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UTMB will keep accreditation despite 3,800 jobs lost – Desperate Hospital

This is sad, but the hurricane did such an insurmountable amount of damage, and now there’s not enough money to rebuild and replace and now the number of medical students is also affected as well as the number of charity cases that will be seen, same...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2008 1:24 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, healthcare, Desperate Hosptials, Medical Students, Galveston, Charity Care
Eisenhower Medical Center terminates Medi-Cal contract – California

The new California budget is finally done so hopefully money will once again begin to flow, as nothing has come from Sacramento since July 1st. ER room patients will still be seen no matter what plan they have. It didn’t take even 24 hours for this...

Published Sat, Sep 09 2008 11:12 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, Budgets, Medi-Cal, Desperate Hosptials, California Legislature
Desperate Hospitals: Hospitals in Hands of Voters - Arkansas

This story fits in with the series I have been posting about hospitals in need of financial assistance. Lucky thus far for this community, the issues passed and the hospitals will stay open, but for how long and hope there is enough in the till...

Published Sat, Sep 09 2008 1:45 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, Hospitals, Insolvency, Desperate Hosptials
Desperate Hospitals - Hawaii- What is happening to our Hospital System?

As the old saying goes, things roll downhill and Siemens was the straw that broke the camel's back here. Recently Siemens has been in the news with their own issues with restructuring and lay offs. There are other creditors including Clinical...

Published Sat, Aug 08 2008 3:12 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Physicians, FDA, Hospitals, Nursing, bankruptcy, Economics, Desperate Hosptials, Venture Capitalists, Transparancy, Layoffs, Debt consolidation, Overseas Investments, Vendors
Desperate Hospitals - August 29 (Continued)

More added to the list at various stages either with investigations, layoffs, some trying to figure out how to stay open next year. Some are already deep in debt while some are teetering on the fence post after budget cuts, in short all looking...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2008 5:44 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, Budget Cuts, Hospitals, Insolvency, Desperate Hosptials
Concerns Over Large Not-for-Profit Hospital System

When you look around, it appears the large Not for Profit folks seems to being doing all the facility expansions, as well as hiring new clinicians, but now some of the practices are being looked at with a bit of scrutiny as the Wall Street Journal discusses...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2008 12:40 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Hospitals, Community Hospitals, bankruptcy, Desperate Hosptials, Venture Capitalists, Not for Profit Hospitals
Financial Report Projections reflect downgrades of not for profit hospitals - more Desperate Hospitals on the horizon?

Increased charity is one of the reasons and of course there is the pressure from Medicare and insurers to limit rate increases, but many insurers are on their way to China as posted in prior articles here. There is also the big loss of federal funds...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 5:43 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, Budget Cuts, Hospitals, Budgets, Desperate Hosptials

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UTMB will keep accreditation despite 3,800 jobs lost – Desperate Hospital

Eisenhower Medical Center terminates Medi-Cal contract – California

Desperate Hospitals: Hospitals in Hands of Voters - Arkansas

Desperate Hospitals - Hawaii- What is happening to our Hospital System?

Desperate Hospitals - August 29 (Continued)

Concerns Over Large Not-for-Profit Hospital System

Financial Report Projections reflect downgrades of not for profit hospitals - more Desperate Hospitals on the horizon?