re: RE: an ER in NBR - It appears the numbers are finally coming to light...

How valuable was EKL to Baton Rouge? It seems like it would have been a good place to work for anyone who was a resident or fresh out of med school. Does anyone agree that shutting it down was the right thing to do?

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OLOL ER is full of morons

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Where I work at is a hospital that has a similar patient population....mostly poor people that either don't have insurance at all or only Medicaid/medicare. It's a teaching hospital and while it isn't the newest or prettiest hospital to work in, and the surrounding area is certainly not an area I would walk around by myself at night....it's a great place to learn as a healthcare worker. You will see a much wider variety of stuff there and have more opportunities to gain experience there than some of the "nicer" hospitals where I live at.


I've worked at some of the much nicer hospitals in my area....I much rather prefer where I work at now over them. Usually places like that(the "not as nice" hospitals).....the employees are normally good at working as a team. The facilities may suck...but you'll stay there cause you have such amazing coworkers.

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i had my thyroid removed at EKL a long time ago. Doctors and staff were excellent.

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My dad had hip replacement surgery there over 10 years ago. Same thing...the doctors and staff treated my dad very well. He didn't have a private room, but he was ok with that and knew that was likely gonna be the case. He was just so grateful to not have the intense pain he was having any time he walked prior to the surgery.

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emails his cardiologist and he says come see him the next morning

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I'm not saying your dad does not have a problem, but what I'm saying is that its not an emergency and you further prove my point by saying that your dads own cardiologist says come see him the next morning. Do you really think that if your dad was having a true emergency that he would actually email his doctor or call 911 and if he did email his doctor that if HE thought it was an emergency that he would say come to my office the next morning or tell him to go to the emergency room now?

The problem people have is perspective, they always think that they or their loved ones problems are the most important issue at the time without realizing that other people may need more immediate medical care than they do.

And god forbid that you or someone in your family face a true emergency or trauma such as being shot or in a serious car accident but since OLOL ER is "full of morons" be sure to inform the ambulance driver that you refuse to be taken to OLOL and let me know how that turns out.

How many free standings have made it to LA? And how many urgent cares? Unless polar opposites of Texas you do realize that urgent cares and free standings only take insurance?

It is essentially concierge medicine but in ER to Urgent setting. People pay not to wait. You show insurance before you are seen. Even in ER it is explained to the patient that Medicare is not accepted. Emergencies will be stabilized only and shipped. You will get a bill. Patients trying to work the system and bypass a waiting room are going to get an EKG and an aspirin and they're gonna wait. And the bill you receive will be astronomical. This information turns most people away. Which it should. You SHOULD have gone to a full service hospital ER.

Now if the ER is an extension of a larger hospital. Like OLOL opens an ER on the other side of town, they take M&M. If you are part of the program and open another ER it must take M&M.

Legislation keeps coming and is one step behind the privately owned places, but only one step. And the ER are running out of steps to make. Soon they will all be shut down or changes will make them no longer worth the trouble.

A free standing should NEVER be used for traumas or for that matter for patients who truly feel they may die. You think you're having the big one call 911. You are wasting a step by going to a free standing. In addition realize most free standings have 2 nurses, one doc, and a rad tech. TOPS! Some have less. You want to watch monkeys frick a football? Walk into one with a GSW.

By the posts I am reading on here these are brand new to Louisiana in general. Correct me if I am wrong?

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Do you really think that if your dad was having a true emergency that he would actually email his doctor or call 911 and if he did email his doctor that if HE thought it was an emergency that he would say come to my office the next morning or tell him to go to the emergency room now?

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Let me clarify...when he has gone to the er it has been at the urging of his cardiologist...and just to let you know every time he has gone to the er he was admitted and had a procedure done. So I think he is a good judge of whether or not he needs to go to the er.

The last time though they were doing xrays and some other meaningless test that my ex who works in the CICU said "wtf are they running those test for they know he has a history of heart disease, had a bypass a ton of stents done"

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The problem people have is perspective, they always think that they or their loved ones problems are the most important issue at the time

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Not even close with me and my family.

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And god forbid that you or someone in your family face a true emergency or trauma such as being shot or in a serious car accident but since OLOL ER is "full of morons" be sure to inform the ambulance driver that you refuse to be taken to OLOL and let me know how that turns out.

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can I just get a bracelet that says do not take to olol?

Free standing ERs are a joke. I believe they are more prevalent in Texas than elsewhere.

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Is it because their officers are in south Baton Rouge?

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so is yours fat albert

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When I read the Business Report I question the humanity of its leadership often.

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To all the people who ask, why does it have to be Champion to do the ER in north Baton Rouge.
Yes we want them. No one else was interested before them. I'm sure you've had someone do something for you before who didn't really want to do it. They probably half tail did it. I don't want someone to come into my community after they said we didn't need an ER and give us a "Advanced Care Center" not an ER. Scott Wester CEO of OLOL said "it is a myth they need an ER in north Baton Rouge."
Not to mention, no one had a plan before the ?#?NBRNow? Blue Ribbon commission got this partner, now they want to disrespect our work and offer a lesser proposal for our community. Why didn't all these white people show interest before. The commission is made up of 9 people of color. Six of them are people with PH.D. level education. It is disrespectful to us and our efforts. It is shameful that black people some in the community some in the legislature aren't supporting the black group that got a tangible solution to a MAJOR problem.
It's like a football game where we run the ball to the one yard line and let the white guy score the touchdown so his stat sheet says he got so many points. That's wrong, and we as a community should be able to see that. No one was willing to address this problem before. We need people not just with the ability, but the will to help us!

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