Hospitals

Rural America Needs Medicare For All, And Fast

March 26, 2019 By Barb Kalbach, Otherwords.org Create! health, Hospitals, Medicare

We’ve got a rural health care emergency on the horizon. Rural hospitals are closing or teetering on the brink of closure at an alarming rate. More than a hundred have closed since 2005 and hundreds more are on life support. Long-term care facilities are vanishing across rural America or being bought up by large corporations who care about profit, not the care of our loved ones. Most rural hospitals have even stopped delivering babies — you’ll need to go to the city for that, so plan ahead.

Public Hospitals Don’t Exist, Land & Future For Sale + Stateside Rebel For Life

January 17, 2019 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Health Care, Hospitals, Land

As Medicare for All legislation heads towards Congressional hearings, here's a look at why even well-meaning projects and reforms inside our for-profit system are doomed from the outset. Next up, this country's got land for sale – so long as you're willing to destroy it for a measly profit margin and a step towards our painful collective suicide. And finally, Extinction Rebellion comes to the states. From tweets to marching in the streets, this is Act Out!

The Problem With Institutional Provider Profit In A Medicare For All System

January 10, 2019 Lambert Strether, Nakedcapitalism.com Educate! Health Care, Hospitals, Medicare for all

I’ve avoided writing about hospitals and other institutions, because my focus has always been on the patient, and whether they get, or don’t get, health care under our horrid mixed system of Medicaid, private insurance, and Medicare (subject to a neoliberal infestation though it may be). However, as Medicare for All approaches the reality of House hearings and alternatives emerge to HR676 and S1804, the two bills now on the table, a greater focus on institutions beyond the health insurance industry becomes inescapable. One key difference between health care institutions is whether they are profit or non-profit...

Democratic Consulting Firm Teams Up With Hospital Industry To Battle Nurses Union

October 22, 2018 Rachel M. Cohen, Theintercept.com Educate! Electoral Politics, Hospitals, Party Politics, Repression, Unions, Workers

THE HOSPITAL INDUSTRY has partnered with a major Democratic consulting firm in an unusual alliance against Massachusetts’s nurses and the bulk of its progressive infrastructure. At issue is a ballot initiative that aims to improve patient safety by limiting the number of patients that can be assigned to a single nurse. If passed, the initiative, known as Question 1, will make Massachusetts the second state in the country to have nurse staffing limits in place. (The exact nurse-to-patient ratio would vary depending on the hospital department.) But, as Election Day inches closer, the initiative’s supporters and opponents are engaged in a heated battle over the costs of implementing the initiative, and what it would mean for patients.

‘This City Needs This Hospital’: Advocates Protest Major Changes At Northeast’s Providence Hospital

September 1, 2018 Elly Yu, Dcist.com Resist! health, Hospitals, Protests

A group of doctors, nurses, and community advocates held a rally outside Providence Hospital in northeast Washington Thursday to demand the hospital remain open as is. Ascension, the organization that owns Providence Hospital, announced last month that it would end the hospital’s acute-care services by the end of this year and shift towards outpatient services, including preventative care, telemedicine and urgent care. “It means that there will be no inpatient services, no emergency room services,” said Dr. Lester Miles, president of medical and dental staff at Providence Hospital, who attended the rally. Miles said the medical staff at the hospital were caught off guard with the announcement, and weren’t told ahead of time about Ascension’s plans.

Police-Inflicted Injuries Send 50,000 To ER Annually In U.S.

April 22, 2017 Robert Preidt, www.health.usnews.com Educate! Hospitals, Police

By Robert Preidt for HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 19, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- More than 50,000 Americans are treated each year for injuries inflicted by police, a new study says. While deaths at the hands of police have garnered national attention, less focus has been paid to nonfatal injuries by U.S. law enforcement. Nationwide, there were more than 355,000 emergency department visits for injuries caused by police between 2006 and 2012, according to researchers from New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. The number of injured each year -- about 51,000 -- remained stable over the seven-year period, the researchers found. "While it is impossible to classify how many of these injuries are avoidable, these data can serve as a baseline to evaluate the outcomes of national and regional efforts to reduce law enforcement-related injury," Dr. Elinore Kaufman and colleagues said in the study. Substance abuse and mental illness were common in patients injured by police, the researchers said. The findings were published online April 19 in the journal JAMA Surgery.

4 Nonprofit Hospitals Pocketed $1.7 Billion In Profits In 4 Years

December 23, 2016 Lynn Petrovich, www.endtheillusion.com Educate! Hospitals, New Jersey (NJ), Non-Profits, Profit

By Lynn Petrovich for End The Illusion - Cumulative surplus for these four nonprofit entities totaled over $2.2 Billion, cash in the bank and/or Wall Street investments/brokerage firms. In addition to the above, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (EID #22-6029397), whose mission includes “promoting the health and health care of New Jerseyans and to support research, evaluation, learning and communication efforts that can improve the nation’s health” reported almost $10 Billion in surplus funds as of 12/31/14. In 2012, Barnabas Health, NJ’s largest nonprofit conglomerate, paid its outgoing CEO, Ronald Del Mauro (he was mentioned in my May 2011 request to Monmouth Medical Center), a precedent setting severance package of $21.6 million.

VA Employees, Veterans, Fight Hospital Closures

July 2, 2016 Staff, www.afge.org Resist! Health Care, Hospitals, Veterans, Virginia

By Staff of AFGE - They march. They chant. They hold signs that read "Keep the promise to our vets" and "VA cares about vets." Veterans and VA employees are furious that Congress is considering shutting down VA hospitals – their community – and sending them to for-profit private hospitals that don't have what it takes to treat their unique needs born out of war. To put a spotlight on this terrible betrayal of veteran's trust, they're holding dozens of rallies outside VA hospitals across America to protest plans to sell veterans' health care to the lowest bidder and shut down VA medical centers.

It’s Official: The US Has Worst Health Care System

June 6, 2014 Lynn M. Petrovich, www.commonsense2.com Educate! Corporatism, Health Care, Hospitals, Nonprofit

Since the publication of my report, Sticker Shock, in 2010 on non-profit hospital accounting detailing the abusive accounting mechanisms in place (read: policies) which reward a select few at the top with outrageous salaries, bonuses, first-class travel, golf club memberships, housing allowances, personal loans, chauffer-driven limousines, tax indemnifications, specially funded split-dollar life insurance policies, and deferred compensation packages in the millions at the expense of pursuing the poor, un, and under-insured to the point of inflicting stress, bankruptcy, wage garnishment, further illness, and death for payment of hospital bills puffed up by as much as 1,500%, things have gotten much worse for people needing medical care. The breaking point for me was the story of Wesley Warren, Jr., a 45 year old man from Las Vegas with a 132 pound scrotum (roughly the size of 8 bowling balls). Here was a guy, who for four years dressed his engorged ball in an upside down zip-up hoodie because it couldn’t fit into his pants and carted this enormous appendage around in a wheelbarrow just to go to the store for milk and coffee.

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