Comments by surgerynurse
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Posted on February 28 at 10:13 p.m.
To csguidry:
Hospitals are required (private or county, etc.) to treat all patients in the event of an emergemncy regardless of ability to pay. If, after a pt has been stabilized, they choose to ship the pt somewhere else then you have to find a physician and hospital willing to accept them. It is a very complicated process. Many hospitals simply won't take patients unless they require a service that is not available at the facility they come from. Much of the burdon of these pts is born by the initial facility they visit because there is simply no other place for them to go.
As far as statements made about the hospitals going on ER and ICU diversion (and I say hospitals because both do it)I can assure you it is not a decision that is made lightly. A hospital goes on diversion generally when all its beds are full. When I say beds I mean beds that have staff to take care of patients. (There is a part of NRMC that is not used primarily because there isn't anyone to staff it and the rooms are so outdated as not to be safe or usable at this time.) If a hospitals ER/ICU is full then it would be safe to assume that they couldn't take any patients that might require and ER/ICU bed. If in that situation another hospital has open beds the ambulance patients are "diverted" to the other hospital. I can assure you that in this situation hospitals do everything they can to move people around to free up respective bedspace but sometimes there isn't anything you can do.
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Posted on March 2 at 12:02 p.m.
This is very sad...I knew David as well and had the pleasure of spending time with him and his daughters. My heart goes out to his girls and his parents. They are a very tight knit family and are no doubt struggling and hurting. My prayers are with them all.
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