The Room for Debate article “ Hospitals That Feel Like Hotels” argues whether hospitals should accommodate things, similar to a hotel, so patients can have a better experience while being there. Haider Warriach argues that we should be more “consumer-centric”. In other words, he believes patients should have a good experience so that they will benefit from it, by later having more patients. He also mentions that patients in ordinary hospitals, let's say not “fancy” ones, are often unnecessarily interrupted in the night and are kept in extremely cold temperatures. Therefore, he believes that if hospitals feel like hotels then patients' satisfaction will improve and they will not be uncomfortable.
On the other side, Alexandra Robbins believes that instead of having a fancy hospital, more nurses should be hired. She mentions that a nurse once had to care for 12 patients, all at once, meaning she would not be as alert or attentive with each patient. She goes on to prove that hospitals are not a place to vacation at, and if that was the case, the real problem would not be treated the same and would be distracted from because of the entertainment.
I would like to know what you think about this. Would hospitals that feel like hotels be safe? Will people more likely go because of the arrangements and service or because they really want to get better? Would this work better for a small injury, not that big of a problem, or something severe?
Additionally, when reading this article I thought about schools and if there would be similar opinions. For example, if schools were more comfortable, fancy, and had more entertainment. However, the purpose of school still remains to get an education, not to serve as an entertainment, just like a hospital is to get better. Therefore, what do you think? If you disagree with hospitals being like hotels do you also disagree with schools having similar changes to satisfy students? If you agree with hospitals being like hotels do you also agree with schools having “better” service?
I don't think hospitals should become more similar to hotels. Instead of investing into ways to accommodate patients into a hotel-like environment, hospital resources should be utilized to bring in more doctors or nurses. For example, as Alexandra Robbins stated, nurses should be hired instead. Hiring nurses or other hospital staff should be prioritized over the concept of making hospitals like hotels. Ultimately, nurses will be more helpful to the patients in taking care of them instead of changing temperatures or other things. Even though converting hospitals into hotels can make a patient's stay more comfortable, in comparison to hiring more nurses who are in charge of their health; the latter is more relevant. Also, to answer one of your other questions, people might want to go to the hospital for the better arrangements and service if it was to be changed into a hotel, but regardless they would still need a valid reason to be admitted into the hospital.
ReplyDeleteAgreeing with what Kimberly says, hospitals should stick to what they are meant to do. Focusing on healing the sick and providing medical care to those in need of it. If hospitals were to focus on accommodations, they would lose their main purpose of being a hospital: getting patients healed quickly and efficiently. (if possible) Investing to make patients feel like they are in a hotel environment is useless, especially during this present time. We are already low on front liners and the service they do to keep many safe. Investing to help the many nurses, doctors, surgeons, etc. during this time of panic is something that seems more reasonable and honestly way more convenient. Hiring new workers to help would be the more obvious choice rather than spending on useless a hotel like surrounding. Same with schools. They were built to educate young minds and help them prepare for the future. Entertainment purposes and at home comforts are usually not in the education system package. If we were to stray from the educational purpose, I could see average GPA's dropping and many other consequences. Both hospitals and schools should stick with what they were meant to do. Provide medical to the people and Educate young minds for the brutal future.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the two previous comments responding to this topic. A hospitals main focus is treating those who are ill and those who are injured. Yes, at the same time these hospitals ensure the comfort of patients, but that's apart of their jobs. Instead of wasting money to make a hospital somethings it's not necessarily meant to be, money should go towards staffing and what they actually need.There are so many people who become injured every day and need medical attention, and waiting rooms to see a doctor or nurse can feel like an eternity.So, instead of funding a hospital to mimic a hotel, funding should go towards staffing to get patients treated, and in and out as soon as their back stable and healthy.A lot of people I know genuinely dislike going to the hospital, they want to get treated and go back to their lives, so the last thing they would want to consider a hospital to be is a hotel.When the word "hotel" is mentioned people usually think about vacation, not a place for the sick to be treated. As for schools, it would be nice to have simple improvements such as cleaner bathrooms. But just like hospitals, schools have one main focus and that is to educate. In all honesty, hotel like changes to a school would be bad because students easily get too comfortable. It's hard for students to stay focused and motivated majority of the time in a regular school setting already. Imagine how it would be if a school was converted into a place for more entertainment purposes and to abide to students wants. As cool as that may sound, that idea would ultimately end in unsuccessful academic stories of many students due to forgetting the main purpose of school and the reason of why they're there.
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