Huntington Memorial Hospital (COE) Hospital


The care is tops. It is a beautiful facility. I noticed that some of the Lab and Xray areas were well used. Equipment looked well used. Some areas could use a paint job, etc. Patient service is excellent. The room accomodations were excellent. Very big and roomy. All of the staff were excellent and very professional. I notice things like hand washing, gloves, etc. They were top notch. I would recommend this facility without reservation.

The nursing staff here is the best I have ever seen anywhere! Their care for the comfort of their patients is TOPS! These people could go around the country teaching other hospitals how to do it! Cleanliness standards, comfortable furnishings, in a 5 star like resort setting. WOW you have done this one right!

I checked into the hospital and within no time I was waiting in my own private waiting room with my sons. It was very calming. I loved the waterful, it was very peaceful. The other hospitals (Bellflower and Long Beach Memorial) had just one big room and we waited behind curtains for our surgery. Very noisy and high anxiety. Bellflower didn't even separate us with curtains ;-) In no time I was in the private surgery room and there were video taping the whole thing. So professional! Steve the assistant and the Anestheiologist were laughing and making me very comfortable. I later woke up in my private room ;-). I was in some pain and then they showed me a pump that I just had to press to get pain relief. That was very nice. They believe in zero pain. ;-) I had relatively no pain at all! My gallbladder surgery (Bellflower) was so much worse than this surgery. Dr Powell came in frequently and checked up on me. He and his team also visited my sons in the waiting room and calmed them down. Teenage boys can become very excited and anxious when they are worried. My sons said they even made them laugh! The nurses and assistants were so fantastic! My wounds are so much smaller than the stitches for my gallbladder surgery (2/5/04 - Bellflower) and they didn't use those huge metal stitches that would get caught on my clothes and infected. This experience was very positive!