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Denver Health at “Critical Point” as 8,000 Migrants Make 20,000 Emergency Visits
https://mishtalk.com ^ | Jan 24, 2024

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...


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To: ProtectOurFreedom

A young lady from Peru worked in our store at one point and said she and her siblings would line up to take worming medicine every so often. I’m used to that sort of thing with animals but not with people.


41 posted on 01/27/2024 1:22:56 AM PST by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: 11th_VA

> Texas should secede - there’s plenty room there for half the US population<

Actually, the world population would all fit in single family dwellings within the state of Texas. Just talking square footage, not infrastructure.

In case anyone was wondering, Texas is just under 7.5 trillion sq ft.

EC


42 posted on 01/27/2024 2:22:43 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: Oscar in Batangas

If the rat cities and states had any balls they would be boarding them on buses and sending them to joe in DC


43 posted on 01/27/2024 2:42:36 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: 11th_VA

And Colorado went blue in 2020 oh my.


44 posted on 01/27/2024 2:51:37 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: 11th_VA

A friend of mine lives in California and she’s self employed. She had an accident where she broke her leg and she is hesitant to see any more doctors as she has no health insurance and makes too much to qualify for socialized health care. But get this: Now she can’t work and guess who gets it free now? Those people who never paid US taxes. ILLEGAL ALIENS! Oh my!


45 posted on 01/27/2024 2:55:27 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: RasterMaster

Oh God that commercial, Mr. Whipple. I remember they use to play it 9 billion times a day on TV. I remember thinking WHO CARES about how freakin’ soft it is!! WHO CARES! WHO CARES!!!


46 posted on 01/27/2024 2:57:05 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: george76

Ping.


47 posted on 01/27/2024 3:00:43 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
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To: 11th_VA

Zero F’s given.

Colorado has voted blue for quite some time. They obviously want this.


48 posted on 01/27/2024 3:07:03 AM PST by stratboy
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To: RasterMaster

The bill won’t be stiffed. The cost will be passed on to SoetoroCare holders in Colorado.


49 posted on 01/27/2024 3:25:52 AM PST by bobcat62
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
He was better than the Purple/Pink animated bear doing it now, rubbing his butt in front of his daughters 🙃
50 posted on 01/27/2024 3:32:31 AM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: 11th_VA

Emergency rooms provide free meals, lounge areas, etc.


51 posted on 01/27/2024 3:41:04 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: 11th_VA

Denver gets exactly what it asked for. Another beautiful state ruined by liberal maggots.


52 posted on 01/27/2024 4:20:55 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: RandallFlagg; MileHi; dynachrome; backspace; Balata; bboop; Ben Dover; Benito Cereno; BigEdLB; ...

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


53 posted on 01/27/2024 4:31:48 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: 11th_VA
"Free" always costs a bundle.

Such an easy little one-syllable word to say. Such a hard concept to grasp for the Leftists....

54 posted on 01/27/2024 4:35:38 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: maddog55

“..Another beautiful state ruined by liberal maggots...”.

Yep.
I remember back when the ChickenPooper outlawed the guns for dope.
It’s been downhill ever since...


55 posted on 01/27/2024 4:38:52 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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To: RasterMaster

“then stiffing the bill.”

I’m pretty sure they don’t get bills. We get, and pay for, their bills.


56 posted on 01/27/2024 4:42:07 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.")
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To: 11th_VA

At least 15 years ago, this was a problem in SoCal ERs. Citizens were pushed to the end of the line to serve low-life illegals.


57 posted on 01/27/2024 4:44:03 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.")
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Beckers Hospital Review notes CEO says ‘It’s Going to Break Denver Health’

what will it take to save the health care system 🤔 of course! Single payer system…. IE complete government control of health care, you know like Cuba’s vaunted system…

Who would want that? Who has planned for that? Who has worked for that? Why King Obama has!

58 posted on 01/27/2024 4:49:06 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: RasterMaster

The first place to look for deportation clients.


59 posted on 01/27/2024 5:12:58 AM PST by DownInFlames (p)
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To: 11th_VA

We need STACKABLE gurneys.


60 posted on 01/27/2024 5:53:02 AM PST by Does so ( 🇺🇦..."Christian-Nationalists" won WWII...Biden NOT NEXT DNC nominee!)
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