Posted on 10/20/2007 5:27:29 AM PDT by kellynla
Brotman Medical Center, a key healthcare provider serving Los Angeles' Westside, is expected to seek protection from creditors in Bankruptcy Court as early as next week, according to three executives familiar with the matter.
Administrators at the 420-bed hospital in Culver City have tried for months to avoid filing a bankruptcy petition but have continued struggling to pay its growing debt.
Brotman became the center of a firestorm last month when state health inspectors released a report finding that doctors and nurses failed to provide proper care to a mentally disabled woman, who died after a series of medical mistakes.
The medical center is expected to file under bankruptcy provisions that will give management more time to fix its financial problems.
Since 1996, more than 70 community hospitals have closed across the state, with a disproportionate share -- more than 50 -- in Southern California. Regionally, 14 emergency rooms have closed in the last five years, including 10 in Los Angeles County.
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State law or Federal law?
“Putz?”
From your ignorance of the laws, you must be looking in the mirror. LMAO
Well, I do tolerate you. :-)
“Nonsense. California needs to do a better job in managing its own affairs.”
I submit this for Stupidest Quote Of The Week.
Exactly!
You might appreciate my tagline. LOL
“California will soon be a turd world country populated only by (PC ON) unemployed undocumented welfare recipients.(PC OFF)”
If we received some border security and deportation of illegal aliens from the Feds,
we wouldn’t have to treat all these illegals who show up at our emergency rooms...and BTW, if you don’t think the same is happening everywhere else in America including AZ, think again!
Federal law. They cannot turn anyone away.
And remember, it's not just the emergency care but the rest of it that's really expensive to the hospital. If Rogelio shows up at the ER with a heart attack they can't just kick him out a few hours later. He may need a cardiac catheterization and/or allied procedures, and if the hospital administrators can't find another hospital silly enough to accept the transfer of his case, they're stuck with him and $75K in costs (not including the salaries of all the house staff who had to take care of him).
“And remember, it’s not just the emergency care but the rest of it that’s really expensive to the hospital. If Rogelio shows up at the ER with a heart attack they can’t just kick him out a few hours later. He may need a cardiac catheterization and/or allied procedures, and if the hospital administrators can’t find another hospital silly enough to accept the transfer of his case, they’re stuck with him and $75K in costs (not including the salaries of all the house staff who had to take care of him).”
Thank you!
They already did it to WA, OR, CO. I live in AZ and thankfully there aren't too many here. Yet. Maybe it's too hot and dry and lacks a lot of skiing areas.
Man, oh man, that's a lot of "emergencies", especially if most of them are treated "free".
and of course, we all know that there weren’t 25K “emergency room patients”...not even in South Central L.A. are there that many “emergencies” in a year.
The illegals are milking the system for every dime they can.
And America & Americans are the worse for it!
The problem has existed for a long time and will never be resolved. The "illegals" are merely part of the problem. To Blame Bush is akin to blaming God for creating such a medically vulnerable species.
Moreover, what has California done right lately?
It is happening everywhere. I owned shares in Health Management Associates(HMA), a southeast hospital chain. Reading the quarterly reports for a couple of years before taking my loss, the bad debt expense kept rising and rising. This is illegal immigrants. Check out the stock price to see the effect they have.
They simply ignored the entire reason...Somebody needs to write this sad newspaper a letter...
ping
What you are missing is that many of the patients who come to these hospitals are not even Medicaid or Medicare recipients. There is no contract at all; they are simply treated for free. And they arrive carrying diseases not present in our native population, or with conditions that would have been minimized with American-style medical care but are now catastrophic.
It's certainly true that illegal aliens are only part of the problem. We have our own home-grown problem patients here. But at least the home-grown patients have Medicaid and sometimes Medicare coverage that helps compensate the hospital to some small degree; the foreigners do not.
of course they did...but they did at least mention “uninsured” which everyone who lives in L.A. knows the vast majority are illegals...
“Somebody needs to write this sad newspaper a letter”
Believe me I have for decades, but do you think they are paying attention? Obviously not, which is the reason their circulation has dropped like a rock and they can’t give away newspapers! The LAT has its own liberal agenda and those of us who pay taxes and love our country aren't buying it...in more ways than one!
"Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P.J.O'Rourke
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