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Old 10-28-2018, 01:23 PM   #43
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Default Not quite true

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Originally Posted by Patofnaud View Post
Exactly why LRGH dropped the maternity ward. No one was going and it was bleeding money. Folks want the fancy big private room with all the stuff that LRGH could not afford to invest in at this time.

Rehab is just filling the void left behind. Not displacing it.
It was not that the maternity department didn't have patients, it was that a disproportionate number of patients either had no insurance or they were on Medicaid which pays pennies on the dollar. When a hospital has little opportunity for income to keep pace with expenses, that segment of the business has to go. Maternity / Obstetrics Malpractice Insurance had skyrocketed over the past several years, and tis has contributed to the closing of several hospitals maternity ward / delivery rooms. Huggins ran into a similar situation a few years back as well, and for the same reasons.

The patients are there but the income from the services to those patients is not there.

Dave

Back to what happened in Wolfeboro. We've gotten a little of topic. Sorry for my part in that.
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