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Mercy Hospital layoffs/furloughs. Why?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dumpstick" data-source="post: 3364810" data-attributes="member: 41653"><p>I can help with this. I was on the Board of Trustees for the Logan County Hospital, before we sold it to Mercy system.</p><p></p><p>The ER was a HUGE money pit. We lost an enormous amount of money in the ER, every month, continuously.</p><p></p><p> I would be willing to lay odds that every hospital will say the same.</p><p></p><p>Under US law, no one can be turned away from the emergency room, regardless of ability to pay. The patient must be stabilized at the very least, before they can be transferred.</p><p> The patient cannot be transferred to another facility without the 2nd facility agreeing.</p><p></p><p>No hospital will agree too accept a stabilized, non-emergency patient that cannot pay.</p><p></p><p> The patient cannot be just turned out, until they are healed. So, once stabilized, they become that hospitals' responsibility. Pay or no pay.</p><p></p><p>Every person that came on the door of the ER was/is a cost.</p><p></p><p>That is why you see hospitals being built without an ER attached. There may be an adjacent ER, but not in that hospital.</p><p></p><p> It's also why you see ads from hospitals to call in on your way to the ER. Calling in makes it an appointment, and they can refuse appointments from people that can't pay.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dumpstick, post: 3364810, member: 41653"] I can help with this. I was on the Board of Trustees for the Logan County Hospital, before we sold it to Mercy system. The ER was a HUGE money pit. We lost an enormous amount of money in the ER, every month, continuously. I would be willing to lay odds that every hospital will say the same. Under US law, no one can be turned away from the emergency room, regardless of ability to pay. The patient must be stabilized at the very least, before they can be transferred. The patient cannot be transferred to another facility without the 2nd facility agreeing. No hospital will agree too accept a stabilized, non-emergency patient that cannot pay. The patient cannot be just turned out, until they are healed. So, once stabilized, they become that hospitals' responsibility. Pay or no pay. Every person that came on the door of the ER was/is a cost. That is why you see hospitals being built without an ER attached. There may be an adjacent ER, but not in that hospital. It's also why you see ads from hospitals to call in on your way to the ER. Calling in makes it an appointment, and they can refuse appointments from people that can't pay. [/QUOTE]
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