enforced, so other than seeing someone for an hour or less a day, she was all alone in the bed with the curtains draped around. my friend smuggled food in for her, as the hospital gruel was inedible.

0n the other hand, when i had my tonsils out in a new state hospital, it was rather nice. clean, 2 people per room with a bathroom, friendly abundant staff (mostly young people)... it was almost like a summer camp, i had a blast. most of the other hospitals would be in the middle. about 6 people per room and just enough staff. as far as i know, they are single sex... not sure though.

montana please let me know next time you are hospitalized. I look forward to seing you bra less.

Back in my university days, I worked a few days a week at a hospital in Santa Monica, CA, and one of my jobs, for about a year, was assigning beds. We definitely had "wards", besides single rooms and a semiprivate (double). The wards were for three. There might have been one 'four', but I don't think so. The shared rooms were all same-sex, but adjacent rooms varied, except of course on the maternity floor.

That was a long time ago; I don't know how they structure it now, but would bet, oh, a cup of coffee and piece of pie, that it is the same or similar - perhaps some of the three person wards were changed to doubles. Hey, I might even look it up on google.

Around here - most rooms are semi-private shared with same sex and shared bathroom in the room. The floors are co-ed and usually according to type of care.

Except maternity. At least in the larger Boston hotels - oops hospitals, the maternity floors have all private rooms. They are set up with a chair/small couch that pulls out into a bed so daddy can stay over night. I say hotel on purpose - the accomdations and food for maternity is much better than for other floors. My brother works in one large hospital and the no-name orange juice is used on his floor, the good tropicana or other quality oj is reserved only for maternity. Why? I assume maternity is a bigger money maker and to encourage women to give birth in their hospital - even the local smaller hospitals now advertise about their care and accomdations in maternity.

It seems like the definition of ward can be quite variable by location, so I'm not quite sure what the original article's saying.

A ward in a Canadian hospital is a nursing unit of rooms, which may be part or all of a floor.

The rooms within a Canadian hospital ward will be single sex, with the primary options being private or semi-private, with very rare triples still in existence. The ward, or nursing unit, will be mixed - other than the ob-gyn wards.

Well, I can't get in to review the layout of that hospital I worked at; something to do with not having the right password and user id. (Huh?)
I think that is related to the installing of hard drive that happened after my computer meltdown a few months ago, and not a problem with that website.
I've had the same thing happen a couple of other times, related to my apple i.d. I suspect I can't fix it without doing the hard drive thing again (fuggedit).

Linkat- I have been in enough hospitals to know the difference in hospital food. Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York has great food. It is on the upper east side of New York, (a very high end area) so that's probably why.

Also they have a library and an activities room, complete with a grand piano. When I was there, I made a little enamelled pin, which I still have.

So far (know on wood), I only spent 3 days in a hospital and it was
quite pleasant. Our local hospital is adjacent to a golf course
and overlooking the Pacific - so how bad can it get, right?

It's true - different hospitals offer different types of accomdations - they even had room service (although you need to pay extra for it) if hubby wanted to eat with you or you wanted something else. That's why when you choose a doctor, it is best to know which hospital s/he is associated with.