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Anyone ever go to Miami Children's?

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My seven month old has to have a sedated MRI and I would like to know any thoughts that you have about the hospital.  Also, what about the area surrounding?  I have to get a hotel room since the test is very early in the morning and I live far from there.
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Re: Anyone ever go to Miami Children's?

  • cocojack10cocojack10 member

    IMO, it is a very good hospital.  I've seen several specialists there, and one of my boys had to have an u/s there. 

    The area is good... Coral Gables. 

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    We go every month, my DD has laser treatments with general anesthesia. The nurses are great, the anesthesiologist are great! The hospital looks a little run down, I have memories of it being soo nice as a child. But nontheless, by far great hospital..
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  • AlbahAlbah member
    No complaints here either! We've seen several specialists there as well and both of my boys had surgery there. It is in a nice area. If you stay in the Coral Gables area, you won't be far from the hospital. The Biltmore Hotel is probably the closest hotel although a bit expensive....you can check to see if they have any good deals. 
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  • rosesandpeoniesrosesandpeonies member

    imageAlbah:
    No complaints here either! We've seen several specialists there as well and both of my boys had surgery there. It is in a nice area. If you stay in the Coral Gables area, you won't be far from the hospital. The Biltmore Hotel is probably the closest hotel although a bit expensive....you can check to see if they have any good deals. 

     I just called and even though it is going to be around 200 a night they do have special rates for those of us going to Miami Children's.  So I will probably just stay there. Thank you so much!

     

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    imagerosesandpeonies:

    imageAlbah:
    No complaints here either! We've seen several specialists there as well and both of my boys had surgery there. It is in a nice area. If you stay in the Coral Gables area, you won't be far from the hospital. The Biltmore Hotel is probably the closest hotel although a bit expensive....you can check to see if they have any good deals. 

     I just called and even though it is going to be around 200 a night they do have special rates for those of us going to Miami Children's.  So I will probably just stay there. Thank you so much!

     

     

    No problem! Glad I could help. ;)  

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  • g8orellg8orell member
    I work at MCH in the department of dermatology. I think it's a very good hospital - if my kids needed anything, they would go there! (and have in the past). MCH does have housing that they offer to paretns of children who will be there for a while (i.e. NICU, kids with cancer, etc), I wonder if they can put you up for the night. You can walk to the hospital from their housing and they also have golf carts. If not, as Laura mentioned, the Biltmore, and in Coral Gables (about a 5 min drive from the hospital) there is the Westin Colonade and some others.
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    I can't complain about the way my daughter was treated at MCH, but I have to mention what happened later with the bill. She went in for a CT scan, they weren't sure if they'd need to sedate her. She has a lot of allergies so the doc decided to give her benedryl first and see if that worked to get her calm before trying anesthesia because the drugs for anesthesia had a lot of things that she may have been allergic to. She fell asleep in my arms after they gave her the benedryl. I walked her to the CT room, put her down, stood there the whole time, she slept through all of it. We left very happy with the way it all went and I didn't have to sedate her.

    So imagine my surprise when I got a bill for $1500 that was listed as "sedation". I called and they said they'd look in to it. They called me back and they said that the charge was correct and that I'd need to request the records to prove otherwise. I requested the records and when I looked at them, there was no mention of a drug for sedation, only the benadryl was used "because she was wiggly". So I told them that and they came back with: well, because we gave her the benedryl we had to monitor her vitals, and that's what the $1500 was for. So for a dose of benedryl that would have cost me 50 cents at CVS, I got a $1500 bill and no way to fight it. Even my insurance company didn't care that they'd been billed for part of it.

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