Posted on 04/23/2015 9:01:18 AM PDT by Baynative
Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo, CA is closing its doors today. The Bay Area facility has been serving the community for 50 years, but has been losing approximately $18 Million a year for the past several years. The West Contra Costa Healthcare District board voted in March to begin the closing process, which included selling off land and nearby buildings that were part of the campus. The city, of course, picked up that tab.
The reason for the closure? 80-90% of the patients are on the dole. More specifically, Medicare and Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program. As the bureaucracies work through their processes, only about 60% of each dollar due finds its way to the hospital to pay patient’s bills.
This leaves about 250,000 residents in the area without a nearby hospital. No telling how many of those people are on the dole (perhaps 80-90%?), and will now force other hospitals in neighboring cities to have to take them in, meaning those hospitals will now have to deal with the deadbeat Medicare and Medi-Cal payment process.
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Photoshop Thighness’ logo onto it! This was her original idea!
fixed it
I don’t know the area very well, but I can’t help but wonder how much services they were providing to illegal immigrants, gratis.
Was serving San Pablo and Richmond, which are both “black” low income cities. Be hey, San Pablo does have an “indian casino.” You know they tore down all those tee pees and built a taj mahal. Now the indigent patients who don’t have a hospital can still gamble.
They voted for it. Let them reap what they’ve sown. . .
Typical.
I expect Sharpton to be there claiming racism and demanding that the gubmint step in and run the hospital for free.
I saw a documentary not long ago on meth and the effect it’s having in places like Tennessee.At one point they focused on the difficulties Vanderbilt University Hospital (one of he finest in the world) had in treating the people burned when their labs blew up.It said that the hospital was on the brink of bankruptcy because none of these patients had any insurance.
Long ago I worked for a few years in industrial engineering, when I walk around a hospital I usually wind up thinking how easily it would be to cut a hundred grand a week off operating expenses without doing anything to affect the quality of patient care.
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LOL...so true that!
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