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.

[Tacrolimus1mg]

When I had my subclavian catheter put in for dialysis ten years ago, the original bill was $31,000, including OR staff. I had a really good insurance plan through my Dad (I was 21) and his job, and his insurance company was billed $9,700. That was all. Our portion was 10%.

It’s not just Medicare. To an extent, all insurance companies negotiate for lower prices, some more than others. That lack of transparency about negotiations is the major problem, in my opinion.

It would be nice to go back to the ‘70s model of up-front payments, but the addition of technology and the hospital renting all of their major equipment makes that difficult.

[allendale]

Yet there was a time from ~ 1960-1985 that if you were severely injured and needed immediate trauma services, the very best care in the world was rendered at the Kings County Hospital ER and its associated trauma surgical services. By the late 1980’s the hospital began to have politically correct, community based staffing and work rules. Its glory days were over.

[sport]

Without any vasoline beforehand.

[Susquehanna Patriot]

The federal government has been reducing their Medicare reimbursements for a very long time, and hospitals shifted their costs to the insured. Then Obozocare comes around and tells insurances companies (who by the way helped the government) what policies need to cover (e.g. nuns need to have birth control coverage, etc etc ), high premiums, high deductibles, putting more costs on the insured.

In the scheme Medicare for All, the questions for all those demokraps is this - since the federal government is the sole provider (i.e. there is no one to shift government costs in the market), how much is this really going to cost, and who is going to pay, and who do the tort lawyers sue when the government screws up?

[Intolerant in NJ]

How’s Sanctuary City status working out for ya’, Philadelphia......

[MurrietaMadman]

Thanks for your link to Kenny's dance of mayhem, rape and death. Here's a lead-up to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-In-PqrChY&feature=youtu.be

We followed a tatted up salvatruchan who was provided an interpreter so he could lecture Kenney and the black guy on why the border should be erased.

Kenney sat there nodding like a bobble head doll at the wisdom of the salvatruchan. A few months later he was dancing in the his new office.

[spintreebob]

Walmart and most stores have loss leaders to get people in the door. These businesses hope that the customers will fillup their shopping cart with many items that are not loss leaders.

Surviving Hospitals can be compared to this. Their customer is Medicare and Medicaid for over 40% of their money, over 50% in many Hospitals.

Surviving Hospitals treat a patient for the one complaint that brought the patient in the door. They also run a series of tests. These tests are allegedly for the benefit of the patient. But in reality they are trying to find products of the Hospital that they can use to fill the shopping cart of the customer, the government.

Patients and patient problmems (real and fantasized) are just products thrown into the shopping cart. Patients are not the customer.

Hospitals who know how to play the game survive. Hospitals who don’t know how to play the game are dead.

[Night Hides Not]

Atlas is shrugging.

[mumblypeg]

Whoa, good point!
Can we sue the gubbermint for malpractice?

[Steve_Seattle]

The state can require a failing business to stay in business even though it can’t pay its bills? How does that work?

[Lockbox]

Yep, the leaders of the Libs don’t care about solving a problem or if a program works long term. All they want is the issue.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

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...
Pfft. 4? that was the old Philly. Now that it is a sanctuary city under a far left liberal mayor, it's kicking up to 8-10 some days. Two weekends ago , it was 30 for a two day weekend.

[RetiredTexasVet]

I wonder what the bureaucrats will do when the no longer paid nurses, doctors, janitors, etc. fail to show up ... arrest the parking lot manager?

[Chode]

the FREESH1T Army strikes again!!!

everything is FREE till a place closes...

[Myrddin]

Thanks for your perspective. It's always helpful to have an informed view from the inside.

[Chode]

i don't think this is a Medicare issue, most Medicare subscribers aren't Trauma admits unless it's a car wreck or something, this more is a Medicaid/no insurance at all thug issue...

[Albion Wilde]

Philly ping!

[PapaBear3625]

Staff are putting out resumes to other hospitals, and leaving when accepted. Doctors are not showing up, because they don't know if they will get paid (doctors are mostly considered sub-contractors, not employees, and are low on the list for payment in case of bankruptcy). The hospital has just filed Chapter 11.

And yet the PA and Philly governments demand they stay open and continue to treat people who do not pay.

[PapaBear3625]

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

Short term, they might stay in business. Long term, the system will not be able to pay good money for doctors and nurses, and young people will study other professions.

[RFEngineer]

Hospitals in urban areas are the demonstrators for the dysfunction of socialism.

Cash-only membership-based hospitals are the only possible facility-based solution.

They must have the fortitude to turn away sick and injured people who are not members.

From the socialist governments perspective, these must be outlawed.

There is no middle ground possible.

If you’re not a member of a private hospital you will die in the public hospital waiting room (assuming you can fit into the waiting room) when sick or injured - unless through random chance a public hospital, if one is even available, manages to keep you alive.

The news reporting writes itself. A sick illegal immigrant child dies at the door of a private hospital and will be extensively reported using a guided checklist of guilt, self-loathing, and class envy. The 3 dozen who die in the public hospital waiting room at the same time will go unreported.