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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...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
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To: Jim Noble

When has “law” mattered to our current fascist rulers?


81 posted on 01/27/2024 8:49:29 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (“We should not assume civilization is robust”)
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To: SpaceBar

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.”

The medical system that let people die rather than tell the truth about the vax?

They’re probably for the invasion


82 posted on 01/27/2024 9:41:23 AM PST by CottonBall (How cute that people think there are still elections. )
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To: StAnDeliver

“Coward-Driven”

love that play on names


83 posted on 01/27/2024 9:45:01 AM PST by CottonBall (How cute that people think there are still elections. )
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To: thecodont
“migrants who lack legal documentation”

That’s a good one. Just say “illegal aliens” and save your keystrokes.

When I teach young lawyers how to write effectively, I tell them never to use five words in a sentence when you can make the point in four words; and never use four word, when you can make the point in three words. "Illegal aliens" is far more effective than "migrants who lack legal documentation."

84 posted on 01/27/2024 9:55:05 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: Jim Noble
Americans are very bad at seeing long term consequences. The Left passes something, six months later things are as before, and “well, I guess it’s not that bad”, on to the next Leftist cause.

Most famously, the Hart-Celler Act of 1965 that shut down European immigration to the United States and opened it wide up to the Third World.

It took three generations before we looked around and went, "WTF happened to our country?"

The Democrats were playing the long game.

85 posted on 01/27/2024 10:10:03 AM PST by Drew68 (Don't blame me. I wanted DeSantis.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Now we have them stupid bears oooohing and aaaahing all over about the ‘fun in yer go’!

And ending up with blue streaks on white paper.

(What do them bears EAT in the forest anyway??)


86 posted on 01/27/2024 10:58:01 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: neverevergiveup

I love it when a plan comes together.


87 posted on 01/27/2024 11:02:37 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Labyrinthos

You are somewhat correct, but BORDER INVADERS is 100% correct!


88 posted on 01/27/2024 11:03:26 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Drew68

Brown cowbirds - look ‘em up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown-headed_cowbird


89 posted on 01/27/2024 11:04:59 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Brood parasitism

Common yellowthroat feeding juvenile brown-headed cowbird

The brown-headed cowbird is an obligate brood parasite; it lays its eggs in the nests of other small passerines (perching birds), particularly those that build cup-like nests.

The brown-headed cowbird eggs have been documented in nests of at least 220 host species, including hummingbirds and raptors.[13][14] 

More than 140 different species of birds are known to have raised young cowbirds.[15] 

The young cowbird is fed by the host parents at the expense of their own young.

Brown-headed cowbird females can lay up to 36 eggs in a season.

90 posted on 01/27/2024 11:06:58 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
Brown cowbirds - look ‘em up.

I did, and at first wondered, "What does this have to do with anything?

And then I read the article and understood exactly.

I see now you've posted the pertinent facts in the post above this one.

91 posted on 01/27/2024 11:29:35 AM PST by Drew68 (Don't blame me. I wanted DeSantis.)
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To: AbolishCSEU

It’s disgusting and when they give this free healthcare to illegals what they are doing is advertising free healthcare to the entire world, all anyone has to do to get it, is come to California. How the hell is that even legal? And people want this lunatic Newsom as President?


92 posted on 01/27/2024 11:41:46 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

You wanted it and you got it.

Enjoy the suck.


93 posted on 01/27/2024 11:57:18 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Gnome1949

I know someone who works in an E.R. She says if they charged just $5.00 for a visit, most would not be there. If an American citizen tries to get health care in Mexico you will be denied unless you have insurance.

WE ARE STUPID FOR ALLOWING IT TO HAPPEN HERE!


94 posted on 01/27/2024 12:03:35 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: RasterMaster

Because someone else is paying....


95 posted on 01/27/2024 12:28:21 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: dhs12345

Our ‘kindness’ will be the end of us!


96 posted on 01/27/2024 2:00:05 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: 11th_VA

Kinda makes me tingly!


97 posted on 01/27/2024 2:46:05 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT Anheuser Busch, the NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR & Faux Snooze! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper! )
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To: 11th_VA

mrs. catnipman says her Colorado hospital contacts tell her that Denver Health docs and other medical personnel are quitting in droves because of the situation is disastrous ...


98 posted on 01/27/2024 3:07:25 PM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: 11th_VA

They are NOT immigrants. They are illegal aliens. They are not even migrants. Migrants look for work. These IA’s look for handouts.


99 posted on 01/27/2024 9:14:07 PM PST by BigB60 (C. S. Lewis loves hobbits)
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To: Nateman

100 posted on 01/28/2024 6:26:26 AM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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