COVID-19 puts rural hospitals in Eastern
Washington on brink of financial collapse
Spokesman-Review Spokane,
by
Arielle Dreyer
Original Article
Posted By: Ron_lfp,
4/20/2020 12:04:49 PM
It sounds like an oxymoron: hospital loses money in the midst of a pandemic.
But that is happening across Eastern Washington: Rural hospital systems have bolstered COVID-19 responses and protections while losing major revenue streams from other kinds of care. The moves have left many in a financially precarious position. (snip)
“But when social distancing went into effect and cancellation of elective surgery procedures happened, we saw all of the patient volume essentially cease.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
TJ54 4/20/2020 12:15:30 PM (No. 385566)
Another Demtard "success" story
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
curious1 4/20/2020 12:25:01 PM (No. 385577)
Almost makes you wander if this isn't another prong in the commies attacks to get to single payer and rationed health care for control...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
CountryKid 4/20/2020 12:29:54 PM (No. 385583)
In a rural community hospital very little of the care provided is non-essential. Elective is something you do before it becomes critical. The cost of delaying these services is going to be enormous.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 4/20/2020 12:30:42 PM (No. 385585)
‘Rat governor nukes rural hospitals.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 4/20/2020 12:39:33 PM (No. 385601)
No- it is NOT the Wuhan flu which put them in bad financial shape, it is the OVERREACTION which shut down all their normal functions which is putting them in bad shape.
Let them do their normal elective surgeries NOW. I have a friend who was scheduled to get a very badly needed new knee on April 1.....not done, of course. He still needs it, no idea when he can get rescheduled.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
IowaDad 4/20/2020 12:51:23 PM (No. 385622)
One of the easiest thing a reporter can do is to call his local hospital and find out what its bed occupancy is. The answer is about 50% below normal. Many smaller hospitals are losing their shirts and will close. Very few have more than one to two COVID-19 patients, most of who are doing well. The shortage of ventilators story has always been a myth, as has excessive death rates overwhelming morgues.
But then, there are no real reporters left . . . .
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
TXknitter 4/20/2020 12:55:01 PM (No. 385631)
The financial squeeze is not new. The rural hospitals have been struggling mightily since well before the pandemic. The Inslee lib government will gladly do all to put the lid on the coffin of Eastern Washington conservative town hospitals.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
starboard 4/20/2020 12:55:20 PM (No. 385634)
Deal with it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
GO3 4/20/2020 1:01:52 PM (No. 385644)
Inslee knows E. WA is largely Red. They will be punished, damnit.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Right Time 4/20/2020 1:03:14 PM (No. 385646)
Blame your idiot Leftist governor Inslee for these hospital failures. Absolutely no reason at this point to ban elective surgery on the basis of baloney models.
Hospitals should refuse to do abortions until elective surgery is permitted
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
planetgeo 4/20/2020 1:03:29 PM (No. 385647)
If they showed a table of every single hospital in every county in the country, with # of COVID patients in column 1 and # of total beds in column 2 (ditto for ICU beds and ventilators), the magnitude of this monstrous HOAX would be immediately evident. Instead they keep hyping # of cases and # of PRESUMPTIVE COVID deaths.
The Democrats and their enemedia are totally manipulating this stampede. Bring back public hangings.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LadyHen 4/20/2020 1:22:10 PM (No. 385674)
Hospitals are businesses too you media and Democrat morons!! Nurses and doctors and techs and all those great healthcare folks don't work for free. They have families and bills too.
Why is it shocking that when you remove the main source of income for healthcare facilities, they struggle financially?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 4/20/2020 1:39:22 PM (No. 385688)
The Enemedia is, what, 90% located in NYC? Maybe 95%? They are WAY biased about what is going on by their location.
So this "pandemic" in the USA has more than 50% of the total USA deaths in about a 75 mile radius around the Empire State Building. So, these NYC-centric media folks can't grasp that the rest of the country IS NOT having anywhere near the issues that NYC area has.
We need to get back to normal. Our hospitals are laying off people due to NO work, they are not being overwhelmed.
In 18 states the total death toll is under 100, and that is probably somewhat inflated. 41 states (82%) have less than 1,000 deaths in their whole state.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
valinva 4/20/2020 2:12:08 PM (No. 385711)
I have been trying to educate left leaning snowflakes on FB for a couple weeks about this and they they were completely unaware that Hospitals and Medical practices will not make it through a continued shutdown. The Rural Hospitals are one thing and can be easily taken over by the state/Federal government. Private practices and private out patient surgery centers that are also closed down and suffering will go away never to return.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
jdh 4/20/2020 3:40:43 PM (No. 385775)
Insley is the governor of 3 counties in Washington, all on the west side In his mind the rest of the state doesn't count.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 4/20/2020 6:37:32 PM (No. 385893)
Golly. Who would have thought that declaring entire business sectors out there as "non essential" would have caused people to be laid off and businesses to go belly up?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Sergeant Major 4/20/2020 8:40:37 PM (No. 385987)
Our hospital, in a city of 22,000, has zero,let me do that again, zero Corona patients. The county has only 14 confirmed cases. The hospital has had to take out a line of credit to stay solvent and is laying off staff. No elective procedures allowed.
This, my friends, is madness. We are being dictated to by a bunch of low info politicians.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Mother of AL 4/21/2020 3:01:52 AM (No. 386149)
This was settled long before Covid. One of the main points of Obamacare was to close small rural hospitals. It's in the details, so not much Trump could do until the whole thing was trashed. 0 wanted to get to single payer health care, and was well on his way. The health care system that was the greatest in the world has been trashed. People out in flyover land need to pray they can get to know a doc who graduated in the 60's or early 70's. They might just take care of them when the SHTF. Sorry
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