Do Utica hospitals still have two bed rooms?

[Clipper]

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The photo attached to this article caught my eye. Do St. Lukes and St E's still have mostly semi private rooms? I have to think it has severely curtailed the number of patients that they can admit now during the pandemic.

ALL of our hospitals here, with the exception of the VA hospital have all single occupancy private rooms. The photo brought back unpleasant memories of times past when I was hospitalized in upstate NY hospitals over the years. Sleep was impossible because if they weren't waking you up to give YOU your medications or take your vitals, they were flipping on the lights to care for your room mate.

I would hope that the NEW hospital will have all single occupancy rooms. Being in the hospital is miserable enough without having to listen to your room mate's moaning, or smelling your room mate's bed pan.

[clarencebunsen]

The new hospital will be all single bed rooms. St. Luke's and St. E's are a mix. Some of the St. E's rooms are WWI era 40 bed wards which have been chopped up into a warren of smaller rooms.

[Clipper]

I was in one of the 4 bed wards once when I was a teenager. You could smoke in your room at the time. I was in the ward with an older Italian fellow who that smoked those little rum crook cigars that smell like horse manure and sawdust when they burn. I smoked Winston cigarettes and if I left them on the bedside table the nun would take them and tell me I was too young to smoke.

[BHU]

A few years ago I broke my ankle & had to have surgery to put it back together with hardware. I was in Faxton & they put me in a four bed ward. Spent three days in that place & despite being on meds I barely got any sleep with all the racket.

[Clipper]

I visited someone years ago at Faxton that was in one of those four bed wards. The only time I was ever a patient at Faxton was when I fell off a truck and broke my back. I was there for 4 or 5 days in traction. Kathy was in there in a semi private room for one of her back operations. The only handy part of the semi privates was that you could sneak a nap on the extra bed if no one was in it.

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I did my best work in all of the wards at VA Hospital in Syracuse. What a ball we had. I still remember one old Navy guy waiting placement at a Veterans Nursing Home; went by Skipper. Boy he could round the guys up on Sunday. Always surprised me with something on a daily bases. Him and the Marine Mickey. What memories.....