This weekend spent many hours with my 90-year old mother-in-law who was hospitalized at Plaza de la Salud. She had earlier suffered a heart attack and then underwent a cardiac catheterization procedure with Dr. Elvia Martinez Carrasco at Plaza de la Salud General Hospital.
I cannot speak for the medical details, but would like to share that my perception and that of all relatives on assistance by 911 and the care at the hospitals where she was taken was positive.
It all began when she vomited after having juice at her Santo Domingo home, and her caretaker (the housekeeper) couldn’t locate her daughter (with whom she lives), nor her sons (including my husband) and decided to call 911 for help.
Was told they came promptly and recommended that she be taken to the hospital, probably after taking her vital signs. She insisted she was fine and could go by herself to see her doctor, but the 911 insisted and took her to the Clinica Abreu. They were right.
Turns out she had recently had a heart attack, and she was left in the hospital with very high blood pressure. She was stabilized and then transferred to the Plaza de la Salud for the heart procedure.
Because of her age, she was kept in the hospital all weekend, which enabled us to become a bit familiar with the hospital. Everyone seemed professional, place was sparkling clean and everything seemed to work properly.
I think the big plus was that she was promptly taken care of, there was no waiting.
They tell us we are getting abuela back “zero kilometers.” While in the hospital, she wanted to go from bed to chair, and then wanted to start walking and a day after was walking the hallway outside her room. She kept saying that we had told her she needed to get active, and this time around would do so. She is working on making it to 100.
I always have felt that if I got sick would like to be taken to Cedimat emergency, that is part of Plaza de la Salud, but is sort of a separate operation… but was pleasantly surprised that Plaza de la Salud, that primarily is a big public hospital run by a private-public board, is working so well.
I cannot speak for the medical details, but would like to share that my perception and that of all relatives on assistance by 911 and the care at the hospitals where she was taken was positive.
It all began when she vomited after having juice at her Santo Domingo home, and her caretaker (the housekeeper) couldn’t locate her daughter (with whom she lives), nor her sons (including my husband) and decided to call 911 for help.
Was told they came promptly and recommended that she be taken to the hospital, probably after taking her vital signs. She insisted she was fine and could go by herself to see her doctor, but the 911 insisted and took her to the Clinica Abreu. They were right.
Turns out she had recently had a heart attack, and she was left in the hospital with very high blood pressure. She was stabilized and then transferred to the Plaza de la Salud for the heart procedure.
Because of her age, she was kept in the hospital all weekend, which enabled us to become a bit familiar with the hospital. Everyone seemed professional, place was sparkling clean and everything seemed to work properly.
I think the big plus was that she was promptly taken care of, there was no waiting.
They tell us we are getting abuela back “zero kilometers.” While in the hospital, she wanted to go from bed to chair, and then wanted to start walking and a day after was walking the hallway outside her room. She kept saying that we had told her she needed to get active, and this time around would do so. She is working on making it to 100.
I always have felt that if I got sick would like to be taken to Cedimat emergency, that is part of Plaza de la Salud, but is sort of a separate operation… but was pleasantly surprised that Plaza de la Salud, that primarily is a big public hospital run by a private-public board, is working so well.