Declining Revenue Streams Strain Medical Centers

Considering the one hospital is a "private" for profit facility and it's lease wasnt up on the building so now in a battle over that but opened a brand new hospital (closed the other facility which is sitting there unused now), all private rooms, also article in todays paper that they now have "chefs" and pts will order room service 7am to 7pm at the hours the pts prefer to eat with a variety on the menu. Cooked to order and how the pt wants it. (Actually I like this idea.) New parents will get a filet mignon dinner with a bottle of champagne on ice!! Also the new hospital is off the public transportation line so those who have medicaid supplements or no transportation other then public wont be able to access the hospital unless they take and pay for a cab. I truly doubt this one was by grants or donations.

If you want to know who is making money in health care take a look at the stock for the drug companies and the for profit hospital corporations. Look at their CEO salaries. Stockholders making a profit off the backs of poor people. Special place in hell for these people.

In my heart I don't think that medicine should be profit driven. I have worked for profit based organizations and I have found I am a non profit person. That being said in some places it is the for profits that are able to provide care where non profits have not been able to.

I've worked for both for profit dialysis and non-profit dialysis and was very shocked to see the non-profit recieved much better care. No lack of staff, no lack of supplies, no one screaming "cut cost, cut cost, cut cost" or the "no ot, no ot, no ot!" lol

I'm just glad i'm young and can join an agency to travel. I'll go where the work is. I feel bad for those who have families and a home for 10 and 15 years and are laid off from their only local hospital. :/

I have spent most of my nursing life working for not-for-profit organizations...I have worked for a couple of NFPs that were so consumed with the "bottom line" that they made their staff miserable. I have worked in for-profit companies that did pretty well until they began to become more interested in getting more patients, more money, and more market share than they were in taking care of the patients and staff that they already had on the books. Are the FPs running clinics in the inner city? Are the FPs supporting services in the rural communities with too many un or under insured agricultural workers? In my experience the answer to those questions would be no...the NFPs are the ones who are able AND willing to provide the care and needed services.