Posted on 06/21/2020 10:17:28 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Once the patients are released and get a good look at the city, they'll beg to be let back in.
“I wonder how much of that was wasted on ventilators.”
You’d think they could sell unneeded equipment.
LOL! What’s that from?
“We’re told that 14 is the number that would make us break even. We’re licensed to 14, but they’ve declined to admit that many patients.”
High Anxiety, great Mel Brooks movie.
>>I’m confused. I thought the whole city was a psychiatric ward.<<
When everyone is crazy, no one is.
Easy fix. Just crop dust the entire city with a mix of animal tranquilizers and Thorazine.
Maybe they can reorganize as the Seattle Sane Asylum. Hopefully they can find 14 sane people in Seattle looking for protection from the craziness of the city.
Seattle has always been crazy. lack of sunshine takes a toll.
I don’t think the crazy is limited to Seattle. Look at the governor and congresscritters.
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My wife’s hospital is closing their inpatient psychiatric hospital.
The shortfalls come from a combination of things:
1. People with no insurance.
2. Crappy reimbursement from people WITH insurance.
3. Lack of qualified and willing psychiatrists.
4. Aging facilities that cannot be brought up to the new code standards without HUGE capital expenditures (that have all been put on hold since the COVID thing has them in the hole by tens of millions of dollars every month.)
The hospital layoffs are coming. And its going to be a while before they are “healthy” enough to come back.
And no, COVID payments from the government cover about 10% of a patient’s stay in the ICU. It is nowhere near enough coverage. Don’t believe what you read in web site comments.
Sell them to whom? Everyone has more ventilators than they can use. You’d probably have to pay someone to take them off your hands.
Perhaps the federal government can buy them for the national stockpile, but I should hope they don’t pay more than pennies on the dollar.
It’s pretty much Gotham City after Arkham Asylum was released minus Batman...
For 10-14 beds!?
Something seriously doesn’t add up.
Meh- mental illness is now celebrated and rewarded with positions in government now- so who needs psychiatry any longer?
I think the $500 million is the COVID-related shortfall for the entire UW medical system, not just the psychiatric facility. From the article:
“UW Medicine announced last month it faced a $500 million shortfall because of unplanned funds spent on COVID-19 testing and equipment while simultaneously losing millions on elective procedures.”
"Crazy? Am I crazy?? Back in my day, crazy meant something. Today, EVERYONE is crazy!!!" - Charles Manson to Diane Sawyer c.1993
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