How close is your home to the nearest hospital?

[Anonymous]

Maybe 5-7 minutes? But the Children's ER is even closer (Reston Hospital).

[Anonymous]

We are 10 minutes from one hospital and 20 minutes from another.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Really? People consider this when buying a house? Would you never live in the country, or go into the Peace Corps, or live somewhere you couldn't drive to the nearest hospital in 30 minutes? We happen to be 5 minutes from the hospital, but I had never thought of it as a perk. I worry about lots of crazy stuff, I just have a different set of crazy.

Yes, I have considered it when looking. No, I would not live out in the country.

[Anonymous]

File this under "Issue I NEVER considered when buying a house"

[Anonymous]

I'd rather live closer the the fire department.

[Anonymous]

We live 5 minutes from VHC in Arlington and a short drive from Georgetow, Sibley, and Inova Fairfax, but as others have said, if you are in the closer in suburbs you will be near something.

[Anonymous]

Five minutes to Holy Cross.

[Anonymous]

Short drive to GWU hospital, Georgetown, Sibley, Washington Hospital Center, Children's. We're in NW DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:File this under "Issue I NEVER considered when buying a house"

You and I are the minority here.

I knew DCUMers were neurotic, but this brings it to a new level.

[Anonymous]

This goes with the posting about deciding whether to live in Virginia or Maryland based on the performance of PEPCO.

[Anonymous]

I am a truly paranoid person, the one family normally makes fun of whenever I open my mouth to express some kind of worry. I am happy to see I am still not at the bottom of the barrell. I never considered the hospital proximity when we were looking for our home (one reason we DID NOT buy a house was that it was half a block from Suburban in Bethesda). but we are in NW DC so we are less than 10 minutes from more than one hospital. I did consider this issue when I planned our vacation abroad since our DD has epilepsy.

[Anonymous]

.67 miles according to Endomondo. I love it. Not much noise either. Helicopter traffic only during the day, everything else goes to Fairfax after hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:File this under "Issue I NEVER considered when buying a house"

You and I are the minority here.

I knew DCUMers were neurotic, but this brings it to a new level.

+3

Gees, this is not an underserved area in terms of medical care. I can't think of any place in the D.C. metro area that would be considered far from a hospital. Never considered this when searching for a home. The desire to live so close to a hospital assumes you will be home when you have a medical emergency. Now if one of my children had some type of serious chronic condition and needs prompt medical care, then of course, living close to a hospital matters. But really, my goodness!