Judge orders Franciscan Health Hammond
emergency room stay open 9 more months
The Times of Northwest Indiana,
by
Bill Dolan
Original Article
Posted By: AltaD,
12/27/2022 9:08:07 AM
Hammond - A judge has ordered Franciscan Health Hammond’s emergency room to keep its doors open for another nine months.
Lake Superior Court Judge Bruce D. Parent granted Thursday afternoon the preliminary injunction Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. requested this week to prevent the 124-year-old hospital from closing its emergency medical care at the end of this month. (Snip) Franciscan attorneys had argued Wednesday that there were many obstacles to keeping the downtown facility open since its state license expires at year’s end and it had made no provisions for a staff of doctors, nurses and support staff to continue into 2023.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 12/27/2022 9:23:29 AM (No. 1365399)
What, by judicial fiat?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TJ54 12/27/2022 9:34:07 AM (No. 1365411)
Fascist judge - shut it down anyway
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/27/2022 9:50:29 AM (No. 1365432)
Sorry Judge you have NO Jurisdiction over us, Pound Sand!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 12/27/2022 9:57:25 AM (No. 1365442)
Judges, is there anything they don't know or can't do?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Quigley 12/27/2022 9:57:53 AM (No. 1365444)
Keep it open. Like obumbum care, you’ve got coverage but you won’t meet the deductible. Just an empty room.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 12/27/2022 10:05:37 AM (No. 1365459)
The company was stupid to make a promise that was dependent on factors outside their control (like the whims of licensing agencies), and keeping a staff in a soon-to-be closed facility. Having said that though, the judge ignored those realities as well. Let him order to licensing agency to issue a license to the facility, and order medical staff to work there.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
TJ54 12/27/2022 10:21:03 AM (No. 1365471)
Appointed by then Gov. Mike Pence - figures
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 12/27/2022 10:30:11 AM (No. 1365481)
Finding a way to keep the ILLEGALS accommodated. Catholic Charities is probably handing out a list of "free" benefits and the government agency that provides them.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
chumley 12/27/2022 10:44:29 AM (No. 1365494)
There is a word for making someone work for free.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/27/2022 11:02:19 AM (No. 1365509)
C’mon. Read the article. As a condition of alllowing the demolition of the hospital, Franciscan agreed to keep the ER operational for 18 months. They broke that promise. The judge just ruled that they had to keep the promise they had made in order to get what they wanted.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
SALady 12/27/2022 11:54:57 AM (No. 1365557)
If the mayor wanted this, then he can just pony up a few million dollars to pay for the staffing and other resources needed to keep it open.
However, we all know what the aim is here. This is a Christian-run hospital, and lie-berals want to bankrupt them so that they will have to shut down, and a horrible secular-run hospital system will buy up their property cheaply and open up a nice 9-monthy abortion center and a gender "modification" center for adolescents in that hospital. I'm sure the mayor will find lots of funding for that!!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
skacmar 12/27/2022 12:20:00 PM (No. 1365567)
The hospital is in a no win situation. Close the Hammond Hospital and ER and keep the rest of the hospital chain financially solvent, or keep the Hammond ER open and risk financial insolvency for the entire company. Now the judge has forced their hand. It does not help that the Hammond hospital and ER most likely served mostly Medicaid and government paid medical cases as well as the uninsured who they must serve, usually for free. Medicaid / government reimbursement is historically pennies on the dollar for services leading to financial instability for medical providers. The mayor and judge fail to recognize this or are ignoring it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 12/27/2022 12:24:01 PM (No. 1365570)
"its state license expires at year’s end and it had made no provisions for a staff of doctors, nurses and support staff to continue into 2023" but the idiot judge tells them they MUST stay open. OK, let the doctors, nurse, and staff go but keep the door unlocked. They'll be open but unlicensed and un-staffed.
Then what, judge?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Birddog 12/27/2022 1:18:56 PM (No. 1365606)
I hearby order all snow to stop falling, the snow already on the ground to melt...and area temperatures to remain above freezing!"-Sam Judge
Why not just order the "Fine Citizens" of the downtown NOT to get sick or injured?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 12/27/2022 1:49:12 PM (No. 1365620)
Judges are forcing the US to commit slow suicide.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 12/27/2022 3:05:21 PM (No. 1365680)
So, will they enslave the docs and nurses to make it happen?
A big middle finger to the judge. Outside of your power, fool.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
brutuspug 12/27/2022 5:43:42 PM (No. 1365771)
I was born in that hospital (the old Saint Margarets hospital) as were two of our children.
I refer to Franciscan as the health care mafia of NW Indiana. They buy up or force out all competing providers and run most everything health care related around here and treat their nurses (my DW) horribly. Just my opinion.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 12/27/2022 6:31:32 PM (No. 1365801)
Is the judge going to cover the operating expense?
How can a court order a business to operate at a loss?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
paral04 12/27/2022 6:58:59 PM (No. 1365816)
Hiw is this going to be paid for? Wil the Judge pick up the tab?
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