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St. Mary's Regional Medical Center

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Location	Enid, OK
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Bariatric Surgeons believe to have operated at this hospital: Gregory Walton, M.D.

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Number of Contributors: 13

WARNING: Does this hospital have less than 25 reviews? If so, don't let a small sample size bias you.
Subjective reviews below are relayed merely as a partial and incomplete research tool.

Survey Questions:

How would you rate its overall value? (“Overall Value”)
How well equipped was the hospital to handle overweight patients? (“Oversized Equipped”)
How sensitive was the staff to the needs of overweight patients? (“Oversized Sensitive”)
How safe did you feel that the hospital was well equipped enough to handle any medical emergency that might arise during your stay there? (“Multi Security”)
How much privacy did you feel the hospital gave you? (“Privacy”)
How responsive did you feel the hospital was in giving you pain medications? (“Pain Medications”)
How restfully quiet did you find your experience? (“Quiet”)
How accommodating was the hospital in allowing visitors to see you? (“Visiting”)
How responsive do you feel the staff was in helping you with your general needs during your stay? (“Staff Responsive”)
How would you rate the parking accomodations? (“Parking”)
How did you select this hospital? (“How Selected”)
How would you compare this hospital to others that you have been to? (“Competitors”)
What other comments do you have about this hospital? (“Comments”)

Posted by:	Amy S. (Posted on January 27, 2005)
Overall Value:	Good	Oversized Equipped:	Excellent	Oversized Sensitive:	Excellent
Multi Security:	Excellent	Privacy:	Average	Pain Medication:	N/A
Quiet:	Average	Visiting:	Excellent	Staff Responsive:	Good
Parking:	Average
How Selected:	It is the only hospital that Bariatric Surgery is done at.
Competitors:	This is my first experience with St. Mary's. I still like Bass more in many ways.

Posted by:	Bruce S. (Posted on October 26, 2004)
Overall Value:	Good	Oversized Equipped:	Good	Oversized Sensitive:	Excellent
Multi Security:	Excellent	Privacy:	Good	Pain Medication:	Excellent
Quiet:	Good	Visiting:	Good	Staff Responsive:	Excellent
Parking:	Good
How Selected:	Wife is an RN there. Also, the only hospital the surgeon uses for this procedure.
Competitors:	Excellent. Only one other major hospital in this area. They are the standard others strive to emulate
Comments:	Things were overall as well as can be expected. My hospital experience if very limited. St. Mary's staff went out of their way to make my stay pleasant. My only complaint is that the elevators are old and slow!----CAVEAT You must bear in mind that my wife is employed there--I think my responses would be the same regardless, but knowing whom I belonged to may have altered how I was treated by the staff.

Posted by:	Sharon D. (Posted on August 24, 2004)
Overall Value:	Excellent	Oversized Equipped:	Excellent	Oversized Sensitive:	Excellent
Multi Security:	Excellent	Privacy:	Excellent	Pain Medication:	Excellent
Quiet:	Average	Visiting:	Excellent	Staff Responsive:	Excellent
Parking:	Excellent
How Selected:	It is closest to where I live adn is the hospital where my surgeon does his bariatric surgeries. My surgery was 8/9/04.
Competitors:	It is much better equipped than our local but still patient friendly.
Comments:	I would recommend this hospital to anyone havinf surgery. The staff was great and this surgeon has a great bariatric care staff who are great as well

Posted by:	Rachel T. (Posted on July 22, 2004)
Overall Value:	Excellent	Oversized Equipped:	Good	Oversized Sensitive:	Good
Multi Security:	Good	Privacy:	Excellent	Pain Medication:	Excellent
Quiet:	Average	Visiting:	Excellent	Staff Responsive:	Excellent
Parking:	Excellent
How Selected:	This is the hospital that my surgeon uses.
Competitors:	I will use this hospital for all of my family's future needs, even though it is 50 miles away.
Comments:	I can't express how wonderful my experience was at St. Mary's Hospital. The staff were ALL very caring and went out of their way to comfort me and take care of me.

Posted by:	T N. (Posted on January 14, 2004)
Overall Value:	Excellent	Oversized Equipped:	Excellent	Oversized Sensitive:	Excellent
Multi Security:	Excellent	Privacy:	Excellent	Pain Medication:	Excellent
Quiet:	Excellent	Visiting:	Excellent	Staff Responsive:	Excellent
Parking:	Excellent
How Selected:	This is the only Hospital that my Dr. uses at this time. And it is the only one in Enid that is fully equipped to handle the needs of an overweight patient at this time.
Competitors:	I have always chosed this hospital as my primary choice.
Comments:	I could not have asked for a more professional and comfortable experience.

Posted by:	Jim S. (Posted on December 16, 2003)
Overall Value:	Good	Oversized Equipped:	Good	Oversized Sensitive:	Excellent
Multi Security:	Average	Privacy:	Good	Pain Medication:	Excellent
Quiet:	Average	Visiting:	Excellent	Staff Responsive:	Good
Parking:	Poor
How Selected:	The only one in town to allow this type of procedure.
Competitors:	Very comparable.

Posted by:	Tonya N. (Posted on August 9, 2003)
Overall Value:	Good	Oversized Equipped:	Excellent	Oversized Sensitive:	Excellent
Multi Security:	Excellent	Privacy:	Good	Pain Medication:	Excellent
Quiet:	Average	Visiting:	Excellent	Staff Responsive:	Good
Parking:	Good
How Selected:	It is only one of two hospitals in Enid and it is also in my network and a Catholic based facility.
Competitors:	I have always used this hospital.

Posted by:	Jason H. (Posted on June 10, 2003)
Overall Value:	Good	Oversized Equipped:	Good	Oversized Sensitive:	Excellent
Multi Security:	Good	Privacy:	Excellent	Pain Medication:	Excellent
Quiet:	Average	Visiting:	Excellent	Staff Responsive:	Excellent
Parking:	Excellent
How Selected:	The only one that does it in our area
Competitors:	same

Posted by:	Jeff S. (Posted on April 29, 2003)
Overall Value:	Excellent	Oversized Equipped:	Excellent	Oversized Sensitive:	Good
Multi Security:	Excellent	Privacy:	Good	Pain Medication:	Excellent
Quiet:	Good	Visiting:	Good	Staff Responsive:	Good
Parking:	Average
How Selected:	In Enid this is the hospital that my doctor is set up to it in
Comments:	The people are real nice, they all knew my name and all helped me with what ever I needed. had a really good experiance there.

Posted by:	Lisa F. (Posted on December 22, 2002)
Overall Value:	Excellent	Oversized Equipped:	Excellent	Oversized Sensitive:	Excellent
Multi Security:	Excellent	Privacy:	Excellent	Pain Medication:	Excellent
Quiet:	Excellent	Visiting:	Excellent	Staff Responsive:	Excellent
Parking:	Good
How Selected:	I had shoulder surgery once before in this hospital, and although it was many, many years ago, I rememberd the excellent care I was given!
Competitors:	This is one of the finest hospitals that I have been in.
Comments:	The staff was not only professional, but very personable.. they were very attentive and caring. The hospital is very clean, and is well prepared for a bariatric patient. I felt very comfortable in their care!

Posted by:	Jamie B. (Posted on December 21, 2002)
Overall Value:	Average	Oversized Equipped:	Good	Oversized Sensitive:	Good
Multi Security:	Good	Privacy:	Excellent	Pain Medication:	Good
Quiet:	Excellent	Visiting:	Excellent	Staff Responsive:	Average
Parking:	Excellent
How Selected:	My surgeon did his RNY's there.
Competitors:	This hospital was not local for me. I live an hour and 15 minutes away from the hospital. I am unable to compare this hospital with local hospitals.
Comments:	I was only in the hospital 3 days. It was a little frusterating because the nurses were not organized and it seemed they didnt really know what was going on. There was no communication between them and I kept having to repeat things over and over. At one point they gave me a regular popsicle with sugar and said that I could have it. I know from research that I cannot have anything that contains that much sugar. I got the feeling that they really didnt care and they all just wanted to get through the day. The attitude up there was not very positive and many nurses complained alot. Being a patient, I am not concerned about their work load or how tired they are. I am there to recover and to feel that I am wanted and safe. I did not get that feeling.

Posted by:	Sherry R. (Posted on November 9, 2002)
Overall Value:	Excellent	Oversized Equipped:	Excellent	Oversized Sensitive:	Excellent
Multi Security:	Excellent	Privacy:	Poor	Pain Medication:	Good
Quiet:	Average	Visiting:	Excellent	Staff Responsive:	Excellent
Parking:	Good
How Selected:	This is the only place you can have this surgery in Enid Ok
Competitors:	They were overall the best hospital here in Enid in my opinion.
Comments:	They were always willing to accomadate with in need I wanted one night I couldn't sleep in the bed anylonger and ask the wonderful nurse if the could bring me a recliner within minutes I have recliner it was to small but they did there best in all Continually encouraged me to try differen suppliments or anythin else you could want. Then my last night there they woved me to another room where I could get comfortable in and actually got me some sleep.

Posted by:	Leslie S. (Posted on September 1, 2002)
Overall Value:	Good	Oversized Equipped:	Good	Oversized Sensitive:	Good
Multi Security:	Excellent	Privacy:	Excellent	Pain Medication:	Excellent
Quiet:	Good	Visiting:	Excellent	Staff Responsive:	Average
Parking:	Good
How Selected:	This is one of two here in Enid and I like St. Mary's better than the other one. It has all the equipment that Dr. Walton needed for the surgery (lap instruments, open instruments, and weight bearing table). I also chose it because it is Dr. Walton's hospital of choice. It also has the program starting for the WLS patients.
Competitors:	I can't really compare because I have not been in, as a patient, to the other hospital here in town.
Comments:	I was really impressed overall. There were some things that got on my nerves. I liked the nurses... they were great and really seemed to care about my being there. As I was released, my head nurse wheeled me out and gave me a hug to see me off. I had one nurse that never failed to remind me to smile and that made me feel good. I believe her name was Debbie. I don't remember many nurse's names, but all the RNs and CNAs were very nice. I thought they could use a little improvement in getting things to me. I sort of had to remind them about my meals and water and even medicine sometimes. Some were better than others. I got a little tired of asking for things and getting them 45 minutes later. The other thing is that WLS is VERY NEW to St. Mary's. I knew that from the get-go. So it didn't come to a surprise that I really had to remind them of a lot. I think it was the first day they gave me regular 7-up for my meal and that was a big no-no. The nurse apologized and didn't do it again. Other things were about crushing pills and such. I think there was only one nurse I didn' care for, don't remember her name, but she would always comment on the dainty little meals I have to have and how she couldn't ever imagine doing such a thing. It just sort of got annoying. Overall, I really enjoyed my stay and was impressed with my care.

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