OT: Thank You to Motts Children Hospital
While visting MI last week, my 4 year old son broke his Radius and Ulna while playing on the monkey bars. i first took him to St. Mary's in LIvonia were they administered X-rays and recommend we see a child specialist to which I immediately requested to go to UofM. Once we got to UofM, they immediately checked us in and had several nurses readily avialable. They even had a child specialist that entertained my son in order to hook up the IV! The procedure was a success adn the Doctor did an excellent job alignign the bones back together. ( We are back in San Diego and had a visit with a specialist that said, "Wow, Michigan did a hell of job aligning the bones")
I would like to thank the entire staff at Motts for their professionalism and how they treated my son. Motts is second to none, and I am very thankful for all the resources the UofM Hospital has!
Most importantly, my thoughts and prayers are with all other families that are going through more challenging circumstances with their children! Keep beliving!
God Bless, and Go BLUE!!!!
Great story. It's "Mott" though, right? Mott Children's Hospital, but people may call it Mott's.
It's a great hospital - I always recommend to folks to have your children there, even if you need to drive a ways. They are the best, it's worth it.
It's also Kroger's, Ford's, K-mart's, and Meijer's.
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I am 100% guilty of all of these except Ford's.
The possessive S was added to Ford 100 years ago because the company was owned by Henry Ford, ergo, you worked at Ford's. Same with Chrysler, Meijer, et al.
You know, I was born in, raised in and still call southeastern Michigan home, but I never have understood how in the hell people find the time to murder just about every major regional brand name or employer with the Saxon genitive (and I get that many moons ago, they were smaller operations, their owners were that iconic and also alive, etc...but retaining it now rings as odd). When people say, "I work at Ford's", for example, I am often tempted to ask, "Ford's what?" because clearly the thought is incomplete.
Ford's Motor Company. It's understood.
I had never heard Ford's until recently. However, when it comes to Meijer, I had always called it Meijers, and also Krogers. I didn't even realize I was technically saying it wrong until I read something on the Michigan accent and that we tend to add the possesive 's to stores. Then I noticed, "oh yeah, it is just Meijer".
I generally agree with you (but this recovering engineer had never heard of Saxon genitive previously), but there is a precedent for the use of "Meijer's."
Per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meijer): "Meijer was founded as Meijer's in Greenville, Michigan by Hendrik Meijer, a Dutch immigrant. Meijer was a local barber who entered the grocery business during the Great Depression."
Additionally, for a long period of time, Meijer stores were Thrify Acres, and in the 80's there was a transition phase of Meijer's Thrify Acres, a marketing slogan "Rediscover Meijer's, and eventually the name change to Meijer in 1986.
But "Ford's" irritates me to no end. And I think it was generally an East Side thing. It wasn't common on the West Side.
For show and tell kids would always bring in their toys, and many of them would explain that they got them from Thrifty Acres. I imagined this Thrifty Acres to be a magical place with aisles and aisles of toys. I was so bummed when I found out it was another name for Meijer's.
I still chuckle when I think of my Grandma calling it Meijer's Fifty Acres because the stores were so big.
C. S. Mott Children's Hospital. Ol' C. S. doesn't own it, he just paid for it. Awesome place, and first employer of my wife, MGoNurse.
OH MY GOD. This is my most irrationally hated pet peeve. My mother does this. Drives me nuts.
Snapped those bones clean in half back in the day, twice actually. I believe I was taken to St. Mary's to have the bones set too, which was a damn painful experience to watch, listen to, and feel (with just a regular Tylenol pill).
Glad to hear you had a great experience at Mott though! Leaders and Best!
Snapped them clean in half in 6th grade playing on the monkey bars. It took the doctor 3 or 4 times to get them set right. The break doesn't hurt, but the putting bones back in place is definitely uncomfortable.
Glad OP's son is doing well. Feel bad about having the surgery. Luckliy bones heal very well most times.
I completely agree that it is a wonderful place. I can't say enough good about the whole UM Hospital system. But the name is Mott Children's Hospital not Motts.
Prepare your anus, because the medical billers are going in dry.
if he has good insurance he'll be fine. Out of network fees don't apply to emergency situations in most policies
At least with BCBS that's the case. A trip to an ER in Florida for a breathing treatment and some antibiotics a few years ago cost me north of 2k.
Insurance isn't what it used to be.
high deductible HSAs with a wife who has MS gets really expensive
That is rough. Did you have the HSA before she was diagnosed, or was it your only choice? I only ask because I do a lot of research on health insurance and access to care, and HSA's are generally not a good deal for people with chronic conditions or other reasons to expect high routine medical costs.
They keep trying to push us into the high deductible HSA here too. The deductibles for the regular PPO plan are getting to be almost as high as the HSA.
I imagine the whole system will collapse within the next decade or two. Middle class people can't afford to get sick, even when they have "good' insurance.
HSA's are a fraud foisted on us as a diversion from true financing reform and cost control. While I don't think the system will collapse as you do (you're talking about 1/6 of the economy, that's a lot of relatively well-paying jobs involved, it will not collapse), affordability is an issue that was not really addressed properly in the ACA. The pressure will continue to build, but what I see emerging is an alternative version of the pre-ACA status quo. Whereas before the ACA the percentage of adults 18-64 with no insurance at all was 15-17%, on top of that you had another 15-20% who reported not receiving necessary health care in the past year due to issues related to affordability. That was one-third of working age adults not able to afford regular, necessary access to health care. The ACA will drive the former number down to the very low single digits, eventually, but the latter number may eventually go up as cost sharing requirements go up (lack of insurance will remain a problem in states that don't expand Medicaid). So we'll continue to have outrageous health outcomes inequality, and overall mediocre health care outcomes, in far and away the most expensive health care system in the world.
Like quitting drinking wasn't hard enough already.
As for the system collapsing, I suppose that's just my wishful thinking. Six years ago my health insurance cost 1/2 as much and pretty much everything was covered at 100% (with reasonable co-pays and low or no deductibles). This year, I put 2k into my HSA account and it's gone already.
I'm a working professional with a decent salary (and a much better title) and I avoid going to the doctor as much as possible. But I can't very well keep my wife and kids from getting the healthcare they need, so I spend probably 10% of my annual gross income on insurance and medical bills. And we're all healthy for the most part.
Not really sure why I felt the need to share all of that.
/also I appreciate your posts on various topics.
a teacher. A recent ER visit for us cost us $5. Gotta love it!
No matter how sweet a deal they're running!
What courses? Let me guess...
- Your balls, why your wife's purse is the perfect storage place for them.
- Safe spaces, how to find one when you're presented with reality.
- Crying, why it's ok to do it every day.
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like a mug. Jimmy V encourages crying, btw...
My reality is amazing, hows your personal business going? Hows that insurace? Dont hate cause I have a hardline position and get 4 months off a year. Teaching and coaching is a blast, and mgoblog is a fun outlet to talk a litle shit and make fun of eachother. Anyways, you enjoy being your own boss there, let me know how that goes... One and a half days and I wont have to work again for September, here, have another glass of Haterade, on me...
Have a fun day buddy!
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if you don't stay the night shit gets dicey.
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he went to the ER to get a drink of water thats why it only cost 5 dollars.
Mott's just one great part of the U-M Health System. My mother developed skin cancer a few years ago, and her doctor told her flat-out: You don't anywhere but U-M. They removed it at the Surgical Oncolgy Center, and did reconstructive surgery at the center in Livonia. They got it all, made her look younger (her favorite part), and treated her like gold (or like Maize, if you prefer).
Can't say enough about the staffs at both places. You guys kick ass!