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Hello all, I just relocated to Cincy, and I will have my first baby here soon. May I know which hospital here has the best birthing center?
I searched this forum and people were talking about good samaritan and bethesda north in 2011. Are they still the best hospitals for maternity? Is there any other recommendation (in case these two are not in my insurance network).
Hello all, I just relocated to Cincy, and I will have my first baby here soon. May I know which hospital here has the best birthing center?
I searched this forum and people were talking about good samaritan and bethesda north in 2011. Are they still the best hospitals for maternity? Is there any other recommendation (in case these two are not in my insurance network).
Thanks a lot!
Good Sam and Bethesda North still have to be either at the top or near the top of the list. The hospital associations they are members of are large enough I can't believe they wouldn't be in your insurance network. If you happen to be located on the west side of Cincinnati, check into the brand new Mercy Health West Hospital. The Mercy Health network is spread all over Cincinnati and is a major medical provider.
One place I can tell you not to go to is home. Our last birth took place there the day before Christmas Eve and one day after I had taken the wife for a checkup. The pediatrician did his exam, and informed us she had no signs of an impending birth. I interjected and said Doc she is already past due and with the prior three she delivered early, what is going on? He looked at me with that disdain only reserved for the most stupid of our society. Make an appointment with my nurse for after the 1st of the year, tomorrow I am leaving on vacation.
Sure enough, the next night after we retired she is poking me in the ribs. Ken, it is the baby! What the Hell do you mean? It is the baby and it is coming quick! I holler for my mother-in-law who had come to stay with us and assist the wife with the newborn, since we already had 3 others, to call the life squad, the number is on the phone. She was a frigging wreck, but did manage to find the phone and dial the correct number. But she gave them the wrong address. I am not sure of the exact timeframe, as I was not too coherent. The next thing I know the baby is here and I placed her on her mother's stomach. Then I notice the flashing lights of the life squad going down the street past my house. I burst out of our front door chasing them down the street, screaming and hollering. I said back here, but you can calm down since all of the excitement is over. The baby is born and I believe looks comfortable on her mother's stomach.
They came back and checked out the baby and mother to the best of their ability. Mr Brill our charge is to transport them to your hospital of choice for an examination. Being my first experience of this type I go Oh Yes and agree. Well we had arrangements with Bethesda Base downtown on Oak Ave. No particular preference other than our 1st was born there and we had no problems with their services.
BTW, this was the Christmas it snowed like H*ll on Christmas. So the entire time this event is going on at my house it is snowing big time. The squad is leaving for the hospital. I asked their route and they told me out of my neighborhood, then down south in front of Kings Island to Bethesda Base. We get out in front of Kings Island, and they suddenly pull to the side of the road. Now this is I-71, it is snowing like H*ll, and they are pulling to the side of the road. I jump out of the car asking what kind of idiots they are. Then they tell me Mr Brill we need to take care of the afterbirth. You can tell who felt like an idiot then.
We get to the hospital. They will not put my baby in the normal newborn area since she was born outside of the hospital. In fact, they will not put my wife in the maternity ward for similar reasons, she may be contaminated. My wife is lying on a gurney in a hallway.
Out of frustration, I called our old GP who had delivered the Ist 3 kids, and was retired. He lived in Pleasant Ridge. I related the story to him, and he said Ken can you come to my house and drive me to Bethesda Base? I said sure Doc can be there in less than 20 minutes. I picked him up, it was still not daylight, and drove him to Bathesda Base. He examined the baby, my wife, and then came out to see me. Ken, they are going to do nothing for them here, I have signed the release papers. Bring the car around, they will both be ready to go home, and after you take me back home Merrry Christms, you have a beautiful newborn daughter.
Some weeks later, I get a bill from the Pediatricians office for delivery charges rendered. So I call our old GP and explain the bill. What should I do Doc, I can submit the bill amd my insurance will pay it. He was very staightforward. Sent him and note, say anytime a supposedly qualified pediatrician is not capable of determining a woman is imminent process of childbirth, and then submits a bill for a birth he had absolutely no involvement in, pound salt!
I sure hope your impending pregnancy has none of the complications of our last one.
At the same time it involved situations which have enriched our lives. Wenever our youngest daughter is asked where were you born? she imediately responds at Home in Mason Ohio.
Christ Hospital delivered our two babies. Very satisfied customers.
Christ is a very respected institution. Maybe the best when it come to heart treatment. I would expect them to do more than an adequate level of care on maternal treatment. But I do feel others when it comes to creating a sense of total care involving the mother, members of family, and most importantly the infant, may project a more involved and then satisfying experience.
Christ is a very respected institution. Maybe the best when it come to heart treatment. I would expect them to do more than an adequate level of care on maternal treatment. But I do feel others when it comes to creating a sense of total care involving the mother, members of family, and most importantly the infant, may project a more involved and then satisfying experience.
Yea, maybe so. Just conveying we had a good experience delivering our babies at Christ relatively recently. But what hospital you deliver at is pretty much dependent on where your obstretian works out of. Since my wife's residency went thru a couple other local hospitals that deliver babies, she wanted to go somewhere else. Read between the lines all you like.
Yea, maybe so. Just conveying we had a good experience delivering our babies at Christ relatively recently. But what hospital you deliver at is pretty much dependent on where your obstretian works out of. Since my wife's residency went thru a couple other local hospitals that deliver babies, she wanted to go somewhere else. Read between the lines all you like.
I understand your references. Any place you have a good experience with is in your mind. I do want to commend you for identifying an obstetrician is a doctor who cares for a woman before and during birth, and for a short period afterward. A pediatrician takes care of newborns up to a varying age, but usually less than 18. So I mistakenly identified the doctor our old GP referrred us to as a pediatrician, he was an obstetrician. But I plead ignorance as this was our one and only occurrence, the GP had delivered the first 3.
And this specialized individual was the one who, after examing my wife said she shows no signs of imminent childbirth, make an appointment with my nurse after New Years. Tell her to make it after I return from my Christmas skiiing vacation.
So, thenext night, my wife delivers at our home in Mason during a snowstorm. Yep, no signs of imminent childbirth, what an expert. After we go through the whole rigmarole of calling the life squad, their transporting the wife and newborn daughter to Bathesda Base, only to be told they cannot be placed in either the normal newborn facility or my wife in a maternity room because the baby was born outside of the hospital and they could be contaminated I blew my cork. After more than a few rounds of cussing people out, I went into the OK what am I supposed to do? You people will not only not take care for my wife, but I can't get a factual answer as to how you are taking care of my baby.
That is when I telephoned our original GP at his home in Pleasant Ridge. I explained what had gone on and he said Ken can you make it to my house and take me to Bathesda Base. Doc, the snow has stopped, I can be there in 15-20 minutes. I picked him up and we went to the hospital. He checked out my wife and the baby. He said they both look perfectly OK. so I have signed the release papers. You bring your car around and they will be ready at the release door. You take me back home and then take the newest addition to your family home. And OH, bye the way it is now Merry Christmas.
Few people have such an experience, which I hope few do. But the GP was a one-in-a-million today. I grew up with him. He did not deliver me, but he did deliver my younger brother. He was The Doctor to the majority of my family and relations.
In his midlife, my father was striken with a debilitating disease. It was so painful he would be curled up in a fetal position for hours on end. There was a constant parade of specialists past hid bed. But they were all stumped.
One night, I get a call from the old GP. He says Ken I believe you father has Paget's Disease. It is a rare bone disease named after the doctor in England who first diagnosed it. The only recognized local expert we have is a doctor at Holmes Hospital who studied at the hospital in England. But he is not a recognized member of the Bethesda board, and therefore they will not let him in to examine your father. I said Doc, what do I need to do? He said take your father to him. So the appointment is made. I go down to Bethesda and request a wheelchair to take my father out of the hospital to an external aqppointment. They of course deny my request. I simply say I know where the wheelchairs are and try and stop me. The other doc does his exam and comes back with Yes, definitely, your father has Paget's.
Oh now what? The only known treatment at that time was a fish extract developed by the Paget's hospital in England. It had to be kept refrigerated and was administered via a shot. Since it was not a recognized drug in the US, it had to be smuggled in via Canada.
Frankly, the drug was amazing for my father. He notr only recovered from the initiql onslaught of the diease, but survived for many years more.
All the women i have talked to, including my sister, have used good sam, my sister said that good sam had a full level one (or whatever the best level is) NICU in case something went wrong and that the others did not. That is just word of mouth and may be different now.
All the women i have talked to, including my sister, have used good sam, my sister said that good sam had a full level one (or whatever the best level is) NICU in case something went wrong and that the others did not. That is just word of mouth and may be different now.
I don't doubt that Good Sam has a top level NICU, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. But these are normally applicable to pre-matures or other complications at birth.
I have a grandaughter who had heart surgery less than 12 hours after her birth. She had a heart valve which was frozen shut (grown together). This was performed at the University of KY Medical Center in Lexington where they happened to have a surgeon well skilled in the procedure. Without his skill the baby could have very well died. Having been notified surgery was imminent, I probably broke every speed limit in existence between Cincinnati and Lexington. While it was heart surgey, it was not open heart. He took an instument, went up through a blood vessel near the groin, and quided by a camera found the heart valve and pushed it open. When we saw the video of the whole procedure later, I went OMG they can actually do these things!
And don't forget, we probably have the finest hospital for children of all ages in this part of the country at Childrens. I am sure all of the local hospitals have a Red Alert call button to Childrens if necessary.
But when you have one born suddenly at home, with no advance notice, and you are the attending physician, you do realize this is a natural process which usually does not normally have complications, and it has been going on for centuries. So calm your fears, make reservations with one of our fine hospitals in Cincinnati, and enjoy your newborn.
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