Coping with skyrocketing expenses and an influx of uninsured patients, hospital administrators say that the city's system is tinkering on the brink of failure. From the EDs to the small walk-in clinics, New Orleans patients — as well as the city's hospitals — are in desperate need of attention.
Leslie Hirsch, president of Touro Infirmary.
(PHOTO BY CRAIG GUILLOT)
Patients head to ERs for primary care
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I WOULD LIKE TO GET EVERYONES OPINION ON THIS SUBJECT.. SHOULD THE GOVERMENT STEP IN AND HELP WITH THIS SITUATION SINCE SO MANY PEOPLES LIVES WILL BE AFFECTED IF ANY OF THE HOSPITALS HAS TO CLOSE THEIR DOORS ?
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New Orleans Hospitals in Trouble
Started by NawlinsGirl, Dec 02 2007 05:40 PM
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Posted 19 January 2010 - 02:56 AM
QUOTE(NawlinsGirl @ Dec 2 2007, 06:40 PM) 
Coping with skyrocketing expenses and an influx of uninsured patients, hospital administrators say that the city's system is tinkering on the brink of failure. From the EDs to the small walk-in clinics, New Orleans patients — as well as the city's hospitals — are in desperate need of attention.
Leslie Hirsch, president of Touro Infirmary.
(PHOTO BY CRAIG GUILLOT)
Patients head to ERs for primary care
http://include.nurse.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art...11/-1/frontpage
I WOULD LIKE TO GET EVERYONES OPINION ON THIS SUBJECT.. SHOULD THE GOVERMENT STEP IN AND HELP WITH THIS SITUATION SINCE SO MANY PEOPLES LIVES WILL BE AFFECTED IF ANY OF THE HOSPITALS HAS TO CLOSE THEIR DOORS ?
Yes the government should step in and assist these people. Our country iis in a bad place.
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