It's private room based on availability and need, from my experience. So when I was admitted in the early hours of one morning with pretty bad OHSS I found myself in a shared room with one HG patient (oh the joys!), one who kept to herself and was quiet, and another who was pretty much straight out of surgery for endo. She SNORED!

When the nurses saw me in the morning with tears pouring down my face because I'd had no sleep, they arranged for me to transfer across the walk way to the private instead of the public. Generally, for a short-term emergency thing, I'd just go public. You either won't be in long enough to mind or you'll be too sick to care. For a longer-term hospital stay, I'd be going private.

BW