News about areas hospitals
 

While catching up on area news, I came across news about area hospitals...

1. For financial reasons, Monroe Regional Medical Center has decided to lease out its operations to Health Management Associates.
Munroe lease talks on track
Ed Dean takes on complicated task of winding down MRMC

2. Recently, patients in the burn unit of Shands Hospital were infected with a drug-resistant bacteria.
Shands bacterial infections occurred between March and July 22

I am posting this just for your information. I feel some people believe that better health care is always available "out of town" - that local health care is deficient.

Whenever we are hospitalized, we must hope that we don't have an adverse event while we are under their care. Every hospital is facing challenges these days, from clinical to financial.

There was a segment of 60 Minutes about 4-5 months ago about the group that is taking over Munroe. Doesn't sound too good for us after Oct.1. Lots of not so good changes for employees, according to an RN friend.

Thanks for the heads up.