Man set to go home today after more than year at Fresno hospital (Illegal Alien)

fresnobee.com ^ | Jan 3, 2012 | Barbara Anderson

[patriot08]

Fuentes has spent 374 days at Community Regional Medical Center, the longest uninterrupted stay by a patient at the Fresno acute-care hospital, according to staff recollection.

Doctors suspect Fuentes, 35, had gallstones that developed into a gallbladder infection, which was left untreated and progressed. The average length of hospital stay for uncomplicated pancreatitis is about two weeks, with a complicated case taking as many as 45 to 65 days, according to the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. But Fuentes' case was far from uncomplicated. Fuentes had 12 surgeries overseen by three trauma physicians -- Drs. Jim Davis, Ricard Townsend and Kunjan Bhakta.

On Tuesday, the final cost of Fuentes' care was not available. Much of it will be taken on by the hospital as charity care. Last year, for all patients, the hospital provided $100 million on charity care, according to hospital spokeswoman Mary Lisa Russell.

[cherry]

I'm sick of it too....we pay more, they pay nothing...we obey the laws....they break them...we buy insurance to drive our cars or ELSE....they don't even bother getting a license....

I don't hate them...I like legal immigration....but I hate being the stooge to foot the bill every single time...our citizens not getting good care but these illegls get everything...

[Jay Santos CP]

99% of the time I would look to general incompetence to describe what appears to be a disastrous federal policy. But with the refusal to control immigration, it's by design. It's purposeful.

To what unified end is not clear to me. There's a concerted effort here to erase that southern border in particular.