@winema,@linda1334
NJH is not an in hospital situation for most and not for BE patients going for an evaluation with BE, Bronchiectasis, and an infection, if that is what someone implied. My feeling is that the facility is more like a clinic than a hospital......it is mostly for evaluations and only for possible hospitalization for certain illnesses and the degree of the illness.
The evaluation with BE and an infection involves many tests and if one knows what tests they have had associated with BE and their infection before going and the tests were done within a short period before a visit to NJH the tests may not have to be done again. That would be best to know and ask when contacting NJH.
For those of us that do not have pulmonologists well versed in Bronchiectasis it is well worth the trip to know all they are able to test for in such a short time. Locally it would take months and months of appointments to have all the tests they do to understand each persons situation via the tests. Many local pulmonologists do not do, arrange, for all the tests that NJH does to understand each patients health situation. I went because my local doctor was doing NOTHING and I knew that visit to NJH was needed.
Much also is learned by reading the different information on this site, Mayo Clinic Connect.
Barbara