Would you buy right next to a hospital?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most trafic for the Sububan Hosp are on OldG rd. The streets behind the hospital are very quiet. Helicopters landing is rare, a few times a month.

This article says 400-500 landings at suburban per year. You must not be noticing is all.

https://nihrecord.nih.gov/newsletters/2008/07_11_2008/story1.htm

That story is 9 years old.

Here's data for the last year, directly from state of MD:
http://www.miemss.org/home/Portals/0/Docs/AnnualReports/Annual-Report-2017-Web.pdf?ver=2017-10-04-123940-657

Page 39: Suburban took in 1,632 trauma cases
Page 77: 0.6% of trauma patients arrived by helicopter = 10 patients

So that's less than one helicopter per month. Yes, not all helicopter arrivals are trauma patients and this is only trauma patient data, but likely most helicopter transport is for trauma patients, and just not that many are arriving by helicopter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If I could AirBnB to patient families and doctors, yes. To live in, no.

Can you clarify why? DH isn't really concerned but I'm worried for resale value.

Your concerns about the noise from ambulances and fire trucks also concern me. Also increased pedestrian, outpatient, and visitor traffic. I mean - that's also the reason I wouldn't live on top of a school either. To each their own.

I live across the (narrow, residential) street from an elementary school and it's great. Traffic is busy for about 20 minutes in the morning and again in the afternoon. It's empty after 3pm and all weekend long. I suppose a high school would be different, but elementary schools don't have that many after-hours activities.

For a hospital I would be worried about helicopters, in addition to the ambulances.

[Anonymous]

Drive through the neighborhood one evening. Streets are narrow, and when cars are parked on both sides, it can be tough to get through. Also many of the homes don't have garages or even driveways, and street parking is sometimes a challenge.

That being said, if it was a house with a garage (lots of new builds have them) it's an excellent school district, a great neighborhood, and I would move there in a heartbeat. I would not let the hospital deter me from living there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I could AirBnB to patient families and doctors, yes. To live in, no.

Can you clarify why? DH isn't really concerned but I'm worried for resale value.

Your concerns about the noise from ambulances and fire trucks also concern me. Also increased pedestrian, outpatient, and visitor traffic. I mean - that's also the reason I wouldn't live on top of a school either. To each their own.

There’s no increased pedestrian traffic in the neighborhood and people can’t turn into or out of the neighborhood going to/from the hospital.
It’s permit parking only too so no visitor or employee parking happens.

That being said shouldn’t a doctor working there buy in that neighborhood? Eliminating the commute and being able to go home for lunch seems great and should keep the property values up.

Ha ha ha! This is the pp who wrote the long post about living next to Holy Cross. You clearly have no idea of Mo Co's inability to enforce permit parking. Mo Co will install, in some neighborhoods, signs saying permit parking is in effect 24/7 when there are only ticket writers available M-F, 9-5. Ticket writers do not have radios in their cars and cannot be dispatched when violations occur if someone wants to call in to report violators. Ticket writers have a large swath of area they have to cover, all across the county on their shifts. You are lucky if your neighborhood gets one pass. Some of you people are naive.

And for all of your people saying doctors want to live near the hospital--not true. My neighborhood had a doctor who worked at another hospital far away. No doctor wants it know that they can just called over because they happen to live close, not to mention that most doctors also have a private practice and stop in at the hospital as necessary.

[Anonymous]

You will be on a preferred power grid in case of weather related power outtages.

[Anonymous]

A good friend lives in a rowhouse on Warder St NW and can see Medstar Washington Hospital Center from their living room. They say they've gotten used to the helicopter and ambulance noise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You will be on a preferred power grid in case of weather related power outtages.

Holy Cross poster here and this is not true either. Hospitals have their own system. We had no power for eight days after the derecho.

[Anonymous]

Suburban H neighbor again. People writing about their experiences living near other hospitals are not applicable here.

Visit neighbors on the street you are potentially interested in living on.

We've bought here twice (and to the "cheap mcmansion" pp, please post a photo of your $1.5-1.8 million dollar house for us to critique)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Suburban H neighbor again. People writing about their experiences living near other hospitals are not applicable here.

Visit neighbors on the street you are potentially interested in living on.

We've bought here twice (and to the "cheap mcmansion" pp, please post a photo of your $1.5-1.8 million dollar house for us to critique)

The one several streets away? That's not applicable here. OP is asking about living NEXT to the hospital. Hospitals are all playing from the same expansionist playbook. I would never live next to a hospital again.

[Anonymous]

if you live near the hospital- you are less likely to lose power! And you are prioritized for plowing. Definite advantage in this area.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I could AirBnB to patient families and doctors, yes. To live in, no.

Can you clarify why? DH isn't really concerned but I'm worried for resale value.

Your concerns about the noise from ambulances and fire trucks also concern me. Also increased pedestrian, outpatient, and visitor traffic. I mean - that's also the reason I wouldn't live on top of a school either. To each their own.

There’s no increased pedestrian traffic in the neighborhood and people can’t turn into or out of the neighborhood going to/from the hospital.
It’s permit parking only too so no visitor or employee parking happens.

That being said shouldn’t a doctor working there buy in that neighborhood? Eliminating the commute and being able to go home for lunch seems great and should keep the property values up.

Ha ha ha! This is the pp who wrote the long post about living next to Holy Cross. You clearly have no idea of Mo Co's inability to enforce permit parking. Mo Co will install, in some neighborhoods, signs saying permit parking is in effect 24/7 when there are only ticket writers available M-F, 9-5. Ticket writers do not have radios in their cars and cannot be dispatched when violations occur if someone wants to call in to report violators. Ticket writers have a large swath of area they have to cover, all across the county on their shifts. You are lucky if your neighborhood gets one pass. Some of you people are naive.

And for all of your people saying doctors want to live near the hospital--not true. My neighborhood had a doctor who worked at another hospital far away. No doctor wants it know that they can just called over because they happen to live close, not to mention that most doctors also have a private practice and stop in at the hospital as necessary.

This is ethesda - parking will be enforced and doctors actually want to live here. This isn’t silver Spring.
Also, doctors are called in on a rotation - it’s never based on how far you live from the hospital. If you live far and it’s going to snow you don’t actually get to stay home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You will be on a preferred power grid in case of weather related power outtages.

Holy Cross poster here and this is not true either. Hospitals have their own system. We had no power for eight days after the derecho.

But again - that’s for Holy Cross, which is a lower level hospital and it’s not Suburban in Bethesda.