Hospitals continue to be challenged by the ongoing
recession. California’s community hospitals and emergency rooms
provide life-saving care to anyone needing it, despite their
ability to pay for the health care services received.
Although the U.S. economy is beginning to show signs of recovery,
hospitals continue to be adversely impacted by the lingering
effects of the economic recession, according to new data from the
American Hospital Association (AHA).
“Particularly during this recession, the health care industry has
been one of the few industries adding jobs,” said Rick Black,
spokesman for Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp.
Non-profit hospital chiefs who think they’ve been dragged through
the wringer with the credit crunch and the recession should not
think the worst is over, according to a new Moody’s Investor
Service report, which could be summed up in short: Brace
yourselves for more bad news and changes for many years ahead.
A new report by credit reporting giant TransUnion concluded that
hospitals around the country are not only being hit hard by the
recession, but California’s facilities may be faring worse than
others.
California’s hospital emergency rooms (ERs) are there for you
when you need them most. They see everyone who enters their
doors, despite their health issue or their ability to pay for
services. Over the last decade, California has lost more than 70
community hospitals and emergency rooms, and the remaining ERs
are under ever increasing pressure to care for the growing number
of patients who are entering their doors.
My mother had been in pain for sometime in her abdomen and in
her back. Eventually, the pain became so bad that I took her to
St Mary’s emergency room…
