University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics

After several unexpected adverse health events recently, I’ve gotten to visit here and its affiliated clinics too many times. I just have to say a huge and sincere thanks for the care I’ve received from everyone, right down the line from check-​in staff to surgeons. I’m the type of person who needs the maximum amount of information to be able to deal effectively with anxiety, and I’ve gotten so much information that I could potentially perform the procedures myself. People are friendly, easygoing, and definitely not overly, annoyingly solicitous. I have so much respect and admiration for a staff who gets it right like this. Thanks for fixing me, folks.

Disrespectful. Dismissive. Uninformed.
I’ve never seen so many doctors with so little information about my situations and conditions. Are you hoping for accurate charting? Maybe your doctor to put his diagnosis in your chart? That’s too much for this hospital.
If you have time on your hands, you might be able to continue cycling through their garbage staff until you find a doctor who knows Shinola from That Other Stuff. Unfortunately, most of us don’t have unlimited time to spend obsessing over our health, so we fall through the cracks.
Negligent wastes-​of-​space and a lawsuit waiting to happen. Steer clear.

The beds are the worst beds I’ve ever slept on. Very uncomfortable
It feels like you’re laying on 2 large poles digging in to your back. I had to get 4 pill
Owls and position them around my back. To be able to sleep.

I am really hapy to live in a city with this hospital.

I’ve never had a better experience with a hospital!
My wife’s father, who is living with stage 4 lung cancer, was in ICU for a week and I absolutely appreciate how attentive the staff was to his needs and how easy everyone was to talk to.
Maybe it’s a Wisconsin thing (we live in Vegas currently), but everyone was so incredibly nice and actually fun to talk to that it REALLY put our minds at ease.
Thank you all so much!

This is absolutely the best hospital for cancer care. We came here for a 2^nd opinion and they were the first hospital to take my husband’s entire health into account when testing, diagnosing, and treating his lymphoma. Friendly cancer team treated us like family.

how do you not give this place the highest of highs when they save your life. The care is first rate and hope that I never have to set foot in the place again.

My mother was taken to UW Hospital Emergency last week. We thought she had a stroke. There were four of us with her, and they only allowed three people at a time. My niece, sister and I rotated from the waiting room to her room. While in the waiting room a man came in dressed in his underwear in extreme pain. He was moaning, etc. They did nothing. Finally, someone put in in a chair behind a curtin. A triage nurse looked at him and left. He was moaning «help me» while vomiting and saying «take away the pain». He could have had a ruptured appendix, etc. No one put an IV in him, or did anything. My sister couldn’t stand it, so I rotated out into the waiting room. After watching numerous people being admitted for arm injuries, etc., my niece went up and asked why this man wasn’t being taken care of. The girl at the desk just said the triage nurse looked at him. His mother wasn’t allowed to use a phone for a call, so my niece offered hers. Finally, after more than an hour of this poor man’s crying in pain, someone put in an IV and took him into emergency. Inside emergency there were people on stretchers in the hallway. Not much staff was there, and the time it took for treatment was very long. I had been in Emergency at Meriter the week before. They thought I was having a heart attack. My treatment was so fast, so professional. The ER was busy, but was maintained like a well oiled machine. I told my husband. DON’T EVER TAKE ME TO UW EMERGENCY!!! I think I have also convinced my parents that if they need an ER go to Meriter. St. Mary’s is another horror story.

Here at the UW Hospital surgery center for my husband’s eye surgery. Very easy to park and find the right place to go. Nurses and medical staff are all very helpful! Impressive to see how smoothly everything runs around here.

I was back at UW Madison last week for a family member needing a series of labs and doctor visits lasting four days. Yup… FOUR days, people! We visited about six different clinics within the hospital and stayed in a nearby hotel each night. Overall the staff was extremely attentive and professional. I hightly recommend UW Hospital for your medical care.
A special note to our coordinator for making our visit informative, efficient and a postive experience. Thank you!

In the last three years I have made almost a dozen trips to the ER at this hospital with my Father, Step-​Father, nephew and daughter.
I cannot say enough good things about the staff of this unit, or of the staff in the AM FAM Children’s Hospital, the Palliative Care unit, the Oncology unit or the ICU.
The Pediatric Waiting room is a life saver if you have children, whether or not the child is the patient, and the procedures they have in place when children are patients are superb.
While no one ever wants to go to the ER, they make is as painless as possible. I will continue to go here, even though I live closer to Meriter.