I took a friend to a hospital due cardio-vascular attack and I had the chance to see what a hospital looked like in the United States.
I am talking about St. Mary Medical Center at Victorville Valley in San Bernardino, south of California.
To give you a little background of this place-- Victorville is the city, and San Bernardino is the county-- San Bernardino's earliest known "inhabitants were Serrano Indians (Spanish for "people of the mountains") who spent their winters in the valley, and their summers in the cooler mountains." (http://en.wikipedia.orgwiki/History_of
_San_Bernardino,_California)-- you can more or less imagine how the place looks like-- valleys and mountains--- big ranches for cattle raising. It is one among United States' fastest growing cities in California.Curren
t trends will show hospitals especially at the entrance like real hotel lobbies. St.Mary's is just like that.
Oooops, my attention was caught by the signage in front of the hospital -- it says Safe Surrender Site-- it is for babies who are abandoned by their mommies. Instead of throwing them somewhere, ... might as well deposit the baby here--- this is what the hospital is saying.
The rooms ma
y not be spacious, but they are equipped with state-of-the-art facilities like hospital beds that the patients themselves can mani
pulate at a finger touch or with the use of an easy-to-handle remote control, blood pressure mo
nitors, heart respiration monitors, pulse rates' -- body temperature--- all these are attached to computer monitors at the nurses' stations.Facilities at the bathrooms are motion-activated from the sink, the soap dispenser, to the toilet.
A cable television in front and the view outside of a hospital room is almost a relief to any sick person. Most of all, patients are well
attended to by the doctors, nurses, nurse assists-- should there be need for dieticians or physical therapists, or even the service of a priest or a lay minister-- they are provided.St. Mary is a Catholic hospital.
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