1 /5 edxgma: AVOID. I am a retired hospital administrator who had an outpatient procedure there last week.
While the staff was very friendly, I was appalled by the way the place was run:
1- at 9 am in the morning, the waiting room rest room was out of soap and the trash can was overflowing.
2- they took me to a private prep room where I was hooked up to a monitor, etc. There, I had a 2 hour wait (that happens, so no problem) BUT ...
a)no one from the staff came to check on me during the 2 hours - and they could not see me from their station. They did not give me the call button remote either, which is standard procedure when you leave any patient unattended in a hospital .
b) the monitor was not plugged in, so it was running on battery. The battery started making noise after an hour and eventually died, so no monitoring and no one came it to check on it, let alone hook it back up. Wow!
c) when it came time to roll me into the operating suite, no staff member showed up so MY ANESTHESIOLOGIST, A DOCTOR, ENDED UP ROLLING ME ON MY GURNEY so they could get started. Incidentally, I was most impressed by his initiative - the JFK staff should learn from him.
d) My doctor and the anesthesiologist had to wait for 5 minutes before getting started because a "tech" (another staff member) was late in arriving at the operating suite.
BOTTOM LINE: there seems to be no accountability nor a cohesive effort at this hospital and everyone does their own thing. Maybe thats good for staff retention, but not for my health care.