Hahnemann Hospital no longer accepting trauma patients

WPVI ^ | June 27, 2019 | WPVI Story Monkey

[End Times Sentinel]

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Hahnemann University Hospital says it is no longer accepting trauma patients just days after announcing the institution's planned closure for September due to unsustainable financial losses.

The hospital says it notified the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation (PTSF) Friday night of its trauma center decision.

"After reviewing our plan of closure and in consultation with the Pennsylvania Department of Health, we felt this move is in the best interest of patient safety," Dr. Alexander E. Trebelev, Chief Medical Officer at Hahnemann, said in statement released Saturday afternoon. "Unfortunately, we are facing clinical and operational challenges. We cannot continue to serve trauma and STEMI patients under these conditions."

Hahnemann says the Emergency Department will continue to be open, "it just will not be accepting trauma patients."

In the statement, Ron Dreskin, Interim CEO of Philadelphia Academic Health Systyem, the parent company of Hahnemann said, "We realize the impact this move, and the closure of Hahnemann has on the city of Philadelphia and surrounding neighborhoods, and most importantly, our staff. We wish there could have been a more positive outcome for all. In spite of our best efforts and meetings with numerous city, state, union, insurance carrier and university officials, a financial solution could not be achieved."

Hahnemann's Charles C. Wolferth Trauma Center, completed in 1986, was Philadelphia's first designated-Level I Trauma Center for adults.

"This de-designation as a trauma center is effective immediately," the statement read.

A day after Hahnemann University Hospital announced its plans to close, the Pennsylvania Health Department issued a Cease and Desist Order, telling the owners they must first file a detailed plan that ensures the safety of people who depend on the institution for care.

[super7man]

Government control of any consumer entity always results is shortages. Always.

[Truthoverpower]

I grew up blocks from there

Expect more of this as health care is “free”

[Blurb2350]

Tee-hee — “peer induced trauma patients.” Is that the technical term?

[plain talk]

“If we go to Medicare For All, it is quite predictable that many hospitals will simply go out of business.”

I could see the Feds mandating that the hospital continue services even if they lose money. When that fails they take over the hospital and you have government hospitals.

[HangnJudge]

I am old enough to just quit
If health care goes full socialist, I’m out

[Vinnie]

I mention Medicare for All, because depending on the what illness or surgery a patient is in the hospital for, Medicare may not pay the hospital enough to cover their costs of taking care of that patient.

Having recent major surgeries under Medicare I think I can make a few comments concerning payments.

Seeing what the ins. company was billed v what they paid is eye-opening.
Even allowing for the hospital padding the bill the payment to them was not even close to what I, as a patient , thought would be reasonable.
I can guarantee that there is no way to sustain the excellent care most can get with the meager government payments to the hospitals and Drs.

Any politician that says otherwise is blowing smoke. Not possible.
And then they want to add 20-30 million illegals?
What a joke.

[Getready]

Cannot get blood from a stone...yaw’ll. Forced collectivism cannot work due to the eventual transfer of power and money to those more efficient, smart,and disingenuous than the others....happened every time.

[trisham]

With about 4 mass shootings per day in cities just like Philadelphia it is no surprise treating gunshot trauma at no charge would bankrupt any Hospital...

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Good point.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I’m thinking Philly is starting to look like it could become the next Baltimore.

[jmacusa]

Kinda sounds like the hospital I work at in southern NJ. About 7 out of 10 of the patients in the ER are prisoners from the county jail or illegals who ‘’no habla’’ and have no insurance.

[georgiarat]

Medicaid is much worse.

[Lockbox]

We got your free medical care right here for ya.

Apparently not for long

[mjp]

A human right does not require someone else to pay for it.

or enslave doctors

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Not at all, which is my point.

“Free” health care is no health care at all.

[Vermont Lt]

Yes, I agree.

You should see the pressure on the hospital staff to get the patient out of the hospital. I never say the clinical staff pressure the patient to leave—but I spent time in meetings where they were “encouraged” to move them as soon as they could.

[MurrietaMadman]

Dilbert, Dilbert, Dilbert.

What's it going to take to get you and millions of other, let's call them non-liberals, to understand Democrats plans are all about destroying the United States. Destroying US.

How can anyone look around at what is happening on our borders, in our courts, our schools, every level of our governments, to our entire culture and fail to recognize the destruction being wrought are acts of war against God and Country and the results of that war are meant to last forever.

Snap out of it.

[Jim Noble]

I spent the first two years of my doctor life at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn.

The plan to replace all those places with a “single level of care” has been a catastrophic failure, which now threatens to bring down more than Hahnemann..

[eyeamok]

Very Good!

Do US Citizens have a “Right” to NOT Commit a Criminal Act?

this is a trick question

[HangnJudge]

...spent the first two years of my doctor life
at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn

God bless you, great place to see
LOTS of pathology and to learn to think on your feet,
but brutal, inhumanly brutal

[Jim Noble]

but brutal, inhumanly brutal

But this is the life we have chosen.

Life is short, but the Art is long
The occasion fleeting
Experiment dangerous
And decision difficult