text: stars for the nurses at Mountain View Hospital especially in ICUn stars for the respiratory therapists n stars for layout decor amenities etcn stars for overall experience including initial experience upon arrival to emergencyn stars for hospital food nHospital food is not the best but it is really not that bad During the week there is a chef who prepares the meals many items from scratch including soups of the day however on SatSun they are not from scratchnFor visitors there is a cafeteria with a small but good enough salad barnAlso specials each day for very reasonable costsnNutritional information is displayed for most itemsnIf you want to find something wrong with the food you probably will but for spouses family and close friends who spend each minute of each day that they can at the hospital with their loved one this is a nice option to have It is certainly better and healthier than fast foodnnToday is our day at this hospitalnOn a Sunday morning at about am while staying at the La Quinta next door to this hospital my husband woke me and said he could barely breathenThis is the first time he ever had such a symptom Age late snHe was able to walk at that point and our room was on the first floor very close to the exit to our parked carnWe walked to the car I helped him in and we drove minutes to the circle in front of Mountain View Hospital emergency room This is our first personal experience with a hospital emergency room so we really do not know the process and just assumed that once you get to an emergency room there will be medical professionals there to help immediatelynnI ran inside and the only person I saw was the security guard sitting at the desk nAnd a few patients sitting in the spacious waiting areanI told the security guard that my husband is in the car and he can barely breathenHe quickly went through a closed door and came right back to tell me she will be with you as soon as she is done with this patient ni reminded him that my husband could barely breathe and that we probably needed to hurry nA few minutes later she walked out with a wheelchair and I quickly walked with her to the car where my husband waited As I explained to her what happened she snapped at me why did not you call And I replied because we were staying at the hotel right next door and since he was able to walk we thought it would be faster for me to drive him herenImmediately they took him in and other than that seemingly snide remark the rest of our experience has been good to greatnnDiagnosis was congestive heart failure with pneumonia among a few other complicationsnn days in ICU and I have gained the greatest respect and admiration for nurses nTheir ability to remain calm and clinical yet caring and compassionate is a very admirable qualitynnIts now day and we are still in the hospital awaiting further results to determine the plan After a shaky start his progress has improved and he was able to move out of ICU to a lesser critical care floornnFrom day an internal medicinehospitalist physician was assigned to coordinate with the team of specialists cardiologist neprologist pulmonary etcnEach day each doctor would communicate with us at different times of the day and then the hospitalist would help sum things up for us later in the daynnOur hospitalist was changed on day but that relates to changes we made to our insurance carriers We loved the first hospitalist but there may be a personality conflict with the nd However at this point our confidence in his expertise outweighs our issue with his personalitynnWe are confident in the doctors assigned to our case and we are overall happy with the facilitynnIt is a hospital run by humans not robots who are highly skilled in their fields and specialties and I think those humans are top notch especially the nurses