University of Minnesota Fairveiw (COE) Hospital

MOST of Fairview staff was very nice, although I thought it was EXTREMELY unprofessionally noisy when switching shifts...and I've NEVER experienced that before in any hospital.

I have not seen this hospital as yet.

It was very pleasant to stay there

I have been to many hospitals and this one was tops, at first I was a bit nervous, being so far from home, being down town, but the care was incredible!

Everyone was extremely nice and for once I didn't feel they were saying to themselves "How does someone let themselves get so fat" they might of thought it but I NEVER felt the "vibes" from ANYONE on the hospital staff or otherwise. Only problem I had was the bed was EXTREMELY uncomfortable and made for a small person and being that I am hyperactive I wanted to get up and move when I woke up from surgery and I wanted to do it on my own and I drove some of the nurses nuts because I would tangle myself up in all my tubes trying to get out of bed on my own and they would come in my room and find me 1/2 in bed and 1/2 out of bed! But after the pain medication wore off from surgery the next day they let me move around more freely on my own. Only minus I would give the hospital is they push pain medication on patients WAY 2 MUCH! I didn't want it and they "felt" I needed it. One nurse kept trying to give me pain medication because I was uncomfortable. I was uncomfortable because the bed was hard as a rock not because I was in pain that needed medication. She just couldn't understand that and I gave up trying to explain why I didn't want any pain medication. My pain was from coughing and the cut. The drugs wasen't going 2 stop the pain from my coughing and natuarally my stomach would be sore from being cut open but it dosen't require being drugged up for 4-5 days. Other than that the hosptial staff was some of the BEST Doctors and Nurses I ever recieved care from. One nurse even went out of her way to try and find me a "comfortable chair" to sit in so I wouldn't have 2 sit in that hard bed all day. I was so touched I didn't have the heart to tell her the chair was more uncomfortable than the bed! (smile but true). But at least with the chair my back didn't hurt as much so I spent a lot of my hospital stay in that chair.

I feel that I recieved excellent care at FUMC

Would have been nice to have a private room but overall I had a great experience.

Sometimes I had to wait up to 15 minutes for any nurse to respond to my page. When they finally did come, sometimes they were rude. The OR staff was EXCELLENT!

I've only been in the hospital when having my babies, so I don't have much to compare to. Things were fine at FV university. I liked most of my nurses and they treated me good. No real problems.

An excellent hospital for this procedure. I felt comfortable and confident with the staff, and was never made to feel that I was bothering anyone when I needed assistance.