NSUH ...Private rooms

Someone said that they are all private rooms now???? I know when I had my son I got a private room... I just hope that I will be just as lucky this time..I mean I did have to ask for it...the thought of sharing a room with someone for 4-5 days ....I dont think I can deal with that after a csection

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In Manhasset? when I went to the hospital tour they said $700 a night!! insane!

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I delivered in manhasset in Feb. They were not all private, you have to request one. (unless it changed since then)
I had the WORST roomate EVER. I couldnt take it, after the first night I had DH pay for a private one. It was RIDICULOUS money(def over $500/nght) but i didn't care.

It was the best decision I made there

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I was told by a nurse there that the private rooms are no good because that is where the really sick patients stay. She said don't go for it.

They are also a lot of money.

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This is off-topic, but I volunteered as a candy striper there for 4 years all through high school and I cannot even believe all these years later, I'm gonna be the one giving birth and being in the hospital maternity ward! I can't wrap my head around it at all!!!



When I was working there, Maternity was 3 monti, where I think it still is. I understand a lot of the rules have changed (the babies were definitely not in the rooms all the time, and visiting hours were fairly strict) but I thought the set-up of the floor is still the same. Can mothers get a room on 7 monti? That floor is like being in a hotel! But SO expensive! My step-mom works at NS/LIJ so she got the 50% discount as an employee when she was in the hospital (not maternity) but it wast still ridiculously $$$$.

I worked on the maternity floor from 1993-1997 and I still remember how the mothers loved those Lorne Doone butter cookies... and the apple juice.

Quick completely tangential story... one of my jobs there was to get the new name cards from the delivery room and bring them up to maternity so we'd be able to mark the charts when the new moms came. One day I went down to delivery and picked up a few cards... and one of them had MY NAME on it. I thought they were playing a joke on me!!!!!!!!!! Turns out there was another woman named Sandy who had just given birth and had my last name. I remember she named her son Andrew... I always swore I wouldn't do that... Sandy & Andy is just waaaaay too cutesie for me lol.

Sorry I couldn't help with your question... but it's just beautiful there and I always imagined myself still being on LI and giving birth as NSUH where I was so familiar... who knew I'd be 500 miles away at this point in my life! Good luck!!!

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They are renevating and will eventually have private rooms. Slated to open June 2011:

Katz Women Hospital

"At North Shore University Hospital (NSUH), meanwhile, a multi-step modernization project is underway for renovating the third and fourth floors (with a new fifth floor being added) to the Lippert Pavilion, as well as the third floor of the Monti Pavilion. Scheduled to open its doors for operation in June 2011, Katz Women's Hospital at NSUH will feature 73 private rooms, a family resource center, concierge services for women and a dedicated lobby"

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