So much for MA having great healthcare (Boston, Brockton: home, centers)

[justyouraveragetenant]

Originally Posted by msRB311

Um nurses and doctors take an oath...they have no choice. If a patient hits a nurse or dr they can't do anything back.

I mean there are some crazy people out there who become patients frequently and they say offensive things ALL the time. Good luck with this rule.

Saying something offensive is subjective What if they talk bad about the clot shot? Will they deny them care? The medical field has become corrupt. They denied transplants in some hospitals if you did not take the clot shot. What if it extends to political beliefs.

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by msRB311

I wish south shore hospital would give some info on WHY their numbers have increased so much. Who are all these new patients? I don't think it's just an increase in local baby boomers, I'm sure that's part of it but there must be something else.

Not sure, but it's possibly helped by all the hospitals in the region that have closed in recent years. No more Quincy Hospital. Brockton Hospital, gone. Norwood Hospital has been closed. Just over the border in RI, Pawtucket's Memorial Hospital closed a few years back. That's more and more patients consolidating to fewer and fewer hospitals. South Shore is a lifeline for the whole region south of Boston. Not only there, but if Good Samaritan and Carney were also to close it would be an absolute disaster.

[redplum33]

At Mass General "the need for emergency care has soared since the pandemic".



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD7N4mUqOio

[msRB311]

Originally Posted by massnative71

Not sure, but it's possibly helped by all the hospitals in the region that have closed in recent years. No more Quincy Hospital. Brockton Hospital, gone. Norwood Hospital has been closed. Just over the border in RI, Pawtucket's Memorial Hospital closed a few years back. That's more and more patients consolidating to fewer and fewer hospitals. South Shore is a lifeline for the whole region south of Boston. Not only there, but if Good Samaritan and Carney were also to close it would be an absolute disaster.

That's true, I didn't think of all the hospitals that have closed in recent years. What a mess. We have more and more people moving in from all over and hospitals are closing and at capacity. It's fine though right? We are MA and have educated, smart, wealthy people who live here dammit.

[robr2]

Originally Posted by redplum33

Some major Massachusetts hospitals in danger of closing



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3V94sFTqa0

That's Steward Health - a for profit hospital chain owned by private equity. Their playbook is to sell the underlying real estate owned by the hospitals they buy to another of their investment funds. Then they bleed the medical provider dry with increased rent and maintenance charges while reducing spending on care. Then they reach out to states to bail out the hospital and blame it on low reimbursement from Medicare, Medicaid, and insurers.

[robr2]

Originally Posted by msRB311

It's too bad our state leaders are too preoccupied trying to figure how to save these idiot migrants who keeping invading us when they should be giving this money to HOSPITALS not MIGRANTS.

This country has become pathetic.

I wish south shore hospital would give some info on WHY their numbers have increased so much. Who are all these new patients? I don't think it's just an increase in local baby boomers, I'm sure that's part of it but there must be something else.

I thought you were from the South Shore....as noted above in and a Globe article went deeper into it. With the closure of both Quincy and Norwood Hospitals in 2020 and closure of Brockton Hospital due to flooding in 2023, they are virtually one of the few ER's in the area.

We have great healthcare in the Boston area. I doubt there's a better place to live if you need targeted care. We do need more healthcare facilities but healthcare in the US is a low/no profit endeavor and is highly regulated. Everybody wants to see an MGH doc but nobody wants MGH to get bigger. South Shore Hospital was going to join the then Partners group and be a full fledged member. But the public fought - okay the insurers - fought against that because MGH has higher reimbursement rates.

[msRB311]

Originally Posted by robr2

I thought you were from the South Shore....a Globe article went deeper into it. With the closure of both Quincy and Norwood Hospitals in 2020 and closure of Brockton Hospital due to flooding in 2023, they are virtually one of the few ER's in the area.

I am from the south shore what's your point? I am not sick nor do I stay on top of what is happening with every hospital...I just hear complaints from others who DO need the hospital. SO Mass General AND South Shore hospital are having issues now, nice.

Beth Israel Deaconess Healthcare Pembroke. Probably just a matter of time until that one closes.

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by robr2

I thought you were from the South Shore....a Globe article went deeper into it. With the closure of both Quincy and Norwood Hospitals in 2020 and closure of Brockton Hospital due to flooding in 2023, they are virtually one of the few ER's in the area.

That's backwards. Norwood Hospital flooded, Brockton Hospital closed. Did the Globe really report it that way???

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by msRB311

I am from the south shore what's your point? I am not sick nor do I stay on top of what is happening with every hospital...I just hear complaints from others who DO need the hospital. SO Mass General AND South Shore hospital are having issues now, nice.

Beth Israel Deaconess Healthcare Pembroke. Probably just a matter of time until that one closes.

And don't forget Compass, the large primary care provider that went under leaving thousands of patients suddenly without care, without notice (not to mention the employees who were laid off without notice).

[Wells5]

If Mass General is short of beds, why do they advertise their services on national TV?


https://youtu.be/AKa2ABRRgPs


IMO, the primadonna specialist surgeons are the ones pushing the national advertising. They want patients with gold plated medical plans or those self insured individuals who can pay their exorbitant fees.