What do you think of it ?
Do you content with the system? or suggestion?
It's big. It's pink.
The system is a good system. Unlike St. John's (according to my sister-in-law, who is a physician as St. John's), St. Francis is much more efficient, and a better place to work. I don't know how true that is, but whatever. They are a bit more tied up in emergencies than most of the other Tulsa hospitals, though.
pink? what does it mean?
All of the hospital buildings are painted pink. It's their theme. They stick out.. well.. like a big pink spot on the map.
St Francis has a really good influx of money and regularly expands. They do a lot of the premature baby care for this portion of the state.
I was born there and look how I turned out. That's my baby picture in the avatar.
St. Francis Health System is a series of health clinics, doctors offices, and hospitals. It employs something like 2,000 doctors with Mark Frost as the Chief of Staff. They own Warren Clinic, Springer Clinic, the Heart Hospital of Tulsa, as well as 3 full service hospitals. It was started by a Tulsa family, the Warren family, and is run as a not for profit company. It is affiliated with the Catholic church (this affiliation really means very little in modern times) and indeed, the entire main hospital is covered in pink marble.
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Originally posted by Johnboy976
The system is a good system. Unlike St. John's (according to my sister-in-law, who is a physician as St. John's), St. Francis is much more efficient, and a better place to work. I don't know how true that is, but whatever. They are a bit more tied up in emergencies than most of the other Tulsa hospitals, though.
I can say with recent experience that they suck! Thankfully I was not the patient. Unfortunately the patient is close to me and it sucked to see them have to wait and wait and wait. Southcrest is the only hospital I would go to.
Yeah, the pink stone is natural, not painted. The William K. Warren Foundation (the one that funds much of the hospital system, and has St. Francis Hospital's three main offices named after him) is one of the largest foundations in the state. The Saint Francis Hospital Center in south Tulsa was at one point seen as a possible place for a "second downtown" for the city.
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Originally posted by Johnboy976
Yeah, the pink stone is natural, not painted. The William K. Warren Foundation (the one that funds much of the hospital system, and has St. Francis Hospital's three main offices named after him) is one of the largest foundations in the state. The Saint Francis Hospital Center in south Tulsa was at one point seen as a possible place for a "second downtown" for the city.
Actually, when the hospital was being built, Mrs. Warren picked out the marble that was used to build St. Francis. Her reasoning was, the quarry where the marble comes from will never run out of that color, and she did not want a brick structure, knowing that when they added to the building, it would always look like different bricks with a bunch of hodge podge add-ons. Thus, a pink hospital.
The three medical buildings to the south are named after Mr. Warren, thus the William Building, the Kelly Building and the Warren Building.
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Originally posted by Wilbur
The three medical buildings to the south are named after Mr. Warren, thus the William Building, the Kelly Building and the Warren Building.
There are four now, they added "Natalie."
I had heard that there was a higher patient to nurse ratio at St Francis than most other hospitals but cannot confirm that.
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Originally posted by DM
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Originally posted by Johnboy976
The system is a good system. Unlike St. John's (according to my sister-in-law, who is a physician as St. John's), St. Francis is much more efficient, and a better place to work. I don't know how true that is, but whatever. They are a bit more tied up in emergencies than most of the other Tulsa hospitals, though.
I can say with recent experience that they suck! Thankfully I was not the patient. Unfortunately the patient is close to me and it sucked to see them have to wait and wait and wait. Southcrest is the only hospital I would go to.
sounds like someone was unfortunate enough to go to the busiest ED in the state...
but, go give healthgrades.com a whirl... you'll see some of your claims validated...
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Originally posted by Johnboy976
... Unlike St. John's (according to my sister-in-law, who is a physician as St. John's), St. Francis is much more efficient, and a better place to work. I don't know how true that is, but whatever.
the grass is always greener... they are far more similar than dis- ...