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Am looking into an outrageous policy at the North Broward Hospital District that in most places would spark a special grand jury.
However, given the District is in Broward County, an epicenter of greed and status ...
Anyhow.
Stay tuned.
JKdeG
Am looking into an outrageous policy at the North Broward Hospital District that in most places would spark a special grand jury.
However, given the District is in Broward County, an epicenter of greed and status ...
Anyhow.
Stay tuned.
JKdeG
Dear John,
Please investigate an outrageous plan by the Broward District Hospitals to deny care to patients by discharging them prematurely. This is about to be done in the next few months after aproval of Commisioners using hired hospitalists contracted outside of the state. The four hospitals plan to throw out the very primary care doctors that have been serving the community for many years and no longer welcome them to these hospitals the doctors are dedicated to in taking care of patients. Hospitalists is appealing to save money for the hospitals but they are very dangerous to patient care since the hospitalists are paid on the length of stay for the patients in the hospitals, ie. the lower the length of stay for the patient, the higher the reward for the hospitalist without regard to patient care.
At one hospital, 1.8 million dollars is being thrown at a hospitalist group to take over all admissions from the Emergency Room. This is state funds that the hospital receives to take care of patients which will now be sent outside of the state and deprive local doctors of earning a living in the process.
Please help before it's too late John!
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Everybody knows that " Hospitalist company" will profit generously from the district by monopolizing hospital admissions from the emergency room.
The hospital will also benefit from decreasing the "lenght of stay" thus increasing hospital profits.
The only one who will not benefit from this deal is the patient who will be discharged prematurely, and they lack insurance it will take the discharged patient about three months to see a doctor the the district clinics thus increasing readmissions to the hospital generating more profits for the hospitals and hospitalsts.
Poor patients !!!!
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As an ex commissioner who had many issues with management (and they with me), when it comes to this comment their appears to be an obvious undercurrent of self serving information by the comment writer, in the face of what may actually be a very appropriate change by management to keep Broward Health competitive.
Hospitalist models in hospitals are becoming an acceptable practice in the industry, and in the long run may be one of the many solutions required to deal with the runaway costs of healthcare.
Allowing an antiquated system to fail and be replaced by a new productive business model is a hugely important part of keeping our healthcare facilities competitive. We are now competing with modern and efficient healthcare providers the world over and remaining unproductive can not even be a small part of the equation in this environment.
Unless we as American's suck it up and accept the short term consequences of destructive capitalism and allow assets to be redeployed in more efficient ways, the small short term benefits of our ignorance will turn in to the permanent loss of our fair share of the world marketplace.
If your skill and training is now being challenged by a more efficient and productive business model, you probably need to stop selfishly looking for a way to stop progress, and figure out how you can reposition yourself to be part of the solution.
The best advise for many of the overpaid, under productive physician staff members at Broward Health who managed to snag lucrative contracts a few "management teams" ago is this:
Stop messing with progress, because you are endangering the livelihood of over 8,000 dedicated employees of Broward Health, and do yourself and taxpayers a big favor- get a real job, and compete for your patients in the real world, like most of the rest of your colleagues.
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