tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4730047780676933450.post2650501338474411817..comments2023-07-30T04:28:59.004-07:00Comments on Arizona Athena: Know your hospitals!Arizona Athenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18378016615620226131noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4730047780676933450.post-68656904617836849152022-07-04T16:30:34.559-07:002022-07-04T16:30:34.559-07:00Thank you for putting up this list. Thank you for putting up this list. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4730047780676933450.post-45056679827646568052017-05-31T15:42:43.984-07:002017-05-31T15:42:43.984-07:00Banner Health resulted from the merger of Samarita...Banner Health resulted from the merger of Samaritan Health System and Lutheran Health System. Sounds like religious affiliation to me - those guys don't give it up ever!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4730047780676933450.post-18169474023853196712012-05-08T16:25:08.452-07:002012-05-08T16:25:08.452-07:00Thanks for the update on CHW. I'm glad you ha...Thanks for the update on CHW. I'm glad you had a good experience at Chandler Regional. I have had a negative experience at Scottsdale Osborne (a non-religiously affiliated hospital) as well as terrible one in the ER of Chandler Regional (a Catholic hospital.) I think your experience is mostly dependent on the doctors and staff who are in at the time. Hospital policies tend to be secondary. I think it's super important, though, to be aware that your life or quality of life is not necessarily top priority if you are in a religiously affiliated hospital. Going there for knee surgery is probably fine (although I'd prefer than none of MY money be filtered down into the Catholic church) but I'd NEVER go there if I were a woman with stomach pains or if I was having a baby. <br /><br />The article on NPR (which I linked above for information about the ob/gyn survey) explains that in some Catholic hospitals women have had to go under the knife twice for a C-section due to their religious policies. How crazy and irresponsible is that?<br /><br />Thanks for the encouragement Sydni!Arizona Athenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18378016615620226131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4730047780676933450.post-8412614169701507422012-05-08T15:53:20.690-07:002012-05-08T15:53:20.690-07:00Thanks for putting together this awesome list! Th...Thanks for putting together this awesome list! That's a lot of research!<br /><br />It might be important to note that Catholic Healthcare West has just changed their name to Dignity Health. According to their website (http://www.dignityhealth.org/pages/why.asp), this allows them to acquire non-Catholic hospitals. Their hospitals that are currently Catholic will remain Catholic and the new ones they acquire that are non-Catholic will, in theory, remain non-Catholic. This seems like it is going to make it more difficult for women to know whether or not their hospital is Catholic affiliated. <br /><br />I had both my boys at Chandler Regional and was very happy with the hospital and its practices - though I am a liberal non-Catholic. So many of the non-religious hospitals around here are run by Banner Healthcare and I have heard many bad things about them, so I was happy to go with a CHW hospital. Luckily I was not in a position where termination was necessary though.<br /><br />Thanks again for putting this together Sarah, great work! And I'm enjoying your blog!<br /><br />SydniSydnihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13646693640815374265noreply@blogger.com