Posted on 01/26/2024 9:55:34 PM PST by 11th_VA
The Denver hospital system is turning away local residents because it is flooded with migrant visits.
Denver Health CEO Donna Lynne warned the center is in a crucial moment due to unexpected costs associated with immigrant visits.
What I think is not being said is that Denver Health is at a critical, critical point and that we need to take this up in 2024,” Lynne told the Denver City Council, according to the Denver Post.
Eight-thousand migrants from Central America accounted for approximately 20,000 visits in 2023. Denver Health asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide funds for immigrants’ medical costs. The state and federal governments aren’t reimbursing the hospital, which spent $136 million for patients who didn’t pay.
Beckers Hospital Review notes CEO says ‘It’s Going to Break Denver Health’
The health system is overwhelmed with care costs for uninsured patients, particularly migrants — 36,000 of whom have arrived in Denver since December 2022, according to The Denver Post.
“Where do you think the migrants are getting care? They are getting care at Denver Health,” Dr. Lynne said at a Jan. 9 finance and governance committee meeting. Her remarks were reported by CBS Colorado on Jan. 12.
Denver Health has treated more than 8,000 migrants who lack legal documentation in the past year, totaling about 20,000 visits, according to Steven Federico, MD, a pediatrician at the health system.
The majority of these patients are coming from Venezuela and arrive needing treatment for chronic and communicable diseases after making the difficult journey.
Eric Lavonas, MD, an emergency physician at Denver Health, expects the situation to worsen as subzero temperatures sweep across Colorado, exposing unhoused, uninsured populations to frostbite and hypothermia. In 2020, the health system had about $60 million in uncompensated care costs. Last year, costs sprung to $136 million, a quarter of which came from caring for non-Denver residents.
Due to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, Denver Health cannot turn patients away from the emergency room and has resorted to other cost-cutting measures. The system closed 15 of its 78 inpatient beds for substance misuse and mental health treatment and did away with planned salary increases.
Denver Health lost $35 million in 2022, and 2023 could have been worse had the system not received some outside help, according to the Post...
Well said, Oscar!
RE:You just lay in a gurney in the hallway, that’s all …
I stand corrected. While waiting for hours on gurneys it laves room on the hospital floors for those earlier border crossing aliens’ children who were cruelly separated from mothers by ICE and are now looking for mom. Check the drug overdose emergency suites. Or the county jail.
“migrants who lack legal documentation”
That’s a good one. Just say “illegal aliens” and save your keystrokes.
I was a teenager and my grandfather handed me a copy of Communist Manifesto with three simple words....”Know your enemy!”
” Funny how no one noticed when this legislation was passed that it, coupled with the illegal alien invasion basically wrapped det-cord around the neck of the medical care system.”
I’ll bet they did.
You are talking about people who are trying to shut down agriculture.
BTTT
Umpossible. I keep hearing illegal immigrants are good for the economy and bring peace and prosperity everywhere they go.
More for them, less for you. Do you think people will ever catch on?
Denver will not honor immigration detainer requests to hold immigrants who would otherwise be released from jail so that immigration agents can pick them up. Denver will only respond to a judicial warrant — one signed by a judge. This reflects existing policy and the city’s understanding of the Fourth Amendment.
Denver employees will not ask for or collect information on people’s citizenship or immigration status, except as required by federal or state law. This is already prevailing city policy.
Denver will not share any information for the purposes of enforcing immigration law.
America has become the LAND OF THE FREE EVERYTHING !
...paid for by productive, taxpaying citizens...
During the pandemic recall, what a huge issue the lack of needed ventilators was.
How many new ventilators have we added since the pandemic?
We don’t currently know how much medical infrastructure is needed because we don’t know how many illegals are here.
Cloward and Piven.
You got a gurney, you lucky bum?!
Regards,
didn't we work decades and paid income tax and social security and property tax all these feaking years? A few years ago under bammy my very healthy sil had to pay a thousand dollar penalty because he didn't have health insurance. .
GIBS-ME-DAT-FREE-MEDICAL-CARE!
Leftists are people who read Marx and Engals.
Conservatives are people who understand Marx and Engals.
Which by law they're allowed to do.
That law needs to be changed. Hospitals should be allowed tp predicate ER treatment on proof of citizenship or legal entry into the USA. Won’t happen, but I can dream, can’t I?
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