Two hospitals in Queens have shut their doors. Mary Immaculate in Elmhurst and St John's in Jamaica this coming after their operator filed for bankruptcy in early February.
These closings don't just affect nearly 3,000 employees who are now unemployed but also about two different communties who relied on these hospitals for their health care. What is hard for these communties is that at the moment they have no where to go for their health care.
This reminds me of an advertisement I seen on TV where you have a young couple driving upto the emergency room and the doors are closed. The mom turns back to check on her child and is screaming what do we do now? Is this what our reality is going to be? Where people don't know where to turn in an emergency. If people don't have a hospital near by, how far is the nearest hospital and will they make it on time. Is a though that the people who are in
charge are playing Russian Roulette with our lives.
PDF: Fernando de Noronha
3 years ago
The hospital I am working at was facing a closing last summer. these people do not care about where all the patients and employees end up. we need better people in office that makes these drastic decisions.
ReplyDeletePeople in office don't care what happen to the patients, they just care about their "business". Medicine is a big business and the last thing for them is where patients have to go to get care. The same thing with drs. they have to see so many patients in order to make up, because the HMOs pay so little and at the end the patient is the most affected.
ReplyDeletei really feel that these people in charge of office dont care about what happens to patients and workers of these hospitals. i remember once my grandfather was very sick and an ambullance was driving him form hospital to hospital because there wasnt enough space in the hopital he usually went to because there wasnt enough nurses and doctors that specific day. what are these people thinking when they think about closing hopitals? where are people suppose to go in case of an emergency if hopitals continue closing their doors and laying people off.
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