Get Well flowers in Southampton

The nearest hospital bed to a Southampton address is not in Bucks County at all. Holy Redeemer sits at 1648 Huntingdon Pike in Meadowbrook, five or six miles southwest across the Montgomery County line, and it is the campus most 18966 admissions land in first. From there the ring opens by direction rather than by distance: south into Northeast Philadelphia for Nazareth on Holme Avenue, Fox Chase Cancer Center on Cottman Avenue and Jefferson Torresdale off Knights Road; southeast down Street Road and US 1 for the Bensalem surgical campus and, further along, St. Mary Medical Center on Langhorne-Newtown Road and Jefferson Bucks on Oxford Valley Road; west on Old York Road for Jefferson Abington; north up Route 611 and York Road for Doylestown Hospital on West State Street; and out past Bristol for Lower Bucks. Children are the exception — a serious pediatric admission from this township generally goes to CHOP in West Philadelphia, which is outside the eighteen-mile radius, and for that one a delivery to the family's house in Southampton is usually more use than a delivery to the room.

Which campus it is changes what you should send more than which shop makes it. Everything arriving at 333 Cottman Avenue is arriving on a cancer service, so that is the address where the strictest assumption is the correct one: no pollen-shedding stems, no scent that carries past the door, and nothing in a vessel a nurse cannot move one-handed off a tray table that is already holding a water jug, a phone and a meal. Intensive-care units at Holy Redeemer, St. Mary and Abington work the same way in practice — the useful route is a hand-off to a relative in the family lounge, because the room itself frequently cannot take anything at all. The Bensalem orthopaedic surgical hospital creates the opposite problem: the stays there are short, sometimes a single night, so a get-well arrangement ordered the morning after surgery can arrive after the patient has gone home. Births are the same trap in a happier form, since two nights is a common stay at Holy Redeemer and St. Mary. When in doubt about the length of stay, send it to the house.

What to write on the order matters as much as what you choose. Put the patient's full legal name, not a nickname — a front desk searching a census for Kate when the chart says Katherine will hand your arrangement back to the driver. Add the unit or floor if you know it, and add the word intensive-care, cancer, maternity or rehab if it applies, because that single word tells the bench to build low, light, unscented and pollen-free instead of tall and fragrant. Skip glass where you can; skip balloons on any unit that has told the family no latex; skip food entirely unless you know the patient is not on a restricted diet, which on a cardiac or surgical service you usually do not. If the hospital cannot accept flowers at all, and some units cannot, the arrangement goes to the house and waits for the discharge, which is often the better gift anyway — the week home alone is longer and emptier than the week in the bed.