Posted on 09/29/2016 4:49:43 AM PDT by GailA
QUITMAN COUNTY, MS (WMC) -
Residents in North Mississippi will soon be forced to find a new way to receive emergency medical services after the Quitman County Hospital closes on Thursday.
Hospital officials said the hospital is shutting down because of funding. Employees were notified last week about the closure.
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We lost our hospital in Franklin Co., NC several months ago. It was a good hospital. Now all emergency calls are taken to a Raleigh hospital about 30 minutes away. I don’t know how many people that has killed so far.
I can’t believe they gave their employees such little notice.
As a side note, Mississippi has the reputation as being the poorest, most illiterate, least healthy, least educated, etc. State in the Union. You take away the 18 Delta Counties, Mississippi's becomes 20-30th in the nation. You take away Bennie Thompson's (D) Congressional District (which covers the Delta as well as the purposely-kept-poor sections of Jackson and down through to Natchez), the ranking goes higher.
Its coming to a neighborhood near you too. Obama stole $750M from Medicare to pay for his Obamacare. Doctors and rural hospitals cannot survive off the Medicare and Medicaid allowances currently in effect. Rural hospital administrators saw this coming from the beginning of Obamacare.
Fascinating. Bennie Thompson has been in Congress nearly 25 years. How's that working out for you, MS-Dist. 2 voters? Better jobs, better health care, better lives?
Delta Hospital in Memphis closed last year. Memphis has only 1 public hospital. The Regional Medical aka The Med. The only part two parts that work are the Elvis Presley Trauma Center and the NIC U which are world class and service this Tri-State region. The regular ER is a third world doctors office now that comes with more sickness, hospital itself you risk staff and other infections. Not a place sensible people would choose. They are always begging for MORE funding. The other 2 states are very slow to pay Medicaid or don’t pay it at all. No way to force them to. And as a public hospital no patient can be turned away.
Try about $6 BILLION in total. That does not even reflect what it did to Tricare Prime and Tricare Life which also come under DOD MANDATES. Price control does NOT work!
Take two aspirins and a shot of Jack Daniels and that broken leg will be just fine...
Thank you Obama and the democrats for destroying a once great medical industry...
Bennie (D) was dirt-poor when he went into Congress. He's now a multi-millionaire. You do the math.
Quitman County Hospital is listed as a 25 bed, critical access hospital (CAH). As such, it was built to handle rural healthcare delivery as a 96 hour facility (patients can be hospitalized for 96 hours before they must, by law, be relocated to a larger, better equipped regional hospital). CAH facilities are intended to handle EM patients until they can be stabilized and transferred to a facility which provides a more appropriate level of care. It is often difficult to convince doctors and nurses to locate to smaller rural communities, thus the pay rates necessary to attract qualified caregivers puts extraordinary financial pressure on the CAH hospitals. It is a complex healthcare delivery problem that has been going on for decades.
The net result of this closing is that the residents and users of the Quitman County CAH will either have to drive themselves or be transported by EMS to the regional facility.
So the U.S. funds every damn third to fifth world country for what ever bogus reason but can’t help fund American hospitals to keep Americans alive? Yes, it IS time for President Trump to “Make American Great Again”!!!!
How many jobs were lost in those hospital closings?
I’ll bet that ninety percent of those who were discharged from that hospital in the last ten years bitched about their bill.
Where is funding hospitals mentioned in the Constitution as a federal responsibility?
Most Trauma patients are sent straight to the Elvis Presley Trauma Center at the Med in Memphis. As are NIC U patients. Children go straight to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis. Many are Medicaid Patients for both hospitals. So again set fees.
Just to point out: This is a county with 8000-9000 people. Consider modern hospital high-tech and regulatory expense in such small populations.
That was not revealed in the TV report or this extremely short article.
Sure some of the skilled staffers will find other jobs, at lower pay, but that is age dependent too older more experienced will be passed over for younger less experienced as they can be hired cheaper. The aids, cleaners, food, workers will have the hardest time finding anther job.
It is working exactly as those that designed it envisioned and enacted it knew it would. While I personally don’t and never did, a majority of voters that went to the polls and cast their votes in 2008 and again in 2012 said, via their votes, this is what I want. Their wish was granted.
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