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OP, are you concerned about your own kid going off to college next year and what might happen in the event your kid was hospitalized? Or does your kid have any specific condition that could land them in the hospital so you're worried? If you have specific questions around that, let us know and I'm sure you'll get some good input here.  [/quote]

I was wondering how frequently it happens...

My situation is that it is extremely, extremely difficult for me to leave home overnight and would be even harder for me to leave for more than one day. So if my child goes away to school (or anywhere for that matter) and is hospitalized, it would be very difficult for me to just drop everything and fly there.

I am contemplating buying membership in something like MedJet to fly them home in such an emergency, therefore.[/quote]

The alternative is to work your network to find local friends  of friends-of-friends that could step in. I have been this contact for two kids at AU, neither needed me in the hospital, but I did have grab room stuff for one upon Covid rapid move out.  My kid is now in Champaign, IL and a fried hooked me up with a college friend of hers that lives there locally.  Probably won’t need her, but I met her at move-in weekend for coffee and I would call her if needed.[/quote]

DS goes to Illinois. He has a seizure disorder. He had a seizure as a freshman and face planted into a door. He needed to go to the ER for the seizure by ambulance and needed stitches. Carle Hospital ER was very patient and very understanding with me on the phone as we navigated that situation.  I wasn't particularly impressed with the neurologist who did the follow up appointment, but the Carle ER near campus was really great.   [/quote]

Gah, how times have changed.  We called McKinley “McKillMe” and Carle “Gnarle” because they were so incompetent.  [/quote]

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