[Altavia]

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[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by Altavia

Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt...

Better to recognize reality and act accordingly than to ignore reality and act like a fool…

[Randall55]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

Why worry about response times for EMS when the result is that the patient is ultimately going to get dumped at a dismal one star rated hospital with quite possibly the worst ER in the entire country. I don’t get the “hurry up and get there so we can wait seemingly forever for woefully substandard health care” mentality? Residents would have been better served saving money and keeping the old ambulance servive until someday (hopefully) when there is a place worth being rushed to!

Right! The Villages Hospital is sub-par. But, the ambulance service has life saving equipment manned by professional paramedics. With most emergencies, time is of the essence. Once you are stabilized, you can transfer to a hospital of your choosing. It is not imperative to stay at the Villages hospital.

If you find you despise the Villages hospital, move to another part of the Villages that is closer to a hospital that meets your standards. Everyone must fight their own battles and live with the choices they make.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

I have never quoted my own post before, but I am now because I am baffled that no one has responded to it. My post highlights the huge elephant in the room that appears to be invisible. Apparently everyone is living in some kind of make believe fantasy world where response time actually matters? Why is everyone burying their heads in the sand and demanding faster service when there is a much bigger problem?

I get it that fixing The Village’s health care system is beyond the scope of both Villagers and the county commissioners, but increasing ambulance response time solves nothing as long as the much much much bigger problem exists! Efforts that actually do make a real difference, like the neighborhood defibrillator program, should be the focus of attention.

You don’t think response time is important?? Yeah, OK. Just hope you don’t have a cardiac arrest. Or better yet a stroke where the window of opportunity to use thrombolytic therapy is about an hour

[Bilyclub]

Since things have branched off a little... It is ironic that a place with a good number of very active healthy seniors has some of the worse healthcare options in the country. Would a better system allow us to remain active longer or when a major health incident happens is that the end ?

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

You don’t think response time is important?? Yeah, OK. Just hope you don’t have a cardiac arrest. Or better yet a stroke where the window of opportunity to use thrombolytic therapy is about an hour

Well Doc, excuse me for having absolutely zero confidence in the Village’s Hospital. When you show up at the ER on your death bed in need of critical care, you wait in total agony for over 12 hours to ultimately get misdiagnosed, prescribed medication that does nothing to help your condition, get booted out the door after midnight to drive yourself home and die, and then get billed for the horrific experience, that will happen.

When I got to a real hospital in Gainesville the triage person took one look at me, put me in a room where a team of Doctors immediately evaluated me, and admitted me to critical care within minutes. If my wife didn’t drive about 1,360 non-stop miles south to pick me up and drag me to Gainesville, I would be dead now thanks to the Village’s Hospital. So yes, I’m not on board with first response time mattering when the patient is going to get dumped at the Villages Hospital.

[Kenswing]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

Well Doc, excuse me for having absolutely zero confidence in the Village’s Hospital. When you show up at the ER on your death bed in need of critical care, you wait in total agony for over 12 hours to ultimately get misdiagnosed, prescribed medication that does nothing to help your condition, get booted out the door after midnight to drive yourself home and die, and then get billed for the horrific experience, that will happen.

When I got to a real hospital in Gainesville the triage person took one look at me, put me in a room where a team of Doctors immediately evaluated me, and admitted me to critical care within minutes. If my wife didn’t drive about 1,360 non-stop miles south to pick me up and drag me to Gainesville, I would be dead now thanks to the Village’s Hospital. So yes, I’m not on board with first response time mattering when the patient is going to get dumped at the Villages Hospital.

We get it. You had a bad experience at The Villages Hospital. I’m sorry you had to go through what you did. But not everyone had the same experience you did. There are people that praise the treatment they received. Hijacking every thread you can to knock the hospital isn’t going to make it any better. Living in a community where the population is growing faster than the available medical services are is always a gamble. I hope you’re able to move on from this.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by Bilyclub

Since things have branched off a little... It is ironic that a place with a good number of very active healthy seniors has some of the worse healthcare options in the country. Would a better system allow us to remain active longer or when a major health incident happens is that the end ?

It might not be ironic at all; the large percentage of seniors in the population might be part of the reason for the healthcare options.

A lot of seniors means a lot of payments by medicare. If medicare truly does pay less than private insurance then that means less income for doctors who stay in this area. There are likely other factors in play (such as having three large cities close by) but it seems like this might play a part.

[JGibson]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

Well Doc, excuse me for having absolutely zero confidence in the Village’s Hospital. When you show up at the ER on your death bed in need of critical care, you wait in total agony for over 12 hours to ultimately get misdiagnosed, prescribed medication that does nothing to help your condition, get booted out the door after midnight to drive yourself home and die, and then get billed for the horrific experience, that will happen.

When I got to a real hospital in Gainesville the triage person took one look at me, put me in a room where a team of Doctors immediately evaluated me, and admitted me to critical care within minutes. If my wife didn’t drive about 1,360 non-stop miles south to pick me up and drag me to Gainesville, I would be dead now thanks to the Village’s Hospital. So yes, I’m not on board with first response time mattering when the patient is going to get dumped at the Villages Hospital.

You’re comparing a level 1 trauma center to a glorified urgent care. lol.