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Recently, I keep seeing full page ads for one or two hospitals to be built here in Fort Mill. I noticed Presbyterian ran a full page add in this week's edition of the Fort Mill Times, as did another hospital (can't recall the name, paper already discarded.)
Can someone update me on the situation? Are they competing ? they ask us to contact the government for support. Or will both be built? Are they going to be built near the intersection of 160 and 21?
Any helpful and informative info is welcome.
sandy
that site across from the peach stand is for the fort mill hospital through tenet and pmc,
i believe presby has a site picked near the proposed site for the history museum, same place the ancient burial ground was holding up that building.
Recently, I keep seeing full page ads for one or two hospitals to be built here in Fort Mill. I noticed Presbyterian ran a full page add in this week's edition of the Fort Mill Times, as did another hospital (can't recall the name, paper already discarded.)
Can someone update me on the situation? Are they competing ? they ask us to contact the government for support. Or will both be built? Are they going to be built near the intersection of 160 and 21?
Any helpful and informative info is welcome.
sandy
I have worked at all the hospitals who wish to build in Fort Mill. I have been a health worker for 35 yrs up and down the east coast . I will not EVER bring my family to PMC or any facility built by them. I want access to a level one trauma center, a helicopter and the BEST PHYSICIANS in the Region, I dont want to go to NC for uncompromising care that we all deserve. PMC cant keep its beds full and most of the staff leave because they cant work in a place they are not proud of . I refused PMC insurance because after seeing what went on there I NEVER wanted to be a patient there thus I paid more and was insured under my husband and went to CMC pineville with a life threatening illness . I am still here to talk about it.
It is a shame the TOwn and the Spirngs Corporation are only concerned about the money and taxes that will be paid to them not about the care the community deserves.
Jeff W is obviously either town council or PMC administaration CMC is the ONLY hospital you want in Fort MILL. You will feel safe and have the very best care by the very best Physicians .
I have worked at all the hospitals who wish to build in Fort Mill. I have been a health worker for 35 yrs up and down the east coast . I will not EVER bring my family to PMC or any facility built by them. I want access to a level one trauma center, a helicopter and the BEST PHYSICIANS in the Region, I dont want to go to NC for uncompromising care that we all deserve. PMC cant keep its beds full and most of the staff leave because they cant work in a place they are not proud of . I refused PMC insurance because after seeing what went on there I NEVER wanted to be a patient there thus I paid more and was insured under my husband and went to CMC pineville with a life threatening illness . I am still here to talk about it.
It is a shame the TOwn and the Spirngs Corporation are only concerned about the money and taxes that will be paid to them not about the care the community deserves.
Jeff W is obviously either town council or PMC administaration CMC is the ONLY hospital you want in Fort MILL. You will feel safe and have the very best care by the very best Physicians .
I thought the same thing when I read Jeff W's post ... he works for PMC.
I just wanted to get out of PMC alive when I had surgery there.
I spoke to some neighboors that are physicians. They live in SC but work in NC. The issue with SC is that Blue Cross/Blue Shield has a near monopoly in SC and has reimbursement rates similar to Medicare reimbursement rates. I fear that Pres or CMC will have similar performace as they will not have the same kind of income that their CLT hosipitals do.
more data to be seen than just mortality, and be sure you read up on what mortality means, its not just the care in the hospital its 30 days post stay, a car accident or other unrelated death also counts against the hospital in mortality rates.
And the data on the goverment site is 3 years old.
And remember CMC and presby can only build a 66 bed hospital. pmc will build a 100 bed hospital with full cath and lablor and delivery. since it can move bed licenses from pmc to fort mill.
And yes i work at PMC and proud ouf it. PMC has had a bad rap in years past but is a way diffrent place than 10 years ago.
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Piedmont’s rate for care of heart attack patients is 98%, which is better or equal to US, NC and SC averages.
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more data to be seen than just mortality, and be sure you read up on what mortality means, its not just the care in the hospital its 30 days post stay, a car accident or other unrelated death also counts against the hospital in mortality rates.
Nothing can change the FACT that Piedmont Medical Center is one of the only 45 hospitals in the nation to have a "worse than average" mortality rate. There were 4569 hospitals in the study.
That means PMC is in the TOP 1% for hospital DEATHS!
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Originally Posted by jeffw
And the data on the government site is 3 years old.
If you read the study, you would have seen on the first line: Calculated from Medicare data on patients discharged between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2009.
The study was performed by the Department of Health & Human Services so it is probably as unbiased as you can get.
As I was laying in the floor at 2:00 AM, I pulled the telephone down and called my husband ... he arrived ... all hell broke loose and he stayed with me through the duration. He would not leave me until I was dismissed.
PMC has big problems, lack of help ... with help I mean the people that actually do the work. They lay off the indians and keep the chiefs and the chiefs don't do the actual work. They attend meetings, hold seminars and PR work. They don't haul bedpans, give injections or push a gurney.
My neighbor works there, she is an RN and is just hanging on until she can retire. They are working her to death with the lack of help. She cannot complain there. You cannot have a top heavy organization, you must have the people that actually are out there in the heat of things working and helping the patients.
In case of an emergency, we tried Riverview Medical Center ... it was a Saturday night ... after 8 PM and I am sure PMC was rocking and rolling with the headaches, sore throats and hang nails. Riverview got my husband right in ... accepted our insurance ... treated him. We were back home shortly after 9 PM. Riverview is open 24/7 and we were very pleased.
I have spent hours in the ER at Piedmont and always feel like I might pick up cooties or something.
My mom was a patient at PMC. She had her wedding ring stolen off her finger. She was 92 years old. We visited her after lunch and her tray was across the room, untouched (she couldn't get out of bed and needed assistance eating). I fed her; it was a pasta... like spagetti. We went back that night after dinner...tray still out of reach, untouched. The nurse actually came in and told me that my mom had eaten turkey and mashed potatoes for lunch, and she had eaten well. Oh really?
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