"SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS ONE TO ME"
Saturday night I took my father to the emergency room at Lake East. Nothing to serious but I went home early in the morning. My sister called me around 9:00a.m. and said "Dads in ICU." I asked why was he in there? She explained there were no open beds in the hospital so they moved him up there. He is doing fine and will be coming home soon.
Now ny question to anyone who knows, or can explain this to me, if there is no room in a hospital with 232 beds, why close it and move into a new hospital with 121 beds? If you don't have room now how will you have room at the new hospital? I really would lihe this explained to me.
posted by terminator1 @ 7:01 PM
23 Comments
23 Comments:
I see UH is also building a facility next door...... is this
there idea if the inn is full go to the barn?
Be glad he went to ICU as they put my Dad in the hall with a sheet.
Good luck on getting an explanation. and the best to your Dad!
The new hospital will only have one patient to a room, thats why the number of beds is so low. People will get better care.
Two years ago on Memorial Day, my girlfriend was in a go-kart accident and got real torn up. She had to go to Lake East, and they didn't have any room, so they put a bed in an upstairs waiting room and made a makeshift room out of it.
One patient to one room is great if you don't have more patients than rooms......
Judging by rate CVS, RiteAid and Walgreens are going up I would think they would want more beds
didn't the prison system start out like this and now they are double stacking bunks in dorm rooms.
best health care plan; Don't get sick!
best dental plan; Chew on the other side!
Last June my mother layed in the emergency room for 36 hours until they found a room for her. I thought this was a rare circumstance. I guess its not. Now you say the new hospital will have a little more than half the beds? What will they do with the overflow? Will they need as many staff? Who do these people answer to?
They answer to the almighty dollar......
If some of you even knew. Lake Systems CEO is the highest paid person in Lake County, lets just say she makes more han the President of the United States look it up. The hospital board o.k.s everything and they answer to no one. County Commissiones dont even question them. They spread enough money round to keep everyone quiet.They even had the gall to impose an income tax on their employees, Then tried to tell Concord and Painesville what they wanted it spent on. My money not theirs. Its only going to get worse, sorry.
LCMH employee
The new hospital is a boondoggle!If you get seriously ill, you will still will be transported to cleveland.
These numbers just don't make any sense to me. Open the new hospital and close theold one, how will they treat people in the parking lot? Wht will your hospital stay cost?
This is a case where some of us can say "I told you so" to a lot of people.
Since day one some of us have been saying this is all related to the fact that the hospital board wanted out of Painesville because they have to treat too many poor/welfare patients here. By getting out of Painesville and into Concord they can now draw a "higher class" of doctors and patients.
County commissioners would never question this move because they would have to start "doing something" for Painesville to alleviate the fact they have "dumped" all low income housing, etc. here.
Myself and my family, we will still be served because I have good insurance and some money, I feel sorry for the poor/low income who all of a sudden find themselves turned away because of a lack of beds.
Everyone blamed Painesville Administration for the hospital moving, I would bet a paycheck no matter what they did the hospital would have figured out a way to move, and our current county commissioners would have approved it.
I pity the rest of the eastern Lake county residents that think this is a "Painesville problem". They don't yet realize how much the taxes they pay will need to go up to support the extra units or mileage needed by rescue squads to make the additional distance on each run to Concord.
This is probably one of the most costly items to happen to eastern Lake County in recent years and our commissioners and hospital board have ensured it is swept under the rug by making it sound like a Painesville problem.
These stories scare the Hell out of me, but what can be done about it? That hospital has to answer to someone. How do they keep their "not for profit" status? you have to wonder what the insurance companys will pay on a bill at this country club?
Scare you? You are receiving world -class health care at affordable cost, what is your problem? We don't need all the Lake East.
how about a new hostipal move in the soon to be vacant hostipal building. FOR THE AREA RESIDENT'S. BUFORD.
looks like we need more rooms. and it looks like you have the problem. if the current hospital is not big enough, then a smaller one would be what?
a too small-you don't get it
b too small-you are not getting it
c too small-you are on the list
d all of the above
nope i heard they got a tear down order for the building so no one can move into it.
you did not think they were going to leave it for competition to move into. i also heard the employee's have to apply for their jobs at the new joint
We need a Single-Payer National Health Insurance plan.
The U.S. spends twice as much as other industrialized nations on health care, $7,129 per capita. Yet our system performs poorly in comparison and still leaves 47 million without health coverage and millions more inadequately covered.
This is because private insurance bureaucracy and paperwork consume one-third (31 percent) of every health care dollar. Streamlining payment through a single nonprofit payer would save more than $350 billion per year, enough to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all Americans.
Can't think about that January night in a blizzard when an EMS unit is taking a loved one out to Auburn Rd. Down Rt.44 pass Interstate 90 at 10mph. A tragedy coming in some of our futures.
Perry former Painesville resident.
Has anyone ever met Cynitia Moore-Hardy CEO of Lake Hospital Systems just to ask about our concerns?
Does she even care?
Poster a socialist? One candidate for Vice-President, "Redistributes Wealth" By taking and giving every citizen in Alaska $1200.00 They must have stolen from Oil company stockholders. Now thats Socialism.
term, your so full of Taurophobia-Scatophobia, it aint even funny
JR.
Your not the first person that told me I'm full of B.S.
I only hope thats what you meant?
TERM>> said...
Poster a socialist? One candidate for Vice-President, "Redistributes Wealth" By taking and giving every citizen in Alaska $1200.00 They must have stolen from Oil company stockholders. Now thats Socialism.
I don't say it much but great point term, it may have even been more than 1200 and she raised the taxes on the oil companies just to give the alaskan residents more which undoubtedly raised gas prices for the rest of us.
why take to the er-if not serious
that's why health care has a problem you say not serious maybe you should wait till morning and take him to his doctor!! now say if it was your father!!!!!!!!!
you are part of the problem!
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home