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...
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.
> 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
If the rat cities and states had any balls they would be boarding them on buses and sending them to joe in DC
And Colorado went blue in 2020 oh my.
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!
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!!!
Ping.
Zero F’s given.
Colorado has voted blue for quite some time. They obviously want this.
The bill won’t be stiffed. The cost will be passed on to SoetoroCare holders in Colorado.
Emergency rooms provide free meals, lounge areas, etc.
Denver gets exactly what it asked for. Another beautiful state ruined by liberal maggots.
Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
Such an easy little one-syllable word to say. Such a hard concept to grasp for the Leftists....
“..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...
“then stiffing the bill.”
I’m pretty sure they don’t get bills. We get, and pay for, their bills.
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.
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!
The first place to look for deportation clients.
We need STACKABLE gurneys.
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