I worked for a major not for profit medical center for nearly 20 something years in an administrative capacity. While not an MD, I certainly was at all of the meetings with the docs and with other Admin. I get it from that perspective. And as a TV'er now I am scared to death about what might
happen if I should become ill. Just finding a doctor to accept Medicare here was a real trial, totally amazed me. That appointment next week.
A perfect example, I think, is my late Mom. She was in a for profit hospital on the coast of east mid coast FL in congestive heart failute and with a poor prognosis. I spoke with her doctor, had her transported to my physician and into a not for profit hospital in Ft. Lauderdale by ambulance, and she not only survived, but thrived, within hours AND with a corrected diagnosis. The cost was relatively small for the ambulance to drive some 200 miles and to reach a hospital with every piece of equipment and physicians qualified to treat her
were available. Mom lived on 15 more years and her Medicare coverage was accepted in whole.
I'm not saying docs and hospitals don't deserve to make $, but not on the backs of the elderly I don't think. Believe me, on Monday morning I am making the first of several calls. Maybe futile, but we are a City here, and
we deserve to have not only the friendliest place to live, but the ability to
get the best medical and hospital care available. Not for profit hospital's, as you know, simply put the majority of their earnings back into the hospital's operational budget...and their foundations and giving aspects assit them in this effort. Can you believe it was the ONLY qualifier I didn't examine when I moved here, silly me thinking it would, of course, all be in place. Wrong.
I'm not afraid of calling Mr. Morse, I am more afraid to hear, historically, how all of this came to be. Perhaps, he will rethink the issues his constituency face. Better if he was 62 or 65! I'll give it a try...and I know just the Med
Center that might be interested, too!
A world reknowned facility. Hip, hip hooray. C'mon down and help me!