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re: Baton Rouge 8 month old dies in hot car
Posted on 6/8/16 at 2:44 pm to Broke
Posted on 6/8/16 at 2:44 pm to Broke
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An EMS ambulance was called to Baton Rouge General Mid City where someone brought the child there after finding the child in the vehicle. There is no ER at the Mid City hospital location. The child was not taken to the hospital by an ambulance, sources said, apparently by someone not affiliated with emergency care. Authorities were told the child had been left in the vehicle for two hours.
What a terrible situation altogether, but what kind of hospital doesn't have an ER?
If I drove someone to the nearest hospital in an emergency and they didn't have an ER I'd be furious.
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Posted on 6/8/16 at 4:29 pm to slackster
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but what kind of hospital doesn't have an ER?
the kind that was losing $2 miilion a month because people treated it like a regular doctors office
Posted on 6/8/16 at 4:47 pm to slackster
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What a terrible situation altogether, but what kind of hospital doesn't have an ER?
Probably one in a state where the previous governor insisted on cutting funding to hospitals and refused the medicare expansion that would have kept the ER open. I'm an ER doc FWIW and have worked at mid city ER (when it was open), the BR general, and OLOL. The fact that mid city ER closed is terrible due to the fact that so many violent crimes occur in that part of the city. Time is blood (and life), so that extra 15 minutes getting to the Lake can make all the difference.
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I'm not familiar with the BR health scene and I assumed it was something like that, but an ER seems like a staple for a hospital, which was my only point. What good is a hospital that cannot treat emergency patients? If is losing money, shutter the hospital.
Because of the patient population around the general (ie, poor medicare/medicaid patients or uninsured), it's not surprising that the hospital was losing a lot of money with their ER, since the hospital won't end up seeing a penny for a lot of those patients. Places like OLOL and BR general see more insured patients who pay their bills.
This post was edited on 6/8/16 at 4:50 pm
Posted on 6/8/16 at 5:16 pm to slackster
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what kind of hospital doesn't have an ER?
The kind who had to close the doors of their ER because of indigents using the ER as a clinic instead for emergencies. Thus the hospital had to close the ER because of budget.
You asked.
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