Cornwall Hospital is closing the Emergency Department (ER)
Dear Nieces and Nephews
Front page in the THR last week, Cornwall Hospital is
closing the ER. Not so surprising since they have already closed the “hospital”
portion (they have had no active “beds” in years and have been sending patients
that needed to be hospitalized, up the road to Newburgh.) They have established
doctor’s offices in the hospital campus and propose a “new cancer treatment
center” and other clinics.
One of the most profitable areas for any hospital or clinic is
a cancer center, an infusion center for cancer outpatients
that need to receive IV therapy (for a detailed discussion on Central Venous
catheters, PICC lines, mid-lines etc. go to Web MD). Infusion Therapy is also
use for pain treatment and to administer antibiotics for serious infections.
The point is that it is a money maker. Needed, but a money maker.
Could profit be the reason and not just altruism, that
inspired the Montefiore System to focus on that type of center? Possibly, since
the “bottom line” is the reason they are closing the ER?
No hospital beds for inpatients, no Emergency Room- means it
is not a hospital, not by definition.
Meet the new Cornwall Mega-Doctor Office Park, from Montefiore’s
Health Care system.
But not a hospital.
And the strategy of closing piecemeal fashion, department by
department, seems to circumvent a public hearing that is conducted when an
entire hospital is closed. Cornwall closed its inpatient facility very quietly
in 2011. http://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/sparcs/annual/ip/2010/
And now it is no longer or should no longer be a designated
stroke center. Those of you with a-fib or other risk factors in Cornwall, Highlands,
Ft Montgomery etc. better not have their stroke until they are near Newburgh.
And if the new facility that-is-not-a -hospital, doesn’t (make
a profit) it could be gobbled up by the Crystal Run Healthcare, super
mega-doc-in-the-box, to become: Crystal Run Healthcare Cornwall! (Horizon Family
Medical and Middletown Medical better step up their game!)
What a funny coincidence!
Dr Teitelbaum, CEO of Crystal Run Healthcare*, is an Oncologist,
otherwise known as a Cancer doctor!
*Crystal Run
Healthcare has offices in Orange County: Middletown (multiple locations),
Goshen, Warwick, Pt. Jervis, Monroe and Newburgh; Liberty and Rock Hill
(Sullivan County) Milton (Ulster County); West Nyack, Haverstraw, Stony Point
(Rockland County) and NYC (Manhattan aka New York County).
posted by Auntie Alibi @ 7:23 PM
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2 Comments:
AND what about the deed restriction on the property that was donated for hospital use?
The u.s. health care industry - e.g., the drugs, the insurance, the equipment, the participants, the ama, the administrators - has been taken over and is controlled by a latent form of organized crime, along with certain u.s. lobbyists, american political factions, u.s. american fascists; corrupt, greedy capitalists who’ve been very successful in creating a new, very, lucrative scam on gullible u.s. citizens and in some cases around the world lucrative scams.
in a country that comprises 5% of the world’s population yet uses 70% of the world’s drugs should be very telling. A majority of those drugs aren’t even produced in the u.s.a. – especially counterfeit drugs. – with some drugs being worth more than their weight in gold. Counterfeit drugs are for the most part flying under the radar screens of the u.s.d.a.
if one could dig into the process of what proceeded the decision to close the hospital emergency room they’d find it could well be considered a conspiracy od sorts to deceive the citizens of orange county especially those who cherished the venerable cornwall hospital for many years.
it was understood by certain ambulance corps/businesses to not bring emergency patients to the cornwall hopital before it was publicly announced that emergency room cases were [artificially] falling.
it appears the hospital has been latently privatized [aka piratized] like many other u.s. institutions, nursing homes and even u.s. national defense etc.
Of course this costs all of us and our families dearly, - e.g., higher medical costs, insurance costs, poor quality care, longer transport times from scene of emergencies to a participating hospital emergency room, more helicopter response, and the list builds and gets more expensive from there.
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